The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste #4 | by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams
Abies To Yellow Corn
| Title | The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste #4 |
| Author | P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams |
| Publisher | James Vice, Jr. |
| Year | 1853-1874 |
| Copyright | 1853-1874, James Vice, Jr. |
| Amazon | Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste |
Devoted To Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Botany, Pomology, Entomology, Rural Economy, Etc.
Edited By P. Barry, Author Of The "Fruit Garden".
Edited by A. J. Downing, Author Of "Landscape Gardening," "Designs For Cottage Residences," " Fruits And Fruit Trees Of America," "Country Houses," Etc., Etc.
Conducted By J. Jay Smith, Editor of the N. A. Sylva.
Volumes III - XXIX (1853-1874)
A "Model" Advertisement - Abies Griffithiana. Larix Griffithiana- A Model Advertisement We take the following from an English paper: J. J. Foster, after eight years' trial, has found the rose 'Descartes' the best for stocks. Price, 12s. per 100. Manetti stocks ...
- Abies Jezoensis - Abies Smitkiana, Or Morinda, Weeping Himalayan Spruce
- Abies Jezoensis This magnificent coniferous tree is one of Mr. Fortune's introductions. Dr. Lindley* writes of it: According to Siebold, the Jezo Spruce, so called because it grows on the Islands of...
- Abies, The Spruce Fir - Acacia Marginata, R. Brown, (Alias A. Trigona Alph De Candolla)
- Abies, The Spruce Fir All the species are ornamental, and many are useful as timber-trees. They grow in dry, elevated, rich soils, though some will do well in rich, moist valleys, in the vioinity of ...
- Academy Of Natural Sciences - Achimenes Ghiesbreghtii
- Academy Of Natural Sciences The great additions and improvements to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Broad street, Philadelphia, are now completed and visitors are admitted as heretofore on Tuesday...
- Achimenes Meteor - Adiantum Patens
- Achimenes Meteor A most splendid addition to this most beautiful and useful class of plants. Color, a rich crimson scarlet, with petals of great substance. It is, without exception, the finest achime...
- Adonis - Agloe
- Adonis A very fine variety, with tall scapes of flowers of a rosy salmon, shading off to soft carmine. Advertisements We have handed over to the publisher the advertisements of Richard E. Fahnestoc...
- Agricultural Division Of Tot Patent Office - Cuttings Of The Prune - Agricultural Jokes
- Agricultural Division Of Tot Patent Office - Cuttings Of The Prune There have recently been imported from France the cuttings of several varieties of the Prune, which have been distributed in Maine, ...
- Agriculturist - An Almond Orchard
- Agriculturist Sometimes gives good crops, and when well grown is not surpassed in quality, and about half the berries are of the largest size; but it does not always yield well, and unless well grown...
- The Aloe - Always Be Planting A Tree
- The Aloe Something remarkable is reported of the aloe: a gardener near Paris one day scalded both his feet; he was quite alone, - no one within call; and compelled thus to shift for himself, he pluck...
- Amabilis - An Amateur's Wants
- Amabilis A fine tall growing variety of a bright scarlet color: very effective. The Amaranth The beauty of this robust growing flower is due to its ornamental variegated leaves. An ancient floral w...
- Amblahchier Botryapium - American Association for The Advancement Or Science
- Amblahchier Botryapium It is much to be regretted that this very beautiful shrub or small tree should be so seldom seen in our ornamental plantations. As the Snowy Mespilus it figures largely in th...
- American Azaleas - American Golden Russet
- American Azaleas The Gardener's Chronicle says Azalea growing has reached as high perfection of growing in America as with us. This is given by way of compliment, in special reference to the magn...
- American Hollies - American Pomologlcal Society
- American Hollies A Correspondent inquires where plants of the American Holly can be had. Will any nurseryman who has them for sale make it known!. The American Home Garden Being Principles and Rule...
- The American Poulterer's Companion - Amorphophallus Rtiveri
- The American Poulterer's Companion A Practical Treatise on the Breeding, Rearing, Fattening, and general Management of the various Species of Domestic Poultry. By C. N. Bement. With accurate and beau...
- Amount Of Mulching For Each Acre - An Ancient Tree
- Amount Of Mulching For Each Acre We use from three to five tons of salt hay per acre on our field, spreading it evenly over the surface of the ground. If applied before winter comes on, the tops of t...
- Ancient-Oak - Annual Exhibition Or The Cincinnati Horticultural Society
- Ancient-Oak One of the oldest trees in Europe was struck by lightning in the month of July last. This tree, an oak, had been planted near Chatillion-sur-Seine (Cote d'Or), in 1070, by a Count of Cham...
- Annual Register Of Rural Affairs. L. Tucker & Son, Albany - Another Pleasing Scene
- Annual Register Of Rural Affairs. L. Tucker & Son, Albany This is the fourteenth year of the publication of this desirable hand-book, which has come to be a standard publication; so much so that the ...
- Anthurium - Apple Baldwin
- Anthurium Another indispensable plant, even in the smallest and most select collection, is the Anthurium Scherzerianum; this plant is seldom without flowers; the same flower will last for three month...
- Apple Blossoms - Apple Trees Killed By Potash
- Apple Blossoms There is a peculiarity in the flowers of apple trees which I have not heard mentioned by observers or noticed in books. Each flower bud almost invariably produces a cluster of six flow...
- Apple-Orchards - Apricots At The East - Climate Of Palestine
- Apple-Orchards Jamestown. A paint of very thin soft soap, is far better for the bark of trees than whitewash, because it actually kills all insects and their eggs in the crevices of the bark, and bec...
- Apricots. - Early Moorpark - Aquilegia Whitmaniana
- Apricots. - Early Moorpark Medium size; very early and excellent; July. Apteranthes Gussoniana One of the curious succulent plants related to Stapelia. It has quadrangular toothed stems, and near t...
- Aralia Granadensis - The Arbor Vitae
- Aralia Granadensis This free-growing stove shrub was sent from New Grenada as an Aralia, from which genus, however, it appears widely to differ. It is a soft-wooded plant with alternate leaves, which...
- Arbor Vitae (Golden Tipped) - Arbor Walks
- Arbor Vitae (Golden Tipped) A variety of the common native species (Thuja occi-dentalu). It is a strong and vigorous grower, and apparently as hardy as its parent. The foliage is a rich golden yellow...
- Arboriculture - Architecture And Its Power
- Arboriculture A Trenton Subscriber. The tree you describe, is the Georgia Bark - Pinckneya pubens - one of the most beautiful and least cultivated of all our southern trees. The only fine specimen we...
- Ardisia Sieboldii - Arranging Bouquets - Snow-Drops With Moss
- Ardisia Sieboldii This very handsome species was introduced from China by Dr. Siebold. It is a graceful shrubby plant; the leaves are about five inches long, notched, of a shining green. It blooms in...
- Artificial Fruit - Ashes Vs. Curculio
- Artificial Fruit We saw the other day at H. A. Dreer's, 327 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, the handsomest plate of artificial fruit that has ever come under our notice. The Peaches were beyond measur...
- Aspidistra Variegata - At Kew
- Aspidistra Variegata A stove plant from Japan, with leaves springing from the rootstock. They have stalks a foot high; and are fifteen inches long and six inches wide; lance-shaped, tapering to a poi...
- Atkins' Automaton, Or Self-Raking Reaper And Mower - The Austrian Pine. Pinus Austriaca
- Atkins' Automaton, Or Self-Raking Reaper And Mower This is an advertisement of the lion machine at the Illinois State Fair at Chicago. It attracted more attention than any other implement on the gr...
- Autumn Bearing Raspberries - Azalea Mollis
- Autumn Bearing Raspberries On the 27th of October I visited the grounds of Oliver Alger, Esq., near Cleveland, and examined a patch of the Kirtland raspberries, all with green healthy foliage and ful...
- Azalea Occidentals, Torrey And Gray, Bot. Mag., T. 5005 - B. Lossee, Coburg, C. W
- Azalea Occidentals, Torrey And Gray, Bot. Mag., T. 5005 The plant just published under this name in the Botanical Magazine is known in gardens as Azalea Californica. It has pale yellowish flowers, an...
- B. Smith - The Baldwin Apple In The North
- B. Smith The finest of all the Andromeda family, is A. floribunda; but we have never seen it, and we do not think it is yet introduced amongst us. The shrub is most beautiful, and the bloom like bunc...
- The Baldwin In Michigan - Bambusa Variegata
- The Baldwin In Michigan The Baldwin apple is reported more largely planted in the region of St. Joseph, Mich., and the demand for the fruit greater than that of any other variety. The preference give...
- Bans - The Barnes Mammoth Strawberry
- Bans Here is something about bees which quite abates our early prejudice in favor of those always instanced little creatures that improve each shining hour. Many curious instances have been notic...
- Baronne De Mello - Batchelor, Or King Apple
- Baronne De Mello Size - medium. Form - obovate, acute pyriform. Stem - short, stout, fleshy at the base. Color - yellowish russet. Flesh - greenish white, melting and juicy, with an agreeable, tolera...
- Battle Creek (Michigan) Agricultural Society - Beautiful Picture
- Battle Creek (Michigan) Agricultural Society President, Jeremiah Brown. Treasurer, John Meacham. Secretary, D. B. Burnham. There is also a Board of Directors. Be Careful Of The Roots Of Newly Dug Tr...
- Beauty Of Beechwood - Bedding Pansies
- Beauty Of Beechwood Dark rosy crimson; large, full, and very double; one of the finest varieties yet sent out. (New). Beauty Of Our American Parks Mr. Robinson, whose article we refer to in another...
- Bedford Horticultural Society - Begonia Laciniata (Cut-Leaved Begonia)
- Bedford Horticultural Society At the Annual Meeting of this Society, the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year: HENRY H. CRAPO, President. James Arnold, William P. Jenney, Jonathan Bou...
- Begonia Mosacea - Begonia Rex. Nat. Ord. Begoniaceae
- Begonia Mosacea This beautiful species was introduced from the western Cordailleras, of Columbia, by that indefatigable collector, M. Triana, to Brussels. It is a tuberous-rooted kind, with fine foli...
- Begonia Rosacea. Nat. Ord. Begoniacea - The Belle De Choisy Cherry
- Begonia Rosacea. Nat. Ord. Begoniacea The present was introduced by M. Linden, of Brussels, through that indefatigable collector, M. Triana. It is a tuberous-rooted kind, sending up fine, rather down...
- Belle De Fentenay Raspberry - Bells And Whistles
- Belle De Fentenay Raspberry Dr. Hull says that he planted 500 plants of this variety in the spring, and they spread, by the next year, to 1,200 ; and gathered from them upwards of 1,200 quarts in one...
- Belmont Or Gate - Bengal, Or Daily Roses
- Belmont Or Gate Mr. Humricehouse said this Apple was considered indispensable is his region; thinks the tree rather tender. Gentlemen from central and northern Ohio spoke of it as very excellent, and...
- The Bentham Pine. Pinus Benthamiana - Bergner
- The Bentham Pine. Pinus Benthamiana The Bentham Pine is comparatively of recent introduction, and where spreading stateliness of character is wanted either in a single tree or group, that or the Heav...
- Bernettya Florabunda - Best Grapes For A Vinery
- Bernettya Florabunda This is one of the handsomest hardy shrubs we have for the decoration of the conservatory, and for such a purpose alone should have a place in every collection. In looking throug...
- Best Large Foliaged Plants For Subtropical Gardening - The Best Plants For Hanging Baskets
- Best Large Foliaged Plants For Subtropical Gardening P. Barry recommended, at the same meeting, Canna, Colocasia, both large-leaved and beautiful, very easily managed; can be taken up and wintered in...
- Best Rhododendrons - Best Tiles To Use For Draining An Orchard
- Best Rhododendrons Most of our readers will remember the grand exhibition of Rhododendrons, last summer, on Boston Common . We observe that in the report of H . Weld Fuller, a good list of the best s...
- Best Trees For Western Tree Planting - Beurre Bachelier
- Best Trees For Western Tree Planting Mr. R. S. Elliott says, that from the combined experience of himself and S. T. Kelsey, the following four species of trees are the very best that can be recommend...
- Beurre Bachelier And Compte De Flandres Peaks - Beurre D'Avoine
- Beurre Bachelier And Compte De Flandres Peaks Not especially new, but, as you say, valuable. For general, or rather for market growing, we do not require too many sorts, but for the amateur grower on...
- Beurre De L'Assomption - Beurre Judes
- Beurre De L'Assomption This is one of the new pears described by A. Leroy as of first quality. It is claimed to have originated at Nantes, in France, in 1863. The tree is said to be vigorous, with nu...
- Beurre Kennes - Beurre Soulange
- Beurre Kennes Fruit medium, pyriform, of a dark hue, brown reddish with numerous dots, and a rather rough skin; a very conspicuous fruit in the garden. Quality good to very good; flesh half buttery, ...
- Beurre Sprin - Bicton Pine Strawberry
- Beurre Sprin Size - medium. Form - obovate, obtuse pyriform. Color - pale yellow, slightly traced with russet, and with occasionally a blush cheek. Flesh - melting, juicy, rich, with a peculiar aroma...
- Biff Apples - The Biggest Fruit-Trees In The United States
- Biff Apples An Oregon visitor at the Farmers' Club, New York city, lately stated in a meeting of that august body, that he had gathered a basket full of apples from one short limb of an apple tree in...
