. 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. CONIFERS and weevils sap the young shoots. Bostrichi, or bark- beetles, mine under the bark, mostly of trees which are sickly from other causes; borers enter the wood of the boles. Tortrices bore into the base of leaders and cause them to break off. The best remedies against most of these are preventives, namel
. 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. CONIFERS and weevils sap the young shoots. Bostrichi, or bark- beetles, mine under the bark, mostly of trees which are sickly from other causes; borers enter the wood of the boles. Tortrices bore into the base of leaders and cause them to break off. The best remedies against most of these are preventives, namely: providing the trees with such chances of vigorous growth, or satisfactory soil conditions, that they are able to ward off or overcome the enemies. Otherwise, watching and destroying the enemies in time, and the usual remedies to kill them, may be employed. Literature: Veitch, Manual of Coni- fers ; Carriers, Traits dea Conif^res ; Beissner, Hand- buch der Nadelholzkunde. g ^ Perkow. CONtUM maculitum, Linn. UmhelUferm. The Poison Hemlock, "by which," as Gray writes, "crimi- nals and philosophers were put to death at ; It is a rank, much-brauched European herb which has run wild in eastern N. America, and which is offered in the trade as a border plant. It is biennial, rank-smell- ing, and poisonous, and is scarcely worth cultivating, although the finely cut dark foliage is highly ornamen- tal. It grows from 2-4 ft. high, and has large umbels of small white fls. An extract is sold in drug stores for a sedative. For this purpose the fruit is gathered while green. CONNECTICUT, HORTICULTURE IN. Fig. 537. While one of the smallest states and covering but one degree of latitude (41 to 42), owing to the great diversity of soil and varying elevations from the sea level, along the whole southern border, to 900 and 1,200 feet in sections of Tolland county, and 1,200 and 1,500 in portions of Litchfield, Connecticut is adapted to as wide. a range of horticultur
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