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OASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENINa. 



The so-called fern-leaved varieties {filicifolia) and 

 fimbriated strains — white and red — are the most 

 valued. Amon^ other of the finer strains are — 



THE HAEDY FEUIT GARDEN. 



By D. T. Fish, assisted by William Carmichael. 



Alba magnifica. 

 Braid's Seedling. 

 Chiswick Red. 

 Coccinea. 

 Improvement. 



Doubles. 



Candidissima. 

 L>uke of Edinburgh. 

 King of Purples. 

 Magnifica. 



Marchioness of Exeter. 



Marginata. 

 Meteor. 

 Scarlet Gem. 

 Swanley Giant. 

 White Perfection. 



Miss Eva Fisli. 

 Peach Blossom. 

 Princess of Wales. 

 &c. &c. 



The doubles are specially valuable for bouquets, 

 wreaths, and all decorative 

 purposes, from their lasting 

 properties. 



Psammisia. — Hand- 

 some Vaccineaceous shrubs. 

 Treatment same as for 

 Ceratostcma, which see. 



P. Hooker iana.— A. hand- 

 some species, which has 

 been distributed imder the 

 name of Thibaudia pichin- 

 chensis, var. glabra; the 

 branches are angular and 

 smooth, ovate - lanceolate, 

 and dark green ; racemes 

 many-flowered, di'ooping, 

 deep rosy- red. Summer 

 months. From Columbia. 



F. longicolla. — 

 Leaves large, 

 ovate - lanceolate, 

 and tapering to a 

 long point, thick 

 and leathery in 

 texture, deep 

 green ; racemes 

 axillary, many - 



flowered, pendulous ; flowers tubular, swollen at the 

 base, which is deep crimson ; upper part of tube much 

 contracted and yellowish-green. South America. 



P. penduUflora. — An erect evergreen plant, with 

 long, broadly-ovate, entire leaves, which suddenly 

 .tper to a point, deep green above, paler below ; 

 racemes axillary, many-flowered, and pendulous ; 

 flowers tubular, stoutest at the base, rich vermilion, 

 tipped with yellowish-green. Caraccas. 



P. sclerophylla. — A somew^hat stout-growing plant, 

 with ovate entire leaves, which in the young state 

 are tinged with red, changing with age to deep 

 green ; racemes axillary ; flowers large, drooping ; 

 tubes swollen at the base, rich crimson, tipped with 

 yellow and creamy-white. New Grenada. 



Fig. 2.— Crab Stock. 



APPLES— PRUNING AND FORMING. 



THOUGH the practice of forcing Apple and other 

 fruit-trees into form at the edge or point of the 

 knife is gi%Tiig place to the more rational one of 

 moulding growth into shape in the making, yet all 

 pruning and training is so closely correlated in the 

 early life of fruit-trees, that it will be best to treat 

 the two abreast. 



Root and Top.— All the modem stocks, such 

 as those of the Creeping 

 Apples, Nonsuch, Enghsh 

 and French Paradise — 

 notablj" the two last — 

 differ materially from tb" 

 wilding Crab of the woods 

 in the character and num- 

 ber of their roots. The 

 latter roots more like a 

 Blackthorn or wilding 

 Kose than almost any other 

 plant. 



Work them upon fibrous- 

 rooted stocks, and the roots 

 will dwarf the tops, and 

 also favour fertility. Figs. 

 2 and 3 will make this clear. 

 The first represents the 

 root of a crab ; the second, 

 that of the Para- 

 dise Apple stock. 

 The Paradise and 

 other stocks run 

 naturally into fib- 

 rous growths ; but 

 this tendency may 

 be fui'ther devel- 

 oped by treatment, 

 while even the roots of Crabs may be led into fibrous 

 forms by pruning and culture. 



Root-pruning. — So important and close is the 

 connection between a fibrous condition of root in the 

 Apple and other fi'uit-trees, and dwarfing character 

 and fertile habits of top, that root-pruning should 

 precede top-pruning. From the time the stocks are 

 moved from the nursery beds or rows until the Apples, 

 after one or several removes, are planted m their final 

 quarters in the orchard or fruit garden, the trees have 

 perforce been subjected to a series of root-prunings. 



In addition, however, to those forcible ruptures 

 and removals, it was left for modern pomologists to 

 discover the enormous advantages of direct and special 



Fig. 3.— Paradise Stock. 