- The Biggest Peach Orchard In The United State - Black Ant
- The Biggest Peach Orchard In The United State Is that of Col. Edward Wilkins, who now has thirteen hundred and fifty acres, with one hundred and thirty-six thousand trees. The peaches from his orchar...
- Black Berries - Bleaker's Meadow Peak
- Black Berries A box of fine blackberries received on the 16th of September, from Mr. Lawton, speak loudly in favor of this now established luxury of all good gardens. -They were superb. Several other...
- Bleeding Of The Grape-Vine - Bloom
- Bleeding Of The Grape-Vine Allow me to ask, What amount of injury did any one ever know to have been caused by this bleeding, of which grape-growers stand in such dread? Blight And Open Exposure J....
- A Blue Blackberry - Bon Gustave
- A Blue Blackberry We saw recently at Mr. Erhard's, at Ravens wood, ft Blackberry so thickly covered with blue bloom as to make the term blue quite appropriate, if it does not rub of too readily. It...
- Bones - Bonvnrdias A Winter Decorative Plants
- Bones We would prefer breaking them up into small pieces, or grinding into powder in a raw state, to burning. Fire destroys the organic parts, which are the most immediate fertilizers. Bone Fertiliz...
- Book Lists - Books For The Country
- Book Lists We call the attention of our readers to our new and revised book lists, containing all the new agricultural and architectural books published. We are particular in executing orders to proc...
- Books. Horticultural Review - The Boston Pear
- Books. Horticultural Review New Books. Horticultural Review #1 Boot Grafting The Boss An Knglish gardener writes on this subject that, just as the buds were swelling, he pulled up an old rose ...
- Botanical - Bottom Heat And Tomato Plants
- Botanical The tree is known by its fruits. An exception to this is the dog-wood, which is known by its bark. - Punch. Botanical Names Mr. Downino - Dear Sir*. Will you be kind enough to answer th...
- Bouquet In Paris - Box Tree - Buxus
- Bouquet* In Paris Americans cannot appreciate the almost universal custom in Paris and London of button-hole Bouquets. As an evidence of their immense use, a French journal asserts that the average a...
- Bradford Watermelon - Branded St. Germain Was Proposed
- Bradford Watermelon The Bradford is a highly prized South Carolina Watermelon. Size, large. Form, oblong. Skin, dark green, with gray, longitudinal stripes mottled and reticulated with green. Find, ...
- Brandywine - Bridgewater, March 24,1856. The Rhode Island Greening
- Brandywine C. M. Hovey moved to add to list for general cultivation. Carried. Brandywine #1 This variety originated on the farm of Eli Harvey, on the river Brandy wine, in Pennsylvania, The fruit i...
- A Bright Outlook - Broad-Leaved Yew - Podocarpus
- A Bright Outlook Our contributors are rallying in force. The splendid articles we make space for this month, are but part of more on hand yet to come. For the coining year, we aim to make the Horticu...
- Bronchitis And Kindred Diseases - Buchanan's Seedling Petunias
- Bronchitis And Kindred Diseases Ninth Edition. 12mo. 382 pages. $1. What is Bronchitis? Its Nature and Causes. How to distinguish it from Consumption, Throat-Ail, or Chronic Laryngitis. How to distin...
- Buckley's Potatoes - Buerre Nantais
- Buckley's Potatoes We have received from Mr. Buckley, of Williamstown, Mass., a sample of his seedling potatoes. They boil dry and mealy, and are of a rich, delicate flavor, superior, in our opinion...
- Building One's House - Bush's Beauty
- Building One's House I would have, says the same author, our ordinary dwelling houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be, within and without, and w...
- Butter - Buxus Sempervirens
- Butter A lady in New Jersey, who supposes our knowledge more extensive than it really is, asks how to make butter come? A good plan would be to, pack it up nicely and put it on the------railroad; it ...
- Buy Your Trees In The Fall - Cabbage Worms
- Buy Your Trees In The Fall We do not care where you are located, you will always find it advantageous to purchase your trees and vines in the autumn rather than spring. You will generally get better ...
- The Cactus As A Window Plant - Caladium Chantinii
- The Cactus As A Window Plant The Farmers' Advocate says this is much used as a window plant, and is very pretty when in bloom. To keep them through the winter, they should be allowed to get quite dry...
- The Calendar - The California Horticulturist
- The Calendar We could more frequently refer to the value of the Calendar of Operations than we do, to express our high estimation of its value, but it is bo evidently appreciated, that this is unnece...
- The California Horticulturist And Floral Magazine - California Successes
- The California Horticulturist And Floral Magazine This is the first horticultural journal really established on the Pacific Coast. Its first issue is with the November number, and announces its Edito...
- Callicarpa Purpurea - Calystegia Pubescens
- Callicarpa Purpurea A hardy greenhouse shrub, with sharply serrated leaves, in the axils of which appear bunches of insignificant flowers succeeded by small shiny purple berries resembling glass bead...
- Camellia Culture - Use Of Lime Water - Campanula Strigosa
- Camellia Culture - Use Of Lime Water Mrs. Geo. W. Carpenter, in Gardeners' Monthly, says: In regard to the watering of camellias with lime water, the facts are as follows: The plants are grown in lar...
- The Campanula Vidalli - Campylobotris Argyroneura. Nat. Ord. Rubiaceoe
- The Campanula Vidalli Is recommended as a perfect gem for the greenhouse. It is a low growing plant, with racemes of pure white bcll-shupcd flowers. Camphor Vs. Pea-Bugs Having observed in the Hort...
- Can Flowers Be Grown In A City? - Canary
- Can Flowers Be Grown In A City? This question has often been asked by the admirers of those fragrant gifts of nature. As a lover of a garden, and being doomed to pass the greater part of the year in ...
- Canby's August - Carbolic Soap For Peach Borers
- Canby's August A very good grape, quite early, and said to be an excellent bearer; had a few bunches sent me; they were not quite average specimens. Canna - Tricolor A great addition to this beauti...
- Cardinal Flower - Lobelia Cardinalis - Carina Warscewicksii
- Cardinal Flower - Lobelia Cardinalis Among other plants remarkable for elegance is the Cardinal Flower, which in the last summer months may be found along our swampy grounds, near fresh water streams...
- A Carl Wolfarth - Cassia Chamaerista And Nictitans, (Wild Sensitive Plant.)
- A Carl Wolfarth Very fine purple crimson; a very beautiful variety. Carnations B. J. In order that the layers should root freely, you must water the ground every morning in dry weather - and if you...
- Catalogue Of A. S, Borne & Co's, Publications - Catalogue Of Seeds
- Catalogue Of A. S, Borne* & Co's, Publications For gratuitous circulation. New York, 51 John street. A series of important scientific and school books. Catalogue Of Fruit And Ornamental Trees, Shru...
- Catalogue Of The Annual Exhibition Of The Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts. Philadelphia - Cayuga County Agricultural Society
- Catalogue Of The Annual Exhibition Of The Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts. Philadelphia The members of this institution are earnest in their endeavors to disseminate a taste for the fine arts, ...
- Cayuga, County (N. Y.) Horticultural Society - Cedrus Deodara
- Cayuga, County (N. Y.) Horticultural Society The following is a list of the officers for 1853: President HARRISON T. DICKINSON, Auburn. Vice Presidents Philip R. Freeoff, George E. Barber, Oliver...
- Cedrus Libani, Cedar Of Lebanon - Centaurea
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- Centauren American Hallis - Cerasus, The Laurel Bird Cherry
- Centauren American Hallis Florets of a deep Magenta purple; the flower heads are very large, measuring when expanded, fully four inches across. In light soil the plant grows from 2 ½ to 3 feet high. ...
- Ceres - Change Of Firm
- Ceres A new and very striking variety, with noble racemes of large flowers of pure white finely spotted with light rose and purple: extra. Cereus Bonplandii A large, high-flowering Cereus. Flowers ...
- Chaptal's Chemistry - Cheap Bell Glasses
- Chaptal's Chemistry Applied to Agriculture. With a Preliminary Chapter on the Organisation, Structure, Ac., of Plants, by Sir Humphrey Davy ; an Essay on the Use of Lime as a Manure, by M. Puvis; wit...
- A Cheap Canning Apparatus - Chenango Strawberry-Apple. Prank Buckley - Jackson - Sherwood's Favorite-Strawberry
- A Cheap Canning Apparatus Mr. F. J. Parks, of South Haven, Mich., built a small canning establishment the past season, at a cost of only $300, in which they put up 1,500 cans per day, at an expense o...
- Cherries In Southern Ohio - Cherries. De Kalb Cherry
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- Cherry Stocks - Childs' Superb Grape
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- Chimaphila Umballata, (Prince's Pine.) - Chinese Azaleas
- Chimaphila Umballata, (Prince's Pine.) The burning sun inclines us to visit the deep shades of the forest, and there we shall still find new charms. These two species are evergreens, and produce clus...
- Chinese Cling Peach - Chinese Wistaria
- Chinese Cling Peach One of the best and handsomest among the clingstones. Fruit large, oval pointed, with a white crimson-tinged woolly skin; very conspicuous. Flesh white, very fine, slightly colore...
- Chiswick Exhibition - The Christian Lawyer
- Chiswick Exhibition All our readers who remember the splendors of the Chiswick Horticultural Exhibitions, near London, will regret to hear they have been given up as unprofitable, nay, a serious loss...
- Chronical Apple - Cions
- Chronical Apple The tree that produced this apple originated about thirty years ago on the farm of Mr. John Cotton, Putnam co., Indiana. The original tree is still living, - an upright, thrifty growe...
- A Circle - City Trees
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- Clapier - Class I
- Clapier Although a foreign variety, has fruited splendidly in the open air. Bunches, Of good size, oval. Berry, white, and very good. Clara A most beautiful and excellent grape. Bunch, quite large....
- Clauds Lorraine's Landscapbs - The Clematis (2)
- Clauds Lorraine's Landscapbs The stone pine, Pinus pinea, is the pine of Claude Lorraine's landscapes, so often painted, and with such picturesque effects. Clavija Fulgens. Brilliant-Flowered Glavij...
- Clematis Jackmanni - Clianthus Dampierit
- Clematis Jackmanni The hardiness of this variety near New York is well tested, as appears from a letter written recently to the London Florist in which the writer says he had a plant of Clematis Jack...
- Clianthus Diampieri - Climbers (2)
- Clianthus Diampieri A splendid flowered greenhouse soft-wooded subshrub, of rather difficult management. Clianthus Magnificus Those of our readers who have seen the singularly beautiful flowers of ...
- Climbing Ferns - Close Pruning
- Climbing Ferns These for the northern part of the United States are few. The five-parted fern, climbing in New England trees, and other objects, as near Hartford, and in a few places about Springfiel...
- Clouds, To Protect From Frost - Coach-Makers1 Magazine
- Clouds, To Protect From Frost It seems that, in Southern France, means have been used to protect grapes from early frost by producing artificial clouds. Small cauldrons of coal-tar are placed a short...
- Coal Ashes - Colonel Chamberlain
- Coal Ashes These are often wasted on walks, or left to accumulate for years in unsightly heaps. They are not without some value to the soil, and should find their way to the compost heap rather than ...
- Color Arrangement Of Flower Beds - Colossal Asparagus
- Color Arrangement Of Flower Beds A few simple rules in the arrangement of flower beds will materially enhance the effect produced. Among these are: 1. Avoid placing rose - colored next to scarlet, or...
- Colossal Asparayus - Committers
- Colossal Asparayus A correspondent of The Gardener's Chronicle, who tried the Conover's Colossal Asparagus, although with some incredulity, at last is forced to say: In point of size, this is a colo...
- Common Plants - Complimentary. American Pomologlcal Society
- Common Plants A recent writer well observes: There is nothing too common, or betokening stinginess or poverty, in having the oldest or simplest plant well grown and bloomed in a pot; everybody love...
- Compost - The Comprehensive Farm Record
- Compost Your compost, one-third of each, swamp muck, barnyard manure, and loam, with soap suds thrown on it from the weekly wash, and let lay for six months, is excellent. Some lime would improve i...
- Comte De Flandre - Conetitution Of The Milwaueie Horticultural Society, Established 1852
- Comte De Flandre Size - large. Form - pyramidal-pyriform, contracted in the neck and broad at the middle resembling the 'Marie Louise. Stem - stout joined yellow at maturity, considerably dappled wit...
- Congress Of Rose Growers - Conseiller De La Cour
- Congress Of Rose Growers A grand Congress of Rose Growers was convened this summer, at Lyons, France and met with excellent success. New varieties seemed to receive little favor, for out of fifty sho...
- Consellier Ranwez - The Contest
- Consellier Ranwez Obtained and dedicated to his friend Consellier Ranwez, by Van Mons, towards 1830. * See Frontispiece. The tree is one of our most vigorous growers, a first-rate bearer, and seems...
- Continuous-Blooming Roses Of Peculiar Character - Cooper's Market Apple
- Continuous-Blooming Roses Of Peculiar Character Celemine, pink rose, fine form; Jaune Desprei, rich fawn, yellow centre; Archduke Charles, or the Changeable Rose, pink to crimson; Cramoisie superieur...
