Vines can be grown very successfully without protection in the southern half of Great Britain, and many late varieties are also successful if given cloche protection or grown on a sunny wall.
They need all the sun possible, but many new varieties will continue to ripen even without much sun.
For attractive dessert grapes, some protection from south-west autumn gales is necessary, but this is not s
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19. April 2012 by admin
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Though cob-nuts and filberts are grown in exactly the same manner as almonds, however the nuts themselves are quite different. The filbert has a husk longer than the nut itself, but the husk of the cob-nut is shorter.
Cob-nuts and filberts do well on almost every type of soil but, on the whole, crop better on light sandy soils because they do not then make strong growth. If they are grown on heavy
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The almond is regarded as a dual-purpose tree. It is sometimes cultivated for its beauty, and sometimes for the nuts it will bear. Almonds are therefore often planted as specimen trees on a lawn, and are not usually planted in an orchard.
Almond trees are not very particular about soil. Heavy clays should be well-drained. If the land is sandy and also acid, apply carbonate of lime at ½ lb. per sq
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This fruit is a species of raspberry. The plant grows 7 or 8 ft. high and is often used as a climber over arches. It is extremely decorative, the stems and foliage being covered with woolly bristles. The berries are round, bright orange in colour and very juicy with a pleasant sweet taste. They are enclosed in hairy sepals which open up when the fruits ripen, generally in early August. Since all t
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The bilberry, sometimes called the huckleberry or whortleberry, never grows higher than about 2 ft. It grows wild in many of the peaty soils of the British Isles and is particularly popular in the north of England.
Bilberries like a sunny position in sandy soil into which sedge peat has been forked at the rate of 3 bucketfuls per sq. yd.
Plant one-year-old plants 2 ft. apart each way, any time in
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The cranberry bush is an evergreen trailing hardy shrub.
A peaty, sandy soil is the best soil in which to grow the cranberry bush, but any well-drained soil will do. As plenty of moisture is required, fork in ample organic matter when preparing the bed. Old rotted compost or damp sedge peat may be used at 2 bucketfuls per sq. yd. The bushes do well in a moist situation, near a pool or stream.
Plan
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19. April 2012 by admin
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Medlars were great favourites in Victorian days, when they were served after dinner with port. The fruits are unusual in that they cannot be eaten until they are partially decayed. The trees are sometimes grown in the flower garden because their white flowers are beautiful in early June.
The trees will grow on almost all soils, but if the soil is dry and sandy, plant trees grafted from white thorn
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19. April 2012 by admin
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The quince is such an attractive tree that it looks well in the flower garden or as a specimen on the lawn, and need not be grown in the section of the garden devoted to fruit trees. It bears beautiful large white flowers in June, and the fruits, which are golden in the autumn, may be allowed to hang on the trees until well into the winter. Bush trees are convenient because it is easy to pick the
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The mulberry bush grown for fruit is Merus nigra, which needs little or no pruning. The best variety, Large Black, bears delicious dark red fruits of a slightly acid flavour.
Mulberries will do well either on cultivated ground or on grass. The type of soil does not matter provided the position is sunny and the soil is not sodden. They grow very slowly but eventually take up about 30 ft. of space.
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Although figs have been grown in Great Britain from the time of Henry VIII they have never been very popular, because the summer is too short for a second crop of fruit to ripen. Failure may also occur through frost killing the wood. Figs are usually grown against a sunny wall to give them some added warmth. They do best on very poor unmanured soil, since if the land is fed, the tree will start to
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