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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
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t is not near so palatable as that variety.It is used extensively as a stock upon which to graft the tame cherry. The choke cherry is common in some parts of the State. It is remarkably beautiful when in bloom.I do not know whether it is Cerasus Virginiana or not. The Oregon dogwood (Cornus nuttallii) is larger in all its parts than the dogwood in the east.Its flowers which come out in April, sometimes measure six inches in diameter. Another memberof the same family (^Cornus paniculata) does not grow so large. The Oregon crab apple (Pyrus rivularis) sometimes grows twenty feet high, and is very prettywhen in bloom. The Oregon elder (^Sambucus Origona) becomes a large tree. It is similar to the elder of NewYork, except in size. Mrs. S. P. S.—It is now the twenty-third of February. Some of our native willows are in full bloom.In our garden are blooming six varieties of crocus, wall ftowers, &c. Hyacinths and narcissus willsoon be out. Daises (bellis) have been iu bloom all winter.
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Notes for Cottage Gardeners. BY THE EDITOR.Japnn Tjilies as House J^lants, THE beautiful Japan Lilies, introduced within a few years past, have proved so welladapted to our climate, so easily grown, and are now so i-easonable in price, that we•would call special attention to their use in window gardens and pots. We had a beautifulLilium Auratum last year in flower in our window, which developed two splendid flowers, eightinches across, and diffused a most exquisite perfume throughout the room. It is, in truth,the most magnificent of all foreign flowers yet introduced into this country for popular use. The beautiful varieties of the Lilium Lancifolium Album, Kubrum, Roseum, and Lon-giflorum are still cheaper, and can be grown anywhere. They thrive under the most care-less treatment, and throw out tall stalks of long, splendidly-colored blossoms, from crimsonto pure white. A pot of each of the above five varieties of lily will foim a window garden alone whenin bloom. They grow with th

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