- Copy Lost - Cost
- Copy Lost Our boy last month lost some of our best table matter while on the way to the printer's, and we did not discover it till too late to supply it again, which in some cases would not have be...
- Cost And Profits Of An Apple Orchard - Cottage Stable
- Cost And Profits Of An Apple Orchard A. Preble, of Lincoln Co., Maine, makes the following estimate, which will be nearly correct in all good apple regions, allowing for some variation in prices: On...
- Cotton - A Covered Hedgeway
- Cotton The cotton grown in the province of Piura, is said to be, next after our Sea Island, equal to the best gathered in the United States. I am assured that each plant, on an average, yields at eac...
- A Covering Of Snow As A Protection Against Frost - Cracked Pears
- A Covering Of Snow As A Protection Against Frost Ebermayer gives, in his recent work on the influence of the forests, a table of observations, showing the temperature of the earth covered by snow dur...
- The Cracking And Warfield - Creepers
- The Cracking And Warfield P. S. - I have two varieties of apple, among the finest growing trees in my nursery, Cracking and Warfield; please describe them, I wish to plant, in orchard, but do not kno...
- Crescent Seedling - Crotcher Apple
- Crescent Seedling This new variety from New Orleans has, in my garden - this its first season of bearing north - proved a perfect failure.' The plants are very strong and vigorous; the blossoms large...
- Croton And Senasqua Grapes - The Crystal Palace Plants
- Croton And Senasqua Grapes At Canandaigua Lake the Croton has been attacked with mildew and rot. The Senasqua is, however, perfectly healthy and a strong grower. Crowns Why for thousands of years h...
- Cueumbers On Trellises - Culture In The Open Ground
- Cueumbers On Trellises The Gardener's Monthly says no one who has not tried it, can have any idea of the luxurious growth of a cucumber, when trained on a stake, which has a set of stubby side-branch...
- Culture Of Fruit In Europe - Culture Of the Olive
- Culture Of Fruit In Europe In the province of Wurtemburg, Germany, the fruit crop brings, in average seasons, a revenue of $700,000 annually. The culture of fruit trees is increasing, and there now e...
- Cunninghamia Sinensis - Cupressus, Evergreen Cypress
- Cunninghamia Sinensis Just manages to hold its own year after year; I have little doubt it would thrive planted mainly in sand on an elevation well drained, and in shadow of a pine wood. Cunninghami...
- The Curculio And The Grape - Cure For The Mealy .Bug
- The Curculio And The Grape In examining a small vineyard lately, we found one bunch of grapes, every berry of which was marked with the crescent of the Curculio. We saw it on no others. We brought th...
- Cureulios - A Curious Fact
- Cureulios The easiest way undoubtedly to kill the Curculio is to spread a sheet on the ground, then jar the trees, and destroy the fallen fruit. The jarring must be done in the cool of the morning, w...
- A Curious Peach - The Currant Worm
- A Curious Peach Mrs. H. W. Draper, of Dover, Del., discovered on one of the peach trees of her place, a peach of fine largo size, but curious growth. One-half had the appearance of the old Mixon vari...
- Currant And Gooseberries - The Cut Leaved Sumach
- Currant* And Gooseberries These should always be grown as miniature trees, on clean stems nine inches or a foot high. In preparing for bushes of this kind, cuttings of young wood about twelve or four...
- The Cut-Leaved Weeping Birch. Be-Tula Lasciniata Pendula - Cutting Down Roses In The Fall
- The Cut-Leaved Weeping Birch. Be-Tula Lasciniata Pendula An elegant, erect tree, similar to the preceding, but with more slender drooping branches, and with delicately cut leaves, that attract and pl...
- Cuyahoga - Cynoglosswn Nobile
- Cuyahoga This we received from Dr. Grant; but it was not ripe. As we expect to have it mature, we say no more about it for the present. Cyathea Dreget This also has been imported from South Africa....
- Cynthon Burkei - Cytisus Fragrans
- Cynthon Burkei This fine greenhouse tree fern is a native of South Africa, whence it has been imported. It has stoutish stems, five to six feet high, and shaggy with dark-colored rootlets. The fronds...
- Czar Violet - Daphne
- Czar Violet Have never grown it extensively, color too dark, and flower single, which are both against it for the flower trade. D. Sinensis Flore Plena Most brilliant of all the double sorts. Perfe...
- Daphne Indica Rubra - Dasylirium Acrotrichum
- Daphne Indica Rubra One of the sweetest plants in existence, but rarely found in good health. It requires to be grown freely now. Keep warm and well syringed, and but sparingly watered at root. Soil ...
- Dasylirium Glaucophylitem - Death Of Dr. Harris
- Dasylirium Glaucophylitem Another fine Asparagineons greenhouse plant, with a large spreading head of narrow glaucous rigid leaves of Yucca-like habit The flowers are in crowded spikelets, collected ...
- Death Of Hon. B. V. French - Death Of Mr. William Reid
- Death Of Hon. B. V. French We regret to learn that this distinguished Horticulturist died at his residence in Dorchester, Mass., on the 10th inst, aged 68. He was one of the prominent members of the ...
- Death Of Of. B. Downer - Decay Of The Cherry
- Death Of Of. B. Downer The death of Mr. Downer, of Fairview, Kentucky, came to us with startling suddenness. We had enjoyed the pleasure of frequent correspondence with him during years past, both of...
- December, 1862. The Horticulturist And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste - Degeneration Of A Variety Of Fruit
- December, 1862. The Horticulturist And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste PETER B. MEAT, Editor. GEO. E. WOODWARD, Associate Ed. HEAD & WOODWARD, Proprietors & Publishers, 37 Park Sow, New York. ...
- Delaware (Ohio) Horticultural Society - Delaware Strawberries
- Delaware (Ohio) Horticultural Society At the meeting of this Society held Friday evening last, C Hills exhibited Bed Antwerp, Franconia, and Yellow Magnum Bonum Raspberries; Bed and White Dutch Curra...
- Delays In Correspondence - Dendrobium Japonicum
- Delays In Correspondence As usual, during the months of January and February,- the mails of the respective Publishers are so large, and the rush of subscriptions so great, that it is almost impossibl...
- Dendrobium Nobile - Description Of Three New Pears
- Dendrobium Nobile A splendid plant of this lovely Dendrobe is at present flowering in the collection of B. E. Bliss, Esq., of this place. It is but a small specimen, comparatively, yet has 70 large f...
- Description Of Two New Cherries From Ohio - Design For A Bird House
- Description Of Two New Cherries From Ohio A. J. Downing, Esq Dear Sir: Some two years since I assumed description of several new varieties of cherries originating from pits of the Yellow Spanish, gr...
- Design For A Church F. C. Withers, Architect - Destroying Garden Moles
- Design For A Church F. C. Withers, Architect SOUTHWEST VIEW. GROUND PLAN. The correct place for the Font would be near the entrance as shown on the plan. The cost of the church would of course...
- Destroying Mildew - Destruction To House Bugs
- Destroying Mildew Marshall P. Wilder, in a communication to the Journal of Agriculture, speaking of mildew on grapes, greenhouse plants, and elsewhere, says, We have for more than fifteen years use...
- Deutzia Crenata - Pleno - Dicentra
- Deutzia Crenata - Pleno We named this shrub in our list of choice varieties in the first volume of the Record, and we again call attention to it, for it is worthy of a special notice. The flowers are...
- Dickson's Emperor Apple - Difference In Exposure
- Dickson's Emperor Apple Size large, form irregular, slightly ribbed, color yellow, with dashes of carmine red interspersed, as well as with numerous minute specks of yellowish straw color; the side m...
- Digging, Yield, Mode Of Preserving - The Dioscoria
- Digging, Yield, Mode Of Preserving Dig as soon as the vines are killed by the frost Spread the tubers thinly on a dry, cool floor, where they may often be preserved for gradual use until midwinter. ...
- Dipladenia Amoena - Diseases Of The Potato
- Dipladenia Amoena This valuable acquisition among stove plants has been raised from seed of D. amabalis by Mr. Tuke, of Bramley, near Leeds. The flowers are three inches in diameter, and the foliage ...
- Dissolving Bones - Dixon's Low-Down Philadelphia Grate
- Dissolving Bones J. R. S., (Clarksville, Ga.) To dissolve bones, provide a strongcosk, fill it three-fourths full of bones - (broken into pieces if you wish to gave time.) Pour over them a mixture of...
- Dnmunond'8 Phlox, (Phlox Drwnmondi) - Doolittle's Black Cap
- Dnmunond'8 Phlox, (Phlox Drwnmondi) Various shades, from white, crimson, dark purple and striped; nine inches high; makes fine beds. Dnrand's Strawberries Mr. Durand, of Irvington, N. J., is now th...
- Doronicum Bourgaeri (Bourgeau's Leopard's Bane) - Double Crimson Thorn
- Doronicum Bourgaeri (Bourgeau's Leopard's Bane) Found by M. Bourgean daring 1855, at Barranco de Angostura, in the Canary Islands. It closely re-sembles the Cineraria, and is a highly ornamental gre...
- The Double Flowering Fuchsia - Double Poinsettla
- The Double Flowering Fuchsia Nothing in the floral world can be more beautiful than a well grown plant of the Fuchsia, ether double or single, studded all over with its bright wealth of pendant flora...
- Double Primrose - Downer's Prolific
- Double Primrose T. B. Your primrose and polyanthus will winter much better m frames, than they would in your green-house. Doubtless if you have kept them in the latter it has been too warm for them. ...
- Downing's Familiar Notes And Letters - Doyenne D'Alencon
- Downing's Familiar Notes And Letters In the ensuing volume of the Horticultural will be published a short series of familiar characteristic notes and letters from the late A. J. Downing to the presen...
- Doyenne D'Ete - Dr. Comstock's Aquarium
- Doyenne D'Ete This handsome little pear is undoubtedly one of the most profitable in cultivation, as it bears early and abundantly, ripens among the very earliest, and the quality is unsurpassed by a...
- Dr. Folk's Native Grape - Dr. Kirtland's Cherries
- Dr. Folk's Native Grape The July Horticulturist having come to hand before this, I shall reserve what I have to say on this grape, to couple it with the new seedling of Mr. Allen, of Salem, Mass., an...
- Dr. Mcclure - Dracaena Metallica
- Dr. Mcclure But does not mildew occur independent of all these circumstances, as laid down in the case of the gooseberry? And are not peculiar circumstances to be taken into account in the inquiry? ...
- Dracaena Splendens - Dried Apples
- Dracaena Splendens A remarkably distinct, ornamental stove plant, of dwarf and compact, but free growing habit, densely furnished with 6hort oblong, acute recurved leaves, about nine inches long and ...
- Dried Flowers And Grasses - Duchess Of Oldenburgh Apple
- Dried Flowers And Grasses Recently, while visiting a lady friend, who has great skill and taste in drying and displaying flowers and grasses, both in bo-quets and on paper, we were reminded of how li...
- Duchess Of Sutherland - Due D'Orleans
- Duchess Of Sutherland A beautiful bright rose; a noble flower; spike close and habit free. Duchesse D'Angouleme Not satisfactory, on the pear stock; but good on the quince. It is a noble looking, g...
- Due De Malakoff - Dwarf Juneberry
- Due De Malakoff A new and elegant variety, producing fine strong racemes of flowers of a light yellow ground beautifully marked with deep orange and soft carmine. Duke Of Cambridge Bright, vivid ro...
- The Dwarf Lupin - Lupinus Nanus - Dwarfing Apples
- The Dwarf Lupin - Lupinus Nanus The Dwarf Lupin is a very pretty plant, with blue or purple flowers, intermingled with a tint of rose-color and white. Its leaves are cut so as to resemble expanded fi...
- Dwarfing Pears - Early Coloring Of Grapes
- Dwarfing Pears R. H. Tubbs, Kingston, Pa., writes us: I am trying to dwarf the pear on the Juneberry. Thus far it promises well, one tree having borne a fine crop the fourth year from the bud. Its a...
- Early Dwarf - Early Purple Guigne
- Early Dwarf Earliest. Height, two feet. Pods, abort but full. Productions, most desirable. Early Flowering Chrysanthemum Hendersoni This proves to be a real acquisition to our list of Pompones. It ...
- Early Rose In England - The Early Tillotson Peach
- Early Rose In England Thos. Rivers, the well-known English nurseryman, writes to the London Journal of Horticulture that he considers the Early Rose potato as raised in that country, watery, nasty a...
- Early Vanack - Eastern Arbor Vitaes (Biota Orient Alls)
- Early Vanack This sort does not head as firm as most others, but is very sweet and delicious, and has also the good property of being fit for use whilst quite young.' Plant two feet by eighteen inche...
- Eastern Farmer - Editorial Notice. Vegetable And Flower Seeds
- Eastern Farmer This is a new weekly, which has just made its appearance at our table. It is published at Ellsworth, Maine, by Messrs. Wasson and Moor. Samuel Wesson, Editor. Price $ 1 per annum. ...
- A Edmond Bossieu - The Egyptian Beet
- A Edmond Bossieu Color white, beautifully veined with lilac; a remarkably free bloomer, and fine habit. A Edoward Otto Bright rose; center white, with lilac veins (very fine). Effect Of Coal Gas O...
