1877.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



McAfee's Aeration Apparatus. — Processes 

 for keeping fruits and vegetables on a very expen- 

 sive scale, are not uncommon. Something to be 

 within reach of every household has been a de- 

 sideratum. This, Professor McAfee believes he 

 has accomplished. The few dollars he asks for 

 his apparatus, is a low enough price, if the arti- 

 cle is eflbctual. 



Grasshopper Machine. — The suggestion we 

 made some years ago that grasshoppers might 

 be caught by machinery, was ridiculed at the 

 time, but the following from the Greeley Tribune 

 describes exactly the thing we suggested : 



" Mr. J. S. Flory has invented a grasshopper 

 catcher, which, it may be presumed, is an im- 

 provement over all the others yet made. Two 

 devices are provided, one with rollers to crush 

 and one to gather the insects into a box or vat, 

 the enemy being brought in by revolving arms 

 or fans. The machine can be worked by hand 

 or horse-power, and it may be large or small, so 

 as to work in a field or garden. When it gets 

 to work we can tell better as to its merit." 



A Hand Plough. — S. L. Allen & Co., whom we 

 have noted occasionally as the inventors of useful 

 agricultural and horticultural implements, send 

 an account of Bateman's Hand Garden Plough. 

 It seems about as good as such a machine 

 can be made when one has to walk backwards. 

 When hand ploughs can be made to be pushed, 

 they Avill come into more general use. 



NEW OR RARE FRUITS. 



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The L.\te Peach or Walling Plum. — Mr. 



Walling, of Oswego, Oregon, writes : — "If you 

 look carefully at the wording of Mr. A. J. Du- 

 fur's letter in our circular regarding the Peach 

 Plum exhibit at the Centennial, which was pub- 

 lished in the January number of the Gardener's 

 Monthly, on page 17, you will observe late at- 

 tached to the name, which will make quite a 

 diflerence as it was not the Peach Plum at all, 

 but a seedling of my own raising from the seed 

 of the Peach Plum ; and as it resembk^s the 

 former plum and ripens ten days later, I called 

 it the Late Peach Plum. Please correct tlie over- 

 sight in your next issue. 



[As we now understand, there is no objection 

 to the name "Walling," which will be better 

 than " Late Peach."— Ed. G. M.] 



Fox's Seedling Pears. — At the Spring meet- 

 ing of the Western New York Horticultural 

 Society, these seedlings heretofore noticed in our 

 columns were highly praised by many of the 

 members. The Barry and the Wilder were par- 

 ticularly spoken well of. 



Rogers' Peach.— Origin, Newbury, Mass. Evi- 

 dently a seedling of early Crawford, which it 

 very much resembles. As it appears on the 

 original tree (which is the only one to my know- 

 ledge that has fruited) it is a little earlier and 

 sweeter than its parent. It was exhibited at our 

 county fair in 1874, and there pronounced by 

 connoisseurs "A, No. 1." Ripe September 15th. 

 T. a Thurlow. 



Downer Peach. — Origin, Newburyport. Pro- 

 bably a seedling of the " Old Red Rareripe." The 

 tree has for the last three seasons borne heavy 

 crops of large red peaches, of good quality. 

 September 15th. I do not recommend this or 

 the Rogers — only as they appear upon the origi- 

 nal trees. Peaches as well as other fruits, are 

 very apt to be local in their chai'acter, and should 

 never be planted extensively until tried in sev- 

 eral localities. — T. C. Thurlow. 



QUERIES. 



Oil for Fruit Trees.— G. A. F., Mass., writes : 

 —"Will you kindly inform me through the 

 columns of your Magazine — which I have 

 taken for many years and find it almost indis- 

 pensable, — if linseed oil is good as a wash for 

 fruit trees, to destroy insects, lichens, &c ? Is it 

 preferable to lye-water? There seems to be a 

 difference of opinion about linseed oil; some 

 think its use iujurious." 



[The writer of this washed some hundreds of 

 trees with linseed oil a year ago. It destroyed 

 all insects, and the trees were all the season and 

 still are, models of health. It is far preferable 

 to anything that we know of. — Ed. G. M.] 



The New Rochelle R.\spberry.— This is the 

 name given to the seedling, the extraordinary 

 growth and productiveness of which we noted 

 in our volume for 1875. It is said to be a seed- 

 ling of the Catawissa. 



