The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-30
THINGS WE CAN GROW.

VIC tlS lOlO tilst IIit-i icSr apr IOlo anu
ounces will do no good here. 1 now have
in my garden on East Third street, Fort
Worth, early Richmond cherries, Russian
apricots and ounces, all fruiting nicely :;
and the indications are that the fruit will
mature thoroughly. l also have one
SNOWFALL and one calycanthus, both of
which will be in bloom in few days.
] call your attention to these fact as proof
that such things can be grown here By
proper management. J. c. MARTIN.
Fort Worth, Tex, April l..
An impression seems 10 be quite general,
though we cannot tell why, that English
cherries" are a failure in all the states of
the lower South. IT has long been our
opinion that the failure was more the re-
suit OF mismanagement than anything else.
The probability exists that for perfect sue
cess with cherries our management must
vary in some particulars from that accorded
the growth at the North-it is the same
with almost everything transferred from
that climate to this. There is another mat
ter that ought to engage our attention; get
ting strain of cherries entirely acclimated
and adapted to Texas. This end could be
best attained by planting seeds and raising
seedlings. One hundred seedlings might
each prove no good, while, on the other
hand, there might be some in the lot that
would fill every requirement to perfection.
We are satisfied that the apricot under
correct management can be made to do as
well here as anywhere. Nothing will do
well anywhere under neglect. And il
might be well TO raise seeding apricots as
suggested in the case of cherries. Texas
is SO very peculiar that, while ordinary
fruits may do fairly well on her soil and in
her climate, there is strong probability that
something bred in Texas, and therefore
more Texan i'll character, would do better.
The ounce could not be otherwise than
entirely al right in Texas. OF course we
refer TO the regular old-fashioned ounce
(Cydonia vulgaris) and not to the COMPARE
lively worthless Chinese ounce grown
more or less in some of the Southern states
Generally speaking any management
suited TO the apple or pear will entirely fill
the Dill for the ounce. The ounce is ex-
posed to depredations of the same insect
enemies as work upon the other two species
named, and these should be circumvented.
1t may be said, however, that the soil ought
to ba a little peculiar for very best results
in ounce culture. The ounce most delights
in deep, open, well-drained and, if posi-
BILE, alluvial soil. 4 shallow valley makes the
best situation for the ounce where barriers
have been thrown across it TO stop the mat
ter washed down from the higher lands
Place dam across the valley, say two feet
high in the middle then twenty feet lower
another similar dam, and so on as far as il
is proposed that the ounce row should ex-
tend. In due time the wash from above
will fill the spaces between the dams or bar
riers with loose matter washed from above
by the rains. In the beds SO made plant
your ounce trees. The finest ounces we
have ever seen were raised from an arrange
ment Of this character.
The SNOWFALL (Viburnum opulus) does
extremely well in all parts of Texas, par
ticularly if watered in drout ms where
growing on high and dry situations. This
matter of watering is of special Importance,
for the shrub in its wild state is swamp
growth. The calycanthus or ''sweet shrub
(Calycanthus floridus) makes itself en-
tirely at home all over the state, but being
low country growth needs, like the snow
ball, a little watering in time of drouth
where planted on high and dry situations.
At some points well down it grows wild
along the streams of Texas. An inodorous
species no harder than the other (Caly-
canthus lavigatus) has been found by US
growing in considerable abundance along
the Trinity near Fort Worth.