Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry (1891) (14780949261)

Identifier: gardenforestjour41891sarg (find matches)
Title: Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927
Subjects: Botany Gardening Forests and forestry
Publisher: New York : The Garden and forest publishing co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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not until thefourth generation that the original type reappeared, evenapproximately. In peas, I have actually produced, by crossingand selection, a predetermined variety with a special charac-teristic previously unknown. In the same way I have, bycrossing, produced a sweet corn having all the characters ofthe Black Mexican (but much earlier), without the least aidfrom the latter. It is easy to see from this how easy it may be, in a properlocation, to obtain and measurably fix a habit of early maturity May 6, 1891.) Garden and Forest. 211 in any garden vegetable capable of being successfully grownthere at all. But when the desired thing is produced, it is toa great extent the child of its environment, capable, with care,of perpetuation in that specific locality, but with no sure latitude, it will prove itself quite unstable under changes of avery few hundred feet. This subject is one that seems to be worthy of careful atten-tion. If properly studied, I am confident that very surprising
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Fig. 38.—The Douglas Fir.—See page 205. promise that it will live up to its home character when re-moved to a considerable distance. I believe that no varietyof corn will continue the same if moved in latitude more thanfifty miles; and where it is a question of altitude as well as results will be reached, and certain principles established,which will not only remove all mystery, but will give usmastery where before we trusted to chance.Newport, vt. T. H. Hoskins. 212 Garden and Forest. (Number 167. The Egg-plant and its Cultivation. A LATE bulletin from the Cornell Experiment Station gives-^*- some interesting experiences with the Egg-plant, andfrom it we make the following extracts : The chief difficulty in growing the Egg-plant in the northis the shortness of the seasons. It is only by starting plantsearly and maintaining a vigorous growth that we can succeedin fruiting the large sorts satisfactorily. The plants should bestarted under glass from the middle of March to the middle