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Title: Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Subjects: Horticulture--Periodicals Agriculture--Periodicals
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Contributing Library: Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library
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duced, wasalso inspected. On account of the uncertainty attending the cul-tivation of the melon in the open, in this section of the country,the growing of them under glass is increasing. By request of the committee Mr. Ash contributes to this reportthe accompanying notes upon his methods of cultivation. La Plaisance, Estate of Miss E. J. Clark, Pomfret Centre,Conn., John Ash, Superintendent. Culture of Fruit Trees in Pots. It gives me great pleasure to give a few hints from my experience inthe cultivation of fruit trees in pots. These can be procured either directfrom England or through any reliable importer of fruit trees. Fruitingtrees, imported late in the fall, will bear a full crop the following sum-mer and in this way apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, cherries, grapes,apricots, etc. can easily and successfully be grown either in a houseespecially devoted to them or in peach houses, and later in the season,when more ventilation is given, in graperies. The temperature of a peach
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