. Fruit-gardening : containing complete practical directions for the selection, propagation and cultivation of all kinds of fruit . Fruit-culture. FRmT-GABDENING. 81 cultivated in tLe garden of the Horticultural Society of London, comprising twelve varieties of red, ten of white, five kinds of black, together with a champagne, mountain, rock, upright, and Pennsylvanian. Any number of varieties of the red and white. Ked Dutch Currants. may be procured from sowing the seed; but they are generally propagated by cuttings of the last year's wood, which should be of sufficient length to form handsom
. Fruit-gardening : containing complete practical directions for the selection, propagation and cultivation of all kinds of fruit . Fruit-culture. FRmT-GABDENING. 81 cultivated in tLe garden of the Horticultural Society of London, comprising twelve varieties of red, ten of white, five kinds of black, together with a champagne, mountain, rock, upright, and Pennsylvanian. Any number of varieties of the red and white. Ked Dutch Currants. may be procured from sowing the seed; but they are generally propagated by cuttings of the last year's wood, which should be of sufficient length to form handsome plants, with a clear stem ten inches high, which may be planted immediately upon losing their leaves in autumn, or very early the ensuing spring. The Currant will grow in almost every soil, but succeeds best m one loamy and rich. The best flavored fruit is produced from plants in an open situation; but they will grow under the shades of walls or trees, and either as low bushes, or trained as espaliers. They bear chiefly on spurs, and on young wood of from one to three years' growtli; and therefore, in pruning, most of the young wood should be cut to within two or three buds of that where it originated. After the plants are furnished with full heads they produce many superfluous and irregular shoots every summer, crowding the general bearers, so as to require regulating and curtailing, both in the young growth of the year and in older wood. The principal part of the work may be done in winter, or early in spring; but a preparatory part should be performed in summer, to eradicate suckers, and thin the superfluous shoots of the year, where they are so crowded as to exclude the sun. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bridgeman, Thomas, d. 1850. Philadelphia : H. T. Coates & Co.
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