. 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. 758 HORTICULTURE following notes, amoiif^st others, under the date 1724: "The plants of England, as well those of the fields and orchards as of the garden, that have been brought over into New England, suit very well with the soil, and grow to perfection. The apples are as good as those of England, and loo
. 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. 758 HORTICULTURE following notes, amoiif^st others, under the date 1724: "The plants of England, as well those of the fields and orchards as of the garden, that have been brought over into New England, suit very well with the soil, and grow to perfection. The apples are as good as those of England, and looK fairer, as well as the pears; but they have not all of the sorts. The peaches rather excel. 1078. ReUc of colonial days—apple tree at 250 years. those of England, and there is no trouble or expence of walls for thera; for the peach trees are all standards, and Mr. Dudley has had, in his own garden, 700 or 800 tine peaches of the rure-ripes, growing at a time on one tree. * * * The peach trees are large and fruitful, and commonly bear in 3 years from the stone. « * * The common cherries are not so good as the Kentish rherries of England; and they have no dukes, or heart- cherries, unless in two or three ; It was re- ported that people of "late years have run much upon ; The product of these orchards was chiefly cider. " Some of their apple trees will inakeG, some have made 7 barrels of cider: but this is not common; and the apples will yield from 7 to 9 bushels for a barrel of cider: a good apple tree will measure from G to 10 feet in ; Dudley mentions a hloomless apple, and "the tree was no ; In common with otlicr new countries, New England astonished persons with the luxuriant growth of the plants. "An onion, set out for seed, will rise to 4 feet 9 inches in height. A parsnip will reach to S feet; red orrice [orach] will mount 0 feet; white or- rice 8. In the pastures he measured seed mulleu 9 feet "
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