1877.T 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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Exquisite Peach. — Mr. Tillery in the FU)rist\ 

 and Pomologist, says : — " This American'Pea.ch is a 

 very noble one." Do any of our readers know 

 anything about it ? It is described as yellow 

 fleshed. 



Fall Fruiting Strawberries. — How the 

 forced Strawberries to which we recently re- 

 ferred, were made to produce in the Fall so 

 freely, is thus told by the London Journal of 

 Horticulture .•— " We have to-day, (November 14th) 

 seen a further supply of Strawberries from 

 Eabley. The fruit was perfectly ripe, medium- 

 sized, and well colored. The plants producing 

 this fruit were forced last year, and afterwards 

 planted in the open ground : on showing trusses 

 in the autumn the plants were again potted, and 

 two hundred of tiiem are now in full bearing, 

 and very valuable." 



Hardiness of Wilson's Early Blackberry. 

 — The Country Gentleman says that this variety is 

 not hardy much farther north than Philadelphia. 

 We had no suspicion of this fact before, and 

 would like to know if it is the universal experi- 

 ence. Had we been asked, we should have 

 said it was as hardy as Lawton or any other 

 kind. 



The Maine Grape. — This, which some years 

 ago correspondents of the Gardener's Monthly 

 showed was not different from Concord, is being 

 pushed again. 



The English Walttot. — It would be interest- 

 ing to know how far north the English Walnut 

 matures. A correspondent of the Country Gen- 

 tleman, speaks of its doing verj^ well in Essex 

 County, New Jersey, ten miles west of New York 

 City. 



Jerusalem Artichokes.— A correspondent of 

 a London paper wonders that " a plant so pro- 

 lific as the Jerusalem Artichoke, should receive 

 80 little attention." We fancy the reason is, 

 that they who try them find they can do very 

 well without them. With port wine, drawn 

 butter, or some addition they make passable 

 eating, but are but poor at best. 



NEW PLANTS. 



The Japan Persimmon. — The Diospyros Kaki 

 has fruited the two past seasons in California. 



The James Veitch Stawberry. — A Yorkshire' 

 correspondent of the Garden, Mr. Lovel, Weaver- 



thorpe, saj's, " that among forty varieties of 

 strawberries which he grew last year, the largest 

 was James Veitch, eight fruits of which weighed 

 one pound. This season it took from seventeen 

 to eighteen to weigh one pound, a result partly 

 owing to the cold, frosty weather which we had 

 in May and June ; so severe, indeed, was the 

 frost in June, that all the earliest bloom was de- 

 stroyed. The large fruits gathered in 1875 were 

 Cockscomb-shaped, not those of a globular or 

 conical form, which is the normal shape of this 

 variety. He noticed also in these large straw- 

 berries a great tendency to decay, if in contact 

 with the damp soil. He has gathered during 

 the past season very fine and large fruit from 

 Dr. Hogg, President, and Sir Joseph Paxton, all 

 first season plants. Many of the finest fruit of 

 these kinds weighed nearly one ounce each. 

 He considers these three varieties superior in 

 many respects to James Veitch, especially as 

 regards quantity and quality of fruit." 



Captain Jack Strawberry. — This variety, in- 

 troduced by Mr. Samuel Miller, of Bluff"ton, Mo., 

 proves of value East. Mr. Parry says it com- 

 pares favorably with Wilson's Albany in most 

 respects, and is of better quality. 



French Pippin Apple — Under the name of 

 French Pippin, Mr. Youngken sends us fruit 

 remarkable for the great weight in proportion to 

 its size. It is but ten inches round, yet weighs 

 half a pound. With the exception of its stem, 

 which is rather longer than the apple and some- 

 what slender, it has very much the character of 

 the Fallowater, and Mr. Y. says that it has very 

 mucli of the wood and growth of that apple. 

 He thinks it in every way a superior kind to 

 Fallow^ater. An orchardist obtained a large 

 number of Fallowaters from a nurseryman named 

 Lukenbach, and this one appeared among the 

 number and is supposed to have " come from 

 France," " whence its name," and to have got 

 with the others by accident. It is too much like 

 Fallowater to sustain this view. It is most likely 

 one of these curious instances with which or- 

 chardists are now becoming familiar, of sudden 

 departures from the original type, independent 

 of seed agency ; but whether in consequence of 

 some hybrid influence between graft and stock, 

 or some other law of change, is not well deter- 

 mined. We should like to know whether any body 

 lias a ten inch apple that will weigh this much. 

 It seems to us that if such an apple as this had 



