Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Canadian Horticulturist, Vol. 2: March, 1879
With regard to the Russian apples, Barry stated that none of them were as valuable and as high flavored as our well known American varieties. The lled Astracan, Duchess of Oldenburg and Alexander were among the best of them. Their value consisted in the hardiness of the trees, enabling them to endure the rigours of very cold climates, but they would not be grown where the higher flavored American sorts succeeded. The following varieties of plum were named as being valuable for planting for market, Reine Claude de Bavay, Lombard, Bradshaw, Coe's Golden Drop, Hudson River Purple Egg, Monroe Gage, and Shropshire Damson. Several very interesting papers were read, to which we hope to refer at some future time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
