The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . The people are becoming rapidly educatedin fruit-growing. Instead of the orchardbeing an appendage to the main objects ofthe farm, to be planted and then neglected,it is yearly coming more and more to bethe leading item, one that can not be over-looked even by the owners of the largestof stock or grain farms; and with thisknowledge of the value of fruit-growingcomes a corresponding knowledge of thedifference in value of trees and vines, anda willingness to pay therefor. Every kind of fruit is increased in size or peach left where tw
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . The people are becoming rapidly educatedin fruit-growing. Instead of the orchardbeing an appendage to the main objects ofthe farm, to be planted and then neglected,it is yearly coming more and more to bethe leading item, one that can not be over-looked even by the owners of the largestof stock or grain farms; and with thisknowledge of the value of fruit-growingcomes a corresponding knowledge of thedifference in value of trees and vines, anda willingness to pay therefor. Every kind of fruit is increased in size or peach left where two were, will often and improved in quality by attendance on become as large as both would, and be early thinning. If done early, the one pear vastly —MAY. 146 The Horticulturist. QUINCE OF COXE APPLE. Fruit : size, large; form, roundish ob- low with faint shades of deeper green suf-late, broad obscure ribs ; surface, glossy, fused—few minute dots; stem, slender ;uneven, or wavy; color, clear greenish yel- cavity, broad, open, deep; calyx, nearly. Fig. 52.— Quince of Coxe Apple. closed; segments, erect, slightly recurved; subacid with a distinct quince-like flavor; basin, open, deep, abrupt, slightly corru- core, small ; seeds, abundant, irregular, gated at bottom; flesh, yellowish, break- Season, December to March; very crisp, juicy, a little coarse grained, EASTERN EXPERIENCE IS OF LITTLE AVAIL TO US. This remark from the report of the an-nual meeting of the Iowa State Horticul-tural Society is made the text for aneditorial article in the March number ofthe Horticulturist. The article dissentsentirely from this statement, and says that if the writer thereof lives a few years,and makes fruit-growing his study, he willfind that he was very far from the truthwhen he wrote it; and Iowa is not so much a distinct State in soil or tempera-ture that she can afford to throw away theexperience of New England, etc. If I amnot mistaken, the author of your text isa f
Size: 1782px × 1403px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840, bookpublis, booksubjectgardening
