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HORTICULTURE AND FLORICULTURE.
545
which it afterwards in many cases declined. It is only in modern times that
progress has again been made. The French style of gardening is now almost
everywhere abandoned, and has given place to the English, or natural, style.
Ponology. The cultivation of fruit-trees can only be carried on successfully
in the southern and central provinces. In the valley of Mälaren, orchards are
Tery common, but farther north the cultivation of fruit can only be carried on
with complete success in specially favoured localities, and finally, only along the
coast. The most northern orchards that still give satisfactory results are in the
neighbourhood of Hernösand.
Those kinds of
fruit-trees which are most
generally cultivated in Sweden
are apple, pear, cherry,
tad plum. Only in Skåne
tod, as wall-fruit,
somewhat farther north, early
peaches and apricots can
be grown in the open air,
bat this cultivation is
carried on but very sparsely.
It is, however, pretty usual
in Sweden to grow apricots,
peaches, and nectarines —
sometimes figs also —
ander glass. The
walnut-tree grows in Skåne,
Gotland, and at Kinnekulle,
there it attains a very
considerable height.
The different kinds
of apple-trees chiefly
grown are: the Alexander,
Astrachan, Gravenstein,
the Melon-apple, Orange-
Sple, Ribston, and the
erö-apple. It is the
general opinion that these
»rts of apples when grown
in suitable localities in Sweden by far excel similar sorts grown in more southern
dimates, in taste, keeping qualities, and delicacy of aroma. This circumstance
»ill, no doubt, justify the hope of these sorts of apples becoming in the future
an exportable article of importance.
In general, the apple-trees in Sweden bear fruit in abundance. It frequently
kappens, however, that unfavourable weather, and, still more often, the larvæ of
the butterfly cause such injuries that the apples either remain undeveloped, or
ripen too låte.
Among excellent sorts of native pears may be mentioned: the grey pear, the
Fallerö, Wennström, Grenna, and Sörmland pears. The climate is less
favour-«ble for pears than for apples. Even when cultivated as wall-fruit in the
southernmost parts of the country, the native varieties bear no comparison with
those from abroad, and the winter pears, especially, often fail.
Cherries of all sorts thrive well as far north as the Dalelfven River, both
the acid and sweet varieties sometimes growing wild; and of plums a good many
varieties are grown.
Sxetdeu. 35
From the Norsborg Park (Södermanland).
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