. 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. POMOLOGY The surface tilth may bo soil early in spring with a cutaw or other surface-working tools, sible, however, on very heavy 1 adds humus and protects " baking in the winter. ured by breaking the top- Litawav barrow, gang plow niMV nnt be pos- rogi If it lable r cases, to use cover-crops £ the legumi
. 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. POMOLOGY The surface tilth may bo soil early in spring with a cutaw or other surface-working tools, sible, however, on very heavy 1 adds humus and protects " baking in the winter. ured by breaking the top- Litawav barrow, gang plow niMV nnt be pos- rogi If it lable r cases, to use cover-crops £ the leguminous kind, tli ma trogen and the fruit plants make too illy the cover-crop is plowed under ii .ver-crop Uiiigand op it also ssible, in rticularly s too rich y growth. ing at the avethe soil nioist- ersal practice to use â le idea has come to t or not as his judg- i!-,!,. tlif. ( nonnniical , "I ' lo be the , . ; , I-. With tbr gradu- 1401 ind: fruits, there are always two rules to be kept in i (1) Remove the injured, imperfect or diseased speci- mens; (2) remove sufficient fruit so that the remaining specimens stand at a given distance from each other How far apart the fruit shall be, will depend on many Usually - . , very earliest opportunity m order ure. It is by no meaus the un" cover-crops on fruit lands, but stay, and the grower may adop ment dictates. In order to ta. and efficient tillage of fruit practice to devote the land wli- plums and pears and some <ji1i often allowalile to use the land tâ¢â ⢠ii' id precisii â d. TlK 1- £r irrow larger and better, it saves the \ iiaui) oi mc k , and it giVes the orchardist an opportunity to remove the diseased specimens and thereby to contribute something toward checking the spread of i°^«'« ?" ,f»"ei- ^ ning is exceedingly important in all fruits that are essentiallv luxuries, as peaches, apricots and pears. It is coming also to be more and more important for apples and for
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