Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . ly, Champion, Tele-graph. Red varieties: Brighton, Salem andPerkins. White varieties: Niagara, EmpireState, Lady Washington, Eve, Duchess. Apples: York Imperial, Smiths Cider, BenDavis, Roxbury Russett, Smoke-house, Baldwin,Maiden Blush, Jeffries Transparent. Pears: Bartlett, Duchess, Lawrence, Seckle,Sheldon, Clapps Favorite and Kieffer. Cherries: Early Richmond, English Morello,Olivet, Empress Eugenie, Conestoga, and Cumberland. Plums: Lombard, Richland, German, PrinceEnglebe
Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . ly, Champion, Tele-graph. Red varieties: Brighton, Salem andPerkins. White varieties: Niagara, EmpireState, Lady Washington, Eve, Duchess. Apples: York Imperial, Smiths Cider, BenDavis, Roxbury Russett, Smoke-house, Baldwin,Maiden Blush, Jeffries Transparent. Pears: Bartlett, Duchess, Lawrence, Seckle,Sheldon, Clapps Favorite and Kieffer. Cherries: Early Richmond, English Morello,Olivet, Empress Eugenie, Conestoga, and Cumberland. Plums: Lombard, Richland, German, PrinceEnglebert, Yellow Gage and Damson. Peach: Globe (best of all), Mt. Rose, Stump-the-World, Old Mixon, Crawford (late andearly), Sener, Sal way and Early York. Hansen. My neighbor has not found it ccuie and berry are \ery handsome. I predict that within three years berries willbe shipped almost altogether in pint boxes,tertainly as fast as growers try them theywill use pints in shipping long distances, andin shij)ping the softer sorts any distance. Inthe smaller bulks the berries reach their destina-. showing the fruit much as it hangs on the vineand in conjunction with an abundance of foli-age. That there would be a great gain for ap-pearances by such a natural metho<l over thatof laying the clusters on bare plates, whichsoon collect dust and dirt, is easily realized. The lower engraving shows the form andfeatures of the stand. It consists of uprightmetal pieces to which aue attached the horizon-tal bands that support the water glasses. We imagine how a show stand suited to thesame pui-pose could be gotten up even moresimple and inexpensive than this. It might bemade of wood, the horizontal supports of slatssome three inches wide. These could havenotches sawed in from one side, of a size to ad-mit the necks of water bottles, the bodies to besuspended beneath. These horizontal slatswould not need to be circular. They might bearranged to a square, or six or eight sided for
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