"I once found a fruit-heavy muscadine grape vine loaded with deer sign growing beside a rural South Carolina school house. Closest woods were behind the building, some 200 yards away. I walked the...
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This is a very delightful fruit. It comes earlier than the peach: and some like it better. It is a hardier tree, bears as well as the peach, and the green fruit, when the size of a hickory nut, makes ...
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Know if your plants are disease-susceptible. Your choice of plants used in your garden is as important as the soil that you put those plants in. Select plants that are disease resistant and they will ...
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Pears are grafted on pear stock., on quince stocks, or on those of the white thorv. The last is best, because most durable, and, dwarf trees, much the best, because they do not throw up wood so big...
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People who are adepts at gardening know that fruit trees commonly drop premature fruits and it is nothing more than a natural process of shedding a heavy fruit load.
Apples particularly are known t...
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If the American Farmer have no taste for flowers, his wife and daughters may; and this part of the book can, at any rate, do him no harm.
Under the head of Flowers come flowering trees and shrub...
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VISITORS to most of the tropical and subtropical regions of earth are likely to encounter that mild and mellow fruit��"the mango. Have you ever eaten it? It is not likely if you have not v...
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