Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . with them. The Cultivation ofCyclamens Mrs. J. C. Hubbelof Lee Co., lU., does ina welcome note to oureditors, as follows : They should be muchoftener seen, and es-A Rapid Propagator. pecially -nhere thenumber of plants cultivated is for want of space re-stricted to a few. They are beautiful both in leaf andflower, require but little care, and are i-emarkablefor their freedom of bloom. Mine last winter werecovered with blossoms from the last of Novemberuntil May. An added char
Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . with them. The Cultivation ofCyclamens Mrs. J. C. Hubbelof Lee Co., lU., does ina welcome note to oureditors, as follows : They should be muchoftener seen, and es-A Rapid Propagator. pecially -nhere thenumber of plants cultivated is for want of space re-stricted to a few. They are beautiful both in leaf andflower, require but little care, and are i-emarkablefor their freedom of bloom. Mine last winter werecovered with blossoms from the last of Novemberuntil May. An added charm is their novelty, asthey are so different from all our ordinary bloom-ing plants. Geianiums, for example, while richerin coloring, are seen so constantly that they ap-pear common indeed alongside of this favorite. A Rapid Propagator, A case similar to the onehere shown is considerably in use throughout En-gland, and the same principle might, in one form oranother, often be found valuable whenever plantsare propagated. As is well known where the sand orother medium in which cuttings are rooted is some. 1887. POPULAR GARDENING. 61 15 warmer than the atmosphere above, rootingis much accelerated. By the aparatiis ilhistratedit is seen that this desirable condition of bottomheat is provided by the use of a heating kettle in aclosed apartment beneath the cuttings. This kettlereceives its heat from alamp beneath. The advan-tage of employing a kettle for diffusing the heatinstead of the lamp is that by this means the warmthis moist, and this is an advantage. A case like ourfigure should be built all complete for fflO or $12. Culture of the Peach and the Pear. A largework of nearly 400 pages on this subject, by Dr. Black, Newcastle, Delaware, has reached ourtable. It deals chiefly with the methods of , etc., peculiar to the Delaware penin-sula, and as such will be welcomed by fruitgrowers of all sections. The author is free tointimate that in writing this book he
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