DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



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wine Your believinjj friend, N. Longworth. 

 Cincinnati, July 20, 1850. 



Stealing Fruit. — As the season is now at 

 hand when fruits are ripenins, and when those 

 wlio have been at the expense of procurin<>- choice 

 fruit generally suffer more or less from the depre- 

 dations of those who had rather pilfer from their 

 neighbors than raise their own, allow me to call 

 your attention to the subject of protection, hoping 

 it may prove as effectual to all who may choose 

 to try the remedy, as it has been in my own ex- 

 perience. So far as I am capable of pulging, I 

 think you will find the remedy I am about to re- 

 commend, a perfect one, if persevered in. You 

 will find it in the vol. of the Cultivator for 1847, 

 page 256. It is as follows: " Procure from some 

 druggist an ounce of Tartar Emetic; dissolve a 

 small quantity in hot water; then select some 

 choice specimens of fruit on the trees you wish to 

 protect, and dip the fruit into the preparation, — 

 marking the fruit in some way that you will know 

 yourself." The remedy is safe in its application, 

 and is not liable to the objections of iho>e where 

 force or law is appealed to. Those are apt to en- 

 gender ill feeling in a neighborhood. On the con- 

 trary, this efieets its object in a quiet and peacea- 

 ble way. The person who loses his fruit, is 

 amused by the result. l"he one who takes it is 

 nenerally pretty well satisfied to let it alone for 

 the future, and to say nothing about the past. 



The habit of stealing fruit is an evil against 

 which the cultivator has a right to be protected. 

 He is as much entitled to the product of iiis trees, 

 as he is to the result of his labors applied in any 

 other way. Of the man\' suggestions I have seen 

 recommended for securing this object, I know of 

 none so satisfactory as this ; and I cannot but 

 think you will confer a particular favor on many 

 of the readers of your magazine by its publication. 



C. 



Burr's Strawberries. — My attention has just 

 been called to an article in your July number, 

 which censures me for an error, in furnishing Mr. 

 Ernst, of Cincinnati, with Burr's New Pine 

 Strawberry plants. It says Mr. Ernst " procured 

 the plants from Mr. Burr himself," which was 

 not the fact; and in the sequel, you will see why 

 •' the task was delegated to another person." 

 Some time in March, 1849, I received an order 

 from Mr. Ernst for plants, some two months 

 previous to which I had sold my place, and then 

 had no interest in it whatever; but being desirous 

 of serving Mr. Er.nst, I handed the order over to 

 Mr. A. Sites, the present pr-'prietor, (in whom I 

 had the fullest confidence that it would be done 

 correctly,) for him to fill and forward, which he 

 did. Mr. Ernst wrote me in May last, that some 

 of the plants, sent by Mr. Sites, were lieimaphro- 

 dite, and others decidedly pistillate, and asked if 

 it was a sportive habit of the plant, or a mistake 



in putting up, to which the letter noticed as from 

 me was in reply. J. Burr. Cultimbu.i , j^tig. 17, 



1850. 



British Quee.v Strawberry. — I have the 

 British Queen Strawberry for sale, at $1.25 per 

 hundred, or $10 per thousand, which I have been 

 cultivating for several years past, and iiave found 

 them to be perfectly hardy and great bearers. I 

 have also several other valuable kinds for sale, at 

 rea.sonal)le terms, which have succeeded well with 

 me, without covering in winter; though I recom- 

 mend covering all the dilierent varieties of straw- 

 berries when cultivated on a soil exposed to heave 

 much by frost. E. B. Prentis. Orders to be di- 

 rected to S. Buckingham, Albany. Shakers, 

 Watervliet, Jlbany county, N. ¥.. Jiug. 21, 1850. 



Oswego Horticultural Exhibition. — The 

 Horticultural Society of the city of O.swego held 

 their second annual exhibition of fiuits, liowers 

 and vegetables for the season on the lOtli iiist., 

 at the City Hall. 



To give a jiarlicular description of the disjilay 

 and all articles presented, would exceed our limits 

 at this time. Suffice it to say, it was all that 

 could have been anticipated, and sufficient to 

 convince the public that the city of Oswego can 

 compete with any city in Western New- York for 

 taste in selecting choice varieties of fruit, flowers 

 and vegetables, also for a favorable climate in 

 which to cultivate them, and bring them to per- 

 fection. 



The room selected for the exhibition was one 

 of the largest in the city, and was fitted in a man- 

 ner we have rarely seen excelled. A table of 

 over one hundred feet long was placed through 

 the centre of the room, upon which more than one 

 hundred roses of the choicest flowers of the .sea- 

 son, were arranged, formed into bouquets with all 

 the delicacy of taste, in shading and arranging, 

 which the limited effiirts of the ladies of this city 

 could cflect, and in this particular we doubt whe- 

 ther any similar exhibition in Western New- York 

 has surpassed it. 



Other tables were arranged for the reception 

 of green-house plants and vegetables, in a manner 

 which rendered their examination convenient, 

 without detracting from the first impression pro- 

 duced on entering the room by the lull blaze of 

 the floral kingdom. 



A superficial glance at the fruit table at once 

 convinced us that this city i.s not to be outdone 

 in the production of all the choice varieties grown 

 in this latitude. Although the season for straw- 

 berries might be considered passed, we noticed 

 about twenty approved varieties upon the table, 

 some of very large size and fine flavor, and right- 

 ly labelled as to varieties. Of cherries we no- 

 ticed over thirty varieties, among which were 

 the Graffion, Elton, Napoleon Bii^arreau, Flesh 

 Coloured Bigarreau, Black Tartarian, Knight's 

 Early Black, Black Eagle, Large Late Black 



