. 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. ^ -":f£:M^'L^'-^-('' 1087. Bartram's cider mill, a relic of the last century. It is said that the apples were placed in the circular groove in the rock and cmshed by means of a weight rolling over them. The juice ran out tlie gutter at the farther side and was caught in a rock-hewn cistern. Pears were a
. 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. ^ -":f£:M^'L^'-^-('' 1087. Bartram's cider mill, a relic of the last century. It is said that the apples were placed in the circular groove in the rock and cmshed by means of a weight rolling over them. The juice ran out tlie gutter at the farther side and was caught in a rock-hewn cistern. Pears were amongst the earliest fruits introduced into the New World, and the French, particularly, dissemi- nated them far and wide along the waterways, as wit- nessed by the patriarchal trees of the Detroit river and portions of the Mississippi system. John Bartram's Petre pear (Fig. 1080) is one of the patriarchs of the last century, although the tree is not large. The first book devoted exclusively to the pear was Field's, pub- lished in 1859. The Japanese type of pears had been brought into the country from two and perhaps three separate introductions, early in the fifties, but they had not gained sufficient prominence to attract Field's atten- tion. From this oriental stock has come a race of prom- ising hybrids with the common pear, represented chiefly by the Kieffer, Le Oonte and Gar- ber. Peaches were early introduced into the New World by various colonists, and they thrived so well that they soon became spontaneous. Nuttall found them naturalized in the forests of Arkansas in 1819, and the species now grows with all the luxurious abandon of a native in waste and forest lands from Georgia and the Carolinas to the westward of the Mississippi. There is prob- ably no country in the world in which peaches grow and bear so freely as in the United States. The old Spanish or Melocoton type is now the most popular race of peaches, giving rise to the Craw- fords and their derivatives. Of
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