The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste (1869) (14593271970)

Identifier: horticulturistjo1869alba (find matches)
Title: The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste
Year: 1846 (1840s)
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Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : Luthur Tucker
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries



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ice. It does not take a quick motioned boy or girl long to clip the runners on an acre of straw- 296 3)uchesse 3)An(;ouleme ^ear. berries with a knife; and then we can cultivate close to the hills, and with a hoe soon cutup the weeds between the hills. But when the runners have spread in every direction from the hills, and taken root, thespace that the cultivator can clean is narrowed, and it becomes a tedious operation to hoe be-tween the young plants. In fact, many of the weeds must be pulled by hand. Here thequestion might be asked by the unreflecting, Why be so careful to avoid tearing up the youngplants with the hoe and cultivator? Why not tear them up, and cut off the runners withthe hoe, thereby saving the labor of clipping the runners with a knife or other implement ?The answer is, the runners must be removed before they form plants, or hey will so exhaustthe parent plant as to prevent its stooling^ and our yield of fruit would be small indeed. KocHESTER, N. Y. p. C. Reynolds.
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Duchesse DAngoulems Pear, Ten Years Old. Peat Culture for Profit. 297 Pear Culture for Profit. AN observing horticulturist can not fail to notice that of all standard fruits the pear isnow becoming the most popular, and its cultivation is attendpd with greatest interest.Beginners, then, in pear culture for profit, need a little more advice than fruit-books areaccustomed to give us as to the simplest, most practical method of treatment, together withreliable information as to choice of varieties, and how to market thera properly. This is all supplied in Mr. Quinns new volume before us, which details in a plain,practical manner the essentials of success in this branch of fruit culture. The work doesnot discuss the merits of an extended list of varieties, but only of those that have provedmost profitable and popular in the marUet. It would have added to the interest of thevolume to have devoted a chapter to miscellaneous varieties, inasmuch as pears, like otherfruits, are capricious in t