. 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. 764 HORTICULTURE settlement of the country. iTi- apiiears to have been a I; iMit in 1821 Thacher de- rkalili- fact that the first iMi^ a greater number ing of apples since Early in tlir l:ist I'cntury tlu'n- a] clared tlinl "il is a innarkalili of orchards,
. 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. 764 HORTICULTURE settlement of the country. iTi- apiiears to have been a I; iMit in 1821 Thacher de- rkalili- fact that the first iMi^ a greater number ing of apples since Early in tlir l:ist I'cntury tlu'n- a] clared tlinl "il is a innarkalili of orchards, m proportiou to thcii now to be found in the old colon the decline in orcharding largely of the "poisonous liquor" of the 1; inspiration of Thacher, Coxe, KenncK, , .\iaiiiimg and the Downings, orchards were again planted, and wi are just now in another period of decline in the East following the decay of these plantations Apples were cam 1 f i ii t tl fr i t er 1 \ the li dians and probal 1 r HORTICULTURE tion and adaptation without our knowing it. By far the greater number of the apples of the older apple-growing regions of the country are indigenous varieties, and the same process is now operating in the Northwest, where the American seedlings of the Russian stock are prov- ing to be more valuable than the original importations. the api-l localities even ( need Jol ) t /) Early H r Rhode I Russet had befe i In 1817 C \ 111 1 1 1 I kinds of the nitst estimable ipj 1 country and in 18'5 William Pi ties for sale —at J7K cents per ti t set aside—after the fashion of the t i le adapted to the making of cider Of the 61 were considered to be of American Downings list of apples which had leen described in America, had swelled to Ibob which 1099 were of k great inventory, probably not over a third were actually in cultivation at any one time, and very many of them are now lost. Yet the apple is still our most important fruit, and 878 varieties were actually offer
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