- Eichornia Tricolor (Three-Colored Eickornia) - Emile De Heyst
- Eichornia Tricolor (Three-Colored Eickornia) It has also been called Pon-tederia tricolor. A Brazilian aquatic plant. Its flowers are purple, blue, and white - Ibid., t. 5020. The Elder As A Hedge F...
- Emily - English Wine
- Emily Described by some nurserymen as a white grape, which it is not, being red like Catawba; had no taste of it yet, but know it to be one of the most vigorous of growers, I have vines, struck in th...
- Enormous Shipment Of Strawberries - Epipogon Gmelini
- Enormous Shipment Of Strawberries The total amount of shipments of strawberries from the Delaware Peninsula to market during the spring season of 1874, amounted to no less than 665 car loads, or 5,28...
- Ereata - Espalier Railing
- Ereata On page 34, the Alexander Pear, M. Calvin, Esq., should read Mr. Calvin Ely; and two years ago should read twenty. Eriobotrya Japonica, Loquat A small tree, with large foliage, nearly equal ...
- Essays And On Establishing Synonyms Of Fruits - The Eupatorium As A Garden Flower
- Essays And On Establishing Synonyms Of Fruits Dr. E. Emmons, Albany, chairman. Amos Briggs, Schaghticoke; Sanford Howard, Albany: John H. Willard, Troy; A. T. Richards, West Troy. Vegetables R. F. ...
- The Eureka Grape - Everbearing Mulberries
- The Eureka Grape A committee have in hand Mr. Prince's Eureka grape, and will report upon it in due time. We have teen it, but do not with to anticipate the report of the Committee. The European We...
- Everbearing Raspberries - The Everlasting Rabbit
- Everbearing Raspberries Mr. Flagg of the Prairie Farmer, says that the only everbearing raspberry he ever saw that proved profitable, is the Ohio Everbearing, heavily manured. Evergreen Hedges A Fr...
- Every Woman Her Own Flower Gardener - Exhibition Of Gladioli
- Every Woman Her Own Flower Gardener A charming little book on Flowers and Out-door Work for Ladies, has been written by Daisy Eyebright, and the manuscript placed in our hands for publication. The ...
- Exhibition Of The American Institute - An Extraordinary Pear Tree
- Exhibition Of The American Institute Not having had a public fair this year, the Institute has determined to hold an exhibition at its rooms in the second week of February next. It will be confined t...
- Extraordinary Produce Of An Apricot-Treb In Guernsey - F. W. Woodward, Esq
- Extraordinary Produce Of An Apricot-Treb In Guernsey An apricot-tree, belonging to Mrs. Allez, of Hauteville, has for many years past given a produce which would be incredible if the fact were not no...
- Fabulous Cranberry Crop - Fair Of The State Agricultural Society
- Fabulous Cranberry Crop The Maine Farmer is responsible for the following: Mr. Clark Stanley, of Porter, has raised a crop of cranberries this year that excels anything of the kind that we have ever ...
- A Fairy Spot - Fall Setting Of Small Fruits
- A Fairy Spot A small quiet nook nestled among trees, and carpeted with green around. And there a brook should murmur, with a voice of out-door happiness, and a little garden brimming over with flower...
- Fall Tree Planting - The Farley Blackberry
- Fall Tree Planting The earlier in autumn that tree planting is performed the better, provided the wood has matured. It is not requisite that the leaf has fallen; but in transplanting, the leaf should...
- The Farm - The Farmer's Companion
- The Farm A Pocket Manual of Practical Agriculture ; or How to Cultivate all the Field Crops. Embracing an Exposition of the Nature and Action of Soils and Manures; the Principles of Rotation in Cropp...
- The Farmer's Instructor - Felten's Improved Albany Seedling
- The Farmer's Instructor Consisting of Essays, Practical Directions, and Hints for the Management of the Farm and the Garden. By the late Judge BuEl. 2 vols. 18mo, Half Sheep, - - - - 1 00. Farmer's ...
- Ferneries - Ficus Purcellii
- Ferneries In planting ferns of all kinds, it is well to remember that they do best in coarse-grained, not sifted, soil, except, perhaps, for seedlings which are being started under glass. A very tast...
- Fieldia Australia - A Fine Country Seat
- Fieldia Australia A straggling greenhouse shrub, with opposite ovate-lanceolate acuminate leaves, and pendulous pale greenish-yellow tubular flowers for their axils. Australia. Fifth Be prepared fo...
- A Fine Gingko Tree - A Fine Rose Hedge
- A Fine Gingko Tree In the Botanical Garden, at Pisa, Italy, is a Gingko tree, Salisburia adiantifolia, which has attained the height of nearly ninety feet,' and at three feet from the ground is nine ...
- A Fine White Rose - First Annual Rbport Of The Secretary Of The Massachusetts Board Of Agriculture
- A Fine White Rose Madam Plantier is one of the best of the new white roses. It is a profuse bloomer, has fine foliage, and the plant is represented as being as hardy as a common brier. Fire We si...
- A First Class Premium - Flavor Of Wine
- A First Class Premium New subscribers to the 17th volume, 1862, sending $5 in advance, will receive by express the volumes for 1860 and 1861, handsomely bound in cloth. These commence with the editor...
- Fleming's Hybrid Cashmere Melon - Floral Vases
- Fleming's Hybrid Cashmere Melon Seeds of this are advertised by Mr. B. Glendin-ning, of Chiswick. It carried off the first prize last summer at Chiswick, and is probably* the best Melon known. Wake'...
- Florence Strawberry - Flower Growing In Olden Times
- Florence Strawberry Mr. Fuller thinks this is so nearly like its paren 'Wilson,' that I do not think it should be disseminated as a distinct variety. Florida Articles We have on hand numerous ot...
- Flower In California - Flowers And Bulbs
- Flower In California We are favored with the following from the correspondence of a lady who is visiting at Vallejo, near San Francisco: I have been over to the United States navy yard. It seemed l...
- Flowers From Seed - Flowers In Sand
- Flowers From Seed A writer in the Rural New-Yorker obtains the best and earliest plants from the seed accidentally scattered on the ground from the plants of the previous year's growth, taking care n...
- Flowers In Windows - Food For Grape-Verbs
- Flowers In Windows There are no surer tests of a happy home within, than the flower-decorated window and neatly-kept garden; and there is no occupation for the leisure hours more calculated to keep i...
- Food For Travellers - Foreign Seeds And Roots
- Food For Travellers Wholesome water, and wholesome, fresh fruits, are not to be obtained by the traveller, in the largest part of the United States. Bacon, fat, and salt, is the stock article of die...
- Forest Leaves - Fountain For A Conservatory
- Forest Leaves Forest leaves are invaluable to every gardener and horticulturist. They act not only as a mulch for growing plants, but are capital for incorporation in the manure heap. If decomposed b...
- Four Bengal Or Daily - Fraud In Fruit-Trees - Correction
- Four Bengal Or Daily 1. Pink Daily, 2. Agrippina, 3. Cels, 4. Lady Wdrrender. Four Best Evergreens For Cemetries In the March number of the Horticulturist you have answered your Illinois corresp...
- A Freak Of Fashion - French Vegetables
- A Freak Of Fashion One of our fair American ladies has been indulging in a quiet, yet curious way of humbugging fashionable visitors. She has an orange plant in her parlor, which bears neither bud or...
- French, Braintree, Mass., Grapes - Diana, Catawba And Isabella - Frontispiece - An Old House Newly Modelled
- French, Braintree, Mass., Grapes - Diana, Catawba And Isabella An interesting report from the committee on fruits, of articles shown to them since the last stated meeting was then read. The chair sta...
- Frontispiece - Rural Church - Fruit At Philadelphia
- Frontispiece - Rural Church Pursuing our intention of occasionally presenting sketches and hints for the improvement of our county church architecture, we give, this month, a view from an English Jou...
- Fruit Catalogue Of The American Pomological Society - The Fruit In Rochester
- Fruit Catalogue Of The American Pomological Society We have been favored, promptly, with the Transactions of the American Porno-logical Society, at its session in Philadelphia in September last. It m...
- Fruit In Southern Virginia - The Fruit Prospect, In Western Iowa
- Fruit In Southern Virginia A writer says: Peaches grow almost spontaneously, and ripen from June till October. Pears grow and yield abundantly. All kinds of grapes which have been tried, thrive, but...
- Fruit Prospects In Oregon - Fruit-Gathering Instrument
- Fruit Prospects In Oregon The Williametie Farmer, of Oregon, says: The fruit crop this season will be light, many orchards hardly bearing enough for family use. In many localities the frost has been...
- Fruit-Growers' Association of Wisconsin - Fruits From Seed
- Fruit-Growers' Association of Wisconsin We are indebted to Secretary Willey for the Report of this Association for the year 1859. It is a carefully prepared document, containing a large amount of use...
- Fruits Of The Crimea - Fuchsia Treatment In Autumn
- Fruits Of The Crimea New apples, of extraordinary excellence, have been discovered in the Crimea, which will, no doubt, find their way to Europe and America. . Pallas speaks of one called Sinap Alma,...
- Fuchsia, Gloire De Neisse, (Rothers) - Fungus. American Writings Going Abroad
- Fuchsia, Gloire De Neisse, (Rothers) A great novelty from Germany. This will prove one of the most attractive additions to any collection. A free and robust grower, and apparently a very free bloomer...
- G. C. Thorbubn's New Plants - Garden Chairs
- G. C. Thorbubn's New Plants We noticed the spring Catalogue for 1856, issued by Mr. G. C. Thorburn, of Newark, N. J., lately, and had the pleasure of unpacking a box of his varieties, the. other day,...
- The Garden City Of Europe - Garden Topics. A Good List Of Homes
- The Garden City Of Europe Although Americans are apt to boast at many signs and facts of superiority over Europeans, yet in the seed trade there must be a very large allowance of prudence in statemen...
- Garden Wheelbarrow - Gardenia Radicans, Var. Major
- Garden Wheelbarrow This is one of the tools. But, when you get it, be careful that it is not a gimcrack affair, to be made over again by your own village blacksmith the first time you use it. One-hal...
- Gardening For The South - Gardens For Children
- Gardening For The South Mr. William N. White, of Athens, Georgia, one of the esteemed correspondents of the Horticulturist, has written, and C. M. Saxton & Co., of New York, have published, a very cl...
- Gardenta Landrethii - Gathering The Vintage
- Gardenta Landrethii In looking over the list of articles in the Horticulturist, exhibited at the meeting of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society in July last, I find it stated that a flower of Gard...
- Gaultheria Discolor - General Washington
- Gaultheria Discolor A small hardy Ericaceous shrub, with obovate-lanceolate leaves, longitudinally ribbed and silvery beneath, and short axillary racemes of white pitcher-shaped flowers, with small p...
- Generous Plea For Old-Maidism - George Penbody, Thuja Occidental Lutea
- Generous Plea For Old-Maidism Your Pink of Perfection is always considered by judges the best single. - Punch. Generous Price For Fruit Two splendid Oregon Pippins, weighing two and a-half and two ...
- Georgia Hortlicultural Society - Germinaton Of Seeds
- Georgia Hortlicultural Society A new society with this title has been organized and holds its sessions at Atlanta, Ga. At its meeting this fall, the members filled two tables, each 100 feet long, wit...
- Ghisbornr's Early - Gigantic Strawberries
- Ghisbornr's Early This handsome early variety we received from England. It is of medium size, oval, with a distinct suture, and one side enlarged. Stalk - short, and rather deeply inserted. Skin - gr...
- Gigantic Trees - Gishurst's Compound For Destroying Insects
- Gigantic Trees Prof. Gray stated in substance, in a late address, in speaking of the Sequoia of California, that the largest of these trees cannot much overdate the Christian era - that other trees i...
- Giving Credit - Gladiolus For Small Gardens
- Giving Credit We like to give credit to all periodicals when we can. To all our American periodicals and agricultural journals we are exceedingly particular, but there are many paragraphs which appea...
- Glass Labels - Glover's Models Of Fruits
- Glass Labels These are now made of glass, for sticking into the soil after having the name of the plant inscribed upon them by means ot a diamond pencil. The dark color of the soil acts as a back-gro...
- Gloxinia Erecta, Alice Louisa - Golden Sweet
- Gloxinia Erecta, Alice Louisa A very ornamental variety of the erect flowering gloxinia. Centre of tube pure white, with circle of bright crimson extending three parts of the way up the sepals. Glox...
- Goliath - A Good Wash For Fruit-Trees
- Goliath An extra strong growing variety; the flowers, when first opened, are of a brilliant carmine, gradually changing to orange red, frequently mottled with very soft rose. Good Bedding-Out Plants...
- Goodale - Gordon's Flowering Currant
- Goodale A native of Saco, Maine, appears as hardy as a Norway Pine and appears to be in every way desirable. Fruit large, handsome, and of very good quality; tree a strong, sturdy, leafy-twigged grow...
- Of Gothic Construction - Gradual And Successful Progress In Planting
- Of Gothic Construction In every arch, whether a segment of a circle, an ellipsis, or in the pointed arches, called Gothic, there is a great lateral pressure. This constitutes the leading principle of...
- Grafts - Grafting The Peach
- Grafts Ibid. Nurserymen usually send grafts of rare fruits, at the price of a tree for a dozen grafts: more common sorts at much lower rates by the quanlity. John Jon es. - The grafts of the grape-vi...
