Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . ht to the Fernery. Continuingon in this path we reach the Wild Garden, theAquatics and the Bog Plants. This section isa stranger to the close-cutting mower, andin diverging from the path visitors may aswell walk with eyes open, or they may findthemselves in the embrace of sundry RoseBriers, Brambles, Thorns and other interestingwild plants, which in their proper place are byno means weeds. Recrossing the water, a rillat this place, we come to wild vines clamber-ing over rocks on a steep
Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . ht to the Fernery. Continuingon in this path we reach the Wild Garden, theAquatics and the Bog Plants. This section isa stranger to the close-cutting mower, andin diverging from the path visitors may aswell walk with eyes open, or they may findthemselves in the embrace of sundry RoseBriers, Brambles, Thorns and other interestingwild plants, which in their proper place are byno means weeds. Recrossing the water, a rillat this place, we come to wild vines clamber-ing over rocks on a steep slope and beyond andabove which is a large Walnut tree on the vergeof the Fruit Garden. Here, after our tramphalf way around the place through the orna-mental grounds, and before visiting the fruitgarden, let us take a rest on the inviting rusticbench beneath the Walnuts copious shade. to the former. It has the broad leaf andsmooth stone of the Plum, with the bloom ofthe Peach. It has also a strong resemblance tothe form, beauty and flavor of the latter. Ourengraving of an Apricot is of one of the lar-. gest varieties in cultivation, the Moorep arkand this might readily pass for a Peach. Asifor its season of ripening,the Apricot follows ina very desirable manner, closely on the Cherry,and extends to the Peach season. Of various causes that have worked againstthe popularity of this fruit, that of its liabil-ity to sufler from the Curculio which hasproved such an enemy to Plum culture, and,then, the fact that the tree fails on some kinds ofsoil, are the most prominent. As to Curculio,it is a matter of rejoicing that throughout theetistem section of the country at least its attacksare now decidedly on the wane. We may hopesoon to be nearly free from its presence, andthen both Plum and Apricot culture will standon a mere promising basis. But in those sec-tions where this insect is still very destructivethe simple remedy of jarring them from the what above the forty-third degree of
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