The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . mpress upon your young or inexperi-enced readers what I have long believed tobe an important truth—that the supplying Be DAi 73 the proper conditions of temperature toplants under glass, according to their dif-ferent natures and conditions, has as much,or more, to do with their welfare than anyother cause; and that often when ascribing phere uncongenial to their unhealthy state of a plant to unconge- South Bekgen, N. J., Feb. 10, soil, or defective drainage, or the damping off of some favorite cuttingto the way i
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . mpress upon your young or inexperi-enced readers what I have long believed tobe an important truth—that the supplying Be DAi 73 the proper conditions of temperature toplants under glass, according to their dif-ferent natures and conditions, has as much,or more, to do with their welfare than anyother cause; and that often when ascribing phere uncongenial to their unhealthy state of a plant to unconge- South Bekgen, N. J., Feb. 10, soil, or defective drainage, or the damping off of some favorite cuttingto the way it was cut or the sand it wasput in, the true and sole cause was nothingmore than condemning them to an atmos- BEURRE DAVOINE. Fkttit : size, medium ; color, pale richyellow with fine dull russet dots and roughfine russet marblings, especially around thestem and calyx; stem, varying in length, usually, as in our drawing, planted in acavity, narrow and furrowed; flesh, yellow-ish white, fine grained, juicy, melting al-most buttery, with a sweet vinous aroma. Fig. 35.—Beurre DAvoine. and taste; calyx, with long segment nearly seeds, large obovate sharply acute pyri-closed; basin, narrow, rather deep, and form. Season, November to January orwith a few broad furrows ; core, medium : early winter. Thin out the old wood of currant and size and quality of the fruit in futuregooseberry bushes, and thus improve the seasons. 74 The Horticulturist PROPAGATING PLANTS. BY A. S. FULLER. INFLUENCE OF STOCK ON THE GRAFT. That the stock upon which a graft isinserted has an influence upon its futuregrowth, is well known. If it were not so,then grafting, budding, and similar modesof propagating plants would not have beendiscovered, nor the beneficial results ofthese operations been enjoyed by merely supporting the graft or fur-nishing it with the required amount ofsustenance, does not convey the full mean-ing of the term influence as generally un-derstood in connection with this su
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