SELECT FRUITS FOR THE NORTH. 



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"Of Apples. For the three best — JVil- 

 liains^ Favorite, Gracenstein, and Rhode- 

 Island Greening. 



"For six, add — Yellcio Bough, Faineuse, 

 and Da7ivers^ JVi/iter Sweet. 



"And for twelve, add — Ribsto?i Pippin, 

 Baldwin, Golden Ball, Red Astrachan, Ear- 

 ly Harvest, and Golde?i Sweeting. 



"Of Cherries. For the three best — Black 

 Heart, May Duke, and Kentish. 



"For six, add — Black Eagle, Downton, 

 and Doto7ier's Late. 



" Of Pears. For the three best — Dear- 

 born's Seedling, McLaughlin, and Black 

 Worcester. 



'• For six, add — Bartlett, Belle Lucrative, 

 [Fondante d'Automne,] and Winter Nelis. 



" For twelve, add — Louise Boniie de Jer- 

 sey, 2 Vicar of Winkjield, Beurre d' Arem- 

 berg, Seckel, and Beurre Base. 



" Of Plums. For the three best — Jeffer- 

 son, McLaughlin, and Lombard. 



" For six, add — Imperial Gage, Bleecker^s 

 Gage, and Washington. 



"For nine, add — Purple Gage, Imperial 

 Ottoman, and Greeii Gage. 



" Of Gooseberries, the following sorts : — 

 Crown Boh, Red Champagrie, Yellow Cham- 

 pagne, Red Warrington, White Lion, White 

 Smith, and Sulphur." 



Messrs. Beckwith & Noyes remark, "in 

 selecting the Ehode-Island Greening Apple, 

 Black Worcester Pear, Lombard Plum, and 

 Kentish Cherry, in selections so small as 

 those here made, their value for uniform 

 productiveness and for cooking — indispensa- 

 ble qualities with us — have been consider- 

 ed." 



The next response is from Col. L. Cut- 

 ler, of Dexter, Maine; dated January 10th, 

 1848 ; from which we quote as follows : — 



" I know that it is a prevalent opinion, 

 that our climate is unsuited to the raising 

 of good fruit, particularly the pear. This 



is a great mistake, although there are some 

 kinds of pear anu apple which require a 

 warmer climate ; there are enough, those 

 among the verj' best known, which will 

 flourish as well with us as in the world, and 

 certainly plums. Currants and gooseber- 

 ries will not do better anywhere. 



"I do not mean, by the foregoing re- 

 marks, that of fruit, any kind can be raised 

 in perfection without proper attention ; the 

 want of this care and the want of know- 

 ledge, or the dishonesty of nurserymen, I 

 believe have been the cause of most of the 

 failures which have been attributed to the 

 cold climate. First, then, most men, when 

 transplanting trees, instead of preparing 

 deep and broad holes, well filled with good 

 earth for these trees, dig a hole in the clay 

 or gravel, (as the case may be,) just suffi- 

 cient to crowd in the roots of the tree, and 

 cover with the same material ; thus, by 

 their first act either killing the tree, or so 

 injuring it that it never becomes a healthy 

 and vigorous tree. The practice of nurse- 

 rymen of engrafting upon bad and un- 

 healthy stocks — the graft of the pear upon 

 the quince, the thorn or wild pear instead 

 of good stocks, and the palming off' incor- 

 rect varieties for good ones — have been, 

 and are now vexatious cause of failure and 

 loss, even where great care has been taken 

 in transplanting and cultivating the tree, 

 and are practices which should be punished 

 like any other swindling. If the evils above 

 named could be obviated, I think we should 

 hear little complaint against the climate, so 

 far as raising fruit is concerned. I have 

 never tried the quince ; but my opinion is, 

 that it does require a warmer latitude than 

 ours to flourish. The Red and White Dutch 

 Currants I raise ; and I consider the com- 

 mon currant as unworthy of cultivation, 

 compared with them. 



" I have several varieties of gooseberry, 



