American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . Alder (lice ?•< rticillata), when lightedby a declining October sun? Bed berries wehave in abundance, and the Snowberry affordsus a pure white. We wish to call attention toa quite neglected shrub which gives us an un-usual color, a rich purple. The Callicarpa ofour Southern States (C. Americana), is foundfrom Virginia southward; it is a graceful shrubthree or four feet high, which bears clusters ofinconspicuous flowers in the axils of the the autumn these fruits assume a most beau-tiful violet purple color, and make the
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . Alder (lice ?•< rticillata), when lightedby a declining October sun? Bed berries wehave in abundance, and the Snowberry affordsus a pure white. We wish to call attention toa quite neglected shrub which gives us an un-usual color, a rich purple. The Callicarpa ofour Southern States (C. Americana), is foundfrom Virginia southward; it is a graceful shrubthree or four feet high, which bears clusters ofinconspicuous flowers in the axils of the the autumn these fruits assume a most beau-tiful violet purple color, and make the shrubhighly ornamental. The engraving shows abranch of half the natural size. From the colorof the fruit, the shrub is called at the South theFrench Mulberry. It is not, however, relatedto the Mulberry, but belongs <p the VerbenaFamily. The name, Callicarpa, is from theGreek, signifying beautiful fruit. A Japaneseand a Chinese species are in cultivation. TheCallicarpas succeed in any rich garden soil, andlate iu the season prove to be very Varieties Produced by Pruning. The Gardeners Chronicle (London), gives anabstract of a paper read before the LinnseanSociety by Mr. B. Clarke, on the production ofvarieties by pruning. His idea is that the modifi-cations produced by pruning are in a degreeperpetuated by seed, and that by constantlypruning the offspring of such plants in the sameway a variety or race may ultimately be estab-lished. He suggests Indian corn as a suitablesubject for experiment, and publishes the fol-lowing suggestions for those Americans whowish to try it. The results, whether confirmingMr. Clarkes views or not, would be interesting,and doubtless some of our readers will feel dis-posed to experiment. We do not look for anypresent increase of the corn crop from this pro-cess. We have not tested what can be done byselection of seed from the corn as it now whole of the male flowers are to be cut offby cutting the stem across, a week or fo
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