DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



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2. Nciv Pine. — Fruit large, colour pale red, fla- 

 vor hi<ibly aromatic, swci't and delicious, very early 

 and uiicoiauioiily productive ; plants vigorous and 

 perfectly bardy ; llowers pistillate — believed to be 

 the best strawberry cultivated. — From Bmr's and 

 Hovey's. 



3. Rival Hudson. — Fruit of a dark and shining 

 red colour, resembling the Hudson of Cincinnati, 

 except that the fruit and stem are longer ; flavor 

 very rich and excellent ; plants hardy and very pro- 

 ductive — a very handsome and excellent variety for 

 market, or domestic use — flowers pistillate. Pro- 

 duced by the old Hudson and Burr's. 



4. Columbus. — Fruit large, nearly round, of a 

 beautiful dark colour and rich sweet flavor ; plants 

 uncommonly prolific and quite hardj- — flowers pis- 

 tillate. — From Hovey's and Burr's. 



5. Scioto. — Fruit of large size, colour light sear- 

 let, flavor rich, sweet and delicious ; plants very 

 productive, vigorous and hardy — jiistillate. 



6. Scarlet Melting. — Fruit rather long, with a 

 neck, colour bright red or scarlet, flavor excellent, 

 flesh very tender, (melting readily in a dish with 

 sugar,) consequently not suitable for transporting 

 to market, though delicious for the table ; plants 

 very productive, of rapid and vigorous growth and 

 hardy — pistillate. 



7. Profusion. — Fruit medium size or small, flavor 

 rich and sweet ; plants hardy and a prodigious 

 bearer — 200 perfect berries having been counted on 

 a single plant — pistillate. 



8. Late Prolific. — Fruit of good size, largest ber- 

 ries measuring over three inches — flavor rich and 

 excellent. A very valuable variety, owing to its 

 lateness of ripening — being full ten days later than 

 most other varieties — and its great productiveness 

 — 35 quarts of the berries were picked from a bed 

 six feet by twenty ; which is eipial to two and a 

 (juarter bushels to the rod — plants uncommonly 

 vigorous and hardy — pistillate. 



9. Burros old Seedling, — (staminate,) maintains 

 its high reputation, in this legion, for productive- 

 ness and excellent flavor — and is found to be the 

 best variety for planting contiguous to the pistillate 

 varieties to ensure their productiveness. 



B. Latham, 1 



M. B. Bateham, 

 S. Medary, 

 John Miller, ) 



lOhio Cultivator. 



Committee. 



Prizes for New Fruits. — The Cincinnati Hor- 

 ticultural Society, at the suggestion of N. Long- 

 worth, E.sq.. have offered two prizes of $100 each, 

 for a new American seedling raspberry and straw- 

 berry, which, after thorough trial, shall prove su- 

 perior to any now in cultivation. Mr. L. offers to 

 pay one half of the premiums. 



DtJBois' Early Golden Apricot. — This is a 

 seedling variety, originated by our neighbor, Mr. 

 Charles Dubois, of Fishkill Landing, N. Y. It 

 has attracted our attention for two or three years 

 past, and as it appears well worthy of something 

 more than a local reputation, we have procured 

 specimens from the original tree, and now publish 

 a correct description of this new variety. 



Though this apricot is of small size, and simply 

 good flavor, it has two qualities which will, we 

 think, render it j)Oi»ular among fruit cultivators. 

 The first is its great productiveness in all seasons ; 

 and the second, its comparative exemption to the 

 attack of the curculio. 



We may give a pretty correct idea of the produc- 

 tiveness of the Early Golden Apricot by saying 

 that the crop of fruit borne by the original tree 

 (which is growing in common loamy soil without 

 preparation) has been sold in the New- York market 

 for the last three years at prices varying from S4 

 to §16 per bushel. In 1844 the crop of this tree 

 brought $45 ; in 1845, $50, and last year it was 

 sold for $90. The fruit is very fair in appearance, 

 and bears carriage to market M^ell. 



Mr. Dubois, who is a pretty extensive orehardist, 

 finds that in seasons when the fruit of the Moor-park, 

 one of the best and surest sorts, nearly all drops 

 before maturity, stung by the curculio — that cl the 

 Early Golden hangs in rich clusters on every limb. 

 With him, indeed, this sort, among the apricots, ap- 

 pears to be avoided by this insect, in the same way 

 that the common Damson does among plums — pro- 

 babiy from the thickness or some other peculiarity 

 of the skin. 



We can not lut think, therefore, that in all parts 

 of the countr}^ where the sorts of apricots already 

 in cultivation fail because stung by the ciuculio, 

 this variety will be likely to give abundant crops. 

 The tree, probably from being a native seedling, is 

 also more thrifty and hardy than most other sorts. 



Mr. Dubois has propagated quite a stock of 

 young trees, and will, in the autumn, supply orders 

 at a very moderate price. 



Dubois' Early Golden Apricot. — Fruit small, 

 about 1^ inch in diameter, roundish-oval, with the 

 suture narrow but well marked, but extends only 

 half way round. Skin smooth, uniform pale orange. 

 Flesh orange, moderately juicy and sweet, with a 

 very good flavor, separates from the stone. The 

 latter is oval, ver}' little compressed, kernel sweet. 

 Ripens from the 10th to the 15th of July, ten days 

 before the Moorpark. 



Rose-Slugs. — Dear sir — My garden has been 

 terribly infested, this season, with a small green 

 insect, a species of slug, about half an inch long, 

 and very slender, which fixes itself on the under 

 side of rose leaves and eats up all the foliage, 

 so that at last the mere skeleton of the leaf which 

 remains looks quite brown and seared. Can you 

 give your readers any remedy for this depreda- 

 tor ? Your friend. ^ Constant Reader. 



[Yes, it is by no means difficult to dcstro)' the 

 rose-slug. Take either strong soap-suds or tobac- 

 co-water ; we prefer the latter, which should be of 

 a light brown colour ; as soon as the slugs make 

 their appearance on your rose-bushes, take a large 

 syringe and shower the whole plant, bein<r par- 

 ticularly careful to throw it on the under sides of 

 the leaves. This will kill the whole brood on any 

 one bush, almost immediately — and the next morn- 

 ing you can wash off" the leaves with some clean 

 water from the rose of a watering-pot. If this is 

 pursued with all your rose bushes, as soon as the 

 slug makes his appearance on them, you will easily 



