. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. APP APP Fig. 15.—(P. 51.). the fruit green and immature; and the i leaves in other kinds will retain their I verdure long after the fruit has perished. The plants whose buds in the annual wood are full and prominent are usually more productive than those whose buds are small and shrunk in the bark ; but their future produce will depend much on the power the blossoms possess of bearing the cold, and this power varies in the varieties, and can only be known from experience. Those which pro- duce their leaves and blossoms rather early in the spring a
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. APP APP Fig. 15.—(P. 51.). the fruit green and immature; and the i leaves in other kinds will retain their I verdure long after the fruit has perished. The plants whose buds in the annual wood are full and prominent are usually more productive than those whose buds are small and shrunk in the bark ; but their future produce will depend much on the power the blossoms possess of bearing the cold, and this power varies in the varieties, and can only be known from experience. Those which pro- duce their leaves and blossoms rather early in the spring are generally to be preferred, for, though they are more exposed to injury from frost, they less fre- quently suffer from the attacks of insects —the more common cause of ailure. The disposition to vegetate early or late in the spring, is, like almost every other quality in the apple tree, trans- ferred in different degrees to its off- spring ; and the planter must therefore seek those qualities in the parent tree which he wishes to find in the future seedling plants. The ^best method I have been able to discover of obtaining such fruits as vegetate very early in the spring, has been by introducing the farina of the Siberian Crab into the blos- som of a rich and early apple, and by transferring, in the same manner, the farina of the apple to the blossom of the Siberian Crab. The leaf and the habit. 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 Johnson, George William, 1802-1886; Landreth, David. Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard
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