Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . e yield continued to in-crease until the summer of 1885, when thebushes bore an immense crop. The berries,if such they may be called, average aboutthe size of the largest samples of Blueberries,to which fruit they have a striking resem-blance both in color and form. The flavorIs sweet and delicate, but not very pro-nounced. No one that has tasted them inmy presence has expressed a dislike to them,though some pronounce them insipid. Withcream and sugar the flavor is rather height-ened. T
Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . e yield continued to in-crease until the summer of 1885, when thebushes bore an immense crop. The berries,if such they may be called, average aboutthe size of the largest samples of Blueberries,to which fruit they have a striking resem-blance both in color and form. The flavorIs sweet and delicate, but not very pro-nounced. No one that has tasted them inmy presence has expressed a dislike to them,though some pronounce them insipid. Withcream and sugar the flavor is rather height-ened. The berries begin ripening towardthe latter part of June and the crop lastsfrom two to three weeks. The plant is a somewhat straggling shruba1)0ut five feet high when full grown, thoughour bushes at present are but three feet appears perfectly hardy and in favorableseasons bears profusely. It is readily propa-gated by divisions of the roots and also byseeds. The latter method is, of course, theone to which we must look for the improve-ment of this American fruit. 204 POPULAR GARDENING. September,. A Remarkable New Weeping Tree:Teas Weeping Russian Mulberry. In recent years no class of oruamentaltrees (the consideration of shade omitted)have been so widely planted as the bettervarieties of weeping trees. The Kilmarnockand other attractive Willows of the sameclass, and the various Birches of pendanthabit, for example, have been in constantand increasing demand with home improversin town and country everywhere, un-til the planting of these has reached farinto the thousands an-nually. Indeed, of somelocalities it may be saidthat these trees have beenplanted even to excess,causing monotony in oneor a few kinds. Such facts, however,well show an existing anddeveloping taste for fine trees ofpendulous habit. Recognizing thiswe find pleasure at this time in in-troducing to the attention of treelovers a new candidate in this line,namely. Teas Weeping RussianMulberry. This is a var
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