- Grafting-Wax - The Grape Crop About Cincinnati
- Grafting-Wax We have received a sample of Grafting-Wax from F. Trowbridge & Co., New Haven. Conn. It is a great convenience to have ready made for use a good article of this kind, one that can be rea...
- Grape Culture In Connecticut - Grape Phylloxera
- Grape Culture In Connecticut There is an association in Connecticut for promoting the culture of the Grape. At the convention, held a few days ago, it was stated that 50,000 gallons of wine were made...
- Grape Rot - Grapes At Tiie South
- Grape Rot This dreaded disease has made its appearance here, being confined, so far as we have observed, to the Catawba and Isabella, but mostly to the former. We know of no remedy, but think it advi...
- Grapes In City Yards - Grapes In The West
- Grapes In City Yards Good; here you have multum in parvo. Our friend literally revels within the shade of his own vines while eating of their delicious fruits. Your city readers and owners of small l...
- Grapes. A Subscriber - Grben-Fly
- Grapes. A Subscriber Your number one is the Cape; number two is the Concord, over-ripe, but the best of the lot, and best we have ever seen; number three is Hyde's Eliza, a seedling of the Isabella, ...
- The Great Discovert In Vegetation" - Great Results
- The Great Discovert In Vegetation All our readers may not have heard of Mr. Russell Com stock, and the fundamental secret of vegetable growth, which he claims to have discovered. As he is now before...
- Great Yield - Green Lanes
- Great Yield An example of an enormous yield in a pear-tree in Devonshire, is thus mentioned in the Cottage Gardener - the kind was the Windsor: The branches of the tree commenced at seven feet from ...
- Green Peas From Charleston - Greenhouse Aquatic Plants (Writable For A Small Tank)
- Green Peas From Charleston The steamship Southerner, Capt Foster, has arrived at this port from Charleston. Among her freight, which consisted principally of Cotton and Rice, were one hundred barrels...
- Greenhouse Climbers - Greer Houses
- Greenhouse Climbers I grow, for the sake of their foliage, Cissus discolor, Vitis gongyloides and Batatis paniculata. The vitis has a novel, tropical appearance and sends out slender, aerial roots, ...
- Grouping Of Plants - Growing Asparagus
- Grouping Of Plants There is no way in which the deadening formalism of our gardens may be more effectually destroyed than by the system of naturally grouping hardy plants. It may afford most p...
- Growing Crunberries - Guano Liquid Manure
- Growing Crunberries A subscriber having asked us what were the cost and profits of Cranberry culture! We answer him as follows: 1. A good cranberry marsh must be made out of boggy plenty land; sand ...
- Guarana, A Special Vegetable Remedy - Gymnogramtna Decomposita
- Guarana, A Special Vegetable Remedy The value of Guarana, as a vegetable remedy for nervous headache, is thus vouched for by a correspondent of The Cultivator. Guarana, made from the bruised and roa...
- Gynerium Argenteum - Habrothamnus Aurantiacus. Regel
- Gynerium Argenteum I have seen a plant of this magnificent grass growing on the banks of the Dargle river, which blossomed this season, throwing up 47 stems not less than 20 feet high; the plant meas...
- Hale's Early - Halstead's Patent Hoe
- Hale's Early This peach is the first to ripen. The fruit is of medium size, nearly round, skin mottled red, flesh white, juicy, and high flavored, but rots badly. Half Hardy And Tender Rhododendrons...
- Hamburgh And Muscat Grapes - A Handsome Peach Orchard
- Hamburgh And Muscat Grapes We have to thank Mr. Mullen, gardener to B. H. Winslow, Esq., for very large and splendid bunches of Black Hamburgh and Muscat of Alexandria Grapes. The Muscats were beauti...
- Hanging Evergreens For Winter - Hardiness Of The Primula Japonica
- Hanging Evergreens For Winter Some of the simplest and yet most beautiful embellishments for winter window decorations have been pots of the English Ivy (Hedera). The plants should be grown in pots i...
- Hardy Apples In Minnesota - Hardy Herbaceous Annuals
- Hardy Apples In Minnesota In the transactions of the Hennepin County Horticultural Society, Minnesota, Peter M. Gideon, Esq., gives as his experience (and which is apparently concurred in by the Soci...
- Hardy Ornamental Trees - Hartford County (Conn.), Horticultural Society
- Hardy Ornamental Trees Mr. J. B. Garber, of Columbia, Pa., says that in his locality, last winter, where every species of vine, tree, and shrub suffered severely from frost and cold, some trees broug...
- Hartford County Hortiocltural Society - Hawthorns For Ornament
- Hartford County Hortiocltural Society The following are the officers for the ensuing year: President - William W. Turner. Vice-Presidents - Dr. G. W. Russell, Dr. J. S. Butler, H. W. Terry, Hartford;...
- Health And Disease - Heat And Ventilation Of Houses
- Health And Disease Showing how health may be preserved, and how many before attaints may be safely and permanently cured, without risk or expense, by a proper use of food, warmth, air, exercise, and ...
- Heat Front Below - Hebeclinium Janthinum
- Heat Front Below The Scientific American says, that in the Garden of Plants in Paris, houses are heated by water obtained from an artesian well 1800 feet deep, which at that depth has a temperature o...
- Hedges Or Old - Henri Van Mons
- Hedges Or Old Homer says in his Odyssey, that when Ulyssus returned from Troy to his father Laertes, after many years absence, the good old man had sent his servants into the woods to gather young th...
- Herbaceous Plants - Hick's Apple - Dorsoris Pear
- Herbaceous Plants Hardy herbaceous plants should be transplanted as early as the ground can be worked freely. After planting, cover the crowns with an inch or two of leaf mold or chip dirt, as it wil...
- Hickory - Hine Grape
- Hickory The Indians (of Florida) hold in great esteem all kinds of sweet hickory-nmta. They crack the nuts, and beat them in mortars; then boil in water, and save the oil. But the most favorite dish ...
- Hints - Hoe With The Rake
- Hints The moat hardy plants should be at once removed to summer quarters, out of doors, if not already done; if these plants remain inside too late in the season, it induces a weak growth, which is s...
- Hogg &. Co.'s Nursery, New-York - Honor To Whom Honor Is Due
- Hogg &. Co.'s Nursery, New-York We visited this establishment the past month, and were gratified to And it maintaining its deserved reputation. The general appearance of the stock of greenhouse and f...
- Hooker - Horizontal
- Hooker Bed eyed Echinocactus, (Bot. Mag. t. 4480) - Nat. Ord., Cactaceae Cactae.- A green-house succulent plant of sub-columnar form, six inches (or more) high, longitudinally divided into eig...
- Horse Shoe In A Tree - Horticultural Novelties
- Horse Shoe In A Tree Whilst cutting a piece of oak a few weeks ago, in the timber yard of Mr. Thos. Wallis, at South Shields, England, some workmen found a horse shoe . embedded in the heart of the w...
- Horticultural Picnic At Cincinnati - Horticultural Society
- Horticultural Picnic At Cincinnati We have received a very polite invitation to be present at the Horticultural Gathering at Mr. Buchanan's, for which he and his associates will please accept our sin...
- Horticultural Society For The Valley Of Lake Champlain - The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art
- Horticultural Society For The Valley Of Lake Champlain At a convention held at Burlington last month, a Horticultural Society for the valley of Lake Champlain, was organized, and the following office...
- The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste. Vol. XVII 1862 - Hoteia (Spirma) Japonica
- The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste. Vol. XVII 1862 ESTABLISHED BY A. J. DOWNING IN 1846. PETER B. MEAD AND GEORGE E. WOODWARD, EDITORs AND PROPRIETORS, NEW YORK. A Monthly...
- House -Top Gardens - How Io Cook Mushrooms
- House -Top Gardens Chicago has always been a little envious of the hanging gardens described in Babylon of old, and is now practicing on growing trees in the air. A large building, divided into flat...
- How It Is Done - How The Doctors "Dew" Disagree
- How It Is Done In answer to my inquiry, how such handsome pear trees were produced, I was told by the proprietor, that the secret of his success consisted of four requisites: 1st. Suitable soil - goo...
- How The Leaves Of The Grape-Vine Affect The "Ripening Of Fruit - How To Grow The Verbena
- How The Leaves Of The Grape-Vine Affect The Ripening Of Fruit A practical grape grower in his letter to the Country Gentleman, says, that he observed that when the leaves of the vines were scant, th...
- How To Keep Geraniums Over The Winter - How To Remit
- How To Keep Geraniums Over The Winter Take them up on a dry day. Knock all the mould off their roots. Shorten them down to two or three joints. Lay them in the sun for a few hours if you can. Mind th...
- How To Start A Nursery - How Trees Help
- How To Start A Nursery W. F. Heikes of Dayton, O., has published a practical little treatise of twelve pages, with the above title. It appears to be very suitable to any one intending to enter into t...
- Hoya Carnosa - Humbugs
- Hoya Carnosa I beg to send you a report of a small plant of Hoya carnosa, Which has flowered three times with me this summer, each time having from thirty to forty trusses of bloom. I have counted t...
- Hungarian Grass - Hybrid Perpetuals Roses, Select List
- Hungarian Grass The Bottom Cultivator says of the Hungarian grass: Hon. A. B-Dickinson writes to the Country Gentleman, that the Hungarian grass of last year, and the Honey-blade grass of this year,...
- Hybrid Raspberry Norwood - The Hydraulic Rom
- Hybrid Raspberry Norwood This new sort has been introduced by Messrs. Hovey & Co., of Cambridge, Mass., who speak of it as follows: This is an entirely new variety of the raspberry, quite unlike an...
- The Hydropult - II. Yucca Filamentosa, Or Adam's Thread
- The Hydropult One of our correspondents, it will be seen, objects to the expense of a garden engine in the application of Mr. Veitch's remedy for the slug. This objection can be measurably met by ...
- III. The Slender Deutzia - Illairea Canarinoides (Canarina Like Illairea)
- III. The Slender Deutzia (Deutzia Gracalis.) - Those of our readers already in possession of that charming hardy shrub, the Deutzia Scabra, will welcome with pleasure a new, equally beautiful, and mo...
- Illicium Variegatum - Illonois Horticultural Society
- Illicium Variegatum A neat-looking plant, probably referrible to I. anisatum. It had gray marble leaves, slightly edged with white, and was commended as a pretty variegated shrub. Illinois A corres...
- Illustrated Journal Of Agriculture - An Immense Bouquet
- Illustrated Journal Of Agriculture This is an old candidate under a new name. The Journal of Agriculture, published weekly, by R. P. Studley & Co., of St. Louis, has been purchased by Wol-cott & Marm...
- An Immense Rose Show - Importaeditorial Excursion
- An Immense Rose Show At a recent rose show in Sydenham, England, there was on exhibition a continuous line of boxes, twelve miles long, each containing forty roses on exhibition. Immense Sale The s...
- Important - Improvement In Southern Fruits
- Important His Majesty, the Emperor of France, has graciously expressed his consent to the proposal that he should be elected an honorary member of the Royal Agricultural Society Of England, and a d...
- The Improvement Of Gardeners - Indiana Farmer
- The Improvement Of Gardeners There is nothing like association for improvement in anything worth improvement at all. The great difficulty in the way of association in this. line, is the jealousies an...
- Indigo - Inquiries About The Mass. White Grape
- Indigo Under English rule, in the State, this was a favorite, successful and profitable crop, and we can see no reason why it should not again be cultivated; more especially as we imported in the yea...
- An Insect Show - Insects On The Vine
- An Insect Show Paris is also to have an Insect Show this month at the Luxembourg. The exhibition will contain noxious and useful insectivora, will show the productions of the latter, and specimens ...
- Inside Protection For Hot - Bed Frames - Intermixture Of Seeds
- Inside Protection For Hot - Bed Frames All gardeners make use of some covering over the glass as a protection to plants during cold nights and days in spring. We have to suggest the nailing of a str...
- The Ion Grape - Iowa Horticultural Report
- The Ion* Grape F. R. Elliot writes to the Rural New Yorker that the Iona is not a success as a vineyard grape; that it is a decided failure. It succeeds in some localities occasionally, and is a good...
- Iowa Horticultural Report, 1870 - Iponuea Leptophylla
- Iowa Horticultural Report, 1870 Contains 140 pages, with following list of topics: Fruit Reports from District Committees; Care of Orchards, by H. C. Raymond; Early Richmond Cherry, by J. L. Budd; Io...
- Iponuea Mortonii - Is Spring Or Fall Planting Preferable On Dry Soil?
- Iponuea Mortonii A new and valuable climber or creeper, well suited either for climbing or trellis work, or drooping over the sides of baskets or vases; flower pinkish-lilac, grows upward of twenty f...
- Is The Kalmia Poisonous? - The Israelites To Pass Over
- Is The Kalmia Poisonous? I hope not; although I have often heard that both sheep and neat cattle have died after eating their leaves. I think, with Nuttall and yourself, Mr. Editor, it is more probab...
- The Israella Grape - Ives Seedling
- The Israella Grape For Southern latitudes, we esteem this the most valuable of early black grapes. It ripens as early with us as the Hartford or lves, and, as an eating grape, is infinitely better in...
- Ives' Seedling Grape - Japan Pear
- Ives' Seedling Grape A good illustration. I have seen larger bunches, but as a rule, I think they range below rather than above this representation. Ixias Thomas M. Ixias are from the Cape of Good ...
