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Title: The American garden
Identifier: americangarden111890broo (find matches)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Horticulture; Gardening
Publisher: Brooklyn, N. Y. : (s. n. )
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THE GARDENS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. 711 especially yl/(7r/«ya/(7«z'<rrr,or Japanese mulberry, and Downing's everbearing. Here the carob or St. John's bread (Ceratonia siliqua), from the distant Mediterranean, unfolds its light green leaflets in the sunshine. This tree is remarkable for resisting drought, and its large pods furnish excellent fodder for horses and cattle. Swarms of dusty bees hover over the tall stalks of the honey-plant (Echinops sphccrocephalus), hard by the blooming artichokes or cynaras, and spar- rows hop into the shade of the pistachio-tree, the Asia, Italy, Hungary, Austria, France, and Bur- gundy. The summer heat is not sufficient to thor- oughly ripen the fruit, but the vines are raised for experiments in grafting. As yet, the wily phyl- loxera has not attacked this section, although it has destroyed vines in the immediate vicinity. In con- nection with the Experiment Station Building is a wine-cellar, where on a small scale, wines are man- ufactured, and contributed samples chemically tested. Five of the twenty-five acres, comprising the
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Fig. 2. The Berkeley Oaks. trunk of which exudes, under certain conditions, a gum from which turpentine is made. Other economic plants are the cinnamon (Ciniia- momiimglauaim), the caper-bush (Capparis spinosa), the coffee-tree, the Chinese tea-plant, and the red pepper. The air is fragrant with the odors of thyme, berg- amot, sweet marjoram, sage, balm, lavender, tansy, and other aromatic herbs, which occupy a bed, in close proximity to their medicinal cousins, the cham- omile, hemlock, ginger, fox-glove, liquorice, tobacco, borage, mullein, and golden-rod. This enclosure also contains a plot of over a hun- dred varieties of wild grape vines, from America, agricultural grounds, are devoted to the orchards, which contain about one hundred and fifty varieties each of apples and pears, one hundred of peaches, seventy of plums, forty of cherries, and twenty- five of apricots. A few small fruits are also raised, beside certain kmds of vegetables. Here are also to be found thirty varieties of the olive. Two or three hundred feet of fencing are con- cealed by a dozen or so trained pear-trees, among which are two kinds of Bartletts, one of the Winter Nelis, and one of the Seckel. The branches of each tree extend perhaps fifteen feet on either side of the main stem. The scale-bug has been fought, thus far, with

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