. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. TEXAS TEXAS 1789 very pure, so that diseases are almost fall and the air i unknown. 7. The Rio Grande Valley is much warmer in the same latitude than the Pecos valley, otherwise the horti- cultural conditions are pretty much the same. At El Paso and Ysleta, a little wa
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. TEXAS TEXAS 1789 very pure, so that diseases are almost fall and the air i unknown. 7. The Rio Grande Valley is much warmer in the same latitude than the Pecos valley, otherwise the horti- cultural conditions are pretty much the same. At El Paso and Ysleta, a little way south on the Texas side, considerable quantities of vinifera grapes of table varieties are grown under irrigation and shipped to other Texas and to northern cities in August and parts of the .state the northern and eastern style of park, cemetery and private grounds decoration is mostly copied, as is also the architecture. Some very creditable examples are seen in Dallas, Waco, Austin, Paris, Sherman, Gainesville, Fort Worth and other places. There are numerous small, and a few fair-sized nurseries scattered over the state, chiefly in the Red Farther down on the Rio Grande, at Del Rio, Eagle Pass and Laredo, grapes, figs and onions are con- siderably grown and shipped to the larger Texas cities and the North. The grapes are of the Old World varie- ties, and ripen in June; conse- quently ha competii bring fine pric The conditii mense qiuiiitit and De grown in tins part of Texus as gions of C a 1 i - fornia, and the cost of getting to market is not more than half as much. Undoubt- edly the triangu- lar region be- tween San An- tonio, Laredo and the futur commercial vine- yards of vinifera among Ithy of horizontal lines indie the southwestern Texas, who are chiefly stock-growers and merchants, prevails largely. It consists of a plaza, or open square in the center of the residence, having fountains {where water is to be had abundantly), and borders, beds and vases of rar
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