This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
This is earlier than the Doolittle, and is a very good Black Cap. It has no gray bloom, as some have, and looks well to the eye.
This pest of the cultivator of the Atlantic slope, the AEgeria tipuli-formis, we found, on our recent trip to the Pacific, to be worrying the growers in that district also.
This is regarded as the best of all the well-known early kinds for peach house culture in England. Besides its extra earli-ness, it is pronounced delicious.
This is the only white raspberry, of the American race, that seems worthy of culture. It is, of course, not so good as Brin-kle's Orange, or other light-colored kinds, of the foreign breed; but it is a very good, hardy kind for an amateur's garden.
According to a correspondent of American Rural Home, a farm of 100 acres, in Orleans County, New York, was bought, by Mr. Packard, for $20,000. It had 50 acres of apple, 8 of peaches, 5 of quinces, and about 200 standard Bartlett pears.
We notice that this American variety is attracting attention in Italy.
Is one of the new introductions, which seems to have more than the usual number of intelligent endorsements.
" F.," Washington, Pa., writes: "I am an amateur with a small garden, and want a few fruit trees to plant to get fruit to eat and not to sell. I don't care for enormous bearers, merely. I want, say, half a dozen apples and half a dozen pears, and I only care for one kind each. What would you recommend a new subscriber to plant? "
[The Seckel pear and the Smokehouse apple. - Ed. G. M.]
The period now fixed by a prominent forestry essayist for the " utter disappearance of every stick of American timber," is now placed at seven years. He is not so liberal as old Ben Franklin. If we remember correctly he put the period at twenty years.
A specimen cut down in Cayuga county, near Cayuga Lake, according to a correspondent of the Country Gentleman, measured 6 feet across and was 124 feet high. Another was 6 feet 4 inches, cut some time since.
Dr. Hance records in the Journal of Botany the existence of a species of this genus in the island of Formosa. Previously botanists knew only of the common North American species and of the Himalayan one, P. Emodi (see Gardeners' Chronicle, p. 241, vol. xviii.), which has also lately been discovered in the province of Kansu. The discovery of a new species in Formosa (P. pleianthum) might have been anticipated. - Gardeners Chronicle.
 
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