. A practical guide to garden plants, containing descriptions of the hardiest and most beautiful annuals and biennials, hardy herbaceous and bulbous perennials, hardy water and bog plants, flowering and ornamental trees and shrubs, conifers; hardy ferns; hardy bamboos and other ornamental grasses. Also the best kinds of fruits and vegetables that may be grown in the open air in the British Isles with full and practical instruction as to culture and propagation. Gardening; Gardening; Botany, Economic. APPLE HABDY FRUIT GARDEN APPLE 1043 ceeds 30 to. 40 ft. in height. It has broadly ovate acute
. A practical guide to garden plants, containing descriptions of the hardiest and most beautiful annuals and biennials, hardy herbaceous and bulbous perennials, hardy water and bog plants, flowering and ornamental trees and shrubs, conifers; hardy ferns; hardy bamboos and other ornamental grasses. Also the best kinds of fruits and vegetables that may be grown in the open air in the British Isles with full and practical instruction as to culture and propagation. Gardening; Gardening; Botany, Economic. APPLE HABDY FRUIT GARDEN APPLE 1043 ceeds 30 to. 40 ft. in height. It has broadly ovate acute leaves, the blades usually much longer than the stalks, downy or woolly beneath, with crenate margins and provided with glands. The flowers are always borne in sessile umbels and vary in size and colour according to variety. They are sometimes pure white, like those of Pears, but are usually striped or suffused with rose and often with bright carmine, and all have a delicate fragrance. Apart from their value in the fruit garden they may also well figure on the lawn, in parks, shrubberies &c. on account of their great beauty when in blossom. The fmit, which botanists call a' pome,' is roundish, usually narrowest towards the apex, with a depression at eaoli end, and varies a good deal in size, colour, markings, and flavour—being usually of a brighter and richer colour on the side next the sun. Training. — Apples may be grown as bushes, pyramids, standards or half- standards, espaliers, or cordons. As bushes and pyramids the trees may be planted from 8 to 12 ft. apart, according to the vigour and compactness of the variety, and standards and half-standards from 15 to SO ft. apart for the same reasons. Soil.—The best soil for Apples is a rich adhesive loam on a gravelly or chalky subsoil. Thorough drainage is essential. Poor hot soils must be enriched with plenty of manure, and heavy wet soil must be lightened with plenty of lime and thorough cultivation. Apples being mor
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