Identifier: horticulturistjo01alba (find matches)
Title: The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste
Year: 1846 (1840s)
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Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : Luther Tucker
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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a rapid grower, and soonmakes a neat bushy tree, remarkable for thegreat number of its small pointed leaves.It always blossoms most profusely, but it is considered by many as a very poor bearer,and therefore rejected as of little value.It is on this point, that we wish to ofl^er asuggestion of some practical importance.Mr. Samuel Eeeve, of Salem, N. J., is themost successful grower of this plum, thatwe know; and the method he pursues, isworthy of attention, since he finds the Cher-ry Plum the most profitable variety, as amarket fruit. Mr. Reeve attributes the usual non-pro-ductiveness of the Cherry Plum, to the factthat it ii inclined to too great a productionof leaves and wood. He therefore iraiis-plants his bearing trees, every five or sixyears. In this way, the over-luxuriance ischecked, and an abundant crop of fruit setsand ripens every year. As he is able tosend this variety to the Philadelphia mar-kets early in July, when there are no other THE CHERRY PLUM AND HEATHCOT PEAR. 417
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Fig. 96. The Chtrry Plum. plums to be found, he usually realizesfrom five to eight dollars per bushel forthem. This, of course, makes a planta-tion of the Cherry Plum more profitablethan one of any other variety, unless,perhaps, we except Coes Golden Diop, orsome such fine variety, equally valuable,from the unusally late season at which itmatures. We presume root-pruning, performedevery two or three years, Avould answerthe same purpose, in rendering theCherry Plum productive, as transplant-ing, and it would be attended with lesslabor and expense. THE HEATHCOT PEAR. We are confident, from our own observa-tions, and the opinions of several intelligentcultivators, given us lately, that this mostexcellent New-England Pear, originatedmore than twenty years ago, has not hithertobeen rated as highly as its merits deserve.The past season, 1846, was by no means afavorable one for fine fruits generally, andit was a general subject of complaint thatpears were particularly indifferent in qual-ity

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