Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . eties best adapted to the hill systemof management should be chosen; that a goodpistillate when properly coupled with good bi-sexuals will out yield the latter, as the Jewelldid in every instance, and as the past seasonhas specially emphasized; that careful, liberalculture is generously rewarded. Again, as achemical experiment fails if any important de-tail is omitted, so in horticulture success de-mands close attention to all the details each inits proper time and manner. but which is
Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . eties best adapted to the hill systemof management should be chosen; that a goodpistillate when properly coupled with good bi-sexuals will out yield the latter, as the Jewelldid in every instance, and as the past seasonhas specially emphasized; that careful, liberalculture is generously rewarded. Again, as achemical experiment fails if any important de-tail is omitted, so in horticulture success de-mands close attention to all the details each inits proper time and manner. but which is much too rarely met in cultiva-tion. Of its two most striking qualities, free-dom of bloom in the early Spring, or the richdeep red garb of beauty its foliage assumes inthe fall, there is a perpetual question as towhich excels in attractiveness. In the matter of bloom, a well-grown Dog-wood is for beauty excelled by no other hardytree, not even by the beautiful white blossoms make their appearance inthe spring before the leaves are out, and for ashort time cover the tree like immense snow-. SPRIG OF THE WHITE-FLOWERING DOGWOOD. flakes. In size they vary from two to threeinches across. Before proceeding further,we should, to save ourselves from criticism bybotanists, say that what is looked upon as theflower of this Dogwood, is not really such, butis a very large four-leaved involucre, in themidst of which is situated the true flowers,of an inconspicuous greenish yellow color. There are two things that have had much todo with the fact of this beautiful tree being soseldom cultivated. One of these is that itgrows wild and has but single flowers, hencefor a long time was not properly appreciated;the other is that the tree is with difiicultytransplanted from the woods. Those who are familiar with it only in thewoods can form but a faint idea of its beautywhen grown in rich, deep soil, and where thereis ample room for development. Not only arethe flowers finer here, bu
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