This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
This is a new Black cap raised in Canada, and said to be of "very superior flavor," and as large as any now known.
At the recent Pear convention in London, there were 6,350 plates of fruit, and 650 varieties. 194 persons had Beurre Diel, Marie Louise 155, and Louise Bonne de Jersey 732, Beurre Clairgeau 106, Vicar 78, Beurre Superfin 70; our favorite Bartlett or Williams Bon Chretien is in the unnoticed list that had less than fifty admirers.
The Pall Mall Gazette says that the American apple trade in London is so enormous that a single dealer will think nothing of having consigned to him "80,000 barrels by next train." Is this a newspaper exaggeration?
In California and some other parts of our country the European grape does fairly well, though everywhere the dreaded insect, Phylloxera, may possibly come. We suppose it is pretty close at hand, even in the hitherto exempt California, for we note that a leading California grape grower, our well-known friend, George Hussmann, of Napa, is propagating the "American" kinds largely, and gives them the very expressive name of "Resistant" kinds, a name that deserves general adoption.
It remained for this magazine to point out the excellencies of this variety, long after the death of Dr. Wylie its raiser. It is a pleasure to note the increase of popularity that it so well deserves.
This variety which has obtained a strong hold in the favor of customers, was found about fifteen years ago, as an accidental seedling in the garden of Thomas Cuthbert, Riverdale, on the Hudson river, New York.
In his essay before the American Pomological Society, Mr. Granville Cowing, of Muncie, Indiana, made a good point in noting that the fruit of the Blackberry should be kept in as dense shade as possible, from the moment of picking to getting to market.
An English firm, in a catalogue "expressly designed for the American market," asks, "has any American grower ever tried this?" Shade of Billy Prince, what a question ! Still, as it is getting to be the fashion to look to the old world for "novelties" there will no doubt be a good run for it. The only satisfaction is, that it will create a good demand for American post spades in order to dig up the crop.
This was discovered in England first by an English gardener named Gervais Coe, at Bury St. Edmunds, in Kent. It is now getting to be an old variety, but still holds its fame and maintains its reputation.
 
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