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Автор: Charles Canniff James
Год: 2012
Издание:
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Страниц: 62
ISBN: 1235969517
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...the sap into the new branch. The Plum.--We now come to the stone-fruits--the plum, the peach, and the cherry. They differ from the pear and apple group, but they belong to the large rose family. Examine their blossoms. We have in America several wild varieties of plums, from which some of our hardier varieties are derived. From the European plum come our highly flavoured plums. As a rule they are not so hardy as the natives. A third class of plums is derived from Japanese varieties. The plum is propagated by budding and grafting. For northern climates the stock used should be seedlings or the native wild plum. In milder climates the peach is used quite extensively as a stock. The Peach tree is not known here in a wild state; it has come from Asia and is closely related to the...
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