The Gardener’s monthly and horticultural advertiser . ldew, rot, and other diseases follow with propor-tionate speed. But remove the said vine to a vinerywhere a moister atmosphere prevails, or suffer it torun over a tree where the ten thousand pores ofneighboring friendly leaves perspire and make a sortof artificial vapor about the vine that it never knowson a trellis, stake, or frame; and the extra vigor,health, and luxuriance is striking and complete. ?\Ve have occupied more space with the subjectthan we usually devote to this department, from asense of its great importance, and hope the sc
The Gardener’s monthly and horticultural advertiser . ldew, rot, and other diseases follow with propor-tionate speed. But remove the said vine to a vinerywhere a moister atmosphere prevails, or suffer it torun over a tree where the ten thousand pores ofneighboring friendly leaves perspire and make a sortof artificial vapor about the vine that it never knowson a trellis, stake, or frame; and the extra vigor,health, and luxuriance is striking and complete. ?\Ve have occupied more space with the subjectthan we usually devote to this department, from asense of its great importance, and hope the scienti-fic pomologist will give it the attention we think itwell deserves. THE OREGON STCAMORE MAPLE. t Of all trees for general purposes, the ma|>le classd seems best adopted to our climate. As shader 1 trees, the Red, Silver, Sycamore, Norway and^ J Sugar arc deservedly popular, ^ery few of the newer ones are likely to interfere with their reptita-tion, unless, perhaps, it lie the Oregon Maple, Acermacrophyllum. In England it is merging out of. c« the class of new and rare plants, and becomingwell known and appreciated. For avenues it issaid to be very much esteemed, and extensivelyplanted. In our own country it is not yet much known,and has not been planted to any extent, principallythrough its high price, and again from a mistakenidea that it is not hard^. Xewly introduced orsickly plants of even the hardiest general character,frequently get killed, and we have no doubt thatwhen plants of the Oregon Maple die, it is fromthis cause. The tree from which we made theabove sketch last summer had been growing nearPhiladelphia the past three seasons in an exposedsituation, and unprotected. The leaves are very large,—our cut is but onefourth the width of the leaf from which it was taken ;but it will serve to show the general form sufficientlj todistinguish it. The whole habit and appearance, bothof leaves and tree,give the appearance of a very luxuri-ant form of the English
Size: 1388px × 1800px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthormeehanth, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, bookyear1861
