SELECT FRUITS FOR THE NORTH. 



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"For twelve, add — Green Wahmt, KcerCs 

 Seedling, Cheshire Lass, Heart of Oak, Ri- 

 flemati, and Welling toii^s Glory. ^^ 



White and Red Dutch Currants, as well 

 as gooseberries, as we learn from this gen- 

 tleman, thrive and bear abundantly with 

 him. 



Gen. Herrick, of Hampden, furnishes the 

 following list of twelve apples, which he 

 considers the best : 



" Early Harvest, Sops of Wine, (or BeWs 

 Early,) Fameuse, Porter, Wine, Szveet Gold- 

 en Russet, Stveet Bough, Honey Pink, (a lo- 

 cal fruit,) Killam Hill, Baldwiii, Nonesuch, 

 and Su-aar, or Mammoth Green Pippin. 

 (Not, probably, the true Swaar.)" 



Gen. H. remarks that, as market varieties, 

 he would substitute the Porter for the Fa- 

 meuse, and the Nonesuch and Swaar for the 

 Early Harvest and Sops of Wine. His at- 

 tempt to cultivate the peach and quince, in 

 the common culture of the open garden, 

 have been entirely unsuccessful ; the trees 

 being too tender for the climate. He has 

 tried sixteen varieties of grapes. All re- 

 quire protection, and none but the Sweet 

 Water ripens fruit well ; and the latter de- 

 mands a good deal of care. 



Isabella, Catawba and Schuylkill, (Alex- 

 ander's,) require, usually, a longer season 

 than that of his district, though they have 

 borne high flavored fruit with him. They 

 need to be covered in winter ; and they 

 make so large a quantity of wood in sum- 

 mer that it is too troublesome to lay them 

 down and take them up again.* The Vic- 

 toria Rhubarb is cultivated by this gentle- 

 man, and proves there, as everj'where, 

 greatly superior to the common sort. 



We have, next, from Hanover, N. H., a 

 letter, written by a gentleman well known 



• This is easily overcome by giving the vines Ilie annual 

 prnning before laying them down. Autumnal pruning the 

 vine is, on some accounts, preferable to spring or winter 

 pruning. Ed. 



in New-Hampshire for his devotion to hor- 

 ticulture. With the exception of some pre- 

 fatory remarks, (in which he speaks of the 

 apathy regarding the more refined kinds of 

 cultivation always felt in a comparatively 

 new country, and the very decided change 

 for the better now so apparent in the gra- 

 nite state,) we must lay nearly the whole 

 of this letter before our readers. 



" For ten years past, I have travelled 

 through various sections of the country, and 

 have been a close observer of various mat- 

 ters and things pertaining to fruit growing 

 and tree raising, and have collected nearly 

 1000 varieties of fruit, which have been 

 propagated in a specimen orchard and the 

 vicinity. 



"Many of these varieties proving nearly 

 worthless for our climate, it has led me, for 

 five or six years past, to select the hardiest 

 and most productive varieties, and to look 

 up new choice native varieties for propaga- 

 tion, whose habits are congenial to a short 

 summer and a severe winter. These ope- 

 rations have been a school to me, in which 

 I have learnt many valuable things; but 

 the tuition comes too high, leaving me mi- 

 nus, at least $1000, for want of the proper 

 information to start upon. 



"And now, sir, if I can aid you, or any of 

 your kindred spirits in your undertaking, or 

 benefit the citizens of Bangor, and the com- 

 munity at large, I am w'illing to give the 

 results of my experience. In Massachu- 

 setts, all that is necessary to ensure success 

 in raising and maturing a crop of fruit trees, 

 in almost any soil or location, is a liberal 

 share of manure and good attendance. 

 Here, it is not so. They may have both, 

 and the sooner be destroyed by a bad win- 

 ter. 



" On my clayey ground, my Baldwins, 

 R. I. Greenings, and other late young va- 

 rieties, were killed close to the ground the 



