CRIST'S MOLE TRAP. 



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merits of being very hardy, a great and regu- 

 lar bearer, and of withstanding all the vicis- 

 situdes of rotting and blight, which destroy 

 many tine cherries about the time of ripening. 

 In flavor, the Champagne is peculiar, — nei- 

 ther quite sweet or sour, but that lively min- 

 gling of the two which suggested its name. 

 It should be remarked, however, that the 

 fruit is not ripe when 

 it first appears so ; but 

 should be allowed to 

 hang on the tree, (as it 

 will without rotting,' 

 until perfectly matur- 

 ed, when it is very 

 sprightly and excel- 

 lent ; and is preferred 

 by many who have tast- 

 ed it to all other cher- 

 ries. 



The Champagne cher- 

 ry has the excellent Fig."is:==cv^»;p«gn<: c/,.m/. 

 habits, as regards health and productiveness, 

 of Downer's Red ; one of the best of cherries 

 for general culture in the United States — pro- 

 bably because it originated in this country. 

 In other words, while a person may have a 

 tree of either Champagne or Downer's cher- 



ries, and be certain of a large crop of valua- 

 ble fruit every season, he may not gather 

 50 cherries from a tree of many of the Heart 

 or Bigarreau cherries per annum fur many 

 years, — either by reason of the frosts in spring, 

 or damp weather at the time of ripening. 



Fruit of medium size, roundish heart-shape, 

 but always slightly angular or one-sided. 

 Colour lively brick red, inclining to pink — a 

 little paler on the shaded side. Stalk of 

 moderate length and size, inserted in a rather 

 flat, shallow depression. Flesh amber colour- 

 ed, of a lively rich flavor — a mingling of su- 

 gar and acid — something between Downer's 

 Late and a Duke cherry. A most abundant 

 bearer, and ripens very imiformly, maturing 

 about the 20th of June, and hanging a long 

 while on the tree. 



IV. Downing's Red Cheek. — This cher- 

 ry, also raised in the establishment of our 

 brother, some years ago, and described in our 

 work on Fruits, proves to be one of the most 

 beautiful and delicious of its class. It is far 

 handsomer as well as more tender and sweet 

 than the Bigarreau or Grafiion, which it some- 

 what resembles ; and it will, we think, sup- 

 plant that variety, when its merits are more 

 generally known. 



A DESCRIPTION OF CRIST S MOLE TRAP. 



BY J. B., NAZARETH, PA. 



This newly invented trap consists of a frame, 

 composed of two uprights, a a, about 22 inch- 

 es high, joined by a top board, h — the whole 

 fastened on a foot or base cC c. ^ is a heavy 

 piece of scantling or block, which by means 

 of grooves is guided along the uprights up 

 and down. In the lower part of the block 

 are inserted a number of sharp steel pins, 

 about seven inches long in the clear. In the 

 part C, of the foot-board, is attached a small 



piece of thin board in the manner of a pedal 

 of a piano forte, which, when the trap is set, 

 crosses the passage of the mole, /"is a wood- 

 en latch, suspended by a wire from the cross 

 piece of the frame, and terminating with a 

 wire hook, g, at the lower end, somewhat 

 flattened. In the upper part of the latch is 

 cut a notch or shoulder, (z,) as a rest for the 

 pin block when the trap is set. 



Set the trap lengthwise over the passage 