- Japan Quince (Pyrus Japonica) - Jbriggs' Colored Chromo
- Japan Quince (Pyrus Japonica) This beautiful plant grows very readily from cuttings, and forms a superb hedge. Mr. Reid exhibits about four hundred feet of it in the highest perfection, a portion of ...
- Jefferson - The Journal Of The New York State Agricultural Society
- Jefferson As a market fruit and for baking, stewing or preserving, there is no variety superior to this comparatively unknown sort. The tree is a strong grower, and bears early and surely, rarely or ...
- The Journal Of The New York State Agricultural Society For December, 1861 - June, 1873. Horticultural Notes
- The Journal Of The New York State Agricultural Society For December, 1861 Mount Hope Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y., Ellwanger & Barry's wholesale Catalogue or Trade List of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, ...
- Juniperus Communis - Common Juniper - Kansas Fruits
- Juniperus Communis - Common Juniper No plant that I am familiar with, presents so beautiful a play of light and shade in its foliage as this. It is a fine contrast to some of the deeper-foliaged ever...
- Kansas Horticultural Society - Keeping Sweet Potatoes
- Kansas Horticultural Society The friends of pomology met at Lawrence, Dec. 11, 1867, and organized under the name of the Kansas Horticultural Society, and adopted a constitution and by-laws. Officers...
- Keim Apple - Kew Double Fuchsia - Champion Of The World
- Keim Apple Size, below medium, 2 inches long by 2| broad; form, roundish, inclining to conical; skin, fair, pale yellow, waxen; stem, long, slender, 1 inch long by 1/13 thick, inserted in a wide, mod...
- The Kew Grass - Killing Trees With Salt
- The Kew Grass The following Memorandum, says the Cottage Gardener, sets all speculations about the new Grass at rest; it is taken from De Candolle's Prodromus: - Killing Cut Worms St. Joseph, M...
- The King Of Strawberries - Kirtland Pear
- The King Of Strawberries A strawberry grower, of Worcester, Mass., compares the Wilson strawberry to the Bartlett among pears and the Concord among grapes, Nicanor too soft, Downer's Prolific for a n...
- Kirtland's Mary Cherry - Kniphofia Uvaria (Saw-Edged-Leaved Kniphofia)
- Kirtland's Mary Cherry During the Cherry season, I discovered that a graft labelled Kirt-land's Mary proved by its fruit to be the Elton. From it have been distributed, during the lost two years, gra...
- Kniphofia, Ortritoma Uvaria - Lachenalia Aurea. Nat. Ord. Asphodeleae
- Kniphofia, Ortritoma Uvaria Dear Sir, - With this I send you a cut specimen of this plant, which has been so much praised in the English journals. I think you will say that the special premium awarde...
- The Ladies - Laelia Praestans
- The Ladies It used to be said that ladies were those pinks, carnations, roses, and tulips, that required the protection of a bonnet! Where are all these beauties of the streets; the bonnet part, at...
- Lamentable Ignorance - Landscape Gardening On A Large Scale
- Lamentable Ignorance S. B. Parsons, in his address before the New York Rural Club, said, he had known an intelligent city lawyer call a dahlia a rose. John J. Thomas, says, as an offset to this, that...
- Lane County Agricultural Society, Oregon - Large Bed Prool, Or Bigarreau De Prool. A Grot Fruit
- Lane County Agricultural Society, Oregon President, A. A. Smith; Vice-Presidents, J. Southwell, W. S. Brock, N. G. Coleman, and M. Wilkins; Recording Secretary, S. Ellsworth; Corresponding Secretary,...
- Large Black Bigarreau - Large Duchess Pears
- Large Black Bigarreau In your work on Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America, in describing the Large New Black Bigarreau, you attach a note, mentioning that it is the same as the Black Tartarian, in a fo...
- Large Dwarf Marrowfat - A Larger Apple
- Large Dwarf Marrowfat Pour feet. Side by side with Champion of England. Two weeks later. Large Early York A variety known among growers by many names, among which are New Rareripe, Honest John, Wal...
- The Largest Dessert Pear - The Last Number For 1862
- The Largest Dessert Pear Sure enough; and so much the worse. Here is a great, overgrown, coarse, spongy fruit, with not a quarter the virtues in taste of one only half its size, of the same kind. If ...
- Lastly - Late Growths
- Lastly To preserve the frequent occurrence of open lawns, in order to relieve and heighten the effect of the plantings; neglect of this will destroy-all that the plan proposes to accomplish. [Mr. Sa...
- The Late Professor Adrien De Jussieu - Laurel-Leaved Willow
- The Late Professor Adrien De Jussieu Advices from Paris mention the decease of this distinguished botanist, upon whom the mantle of his great ancestors may be said to have fallen. Among the most cons...
- The Law Of Slopes! - Layering Roses
- The Law Of Slopes! The following is worthy of being stored in the memory: In France, the high roads must not exceed 4 46' by law; in England 4, or one foot rise in thirty-five. A slope of 1...
- Le Baron - Lena Rivers
- Le Baron Mr. Walker: First rate here and in England; large size; good flavor, prolific. Mr. Prince: Highest flavored large strawberry in existence. Le Toussin A new variety of great merit; flowers ...
- Length Of Thread In Silk Worm Cocoons - The Lesson Of The Garden
- Length Of Thread In Silk Worm Cocoons According to the statement of C. V. Riley, St. Louis, the length of the thread in the cocoon of a mulberry silk worm is generally 1,000 yards, and a mile of it w...
- Let Hene Sit Where Thby Choose - Life Of Dr Adam Clarke
- Let Hene Sit Where Thby Choose I have long been a keeper of poultry, and an observer of their habits; and I have arrived at the conclusion, thaT hens are most prolific when left to their natural inst...
- Life Of North American Insects - Lilium Fortuneii
- Life Of North American Insects With numerous Illustrations drawn from Specimens in the Cabinet of the Author. By Professor Jacobs, assisted by H. C. Preston, M. D. 12mo, Muslin, - - 1 25. Liftodacty...
- Lilium Lancifolium - Lillies
- Lilium Lancifolium Edward Smith. - You should let your pots of the Japan Lilies stand quite dry until the end of December. Then pot them, for they begin to grow at the root about that time. They do n...
- The Lily Family - Lime For -Peach-Trees
- The Lily Family Of the lily family, its grandeur for the present season is gone, and the bulbs are now being dug up, dried, and assorted for market. The smaller bulbs will be replanted in a few weeks...
- Lime For Tour Fruit Tress - Liquid Manure For Strawberries
- Lime For Tour Fruit Tress It is a good plan for all fruit growers to apply lime freely in their orchards every two or three years. A half bushel to each tree, or 100 bushels broadcast, per acre, will...
- List Of Apples - List Of Peaches
- List Of Apples One of our correspondents asks us to name a list of apples that as a rule may be generally relied upon in most of the Northwest. Just at this time it is a difficult task to name over...
- List Of Shrubs And Plants That Succeed In The Shade - Lllium Auratum Rubrum Vltatum
- List Of Shrubs And Plants That Succeed In The Shade Rhododendrons and Kalmias, The Belgian Azaleas, The Hollies, Hemlock, Aucuba Japonica, Dwarf Horsechestnut, Box-Trees, Stuartia's, Yews, A...
- Lobelia Trigonocaulis - Longevity
- Lobelia Trigonocaulis A handsome decumbent half hardy or greenhouse perennial, having laciniate subpinnatifid leaves and large axillary flowers, blue with a white centre, resembling those of L. ramos...
- A Longiflora Major - Louis E. Berckmans
- A Longiflora Major The finest blue in cultivation; a superb variety. The Lonibardy Poplar Rather sensible in Mr. Allen. I hope he has the courage to practise what he so well preaches, by planting t...
- Louis Philippe - Love Of Flowers
- Louis Philippe Of all the sour cherries, were I restricted to one, this would be my choice. The tree is upright, spreading, growing to a large tree as it acquires age, open and regular in form; of ha...
- Low Headed Trees - Lygodium Flexuosum
- Low Headed Trees The tide of favorable opinion for heading fruit trees low for orchard culture, is now experiencing a revulsion. Orchardists, who cultivate their orchards, and are in the habit of plo...
- Lyman - Macleania Cordata
- Lyman Mr. Walker: Trees are partially winter-killed in Massachusetts, and is a bad grower - fruit A No. 1 in summer. Mr. Wilder: Not good in flavor. Mr. Berckmans: Strike it out of list as promising ...
- The Maclura - Magnitude Of The Evergreen Trade
- The Maclura A valued correspondent calls our attention to an article that has had some currency in the West, respecting a change of name for the Maclura. The writer, who is a large cultivator of this...
- Magnitude Of The Strawberry Business - Maiden's Blush
- Magnitude Of The Strawberry Business Very few know how many strawberries are sent to our large Eastern markets. We are able to give approximate estimates of the yield for this season. Norfolk, Va., ...
- Maimie, New Winter-Flowering Carnation - Malic Acid
- Maimie, New Winter-Flowering Carnation Habit neat and compact, attaining only from twelve to fifteen inches in height when in bloom. Flowers of purest white, and borne in great profusion. Maincata ...
- Malta Cabbage Or Drumhead - Management Or Vineries
- Malta Cabbage Or Drumhead Large, close head, leaves whitish green; tender, crisp, and sweet flavored. A fine Lettuce for spring and fall use. Mamelone' This is a somewhat remarkable Plum, from its ...
- The Mango - Manuring Fruit-Trees In The Fall
- The Mango The famous Mango, considered the finest fruit of the tropics, resembles a pear so closely that almost every one would say they were pears, if brought to our market. They are about two and a...
- Manuring Trees - Maria Louise
- Manuring Trees Too many, in applying manure to their fruit-trees, forget the position of the roots, and apply within a foot or so of the body. If they were to carefully remove the soil, they would fi...
- Marie Lefebvre - Market Gardens Near London
- Marie Lefebvre Flower from six to seven inches in diameter, color delicate blush white, with a broad purplish lilac, longitudinal band in the center of each petal, colors well defined, very fragrant....
- Market Value Of Cherries - Marly History Of The Tomato In America
- Market Value Of Cherries A greater number of varieties of cherries have been noticed in our market this season than usual. The first cherries that arrived from the South were the May Dukes, from Dela...
- Marly Peas - Massachusetts Horticultural Society. October 7
- Marly Peas An experience of several years finds our mind completely satisfied with but one variety as an early pea, and that is the Landreth Extra Early. Nothing can as yet equal it in earliness, pro...
- Mathews' Curculio Remedy - May Beetles And Rose Chafer - How To Get Mid Of Them
- Mathews' Curculio Remedy (P. B. W., Picton, C. W.) What has become of Mathews' curculio remedy? Why don't the committee report? Can't guess - probably because it is a secret remedy. (Hyacinth Bulb...
- Mcavoy's Superior Strawbery - Me. Downing
- Mcavoy's Superior Strawbery The Pennsylvania Farm Journal published some time ago a drawing of this variety quite different from ours - much longer. A correspondent of the Journal alludes to this, an...
- Mead's Seedling - Meister Apple
- Mead's Seedling Although some years before the public, this variety has not received much favor, and perhaps in light soil it is deficient; but under high culture it is a good grower, with a quite ha...
- Melinda - Mercantile Biography
- Melinda Notwithstanding the outcry against the right of search, we adhere to the doctrine in its full sense, in horticulture. All have the right of search, and it is a duty to discover error in wha...
- Merrit's Seedling - Metcalf's Key To Bee-Keeping
- Merrit's Seedling Also from Mr. Merritt. Bunch smaller than the preceding; berry below medium ; color greenish amber. Riper than the Montgomery, and we should think a better grape. This is alto a Cha...
- Meteor - Michigan Agricultural Transaction
- Meteor Fine for properties, the leaf being almost circular and quite flat; zone, rich in shades of red; margin, fine chrome yellow, very distinct, fine constitution. Fig. 187. - Mrs. Pollock Meth...
- The Michigan Farmer - The Microscope
- The Michigan Farmer A Weekly Agricultural, Family and News Paper, designed to interest and entertain Farmers, Stock-Raisers, Fruit-Growers, Mechanics, and the Families of all classes. Published at: ...
- Microscopic Insects The Cause Of Pear Blight - The Milam Apple
- Microscopic Insects The Cause Of Pear Blight No, sir. We fear growers cannot admit that doctrine yet. The work of insects always gives token of mischief before the work of death is done. The pear bli...
- Mildew Oh The Vine - Miller's Daily Raspberry
- Mildew Oh The Vine A scientific gardener declares, in the Cottage Gardener, that wherever he has seen the mildew prevail most in hothouses, it has been where great numbers of plants were grown in the...
- Miller's Horticultural Agency - The Minnesota Farmer And Gardener
- Miller's Horticultural Agency We gladly call attention to Mr. Miller's new Horticultural Agency, announced in our advertising columns. The object is to afford facilities heretofore wanted for the sal...
- Minor's Seedling - Mode Of Causing Seeds To Germinate
- Minor's Seedling This is quite foxy in flavor, but makes a fine light-colored wine. Alcohol 6 per cent. Miscellaneous Plants Among other herbaceous plants in flower at present there are twelve thou...
- Mode Of Culture In The Field - Money In The Garden
- Mode Of Culture In The Field Plow your ground, and throw it into ridges five or six feet apart. This is needful - first, because your tubers, needing to spread side-wise, will form more readily than ...
