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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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self is of a dark-red colour, of good size,and has a fine sourish-vinous taste. The history ofthis new sort of late-ripening Cherry tree is this:It is now some years ago that Mr. HeinrichSchmidt, the former proprietor of the establish-ment, J. C. Schmidt, at Erfurt, found in a neglectednursery garden a wild Cherry tree, which, culti-vated by him, became a nice, well-grown tree ofvery good appearance, and having the remarkablepeculiarity of bearing in great nuaber ripe fruits in vigorous Groundsel in flower growing on a pieceof old sponge that had been lain aside, and whichfurnished the requisite moisture, and a little more.It is astonishing how small a proportion of solidmatter is extracted from the soil by plants in pro-portion to their bulk. Air and Water, Light andHeat, are each and all more potent factors in thegrowth of plants than is soil. CUNONIA CAPEN8IS.— Mr. Burbidge recentlyfavoured us with a specimen of this effective green-house shrub, which, though an old inhabitant of
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Flli. SO.—PROFESSOR M. FOSTERS GARDEN AT SEELFOEDS, CAMBRIDGE. (SEE P. 579.) September. It is au agreeable and suiprisiugsight for every lover of Cherries to see a tree inSeptember laden with ripe and delicious fruits. Thefirst ripe fruits are seen in the early days ofSeptember, while there are mauy fruits remainuntil the loth or 20th of October. It is a well-known fact that fruits offered and brought tomarket at a time when nobody expects to find themthere realise high prices, and, I think, in every casebetter than fruits which are offered when themarket is full of them. It will, therefore, beprofitable to the nurseryman and farmer to growthe Hochgenuss von Erfurt. During the wholetime of the ripening of the fruits, we find on the tree September and October. The firm, J. C. Schmidt, has now a good stock of Hochgenuss von Erfurtready for distribution. Mr. Schmidts letter wasaccompanied by a woodcut bearing out his state-ments, and taken from a photograph executed onSeptember 12. Cul

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