Normally the loganberry is cooked but there are those, like my wife, who like acid fruits, who eat the berries raw with relish, when they are really ripe. The berries are produced in great profusion, being of a deep maroon colour.
The fruits are of a peculiar shape, being brown, round, flattened and with a crown of leaf segments and calyx. No special research has been done on the root stocks but empirical knowledge seems to show that for the half-standard, or standard, the common pear stock is best. Where the tree is to be planted on sandy or dry soil the Crataegus or White Thorn stock is excellent, but where medlars are to be grown in heavy clay soil a quince stock.
Budding is usually done on any of these stocks in July. Feeding the trees. Medlars do quite well when grown in grass, providing this is cut regularly. For the first three or four years a little circle of soil around the tree may be kept hoed or a mulch of sedge peat may be applied on the ground early in June to the depth of an inch for 3 feet all round the tree.
I have not found any special feeding of medlars necessary. Planting the trees. The bush or pyramid trees may be planted as close as 10 feet apart if necessary. The half-standards should be put in 15 feet square and the standards no closer than 20 feet. The actual operation of planting is similar to apples.
It is best to get the planting done early in November but any time in the dormant period will do. Two-year-old bush or pyramids should be planted, but three- or four-year-old standard or half-standard.
Choice varieties for grapes are Brant. It is a very regular cropper and has lovely coloured ornamental foliage in the autumn. The berries are small, black, with a fair non-muscat flavour; Chasselas 1921. A wonderful wall or cloche grape. Is earlier and produces larger berries than the old-fashioned Golden Challeblas. The grapes are golden and of a non-muscat flavour; Chasselas Rose Royale. Excellent for walls and ganwicks. Good cropper. Berries are medium in size, pink in colour and of an excellent non-muscat flavour. Incidentally, they are very ornamental; Excelsor. Another non-muscat flavour but this time a white. A prolific fruiter, berries of very low acidity. Needs warm conditions and then ripens well in the open; Muscat De Saumur. An exceptionally early-cropping golden muscat grape. Berries of medium size but in large bunches; Muscat Hamburgh. Should only be grown against a hot sunny wall or under cloches or ganwicks. A lovely muscat black large berry. Rather delicate; Muscat Queen. Sometimes called Muscat Reine des Vignes. Excellent for walls and under ganwicks or cloches. Does fairly well in the open. A very large berried early white muscat. - 16035
The fruits are of a peculiar shape, being brown, round, flattened and with a crown of leaf segments and calyx. No special research has been done on the root stocks but empirical knowledge seems to show that for the half-standard, or standard, the common pear stock is best. Where the tree is to be planted on sandy or dry soil the Crataegus or White Thorn stock is excellent, but where medlars are to be grown in heavy clay soil a quince stock.
Budding is usually done on any of these stocks in July. Feeding the trees. Medlars do quite well when grown in grass, providing this is cut regularly. For the first three or four years a little circle of soil around the tree may be kept hoed or a mulch of sedge peat may be applied on the ground early in June to the depth of an inch for 3 feet all round the tree.
I have not found any special feeding of medlars necessary. Planting the trees. The bush or pyramid trees may be planted as close as 10 feet apart if necessary. The half-standards should be put in 15 feet square and the standards no closer than 20 feet. The actual operation of planting is similar to apples.
It is best to get the planting done early in November but any time in the dormant period will do. Two-year-old bush or pyramids should be planted, but three- or four-year-old standard or half-standard.
Choice varieties for grapes are Brant. It is a very regular cropper and has lovely coloured ornamental foliage in the autumn. The berries are small, black, with a fair non-muscat flavour; Chasselas 1921. A wonderful wall or cloche grape. Is earlier and produces larger berries than the old-fashioned Golden Challeblas. The grapes are golden and of a non-muscat flavour; Chasselas Rose Royale. Excellent for walls and ganwicks. Good cropper. Berries are medium in size, pink in colour and of an excellent non-muscat flavour. Incidentally, they are very ornamental; Excelsor. Another non-muscat flavour but this time a white. A prolific fruiter, berries of very low acidity. Needs warm conditions and then ripens well in the open; Muscat De Saumur. An exceptionally early-cropping golden muscat grape. Berries of medium size but in large bunches; Muscat Hamburgh. Should only be grown against a hot sunny wall or under cloches or ganwicks. A lovely muscat black large berry. Rather delicate; Muscat Queen. Sometimes called Muscat Reine des Vignes. Excellent for walls and under ganwicks or cloches. Does fairly well in the open. A very large berried early white muscat. - 16035
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By growing both summer and autumn fruit trees in your garden it is possible to have a supply of fresh fruits for a fairly long season.
