Identifier: gardenforestjour41891sarg (
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Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestryYear:
1888 (
1880s)Authors:
Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927Subjects:
Botany Gardening Forests and forestryPublisher:
New York : The Garden and forest publishing co.Contributing Library:
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view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:roving them at the present rate, wemay soon see Streptocarpus rivaling, if not eclipsing, Gloxinia London. . W. Watson. Cultural Department.Notes on Shrubs. PLOWERING Cherries and the flowering Crab-apples have-*■ blossomed unusually well in the vicinity of Boston thisseason, the Apples being particularly noticeable for the full-ness of their bloom. One of the very earliest of Cherries to blossom was the ChinesePrimus tomentosa, the seed of which was received at the Arbo-retum from the mountains about Pekin, China. It is a bushylittle plant, which appears to be at its full size when from sixto eight feet in height and with fully as great diameter. Itsearliest blossoms this season began to open about the 20th ofApril, and at the same time the leaves were well advanced.As the flowers are sessile, or nearly so, and are partly con-cealed by the growing foliage, they are not so graceful or showyas those of some other species. Its fruit, however, gives June ?, 1891.) Garden and Forest 259Text Appearing After Image:Fig 46.—Ravenea Hildebrandtii in Fruit. See page 256. 260 Garden and Forest. (Number 171. promise of usefulness, as the medium-sized, light red-coloredcherries which it bears are of quite a pleasant flavor even inthis wild state. The stone is rather large, but by cultivationand selection the size of the cherries could be increased, andsmall-seeded farms adopted and propagated by division. Theextremely early-flowering habit has usually prevented a largecrop of the fruit here on account of cold weather and frostswhich occur at the time ; but, otherwise, the plant seems per-fectly hardy in a winter like our past one. Last year the plantsappeared somewhat injured, although the winter was not con-sidered nearly so severe and the cold was not so great. Ap-parently, the injury then was due to other causes besides coldalone. There is so much confusion regarding the nomenclature ofthe ornamental Japanese Cherries which have been introducedinto cultivation that it is almost impossible to knowNote About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.