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AKEBIA 



and peat. In Japan the fr., which is very showy, but 

 with us rarely produced, is eaten, and the stems are 

 much used for wicker-worli. Prop, by seeds, by green- 

 wood or hardwood cuttings, and 

 also by root division and layers. 



quinata, Decaisne. Figs. SO, 

 .57. Climbing 12 ft. or more: leaf- 

 lets 5, oval or oblong-obovate, 

 entire, emarginate, 1-2 in. long: 

 fls. fragrant, the pistillate pur- 

 plish brown, about 1 In. broad, the 

 stammate smaller rosy purple 

 in early spring berry oblong 3-j 

 in. long dark purple with glau 

 cons bloom seeds blick —Hardy 

 handsome not attacked bj i 

 or fungi Very graceful and de 

 sirable China Jipan B R 33 

 28. B M ■IbOi 0- F 4 137 AG 

 March 1891 iigs 5 7 and plate 

 R.H lbo3 141 b Z 77 



lobata, Decaisne 

 broadl5 ovate 

 coarsely cienate 

 fls mlongricemes 

 smaller than tho<!e 

 of A qiiuiata U 

 pan China B M 

 748o A(t Maich 

 1891 p 140 S Z 1 

 78.-^ clematifolui 

 and A quetiifolia 

 Sieb & Zucc are 

 probably only va 

 rieties of this spe 

 cies. 



Alfred Rehdek. 



ALABAMA, HORTICHL- 

 TUBE IN. Fig. 58. Commei 

 cial horticulture has not as 

 sumed the proportions mAla 

 bama that it has in the neigh 

 boring southern states Thw 

 must be largely due to i i 

 dental causes, since m ^ il 

 climate and transport ui i 

 facilities the state present-, 

 conditions fully equal to anj 

 of the others. At present the 

 most important horticultural 

 centers are at the extreme 

 northern and somhei-n ends 



of the state. Mobile has long been known as one of the 

 chief sources of supply for early vegetables for the 

 northern and western markets, and the truck business is 

 gradually extending from Mobile county to the adjoin- 

 ing counties of Baldwin and Washington. Early cab- 

 bage and Irish potatoes are the most important crops, 

 . though snap beans, peas, radishes, and many other vege- 

 tables are grown in considerable quantities. The tomato, 

 so important a market crop in many southern localities, 

 is very little grown here, owing largely to the preva- 

 lence of bacteriosis, often called southern tomato blight. 

 Huntsville, in northern Alabama, has a large and flour- 

 ishing nursery business. Several large wholesale es- 

 tablishments are located there, and the fertile Tennes- 

 see River Valley lands prove to be admirably adapted to 

 the growth of a good quality of nursery stock. Over 

 1,300 acres are now devoted" to this business in this 

 lual shipments fill 150 cars, includ- 

 !es, besides roses and other orna- 

 1 of $40,000 is paid out annually for 



ALABAMA d9 



Mobile and Ohio, torwarded 343 cars of home-grown 

 fruits and vegetables from the Mobile depot during 1897. 

 These figures do not include the shipments from other 

 stations on this line, nor those carried by the Louisville 

 and Nashville. 



Siicb. in brief, is the present status of commercial 

 li..rti.ultiire in Alabama. In attempting to outline the 

 l"i--iiiilirii-s of its future development, it will be neces- 

 -u y t.. L'huiceat some of the more prominent topograph- 

 i.al fixtures of the state. For our purpose, it may be 

 ii.ii-lily divided into four regions. First, at the north is 

 til T nne ^ee River region or as it is often called the 

 .,1 nil In It (Fig 58 A) Its strong clay soils produce 

 iluiil lit (1 p rfi 111 «hc it clo\ei lud timothy and 



the mountain couiilM nil 1 iiiiiii,< 

 ^irdleacrosstheniil II Mli t ,tp 

 1 (Fij; ,S ( ) Thi 1 l,^II<^^ ,t the 

 intun ji futh.sts.i.tliw ,ra but 

 1th \ t ml I 111 The soil vanes, 

 , li_lii 111 I in 1\ but for Ihe most 

 t iiti\ 1 111 I I lublmg that of the 

 While c tt n 1^, 1 stiple crop m all 

 thi IS precminentlj the cotton belt 

 imes the timber belt (D) covering the 

 third of the stite and e\tending to the Gulf 

 mU ent of the lumberman this extensive re 



epi 



57 Akcbia 



neighborhood, the 

 ing 1,500,000 fruit 

 mentals; and the '■ 

 labor. 



Beginnings have been made in fruit and vegetable 

 growing at various other points in the state, particularly 

 at Cullman, Montgomery, and Evergreen, on the Louis- 

 ville and Nashville railroad, and at Fruithurst, in north- 

 eastern Alabama, on the Southeru railway. No data have 

 been secured as to the total shipment from these various 

 points, but the combined amount is very small, as com- 

 pared with those from the Mobile region. One road, the 



giou was an unbroken forest of long-leaf yellow pine, 

 with magnolias and other broad-leaved evergreens bor- 

 dering the water courses. The surface is rolling, or in 