- Monotropa Uniflora, (Indian Pipe, Wax Plant.) - The Monthly Bush Alhine
- Monotropa Uniflora, (Indian Pipe, Wax Plant.) Enter again the deep forest, and we are startled at something which at first sight presents more the appearance of a work of art, than a production of na...
- Monthly Carnations - Mooting Cuttings Of Carnations
- Monthly Carnations Cuttings made in March, and now well rooted, may be turned out of the pots into a well-prepared border. If designed for winter blooming, pinch off the flower shoots as soon as they...
- More About The Sage Grape - Moth On Fruit-Trees
- More About The Sage Grape The letter of our correspondent, Mr. Sheldon, calling our attention to specimens of this native grape, and showing conclusively how it has been over-rated, which was publish...
- Mother's Wine - Mount Vernon Horticultural Society
- Mother's Wine We have lately received a sample of Mr. Mottier's wine of a new vintage, made on the lees. It is in ail respects a first class wine of undoubted purity, and stands at the head of all wi...
- The Mountain Laurel - Mowing Strawberries
- The Mountain Laurel ED. Western Horticulturist: In the March number of The Horticulturist, I notice an article, Notes from my Garden, by my old friend, Porte Crayon. If not out of place, I should ...
- Mr. Barry's Apple - Mr. Hope's Delaware Grapes
- Mr. Barry's Apple Mr. Downing writes to us, in reference to the specimens of this apple which we sent him, that he does not know what it is, being entirely new to him. Will Mr. Barry be so good as to...
- Mr. Husman's Wine - Mr. Totcruend, Of Niagara County
- Mr. Husman's Wine In speaking of this wine last month, we stated that it had become a little sour. Justice requires us to say that we have discovered a reason for it in the fact that the bottle had r...
- Mr. Vich's Flower Farm - Mulch
- Mr. Vich's Flower Farm James Vick's flower farms at Rochester are more extensive than are generally known. For instance: The Verbena bed meaures three-quarters of an acre ; Asters, one and a-half acr...
- Mulch As A Manure - The Muscadine Grape
- Mulch As A Manure An experienced farmer once found, by experiment, that where he mulched his wheat land with veitch, he had an increase of crop of twelve bushels per acre; and he invariably found tha...
- Muscat Catawba Grape - N'Lcs
- Muscat Catawba Grape We have no information that is reliable on this subject. Anonymous correspondents will hardly succeed in palming upon us such a novelty, the existence of which may well be doubte...
- Nabours Pear - Names of Fruits
- Nabours Pear We have thus far been unable to find out where or when this pear originated, with any degree of certainty; it seems to have come from South Carolina into this section of the country, and...
- Nansemond Sweet Potato Plants - Natural Barometers
- Nansemond Sweet Potato Plants We have received a box of these plants from Mr. C. B. Murray, of Foster's Crossings, Warren Co., Ohio. They were in fine order after their long travel, and will be well ...
- Natural Soils - Negative Artesian Wells
- Natural Soils It is often remarked that such and such a plant does well in its natural soil. We confess our inability to define what forms a natural soil for any plant, for many plants found wild are...
- Neighbor P - The New England Farmer, Monthly
- Neighbor P But, perhaps, Messrs. Editors, I have written enough of my neighbors' sayings for once, and, as I am not much accustomed to writing for publication, I may have made up these sayings in an ...
- The New England Farmer, Weekly - New Jersey Scarlet
- The New England Farmer, Weekly Is one of the oldest and most widely known agricultural papers in the country, and is designed to supply the fanner and his family with reliable information in regard t...
- New Jersey State Agricultural Society Fair - New Rural Periodical
- New Jersey State Agricultural Society Fair This Society will hold the regular fall fair on their own grounds, at Waverly, N. J., midway between Elizabeth and Newark. Every effort will be made by the ...
- New Weed - New Your State Agricultural Society
- New Weed Our agriculturists should be on the look out for a new candidate for their spite and ill will. It is a native of Peru, and probably Mexico, but begins to be pretty often met with in the neig...
- The New-England Farmer For 1862 - Newman Plum
- The New-England Farmer For 1862 The New England Farmer is published weekly, in folio form. One entire page is occupied exclusively with articles relating to Agriculture, nearly all original, and writ...
- Newspaper Changes And News - Night-Scented Stock
- Newspaper Changes And News The Rock River Farmer is a new agricultural monthly, published at Dixon, 111. Price, $1 per annum. Sloan's Architectural Review is a failure, having suspended last Novembe...
- The Nimrod Strawberry - Northern Spy Applb
- The Nimrod Strawberry We have received samples of this from Mr. Sanders, the intelligent gardener at Tedworth, with a request that we would state our opinion of it So far as we can judge of it, after...
- The Northumberland Fill-Basket Raspberry - Nostra American Sylva
- The Northumberland Fill-Basket Raspberry We present for a frontispiece, this month, the Northumberland Fill-basket Raspberry, from a drawing made by a lady artist. This Raspberry is sometimes called ...
- Not Sufficiently Tested - Notes On Frnits From Texas
- Not Sufficiently Tested Westcott, Duchess of Berry, Summer Calebasse. DUCHESSE DE BERRY D'ETE. Not Uncommon My situation is as follows: I am engaged, says the witty clergyman, in agriculture...
- Notes On Fruits In Northern Indiana - Notice
- Notes On Fruits In Northern Indiana I propose to furnish you with a few notes in regard to some varieties of apples and pears which have recently fruited with us. Notes On Grapes In This Locality T...
- Notice To Subscribers - Novelties Announced In The English Journals
- Notice To Subscribers The large addition of new subscribers, and the prompt manner in which most of our old ones have renewed for 1862, have been very gratifying. There are still some, however, who h...
- Numb For The Month - Nursery For Sale
- Numb For The Month We trust that practical persons interested in gardening, peruse regularly the Calendars of Operations (now called Notes for the Month) which close each number of our monthly ...
- Nursery Grounds For Sale - Oaks As Lawn Trees
- Nursery Grounds For Sale We refer to the advertising sheet for the particulars of a nursery spot near this city, which is worthy the consideration of some practical man, who would receive aid in his ...
- Obituary - Odontoglosum Roezlei
- Obituary Mr. James Wilson, of the firm of Wilson, Thorburn ft Teiler, nurserymen, died in Albany, on the 29th of June, aged sixty years. Mr. Wilson came to this country from Scotland thirty years sin...
- Oenothera Biennis, (Tree Primrose.) - Ohio Board Of Agriculture
- Oenothera Biennis, (Tree Primrose.) This is a biennial, so abundant as sometimes to be considered a weed. It delights in cultivation, and continues for a long time to furnish abundantly, its large, l...
- The Ohio Cultivator - The Ohio State Horticultural Society's Report, 1870
- The Ohio Cultivator Is a monthly publication of thirty-two pages octavo, with printed cover, made up of the best practical articles from Field Notes. Ohio Everbearing Bagleys Everbearing. Were pass...
- Ohio Subscriber - Old Rose Bushes
- Ohio Subscriber It has been recommended for the rot in grapes to uniformly bury the leaves and the young stems cut off in pruning in shallow trenches four or five inches deep at the roots of the vine...
- Olden Mode Of Heating - One Way To Grow Strawberries Successfully
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- Salt Upon Lawns - Salvia Souchet
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- Standard Honeysuckles An exchange gives the following directions to trim the honeysuckle into a bush form , giving it great beauty and effect: Buy a plant of it , train or tie to a stout stake , prun...
- State Board Of Agriculture, (Ohio) - The Steadly Peach
- State Board Of Agriculture, (Ohio) President, Alexander Waddle. Recording Secre-tary, Hon. T. C. Jones. Corresponding Secretary, J. H. Klippart. Treasurer, John Reber. N. S. Townshend. J. M. Tremble,...
- Stealing Feutt - Stevens' History Of Methodism
- Stealing Feutt At a late meeting of the Allogheny County Agricultural Society a Committee was appointed to correspond with other similar societies, soliciting their cooperation in an effort to procur...
- Still Another Early Peach - Stocks For Roses
- Still Another Early Peach We have given considerable prominence to the Early Beatrice and Alexander Peaches, for we desire to encourage really meritorious varieties. But even their peculiar merits of...
- Stocks For Standard Peaks - Strawberries - Preferred List For Planting
- Stocks For Standard Peaks During the past season our attention, in visiting orchards, has been repeatedly called to the varied strength of pear-trees of the same variety growing in the same soil, and...
- Strawberries At Rochester, N. Y - Strawberry
- Strawberries At Rochester, N. Y The Country Gentleman gives some notes on Strawberries by H. E. Hooker, of Rochester. His list for a family supply is: Large early scarlet, Wilson's Albany, Triomphe d...
- Strawberry Notes From Kentucky - Stuartia Pentagynia
- Strawberry Notes From Kentucky Two years ago I ordered from B. K. Bliss & Sons, a few plants each of the following varieties of strawberries, for the purpose of testing in my soil and climate, and no...
- Stump The World - Suburban Homes For City Business Men On The Line Of The Erie Railroad
- Stump The World The flesh is white, red cheek and rich flavor. It closely resembles the Oldmixon Freestone. Stunted Trees S. Johnson. Most probably your orchard was planted too deep. Loosen the soi...
- Success - Succession Or Flowers
- Success NEVER was a word so cheerfully written, and never did any enterprise deserve so worthy a compliment as the good old Horticulturist. Its Twenty-fifth Anniversary has been indeed a Silver Weddi...
- Succulent Plant - Sulphite Of Lime
- Succulent Plant Prof. George Thurber, president of the Torrey Botanical Club, of New York, advocates increased attention to succulent plants, one of which in particular is warmly commended - the Va...
- Sulphur And Essential Oils - Summer Lettuces
- Sulphur And Essential Oils Here Viticola tells us when to use, and we shall be glad to learn the result of trial the coming season; and if the old saying of an ounce of prevention is worth a pound ...
- Summer Pinching Of Raspberry And Blackberry Canes - Susqueco Raspberry
- Summer Pinching Of Raspberry And Blackberry Canes A correspondent of the Gardeners' Monthly, writing from Illinois, says that he has found much benefit by pinching back the canes of raspberry and bla...
- Sutton's Ringleader Pea - Sweet Potato Plants
- Sutton's Ringleader Pea A writer in the London Journal of Horticulture claims the above-named pea to be at least ten days earlier than any other of the early varieties. Swaar First rate, and good...
- Sweet Scented Violet (Lees Victoria Regina) - Syringe And Suction Pipe
- Sweet Scented Violet (Lees Victoria Regina) Flowers large, deep blue, very sweet scented, foot stalks long, rather stout, blooms well up above the foliage, hardy. Is a seedling from the Czar, but has...
- T. Edwards - Tall Rye
- T. Edwards Cytisus racemosns is a more desirable green-house plant than C. rhodophhe. There are two varieties of the racemosus in one the flowers stand up erect, in the other they droop. Get the form...
- The Tallest Tree - Tan-Dark
- The Tallest Tree Recent discoveries near Victoria, Australia, seem to indicate that the Eucalyptus is the tallest tree on the Globe. Several there growing were measured, and found to exceed 450 feet ...
- Tapeinotes Carolinae. Empress Caroline's Tapeinotes (Bot. Mag. T. 5623) - Taxus Adpressa
- Tapeinotes Carolinae. Empress Caroline's Tapeinotes (Bot. Mag. T. 5623) Ges-neriaceae. A superb stove plant, introduced by Mr, Bull. It was discovered during the Brazilian travels of the present Empe...
- Taxus Baccata - English Yew - Tea Lead for Trees
- Taxus Baccata - English Yew This fine evergreen is well known, and succeeds well. Small plants are sometimes injured by winter sun. T. Canadensis is similar to the above, and forms a fine spreading m...
- The Tea Plant - Ten Acres Of Tuberoses
- The Tea Plant The agricultural department of the Patent Office will have one hundred thousand vigorous tea plants ready for gratuitous distribution within three or four months. It is expected that Am...
- Terms Of The Ohio Farmer - Test for The Strawberry
- Terms Of The Ohio Farmer Single copy one year, $2; three copies one year, $5; six copies one year, $10; ten copies one year, $15; fifteen copies one year, $21; twenty copies one year, $25. Any one r...
- Thanks - Third Year
- Then There Is The Insatiable Craving For Novelties Have you got any new Roses, is the first question put to a nurseryman; if he say no you at once set him down as behindhand; if, on the other hand, h...
- Thomas Moore - Thrips
- Thomas Moore Deep rich violet, tinted puce, a very large flower, occasionally nine inches in diameter; this variety has a curiously conspicuous tuft of white* stamens, rendering it distinct from any ...
- Thujopsis Dolabrata Variegata - Tick's New Catalogue
- Thujopsis Dolabrata Variegata This is a fine variegated variety of Tbujopsis dolabrata, apparently of a lax and spreading habit, the branches flattened and glaucous beneath, very much resembling thos...
- Tiger Flowers - Time Of Blossoming of Trees
- Tiger Flowers Joe. Culver, (Royalton.) Sow the seeds in a pot in February, if you have a green-house, or in March if you have a hotbed. They will come up in a fortnight and flower the next year. Ther...
