. 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. RASPBERRY (loned before it becomes badly diseased. Spraying will reduce it but is not entirely satisfactory. Crown-gall, due to the growth of a specific organism of a very low order, belonging to the slime-molds, is .often serious, particularly with reds. Neither atfected plants nor. 2082. Shaffer RaspberryâRub
. 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. RASPBERRY (loned before it becomes badly diseased. Spraying will reduce it but is not entirely satisfactory. Crown-gall, due to the growth of a specific organism of a very low order, belonging to the slime-molds, is .often serious, particularly with reds. Neither atfected plants nor. 2082. Shaffer RaspberryâRubus neelectus ( apparently healthy ones from a diseased lot should be planted, as the trouble is readily communicated plants and trees. Fred W. Card. EAT-TAIL CACTUS. Cereus fUujelUfvrmif. EATTAN. See Calamus. RAVENALA 1503 undersigned received from the Botanical Garden at Hong Kong a few seeds of this small evergreen shrub. The seeds germinated well and the plants grew rapidly, attaining a height of about a foot iu a year. During the summer of the second year the rather bushy plants flowered well aud bore a crop of shining red berries which were very conspicuous throughout the winter. When well grown and bushy the plant is quite orna- mental, its habit being dense and the color of its leaves daik green The flowers aie white, and are li )rne m dense trusses at the extremity of each shoot. Though All ludividual flower dots net in ike much show, the 11 uit IS \er\ onuniLiit il w li n k \ tied with masses if bio s lus Till iliut 11 Is I II 1, light soil, much water when in tuU ^\ utli ml \\ Kiti n the hPiiei i\sif the sun Lmi\ s] iinâ-tht old soil should be sh\kin out and replaced b\ i ikIi compost. In the v\ntei s garden at Cxotha Oiange c unt\ Florida, the Rauwolfia flourishes with gre it luvuiiince in the shade of other shrubs m rather moist spots Although it is eisih winter killed, it sprouts readilj m spring from When covered with numerous of n object of be
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