This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V29", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
A correspondent of Vick's Magazine writes that Cyclamens planted out into very rich ground in June and repotted in September, give much more satisfactory results than when kept in pots all summer in the usual way.
German Po-mologists figure the flower when illustrating an apple, as good distinguishing characters may often be drawn from it. The form of the calyx and petals, and the relative proportions, are often very different in different varieties.
If those who establish orchards in new locations would watch for the first introduction of insect pests, so as to prevent their spread, they might often hold their profits well in hand for many years longer than do those who take no such precautions. In California some understand this. Mr. John Dillon has a fine apple orchard on the north fork of the Tule River, which he watches in this way, and his beautiful apples, clear of all insect marks, are making a nice income for him.
When the English farmer first saw McCormick's reaper at the great first Crystal Palace show, it was an astounding sight. When they get to see the American tricycle plough, which a horse will draw through the earth with the driver sitting on it with more ease and comfort than the best old ploughs, they will even be willing to spell the word p-l-o-w in their enthusiasm.
The British Islands are not large, but some idea of the dense population may be imagined from the fruit consumed. It is said the value of the fruit importations last year was forty millions of dollars. It is wonderful and hard to believe, but they are official figures.
European papers complain that the preserved canned and bottled fruits, especially of peaches, plums, apricots and pine-apples, are now so nearly as good as the fresh fruits, that they are entering largely into European consumption, and threaten to seriously interfere with the profits of the European fruit culturist.
Prof. Hil-gard, of the University of California, experimenting with 31 kinds of European grapes, finds the Gros Verdot the most prolific, seven vines yielding 555 pounds. Forty vines of Black Hamburg gave only 1050 pounds.
European grapes often take notions to produce enormous bunches - notions, we believe, grapes of American species are free from. A recent account gives a bunch of Gros Gillaume as weighing 20 pounds.
 
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