. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. AMliKICAN HOME CUEDEN. 37;: 9. CANANDAIGDA. Tree extremely vigorous, throwing up a gi-owth of six or Pig. 234 oiglit feet from the graft in one season, demanding careful cutting back to give strength of stem, otherwise apt to lop and grow unsym- metrically. Young shoots dark olive- green, erect. An early and heavy bearer. Fruit large to very large, irreg- ul
. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. AMliKICAN HOME CUEDEN. 37;: 9. CANANDAIGDA. Tree extremely vigorous, throwing up a gi-owth of six or Pig. 234 oiglit feet from the graft in one season, demanding careful cutting back to give strength of stem, otherwise apt to lop and grow unsym- metrically. Young shoots dark olive- green, erect. An early and heavy bearer. Fruit large to very large, irreg- ular pyi'iform, some- times almost oval pyriform; dull yel- low, with thin rus- set spots, and many small obscure inden- tations of smface. Stem rather long. Flesh yellowish- white, fine-grained, buttery, perfectly melting, and very juicy. Flavor rich vinous and perfumed. Ripens with the Bart- lett from the last of August to the middle of September; is sometimes sold for Bartlett, which it often closely resembles, but is probably, on the wliole, superior to it. It is an American pear of striking and peculiar excellences ; and though the place and date of its origin are in uncertaintj^, it has, by common consent, received the name of Canandaigua, having at least been most largely disseminated from that beau- tiful village and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Watson, Alexander. New York, Harper & Brothers
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