The American gardener. Or, A treatise on the situation, soil, fencing and laying-out of gardens; on the making and managing of hot-beds and green-houses; and on the propagation and cultivation of the several sorts of vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers / By William Cobbett.
- William Cobbett
- Date:
- 1821
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The American gardener. Or, A treatise on the situation, soil, fencing and laying-out of gardens; on the making and managing of hot-beds and green-houses; and on the propagation and cultivation of the several sorts of vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers / By William Cobbett. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![a cellar; for if they do not mould in that situation, they lose much of their sweetness in a few months.—The burning- sun is apt to scorch up the leaves of the Filberd tree. ■ I would, there- fore,^ plant a row of them as near as possible to the South fence. Ten trees at eight feet a part might be enough. —The Filberd will do very well under the shade of lofty trees, if those trees do not stand too thick. And it is by no means an ugly shrub, while the wood of it is, as well as the nut wood, which is, in England, called hazle, and IS a very good wood. In the oak-woods there, hazle is very frequently the underwood; and it makes small hoops, and is applied to various other purposes.—I cannot dismiss this article without exhorting the American farmer to provide himself with some of this sort ot tree, which, when small, is easily conveyed to any distance in winter, and got ready to plant out in the spring. Those that are growing at Mr. Paul’s were dug up, in England, in January, shipped to ]Vew York, carried on the top of the stage, in the dead of winter to Busleton, kept in a cellar till spring, and then planted out. These w^ere the first trees of the kind, as far as I have been able to learn, that ever found their way to this country. I hear that Mr Stephen Gerrard takes to himself the act of first intro- duction. from France. But, I must deny him this. He, I am told, brought his trees several years later than I sent mine. 309. GOOSEBERRY.—Various are the sorts, and no one that is not good. J he shrub is propagated precisely like that of the currant. I cannot tell the cause that it is so little culti- vated in America. J should think (though](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29321086_0211.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
