December 5, 1S88.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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popularity. This Apple is large, handsome and excellent in 

 quality. In northern Vermont its season extends into Septem- 

 ber. Away from Lake Champlain it is not much cultivated, and 

 is comparatively little known elsewhere in New England, being 

 more especially a New York Apple. I think it nowheregrows 

 so large and fair as on the Champlain shores and islantls. Its 

 New York synonyms are Haverstraw Pippin, Nyack Pippin, 

 Geneva Pearmain and Walworth. In Massachusetts the 

 Foundling occupies about the same season as the Summer 

 Pippin, while the Duchess of Oldenburgh comes into market 

 before August expires. 



can be no doubt that some of our finest Apples, especially 

 among the summer sorts, require high cultivation to be perma- 

 nently productive and profitable. These trees produce as 

 large fruit as later sorts, and in equal abundance. It is rea- 

 sonable, therefore, that they should be well fed and cared for, 

 and the fruit properly thinned. When these things are 

 done the fruit is larger and fairer, and the frees maintain their 

 vigor much longer. The profit, in all fruit-culture, comes 

 from the largest and fairest fruit, and this is not gathered from 

 neglected trees. 



Newport, Vermont. 



T. //. Iloskins. 



Fig. 76. — Acidanthera bicolor, grown in a tub. 



The Early Strawberry, Early Joe and Primate are seen as 

 summer Apples cjuite frequently in New England, but mostly 

 imported from states south and west. In Maine, two native 

 Apples of merit — Cole's Quince and Moses Wood — may be 

 classed as late summer, though mostly maturing and mar- 

 keted after the first of September. In northern Maine, New 

 Hampshire and Vermont the Yellow Transparent is the only 

 Apple which ripens its entire crop before September. 



The Summer Apples of Rhode Island and Connecticut in- 

 clude all of those in favor in the states north, with the addi- 

 tion of a number of sorts which would there be rated as "earlv 

 fall." 



In regard to what is known as the failure of varieties, there 



Green-house Climbers for Cut-flowers. 



CIcrodendron Thompsona:. — This handsome and showy plant, 

 belonging to the scandent section of the Clerodendrons, 

 is a particularly useful climber for cut-flower purposes, being- 

 most effective for basket-work or dinner-table decoration, 

 where its bright crimson flowers, with their pure white calyxes 

 and their naturally graceful habit of growth, produce a charni- 

 ing elTect. It is of easy culture, but it produces better and 

 more abundant flowers if it has a season of rest to properly 

 ripen the wood. C. Thompsones docs best when potted in light 

 loam, to which is added a moderate quantity of dry cow or 

 sheep manure, and an occasional vvatenng with liquid manure 



