DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



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one or two winter varieties. My apples rot very 

 much about the time of ripening, particularly if 

 (here is much showery weather with hot sun. Be- 

 low are the names of suoh as prove to be adapted 

 to my soil and latitude, viz: 



APPLES— Davis — Medium size green apple; ri- 

 pens iu Winter, keeps till April. 



Grindstone — A very good winter apple; heal- 



t hy I : 



Horse Apple — Large yellow; ripens in July; 

 oertain bearer. 



Bevan — Early summer; a very thrifty healthy 

 tree. 



Holland Pippin — A certain bearer ; ripens in Ju- 

 ly and August. 



Maiden's Blush — Ripens in August; a hardy 

 tree. 



Terry's Red Streak Striped — Ripens 1st Sept.; 

 healthy tree. 



White Bellefleur — Ripens in summer and hardy 

 tree. 



Golden Russett — Ripens in September. 



Early Harvest — A certain bearer; ripens 1st of 

 July. 



All of the early apples do finely. 



P.ars — The Bartlett fruits well, is the healthi- 

 est tree, and bears very young, and ripens in Au- 

 gust. 



Surpass Virgalieu — Fruits well and young; ri- 

 pens in September; hardy tree. 



These two are the only kinds that I could re- 

 commend,} as my otherjjtrees have not fruited. 

 There are three of them that seem to be very heal- 

 thy trees, the Hericart, Jargonelle and Julienne. 

 The early Catharine has not fruited (now 8 years 

 since planted) and is very much affected by the 

 blight every summer, a great many of the limbs 

 die, but the body looks healthy. 



All kinds of peaches do well where proper at- 

 tention is given; they are very much troubled by 

 the cureulio and grub. 



Keeping a few hogs in the orchard is one of the 

 best remedies; you see a great difference the se- 

 cond year after putting them in. 



I have two very fine young fig trees, (the large 

 Blue and yellow Smyrna) which have been killed to 

 the ground every winter, being at thetime from eight 

 to ten feet high. Can you inform me how to pre- 

 vent it ? [Yes. It is only necessary in your lati- 

 tude to shade them in winter. Ed.] Very res- 

 pectfully yours, E. J. Capell. Centrcville, Amite 

 Co., Miss., Oct. 13, 1849. 



P. S. The apples above named were selected 

 out of 45 varieties growing in my orchard. 



Out of 13 kinds of pears, those mentioned are 

 the best for this latitude and soil. 



Pryor's Red Apple. — Sir : I noticed in your 

 journal, vol., 2nd, page 18, a figure and descrip- 

 tion of the Pryor Red apple, by Mr. Byram of 



Kentucky. The caption of the article would lead 

 lie t.i suppose that it was a western apple, but as 

 a Virginian, I wish toclaim what properly ! 



to Virginia. For authority, I insert Mr. I Sitting* 

 ton's name, of Highland City, Ya., an aged and 

 respectable gentleman, who has been acquainted 

 with the apple for many years, and says ii origi- 

 nated some seventy years since, in Botetourt Co., 

 of this Stati'. and was originally known by the 

 name of Pitzcrhill apple, from its having origina- 

 ted on a considerable eminence on Pitzer's farm, 

 hence the combination of Pitzer and Hill. After- 

 wards it received the name of Bighill, from its si- 

 tuation at the time i if origin, and previ us, (i 

 able to Mr. Sitlington's statement) to Mr. Pryor 

 coming in possession of the farm. The descrip- 

 tion by Mr. Byram would be more complete (if 

 agrei able to pomological rules,) to insert thick 

 skin and of the peculiar very acute angles which 

 the branches sometimes forms. Yours respectful- 

 ly, Wm. Rice. Bridgewuter , Va.,Nov. 14, 1849. 

 [Please let us have specimens for comparison. 

 Ed.] 



Description of the Clay Hall Seedling 

 Grape. — A. J. Downing:, Esq.: According to pro- 

 mise, I now send you a description of the " Clay 

 Hall Seedling" Grape, having lately received a 

 communication from Mr. Alexander Murdoch, 

 gardener at Clay Hall. County of Norfolk, the 

 f T. Buckworth, Esq. Mr. Murdock 

 writes inc. that in is-js he fertilised a Bunch of 

 Muscadine, (the White Chasselas of the U. S.) 

 with the pollen of the Black Lombard y, that pro- 

 duced the above very desirable variety. 



The most remarkable feature in this grape is the 

 perfect demarkation of the berry in colour, the one 

 half being perfectly white, and the other half per- 

 fectly black. The coloring is not " run," or 

 blended, as Grizzly Frontignan, or Aleppo, which 

 varieties are not half so well defined in the colour 

 of the berry as the Clay Hall Seedling. The 

 great merits this variety possesses, are its good 

 forcing properties, and&its being very prolific ; its 

 adaptation for pot culture, and all situations where 

 grapes are forced early, will also give great sat- 

 isfaction. 



The following are the characteristics of Clay 

 Hall Seedling: quality, first rate; form of berry, 

 perfectly round: colour, half the berry white, 

 half black ; leaf rather small, and of a bright, 

 shining colour, and of the darkest green; wood, 

 pale brown, shor; nd of only moderately 



strong growthj size of bunch, n size of 



the berry, same as that of White Frontignan. 

 This variety, although originated so he > ago, has 

 ■otilined to the neighborhood in which it was 

 originated; and had it nol been for its excellence 

 in forcing, might hive been probably over! 

 altogether^ as its size, and not verj robust habit, 

 would I I it for late vim ries, when 



such sorts as Roine du Reice, Cannon Hall Mus- 

 cat, and Mu-cat Eschalota, and Whi e Neice, 

 were tu bo had; a- these varieti is combined si/.O 

 and flavor, and are very prolific I 

 some plants this fall, when I shall take pleasure 



