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Title: Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954, ed Miller, Wilhelm, 1869- joint ed
Subjects: Gardening -- Dictionaries Plants -- North America encyclopedias
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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ur-ing the first few years, directed with a view to formingan open top on comparatively few supporting mainbranches, will do something toward shaping the trees;but with our present knowledge, no extensive pruningcan be recommended for mature trees. The methodof heading-in, as often practiced with the DomesticaPlums, is especially unadapted to tlie Americanas. The Americana Plums are early and very prolificbearers. Overbearing is a habit and a serious fault withmost varieties. Extensive thinning of the fruit is in-dispensable. The trees are sometimes severely attackedby shot-hole fungus, and thorough sjjrayiiig with Bor-deaux mixture is necessjiry. The fruit-rot (nionilia) at-tacks all the native Plums more or less, and must becontrolled by Bordeaux mixture. See Spraiintg. The Nigra grou)) lias two or three important varie-ties of su))(rior hardiness, as Cliciiev and Aitkin. Ingeneral they bloom earlier, aixi fruit less heavily thanthe Americanas. Their habits and culture are the same.
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PLUM PLUM 1375 The Miner-like varieties are hardly to be distin-guished from the Americanas in any way. They havepractically the same geographical range, and may begiven the same treatment in the orchartl. The Wayland group includes several varieties ofgreat value, especially for the South. Of these Way-land, Golden Beauty, Moremah, Benson, and Kanawhamay be mentioned. They are not to he recommendedgenerally for localities north of Massaciiusctts and Ne-braska, their northern limit being determined less bytheir non-hardiness than by the very late ripening. Thishabit of late ripening, combined with very late bloom-ing, makes them desirable for late marketing, particu-larly in southern markets. They are very prolific andconstant bearers. Tlie trees are free-growing, usuallyof rather spreading habit, and will bear heading-backbetter than the Americanas. The pruning knife, if usedin season and with good judgment, will assist in mak-ing comparatively open-headed and amiable trees ofthese v

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