. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. 670 THE PERSIMMON. casional selection of a wild tree whose product was of better quality than usual. [The illustration (Fig. 817) shows the usual appearance of the wild persimmon, and Fig. 818 of one which has been carer. Fig. 817 —Virginia Persimmon. fully cultivated. The American persimmon is entirely hardy at least fifty miles nprth of New York City, and will bear full crops annually. While in the Southern States it is said to be easy to transplant
. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. 670 THE PERSIMMON. casional selection of a wild tree whose product was of better quality than usual. [The illustration (Fig. 817) shows the usual appearance of the wild persimmon, and Fig. 818 of one which has been carer. Fig. 817 —Virginia Persimmon. fully cultivated. The American persimmon is entirely hardy at least fifty miles nprth of New York City, and will bear full crops annually. While in the Southern States it is said to be easy to transplant, it is farther north quite different. It is not an easy tree to transplant, its long tap-root be- ing intolerant of molestation; saplings two to three feet high may be moved, however, with fair prospect of success. The hole in which they are to be placed should be dug out fully three feet dsep, and the original earth re- placed with good surfacj soil. Do not give thepi up if they do not put out a leaf the first season. I have had them start and grow well the second summer. The tree is dioecious, and unless one has a niimber of them, the only sure way to get fruit is to insert a graft from a male tree on a female, which will in a year or two furnish sufficient pollen to fertilize the entire tree. It bears at six to eight years from seed. (Grafting on the persimmon is usually done in winter, as in apples, by collar-grafting.) As there is. 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 Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob); Wood, William H. S. New York, Orange Judd
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