. The American fruit culturist : containing directions for the propagation and culture of fruit trees in the nursery, orchid and garden : with descriptions of the principal American and foreign varieties cultivated in the United States . Fruit-culture. 104 TERMS USED. Buds are large on the Swaar and Golden Sweet; small on the Tallman Sweeting and Ehode Island Greening. 4. The Leaves in a large number of instances, are of use in distinguishing different varieties. They are even, (not wrinkled,) as in the Bartlett pear and Baldwin apple, fig. Fiff. 87. Fig. 68 Fig-. 69. Fiff. 70. Fig. 71. W
. The American fruit culturist : containing directions for the propagation and culture of fruit trees in the nursery, orchid and garden : with descriptions of the principal American and foreign varieties cultivated in the United States . Fruit-culture. 104 TERMS USED. Buds are large on the Swaar and Golden Sweet; small on the Tallman Sweeting and Ehode Island Greening. 4. The Leaves in a large number of instances, are of use in distinguishing different varieties. They are even, (not wrinkled,) as in the Bartlett pear and Baldwin apple, fig. Fiff. 87. Fig. 68 Fig-. 69. Fiff. 70. Fig. 71. Waved, as in the Tallman Sweeting, and Beurre d'Au- malis pear, fig. 68. Wrinkled, when the waves are shorter and more irregu- lar, as in Green Sweet, fig. 69. Flat, as in the Madeleine and Skinless pears, fig. 70. Folded and recurved, as in the Easter Biaive and Bon- chretien Fondante, fig. 71. Large and wide as in the Ked Astrachan and Huling's Superb. Narrow, as in Dyer apple, and Van Mons Leon le Clerc pear. Erect, as in Early Strawberry, fig. 72. Drooping, as in Dominie, fig. 73. But 'these two last are indistinct characters, and only to be resorted to in a few very ^remarkable instances, as most leaves are * erect on new shoots, and become spread- ' ing or drooping as they grow older. The color of the leaves may sometimes assist in description, as light green in the '' ' Yellow Bellflower and Eambo ; deep green, as in the Ehode Island Greening ; and blueish green, as in Peck's Pleasant. The serratures, or saw-teeth markings on the margins of leaves, are characteristics of importance, in many varieties of the apple, and on the peach they are so well defined as. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob). New York : Miller, Orton & Mulligan
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