THE FARM AND GARDEN. 



The Massachusetts Hor;ieultuial Society, in 

 their discussion on grapes, nainetl the Concord, 

 Moore's Early,Worden and DelaHare, as grapes 

 that could be relied on in Massacliusetts. The 

 Concord fails to ripen one in four or five years, 

 but is, as elsewhere, a hardy and valuable grape. 

 The Brighton was excellent, but sometimes mil- 

 dews. The Francis E. Hayes was promising 

 white grape, but not yet fully tested. 

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The year this number closes, has been one of 

 fruitfulness. The promise we had of an abund- 

 ance of fruit, by the profusion of the blossoms 

 last sprintr, was generally fulfilled. 



Tlie untimely frost last May, injured, and to a 

 great extent ruined the fruit crop of Connecticut 

 and a portion of New York, and to a small extent 

 elsewhere, did not seriously injure the generally 

 abundant crop. A portion of Maryland had a 

 light crop of fruit; but 1.SS4 has l>een a year of 

 abundance. The outlook for fruit the coming 

 year, especially apples, is not good. So many 

 trees in the Mississippi Valley have been ruined 

 by the cold dry winters of the past two years, 

 that the trees are not very vigorous, and many 

 trees are so far ruined that their recovery is 

 doubtful. The dry weather over so large ajior- 

 tion of the States, will seriously injure the fruit 

 prospects of 1885. What we need is a moderate, 

 warm and wet winter and an early spring, and 

 we may have a fair fruit prospect tlie coming 

 year. 



Our readers have had an opportunity to see 

 how well the old varieties of small truits have 

 done with you as well as the new ones. You are 

 now prepared to plant more largely next year of 

 the varieties you know that do well. We have 

 tried to keep you informed in the past, as we 

 shall in the tutiire, of all the new fruits that you 

 might find worthy of a trial. You now have the 

 leisure, on tliese cold stormy Decemljer days, to 

 make out a list for spring planting of 1885. 

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The Le Conte pear is being tried extensively 

 as a stock on account of its vigor, for stocks for 



f rafting standard pears. It is too soon yet to 

 now the value of tlie Le Conte as a stock for 

 such purposes ; but if successful will make a new 

 era in pear growing. Tlie Le Conte pear is 

 reproduced from cuttings easily. 



In select! ng a place for an orchard in a locality 

 where the trees are apt to winter-kill, do not 

 select a southern exposure, for the trees are tlieii 

 more apt to winter-kill than when planted on a 

 northern exposure. The repeated freezing and 

 thawing of the south side of the hill, with tlie 

 the sun drying the branches, will injure a tree 

 more than severe cold. Dry, cold weather, long 

 continued, will winter-kill a tree when a damp 

 air thirty or forty degrees would not injure it. 

 Sudden changes from cold to warm, as is eoniinon 

 on the south side of an orciiard, is very injurious. 

 The dry air of the North-west, winter-kills more 

 trees than the cold. Branches protected by snow 

 from dry air are never winter-killed, no matter 

 how severe may be the cold winter. 

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Dwarf Pe.vrs or St.\xdakp.s.— P. T. Quinu, 

 speaking from twenty-five years' experience in 

 growing pears for profit, and from unusual oppor- 

 tunities for observation, both in this country and 

 Europe, says iu the New York Tribune : — "If I 

 were alioiit to plant a pear orchard now, and 

 could get dwarf trees for nothing, and was com- 

 pelled to pay five hundred dollars a thousand for 

 standards, I would not hesitate a moment in 

 making a selection of standards. The tempting 

 theory that dwarfs will bear fruit in a couple of 

 years from the time of plantii:g, is a dangenuis 

 and bad tlieory to practice. .\ jiear tree should 

 not be allowed to bear any fruit until it is five or 

 si.v years in place, and one healthy standard pear 

 at twelve years of age, is worth a dozen of dwarf 

 trees, kept, as dwarfs, at the same age." 



Winter Vakietie.s of Trees. — According to 

 the American Fanner, B. G. Buell, a well-known 

 orchardist, of Michigan, finds top grafted trees on 

 such hardy stock as Northern Spy and Duchess 

 of Oldenburg to withstand tlie eflects of intensely 

 cold wintsrs much better than root-grafted trees; 

 and the Red Canatla top-grafted on the Northern 

 Spy nearly escaped in the unjirecedented cold of 

 1875 and 1873, when others, such as the Baldwin, 

 were killed outright. Tompkins County King 

 was much injured by this intensely cold winter, 

 anil the trunks were split and many of the larger 

 branches killed. Wherever the trees thus in- 

 jured were severly pruned and shortened in, tlie 

 trees were saved ; those iu)t jn-nned died in a few 

 years, thus showing the injury a trees suffers 

 from neglect iu removing dead limbs. 



