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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
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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nt rural churches of English scenery, withits ivy covered walls and massive tower, beautiful in their age and quaintness. Welose none of our enjoyment and appreciation for the pleasures of the garden or lawn whilewe have a sketch of some pleasant rural scene like this thrown in as a relief to our horti-cultural labors. The English ivy seems inseparably connected with all church architectureand association in the old,world. It grows everyAvhere, and in an incredibly short space oftime mounts the bare walls and covers the side, from window to roof, with its graceful butsombre festoons of foliage. Old abbeys and cathedrals advanced in age, or just falling intoruins, seem to grow more and more beautiful as the artful hand of Nature, with its ivygreen,^^ steps in and skillfully hides their bareness or deformities. It may be often seenhiding and beautifying the trunks of old trees, or luxuriating in rural cemeteries, growingeverywhere with a luxuriance and beauty surpassing all description.
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202 ^^*^ ^^^^^ ^Blackbejjy and Jiaspberfy of t?ie jVorthern States. The Wild Blackberry and Raspberry of the ISTorthern States. To those unacquainted with the bounteous growth of these fruits on the outlying, and inmany instances, waste lands scattered through the several States north of the Potomacand Ohio rivers, and only reading of their domestic cultivation in the columns of our agri-cultural and horticultural journals, it would seem as though they were only produced in thegardens and home lots of the cultivators. But the fact i^T far otherwise. The great bulkof the blackberries, and raspberries, to some extent, which are exposed for sale, both in ourcity markets as well as in those of the smaller towns and villages, are of wild native growth. Fifty years ago neither of these fruits were known in garden cultivation in the UnitedStates; and it is even less than thirty years since any particular attention has been paid topropagating them in gardens at all for market purposes, and a

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