. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. are well supplied with iron, and some havea very high percentage of potash. An elevation of from4,000 to 5,000 feet seems best for hardy fruits. The priceof good orchard land is about $200 per acre, and of bear-ing orchard about $500 per acre ; this includes water. None of the fruit
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. are well supplied with iron, and some havea very high percentage of potash. An elevation of from4,000 to 5,000 feet seems best for hardy fruits. The priceof good orchard land is about $200 per acre, and of bear-ing orchard about $500 per acre ; this includes water. None of the fruit is subject to injury in winter; theonly time it is liable to injury is in May, when the treesare in bloom. The San .Ios6 scale has appeared in a few woolly aphis and green lice are sometimes trouble-some on young trees and grafts. The codlin moth alsois present in some places. Of apples the following are cultivated: NewtownPippin (both yellow and green). York Imperial, Spitzen-burg, Jonathan, Pilot, Smith Cider, Wagener, Buck-ingham, Grimes Golden Pippin, Northern Spy, Wine,Wine Sap, Strawberry, Rome Beauty, Ben Davis andPioneer. Other kinds of fruit are grown only for thelocal market, and their production is very new varieties seem to have originated in the state*s 5et. Ross in a cluster, and the clusters strung along 2 or 3 ft. ofwand-like stem, forming ropes of feathery bloom. Thisfringe-like beauty is caused by the numerous white fila-ments of the stamens. Botanically this genus is apuzzle, but it is probably nearer Rubus than characters are: caljx-tube small, flattish, per-sistent; lobes 5, large, spreading, leafy, serrate, imbri-cate; petals 0; stamens in many series, persistent; diskflattish, enclosing the calyx-tube ; carpels 2-4, small,sessile, silky; styles incurved at the apex; ovules soli-tary, hung from the top of the cell: akene drupaceous,small, included by the ample calyx. Alabam^nsis, Gray. Snow Wreath. Height 3-7
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