. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. der celeryculture, and it sold for $300,000. This is about$200 an acre. It would be interesting to know thevalue of the land per acre, and the cost of thecelery crop. Hollanders are chiefly employed inthe labor. Globe Artichokes.—These, which are thelarge heads of a plant not distantly removed fromthe thistle family, are not used in the east, exceptperhaps in a few gardens—but they are in generaluse on the Pacific slope. The plants require alittle protection from the frosts of an Easternwinter. NEW AND RARE FRUITS. American Apricot Peach.—Mere size
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. der celeryculture, and it sold for $300,000. This is about$200 an acre. It would be interesting to know thevalue of the land per acre, and the cost of thecelery crop. Hollanders are chiefly employed inthe labor. Globe Artichokes.—These, which are thelarge heads of a plant not distantly removed fromthe thistle family, are not used in the east, exceptperhaps in a few gardens—but they are in generaluse on the Pacific slope. The plants require alittle protection from the frosts of an Easternwinter. NEW AND RARE FRUITS. American Apricot Peach.—Mere size is notsought for in a good dessert fruit. One of thesmallest of grapes—the Delaware—is one of themost profitable. Among pears, the small Seckelheads the list for popularity, and the Lady Applebrmgs better prices than any other because it isalways welcome as a dessert fruit. We have hadnothing of this class among peaches. We havehad small peaches to be sure, but they are nearlyall stone. Their sole merit has been in We have now the pleasure of introducing toour readers a new variety, which we think willtake the same rank among peaches that the Ladydoes among apples. The stone is surprisinglysmall. We have seen nothing like it in all our ex-periences with peaches. It would be a great cur-iosity on this account even had it no other pecul-iarity. But it so happens that it is of delicious
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