Title: An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles
Identifier: encyclopdiaofg00loud (find matches)
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: London : Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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720 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Tart III. of its bearing so well in standards, or large dwarfs Moor Park; Anson's, Temple's, Dun- more's Breda, and Peach Apricot ; brought from the Netherlands by Sir Thos. More, say in 1700 (Hook. P. t. 9. and For. 8.) ; ripens in the end of August; fine fruit; according to Nicol, preferable to all other apri- cots Peach Apricot; Apricot of Nancy ; brought from Paris by the Duke n. 10. and For. 9.); very large size ; ripens in the end of August; the fruit is the finest and largest of all the apricots, and differs from the Moor Park chiefly in the leaves Black Peach; introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1S00 (Pom. Franc, i. 36. and For. 10.); black-skinned; ripens in the beginning of August; and of good flavor Alberge (Pom. Franc, i. 39. and For. p. 5.); the only variety whose seeds produce the same fruit as the parent Angoumois (Duh. n. 4. t. 3. and For. Blotched-leaved (Pom. Franc, i. 3-1. and For. p. 5.) Breda, Grover's (For. p. 5.) Great (For. p. 5.) Holland \Duh. 5. t. 4. and For. \>. 5.) Orange, Royal Persian Portugal (Duh. d- t. 5. and for. p. 5.) Provence (Duh. 6. t.4.) Transparent Violet. of Northumberland, in 1767 (Dull Those grown in the Dalkeith gardens are — Brussels, early ; Orange, early 1767 4525. Choice of sorts. Moor Park ; Breda, early ; Masculine, early 4526 Propagation. New varieties are procured from the seed as in the peach, and approved sorts are perpetuated by budding, generally on muscle or plum stocks. The Brussels and Breda, when intended for standards, are budded on the St. Julian plum, which produces a strong clean stem ; but tor the rest, any stock will do, provided it be free and thriving. Knight (Hort. Trans, vol. n. p. 19.) recommends bud- ding the Moor Park on an apricot-stock, which he has found prevents the trees of this sort from becoming diseased and debilitated, which they generally do on plum-stocks. Budding apricots is generally per- formed early in the season, from the middle of June to the end of July. For dwarfs, the bud is inserted six or eight inches from the ground; and the sorts are sometimes twice budded, or one variety budded on another, which is said to keep the trees in a more dwarf state. For riders or standards, they are budded on plum-stocks four or five feet high. Miller prefers half standards, budded about three or four feet from the ground; the trees so produced, being less liable to suffer from high winds. 4527. Choice of the plants. Abercrombie prefers trees of two or three years' growth from the bud, and fit for immediate bearing. Forsyth makes choice of those plants which have the strongest and cleanest stems: and if he can such as have been headed down, of two or three years' growth, as they will bear and fill the walls much sooner than those which have not been so treated. He says, " make choice of trees with one stem; or, if they have two, one of them should be cut off; for by planting those with two stems, the middle of the tree is left naked, and, of course, one third of the wall remains uncovered." 4528. Season of planting. Abercrombie says, the best season is from the fall ot the leaf until February or March. Forsyth says, the best time is in August, when the leaf begins to fall. 4529. Finalpta?iting. The Breda and Brussels are occasionally planted as standards or espaliers in warm situations; and in these states, in fine seasons, produce more highly flavored fruit than on walls. The other varieties are generally planted on walls, which, Miller and Forsyth say, should have an east or west aspect; for, borders rich loai.., cots," Abercrombie observes, " do not come into bearing under a considerable nurnber ot years, some- times ten or twelve; but then the fruit, in a congenial situation, is abundant and of the finest flavor. So, when the prevailing fault of a particular sort is mealiness, and yet it cannot be expected to ripen on even a dwarf standard, the medium course of training the plant to a trellis almost touching a south wall, will im- prove the flavor." 4530. Mode of training. The fan method is very generally adopted with this tree: Forsyth prefers the horizontal manner, and Harrison also trains horizontally, but " so as to let the branches have an elevation to their extremities of 20 degrees, varied, however, according to the luxuriancy or weakness of the tree." With young trees he proceeds to fill the wall by heading down, twice a year, in the same manner as with the apple and pear. The result produces a tree (fig. 493.) not essentially different from Forsyth's engraving. (2V. on Fr. Tr. chap, xxiv.)
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4531. Mode of bearing. The varieties of the apricot, in general, bear chiefly upon the young shoots of last year, and casually upon small spurs rising on the two or three

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