. 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. 1857. Flowers of native plums. Uomestica flam. Prunus Americana on the left; The letters indicate the P. angustifolia on the right. termination of annual (See page 1374.) growths. (See page 1374.) carnleus, L. angitstifolius), and the "hairy vetch " ( Mcia villosa) have been found to be the most promi
. 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. 1857. Flowers of native plums. Uomestica flam. Prunus Americana on the left; The letters indicate the P. angustifolia on the right. termination of annual (See page 1374.) growths. (See page 1374.) carnleus, L. angitstifolius), and the "hairy vetch " ( Mcia villosa) have been found to be the most promising. Prom numerous analyses of California soils, Professor Hil- gard has found them generally well supplied with lime and potash, with nitrogen and phosphoric acid not over- abundant. It is, then, these latter which will have to be supplied first, and such has been the advice given to growers. As mentioned above, the Plum has few serious ene- mies in California, and none which cannot be held in check by spraying and other treatment. Upon the leaves the Plum aphis and the canker worm have given some trouble. Lately, the "peach moth" has been found at work on the prune trees, but not to any serious extent. The trees, too, are sometimes subject to the attacks of scale insects; the scale (Lecaniiim oUa), apricot scale {L. Armeni,irâm). frosfnd sralr {I,, pnihinsum) and pernicious i .I.â¢,â /.;.âk p, r)ii,-inx,i:i] '..-int; the most frequent; all >A' whicli, lH.\v.'\'rr. ('alildrnia fruit-grower has to kcTp in i-li.â .â !;. and in somr cases even to eradicutt-. The cicwn r^'ot-kiict has also caused considerable trouble. The cause of this disease has been lately demonstrated by Toumey to be a "slime mold" {Dendrophaqus globosus). Relief has been se- cured by cutting off the knots and painting the wounds with Bordeaux mixture. In California some fruit is usually borne the third year; in the fourth a fairly profitable cro
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