. 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. 117. Young i shedding the ring. APRICOT satisfactory to shippers or canners, and to reach the highest grades, if drying is practiced. California apri- cot orchards are all grown with clean tillage, for the main purpose of moisture conservation. In regions of good rainfall and sufficiently retentive loams no irr
. 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. 117. Young i shedding the ring. APRICOT satisfactory to shippers or canners, and to reach the highest grades, if drying is practiced. California apri- cot orchards are all grown with clean tillage, for the main purpose of moisture conservation. In regions of good rainfall and sufficiently retentive loams no irrigation is required ; good tillage will suf- fice for the production of large fruit and perfection of fruit-ljuds for the following year. As the trees are becoming older and bearing larger crops the demand for moisture increases, and the use of irrigation water is grow- ing. In most places, however, one irrigation is sufficient, and that is given after fniit gather- ing, to carry the tree through the last half of its season's work. In the regularly irrigated regions of the state, water is periodically applied through the growing sea- aud at such intervals as the local climate and soils require. Though probably all the good varieties of the apricot in the world have ijeen introduced into California during the last half century, and scores of selected seedlings of local origin have been widely tested, the varieties which have survived the tests and are now widely grown are comparatively few in number. Most of the rejected varieties met this fate because of shy bearing, and those which now constitute the bulk of the crop are very regu- lar and full bearers under rational treatment. A local seedling, the Priugle, was for many years chiefly grown for the earliest ripening, but this has recently been largely superseded by another local seedling, the New- castle, which is of superior si-^e and about as early. The European varieties. Large Early and Early Golden, are fine in a few loca
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