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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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very serious crisis arising from over-production. ji.n Inquiry. The Cincin7iat7is, a western horticultural journal, in 1862, described a new hybrid fruit—a cross between the wild plum and the ?iectarzfie. It was said to be fiery-red in color, sizeof the nectarine, almost round, and of exquisite beauty and taste. What has become of this new hybrid ? Can any of the Ohio horticulturists give anyaccount of it ? If it really exists, it must certainly have become known to such men as F.R. Elliott and Dr. Warder. The Cri/stnl-White Jilackberry. My experience with this fruit is unfavorable. In the spring of 1868 I obtained onehundred one-year old plants, and set them in a good clay limestone soil. They made amoderate growth the first season, and ripened their wood about as well as Lawtons in thesame kind of soil. They were allowed to go through the winter of 1868-9 without anyprotection, and the spring found them killed to the ground—not enough of live wood left onwhich to hang a blossom.
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272 Tencil Marks by t/te liaj. Thinking they were gone under, I paid no further attention to them, till, in the earljsummer, I observed that they were making vigorous shoots from the roots. I then gavethem moderate cultivation, clipping them back one-fourth in August, and in the fall treatedthem to a slight mulch. But they are again winter-killed—not so badly as before ; enough,probably, of the wood remaining to give me a quart or two of the fruit. Age may givethem hardiness, but at one and two years they are certainly more tender than the Lawtou. Stock and Scion—Their Influence Tpon Each Other. The following paragraphs are parts of an essay read before the Warsaw (Til) Horticul-tural Society, at its February meeting, by its President, A. C. Hammond, Esq. You willdoubtless deem the subject of sufficient importance to be worthy of a more extended circu-lation than it can obtain through the columns of the local paper. * * * * It is now generally conceded by intelligent writers and c

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