The New Orleans E.xposition, which commen- 

 ces on the 16th of December, will be tlie largest 

 Exposition of the kind, and will probably be the 

 largest exhibition of fruits ever held. The 

 premiums are large, and the list extensive, and 

 will draw an exhibit from all parts of the world, 

 and of all the varied classes offruits, both tem- 

 jierate and tropical. Owing to the changes now 

 introduced by cold storage, fruits can now be 

 kept sound long after their season of ripening. 

 This fact will allow many of the fruits, such as 

 peaches and pears and some of the tropical fruits, 

 to be shown much beyond their usual season, and 

 visitors will see those fruits in fine condition, 

 and the fruit exhibit will be one of great value 

 to the visitor. 



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Wood Ashes in the Orchard. — Among the 

 most common and most valuable of special ma- 

 nures 1 place wood ashes, says Prof. Kedzie. 

 The amount of asli and its relative composition 

 vnrv with the kind or part of vegetable burned, 

 liut'we may safely take the ash of the body of a 

 beech tree "as rejiresenting the average composi- 

 tion of wood aslies. One bushel of ashes repre- 

 sents about two and a half tons of dry body 

 wood. \Vood ashes contain all the required ele- 



ments of plant nutrition except nitrogen. One 

 Imndred pouuds of wood ashes contains sixteen 

 liouuds of potash worth 80 cents, three and one- 

 lialf pouuds of soda worth 2 cents, sixty-seven 

 ])r)unds oi lime and magnesia worth 8 cents, and 

 five and one-fourth pounds of phosphoric acid 

 worth 26 cents. If we had to buy in market the 

 cheapest form the manurial materials contained 

 in one hundred pounds of ashes tlie cost would 

 be .$1.16. Can you aflbrd to throw away such 

 valuable materials, or sell them for sixpence a 

 bushel to the soap boiler? No argument is 

 needed ; here is the value and there is the selling 

 price. Draw your own conclusions. 



Apples for export must, at; no distant day, 

 attract the fruitgrowers attention if he looks "to 

 his interest and profit. The English plan of 

 selling all fruit at auction at one place on arrival 

 at Liverpool, and in the hasty manner with 

 which such sales are made is not conducive to 

 uniform prices for the best fruit, nor to the satis- 

 faction of the shipper. What we need is a good 

 American commission house, where apples, on 

 arrival, can be sorted, and then placed for exami- 

 nation and sale. Such a plan would open a wide 

 field for profitable exportation. 



THE DAVIS 



STUMP PULLER. 



Received fenteniiial Medal. 

 Is now in vise in Canada, and 

 nearly everv part of tlie U.S. 



LlFT '20 TO 50 TONrS. 

 stands on niniifrs, worked by 

 two men. o siz*fs. Price $3.d to 

 STiJ. Circulars free. Manulau- 

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 W'esterviUe, Franklin Co., O. 



POTTED CTRAWBERRY PLANTS 



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This defiant IxK rolie-i K"'*^ Parisian 

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EVAPORATORS. 



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KA HANDSOME t'HRO.MO CAUDS with yuur 

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GRAPE 



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and all the best new and old varie- 

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$2 for 18c. 



It has been oar casU'in to offer 

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 I ;',t Fringe Cnrislii.as and New 

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rATCHWllRK. sample pieces 

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 1'23.000 i'eaili Trees, ehuue Kiellpr and 

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Choice Trees. Vines, and Plants. All the new varieties. 

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IRON 



Hog Scalders; Heat water quickly, 

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>IAVKINGIor the BEST EARLY. CONNEt TICl^ 

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Moallinpn P.ASPBERRY.andNewgrapes.by theorig- 

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$1 



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PEACH TREES.^);VLr trade" 



our usual heavy stock of Peach Tre.s. i Purchasers of 

 large lots should corresp..nd with iis. i Also, all kinds 

 of Frait. Shaite. anil Oinaiiienlal Trees, and 

 Small Fruit Plants. K,; «•• .an supply a limited 

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