- Time Of Picking Apples
- Time For Planting Fall Bulbs As soon in the fall as bulbs can be obtained, they should be planted, though this will not generally be the case till October, but it is well to bear in mind that the e...
- How To Cure Troublesome Birds In Cherry Time - To Increase The Size Of Fruits
- How To Cure Troublesome Birds In Cherry Time It is recommended by experienced gardeners, that if a couple of trees of the black mulberry are planted close to the sherry trees, or among them, the bird...
- How To Kalon - To Mass A Fernery Aquarium
- How To Kalon Does very well with us; a large, fine grape, but not high flavored. How To Keep Bugs From Vines I have tried ashes, plaster, lime, road dust and tobacco juice, with some success, but a...
- How To Ministers And Others - To Preserve Bouquets
- How To Ministers And Others The Annals of the American Pulpit, by Rev. William B. Sprague, D D., are comprised in seven large oetavo volumes, vix.: - Congregational, 2 vols.; Presbyterian, 2 vols.; M...
- How To Produce Large Fruit - Toledo (Ohio) Horticultural Society
- How To Produce Large Fruit To grow a few large berries, it is only necessary to select, so soon as you can after the fruit sets, three or four of the most promising berries, and pick off all the rest...
- Tomato Seeds - Tore State Fair
- Tomato Seeds We shall feel obliged for a few seeds each of any new variety that our friends have grown and consider valuable. We propose testing, side by side, every obtainable variety the coming sea...
- The Torpedo - Trailing Arbutus
- The Torpedo The living torpedo was employed by the ancient Greek and Roman physicians as a remedial agent, and a living electric fish was undoubtedly alike the earliest and the most familiar electric...
- Training Petunias - Transactions Of The Indiana State Horticultural Society
- Training Petunias A writer in the London Garden says that a fine effect is obtained by this method of training petunias. He procures a number of hazel rods, each about two feet long, bends them like ...
- Transactions Of The Massachusetts Horticultural Society For The Year 1859 - Transactions Of The Windram County (Ct.) Agricultural Society For 1852
- Transactions Of The Massachusetts Horticultural Society For The Year 1859 We are indebted to Eben. Wight, Esq., Corresponding Secretary, for a handsomely printed copy of the above. It is a credit to ...
- Transformed Pears - Transplanting Raspberries And Blackberries
- Transformed Pears What will they do next out on the Mississippi 1 I hare seen the prairie plum turn its young fruits into a sort of nodule, as they grew through the summer, something like the galls o...
- Transplanting Strawberries - Travel
- Transplanting Strawberries A good deal of care must be observed in transplanting strawberries. The ground should be well worked, all lumps should be pulverized, and the soil rich. The strawberries fo...
- Travels. Florida And Her Resources - Tredde Spade
- Travels. Florida And Her Resources The readers of The Horticulturist will conclude that Al Fresco has Florida on the brain; and whilst admitting the soft impeachment, I shall offer as an excuse fo...
- Tree Lemon Verbena - Trees At The Side Or Railways
- Tree Lemon Verbena The London Gardener's Chronicle calls attention to the pretty effects which can be had from the common Lemon Verbena when trained as a standard. The wavy spikes of flowers are very...
- Trees for Poor Soil - Trellis For Tomatoes
- Trees for Poor Soil Arbor. We know of nothing that will do so well on your dry, gravelly hills, as the European Larch and the Norway Spruce. If you want a great number, you had better import plants a...
- Trenching - Triomphe D L'Exposition
- Trenching A Constant Reader, (Portland.) The difficulty you complain of in your garden, arises from want of drainage. You must contrive to run one deep drain through it, at least-, so as to prevent t...
- Triomphe D'Enghein - Trouble With The Wilson Early Blackberry
- A Trip To Cuba And The Southern States, N0. 6 Fair land of Cuba! on thy shores are seen Life's far extremes of noble and of mean; The world of sense in matchless beauty dressed. And nameless horrors...
- The True Soldat Laboreur Pear - Tulip-Trees
- The True Soldat Laboreur Pear Why is it that so many foreign pears come to us under wrong names? Great confusion has been caused among our Pomologists in this way. Mr. Olmsted appears to have got ho...
- Tulips For In-Door Culture - Twenty-Fourth Annual Report Or The New Haven Horticultural Society For The Year 1854
- Tulips For In-Door Culture The Gardener's Magazine says : When grown in pots, tulips are treated precisely in the same manner as the hyacinth, but several bulbs are placed in a pot. When required to...
- A Twenty-Years' President - Uncommon Growth
- A Twenty-Years' President At a recent annual exhibition of the Norfolk County (Mass.) Agricultural and Horticultural Society, Hon. Marshall P. Wilder tendered his resignation, he having held the offi...
- An Unfortunate Calamity - University Education In Michigan
- An Unfortunate Calamity We hear with great regret of the loss by fire of the residence of M. 8. Bateham, Painesville, O. Mr. Bateham came very near losing his life by the falling through of a floor, ...
- Unprofitableness Of Peaches - Useful Investigations
- Unprofitableness Of Peaches The present unprofitable condition of peach culture can not be better illustrated than in the case of a gentleman of Cambridge, Md., who sent to market peaches to the valu...
- Utter - The Value Of A Good Garden
- Utter We have received specimens of this fruit from T. D. Plumb, Esq., of Madison, Wisconsin, who describes it as a very popular variety at the West, where known, and is thought to be as valuable the...
- Value Of Irrigated Lands - Value Of Water As An Ameliorating Agent
- Value Of Irrigated Lands Land under irrigation in Spain, sells for $500 per acre, while that by its side not irrigated, will hardly bring $50. A company organised in Madrid, with a capital of $1,500,...
- Van Buren's Golden Dwarf Peach - Van Mons, 1825
- Van Buren's Golden Dwarf Peach A few years ago, quite a sensation was excited in the horticultural world by the introduction of the above peafeh. The interest did not attach to the fruit so much as t...
- Vanda Tricolor - Varieties Of Box
- Vanda Tricolor Mr. Rand showed a flower from a plant which had 39 expanded flowers. The fragrance is so powerful that a single flower will scent a room. A Variegated Almond A new and very handsome ...
- Varieties Of Flowers - Vegetation Of Panama
- Varieties Of Flowers These are produced in two ways: first, accidental sports and variations, which, in some cases, are permanent; and, second, by cross impregnation. New varieties of Tulips, Hyacint...
- Venango Grape - Very Good, Valuable For Their Productiveness, Vigor
- Venango Grape A new grape with this name has originated in Oldham County, Ky. Fruit is described as being large, about the size of the Concord, bunches large and compact, flavor sweet, about like tha...
- Viburnum Awafurki - Victorian Wine
- Viburnum Awafurki Of all the brilliantly - colored autumnal plants I have ever seen, the plant above named is the finest. Some of its leaves are now of a bright rose color.- Cor. The Gardener's Chron...
- The Vies In France And Madeira - Vine Borders Heated Artificially
- The Vies In France And Madeira At a recent meeting of the Paris Agricultural Association, its President, M. Chevreul, reported favorably upon the nature of the vine disease, and the probability of it...
- Vine - Vinery
- Vine Grafted On The Mulberry All the strange inventions do not originate on this side of the water. The London Garden mentions a recommendation to graft the vine on the Mulberry, as a security agains...
- Vinery - Viola Arborea
- Vinks Ibid. The best woody vines for the trellis of a veranda are the following: Chinese twining Honeysuckle, Yellow trumpet Honeysuckle, Chinese Wistaria, sweet scented Clematis, Tecoma grandiflora ...
- Vitality Of Cuttings - Walburton Admirable Peach
- Vitality Of Cuttings The Garden, of London, records an experience going to show that scions and cuttings retain their vitality much longer than has been generally supposed; those of vines, plums, fig...
- A Walk Through Dr. Grant's Pear Orchard - The Wants Of The Many
- A Walk Through Dr. Grant's Pear Orchard We have received from Solon Robinson, Esq., some very interesting and instructive notes of a visit to Iona, the residence of Dr. Grant. On account of their len...
- Wash For Fruit-Trees - Wash For The Peach Worm
- Wash For Fruit-Trees The following is a wash used by William Saunders, of the government gardens at Washington: Put half a bushel of lime and four pounds of powdered sulphur in a tight barrel, slacki...
- Washington Irving - Water
- Washington Irving Just as our January number went to press, the telegraph announced the death of Washington Irving. We had intended to prepare an obituary for the present number; but this has been bo...
- Water Pipes - Wauregan Raspberry
- Water Pipes An article in the Horticulturist in reference to a supply of water for the garden, etc., has induced me to inquire what is the best method of bringing water in pipes? In the Patent Office...
- The Way To Stop A Paper - The Weather In Louisiana
- The Way To Stop A Paper The following from the Urbana Citizen and Gazette will do to pass round. If you wish to stop a paper, pay for it in full to the time when you cease taking it, as an honest ma...
- Weigela Nivea - Western New York Nursery Business
- Weigela Nivea This splendid weigela was introduced into Europe several years ago from Japan, but it is comparatively new in this country. The plant is similar in habit to the well-known weigela rosea...
- The Western Pomologist - What Is The Most Suitable Age For Planting Fruit-Trees?
- The Western Pomologist This is now changed from a quarto to an octavo, and price increased from $1 to $1.50 per year. The January number contains some very excellent contributions from distinguished ...
- What Is The Pest Manner Of Preparing Ground For Orchards? - Wheat And Chess
- What Is The Pest Manner Of Preparing Ground For Orchards? Mr. Smith of Syracuse. 1st. Underdrain, especially if it be a strong soil. 2d. Subsoil to at least 20 inches deep. 3d. Make it rich enough to...
- Wheat Cultivation - White Lilac
- Wheat Cultivation Prof. Mapes, in a recent address at the Indiana State Fair, stated that the wheat crops of Ohio had fallen from 85 to 15 bushels per acre. This statement is denied to be true by the...
- The White Mountains - Whitewashing Trees
- The White Mountains Dr. Gray, and a party of geologists and botanists, were encamped on Mount Washington, pursuing their interesting studies. At the Glen House, July the 10th, snow was visible on som...
- The Whitlavia Grandiflora - Wild Goose Mum
- The Whitlavia Grandiflora We are glad to learn that Messrs. Joseph Breok & Sow, of Boston, have received a small quantity of the seeds of this beautiful blue-flowered annual, figured and described on...
- The Wild Goose Plum - Willis Sweeting
- The Wild Goose Plum This variety has fruited with us the past sea-a son, and it has far surpassed our expectation. It may be described as follows: Size, large oyal or egg shape; color, clear beautifu...
- Willow Hedges - Wilton's Albany
- Willow Hedges If H. H., of Winchester Center, Conn., will have a little more patience, we will give him some information about Willow Hedges as soon as the experiments are more advanced. In the mea...
- Wilton's Early - The Wine Crop In Ohio, 1853
- Wilton's Early At the head of the list I name Wilson's Early, the largest blackberry in cultivation, ripening early, close after raspberries, before peaches are in market; when fruit is scarce it com...
- Wine Drinkers - Winter Apples
- Wine Drinkers We have always considered anything like a regular use of wine a sure stepping-stone to the drunkard's platform, by far more insidious in its effects than the use of strong beer, about w...
- Winter Bouquets - Winter Pear
- Winter Bouquets The flowers of the purple fringe tree - Rhus cotinus - gathered before they become ripened, may be tied up and dried in an ordinary room, and kept all winter without dropping or losin...
- Winter Pruning - Winter-Blooming Carnation "Maimie."
- Winter Pruning We do not advocate winter pruning, because we think the wound made by the cut at this time more liable to dry, and crack, and open, exposing it to water lodgment, as well as to harden ...
- Winter-Blooming Varieties - Wire Fencing
- Winter-Blooming Varieties Although generally the Fuchsia is considered a summer-blooming plant, there are some few that can be induced to bloom through the winter season, and almost perpetually. Amon...
- Wire Trellis - Wisconsin Horticultural Society Transactions
- Wire Trellis These are becoming quite popular here, notwithstanding the cheapness of wood. The size of wire preferred is No. 16, and but two wires are used. They are stretched to strong posts set tw...
- Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - Wood Carving
- Wisconsin State Horticultural Society We should have acknowledged, ere this, the receipt of the Report of this Society for 1873. It is edited by 0. S. Willey, and contains 200 pages of reading, with ...
- Woodbridge And Bethany Agricultural Society - Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco
- Woodbridge And Bethany Agricultural Society President, J. W. Bradley, of Bethany. Vice-Presidents, D. Augur, of Woodbridge; Justus Peck, of Bethany. Secretary and Treasurer, Minott Augur, of Woodbrid...
- Worcester Co., Mass - Worms In Pots
- Worcester Co., Mass Consult Downing's Landscape Gardening, and Breck's Flower Garden/' for the list you desire. Delphinium formosum, and D. Hendersoni, with Dielytra spectabilis, should be added t...
- Xante Currants - Yellow Berried Ivy
- Xante Currants Many are not aware of the fact that the currants of commerce are merely the dried berries of a seedless grape. If this particular variety of grape would escape the ravages of the Oidiu...
- Yellow Corn - York Madeira
- Yellow Corn Golden Sioux, Golden Spike, Large Eight Rowed, Medium do, Small do., Canada, Jersey, Galatz, Dutton, Bowling's Early, Maryland Duttons, Kentucky Dent, Small do., Orange Cone, Nonpareil. ...
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