Identifier: gardenerschronic337lond (find matches)
Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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nthis and full exposure to the sun from Maytill September, enormous crops of fine fruitsJeward the cultivator. Apples, Pears, and Cherries find culti-vators almost everywhere ; by the sides ofthe highways and in orchards and gardensas standards, bushes, pyramids, and espaliers.Where proper attention is given to the re-■quirements of the trees the produce is-commendable, Pears and Clierries moreespecially. Apples, like those grown in thenorthern and eastern United States ofAmerica, are usually of high colour, liutlight of weight for their size. Root-pruningto produce fertility is not much understood.F.M. PINUS NELSONI. 10 inches, is covered with a smooth grey bark, as smooth as that of the American Hornbeam, and In Southern Nuevo Leon, a state of North- of somewhat the same colour. Its long, tough, eastern Mexico, to the eastward of the town of supple branches are very slender, the lowermost Doctor Arroyo, and on the lower slopes of the dying first, but persisting in conspicuous grey
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Fig. 127.—ri-Nus nelsoni. Peiia Nevada, a mountain with a conspicuousexposure of white chalk, Pinus Nelsoni grows ingreat abundance with P. cembroides, Zuccarini.It is a small tree, smaller than cembroides, rarelyexceeding 20 or 25 feet in height. Its trunk,which may acquire a maximum diameter of 8 or masses, so that the tree never loses the outlineand appearance of a large bush. The foliage isgrey-green and sparse, contrasting strongly withthe closely-packed rich green leaves of cembroides.On all the trees the three leaves which formeach fascicle are permanently adherent, and the May 2(1, 1005.) THE GARD ENER S CIIR ONI CL E. 307 basal sheath is persistent, characters whichenable the specimens of this species to be easilyidentified. The cones of Mr. Nelsons specimens, on whichthe species was founded (Gartfe7ier& Chronicle.,August 20, 190 i), prove to be very immature.The mature cones vary in size, even on the sametree. The largest collected were 5 inches long,exclusive of the 2

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