Annual Descriptive Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Grape-vines, Etc., Cultivated at Warren's Garden and Nurseries, Nonantum Vale, Brighton: Also, a Catalogue of Flower, Fruit Tree, Vegetable and Field Seeds, Etc1844 - Nurseries (Horticulture) - 60 pages |
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Page 58 - The Planter's Guide; or, a Practical Essay on the best Method of giving immediate Effect to Wood, by the Removal of large Trees...
Page 58 - Descriptive Catalogue of the most valuable Varieties of the Pear, Apple, Peach, Plum, and Cherry, for New England Culture...
Page 60 - ... perish, and the trees, if they live at all, cannot thrive the first season, as they can receive little or no nourishment until those fibres are replaced. Manner of Planting. Let the holes be dug somewhat larger than is sufficient to admit the roots in their natural position, and of sufficient depth to allow the tree to be placed two or three inches deeper than it was before transplanting — take care to cut...
Page 3 - ... the names in common use, and not according to those of botanists. But this is not the only improvement ; " by columns and abbreviations the meaning of which is explained under every different kind of fruit, a large number of the most important characters by which the varieties are distinguished has been compressed into a very small compass. Thus, in apples, the following line — 8i6 Oslin py roundish 2 T 1 Aug.
Page 14 - CULTIVATION, &c. The plum tree flourishes best in a rich, sandy loam, neither too dry nor too moist. A cold, wet, clayey soil, or a dry, sandy situation, is not deemed so favorable. The varieties of plum are inoculated on the plum stock. Those raised from the seed are preferred, and some varieties will flourish on the peach stock ; but this is not deemed so suitable for a very high northern latitude. The mode of pruning, and the distances...
Page 60 - Previous to laying out an orchard or fruit-garden, the soil should be manured and pulverized to a great depth. It should be made sweet, that the nutriment which the roots receive may be wholesome; free, that they may be at full liberty to range in quest of it; and rich, that there may be no defect in food.
Page 5 - Prevailing colour. p. pale ; d. dark ; y. yellow ; r. red ; g. green ; rus. russet ; str. streaked ; br. brownish. 2. Form. Pearm. Pearmain shaped ; ie of the form of a truncated cone; Calv. Calville shaped, when the ribs of the fruit are particularly prominent. 3. Size. 1. Very large; 2. Middle-sized ; 3. Small. 4. Use. T. Table ; K. Kitchen ; C. Cider. 5. Quality.
Page 3 - ... that time great progress has been made in the Society's Garden in the examination of fruits, and much additional experience, as to their real qualities, has been obtained. One result has been, that the Garden Committee resolved to discontinue the cultivation of a large number of inferior varieties ; being of opinion that it is useless to grow fruits of an inferior kind when varieties exist superior to them in quality and equal in all other respects.