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TEOSINTK UKANA LUXII.IAX-. Mi'isi'!, Vil 



iiioriii, »»f Paris, >;ive? (lio followinj; iiccount of a 

 lU'W fj;r:\ss, whii'h may l)t' wortli lonkiiiLr aftor by 

 our S()uth(»ni ai^rit-ultiirists : ••Miuli lias been 

 spoken latoly in (he auricnltural and liorlicul- 

 tiiral papers of this iriganlic ijraniina'a, botk as 

 an ornamental as well as a forage plant. It is 

 a native of Central America ; perennial in hot 

 climates, it will not stand our AVinters; resem- 

 bles Indian Corn in aspeet and vegetation, but 

 produces a great number of shoots, growing 3 to 

 4 yards high, thitkly covered with leaves, and 

 yielding such an abundance of forage, that one 

 plant is estimated to be sufficient to feed a pair 

 of cattle for twenty-four hours. In our northern 

 countries it is doul)tfMl whether it will be availa- 

 ble for forage, but it will certainly find its place 

 in large gardens as a decorative plant, for sown 

 in Spring in pots and planted in May in the 

 open ground, it will produce a mass of shoots 

 forming a large bunch of more than a yard in 

 diameter by three yards in height." 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Cuttings in Arkansas. — Mrs. S. S. T., 

 Alexander, Ark., writes : " Here in Arkansas 

 almost every thing of the tree and shrub kind 

 grows from cuttings put into the ground in Feb- 

 ruary, but the inhaljitants do not generally avail 

 themselves of the fact, and indeed many are not 

 aware of it. I know of whole orchards of ap- 

 ples, pears, peaches, plums, &c., now in bearing 

 which were started from cuttings a foot or 

 eighteen inches long. We removed here a year 

 since, and have found Arkansas a country of such 

 wonderful capabilities as to constantly stimulate 

 us to improve its peculiar advantages." 



Fall Blooming of Apple Tubes. — J. P. 

 asks : " I would like to be informed, if possi- 

 ble, of the reason of and cure for two Maiden 

 Blush apjile ti'ces belonging to a friend of mine, 

 blooming for several years past in October and 

 not in Spring. Situated at Red Bank, N. J., 

 light, sandy soil, about seven miles from sea 

 shore." 



[Trees which usually bloom in Spring or 

 Summer, bloom only in Autumn when the 

 leaves have been destroyed or injured before the 

 proper time for the fall of the leaf in Autumn. 



Soniclimcs it is by leaf-blight, sdinetimes l)y 

 ca(eri)illars, but in some way the leaves of your 

 friend's trees have been injured towards the end 

 of Summer, and in this direction you must look 

 for the cause. — Ed. G. M.] 



ScKinNEU Spitzeniu" i;fi Ari'LEs. — Mr. 

 Bailey writes: "I do not (liink that there is 

 much difference in time of ripening of the 

 Esopus and Scribner Spitzcnburgs. This year 

 we had very warm weather, ripening the fruit 

 earlier than usual on the trees, and followed by 

 very unusually warm weather after packing. 

 All our apples are over-ripe for the season." 



FitiTiT-CuLTURE Foii Market. — J. C. "\V., 

 Hudson River, New York, writes: ""Will you 

 please answer the following queries through 

 your journal? We wish to plant 1000 standard 

 and from 1000 to .3000 dwarf pear, to grow fruit 

 for New York market. What sorts would you 

 advise us to plant ? We wish also to i)lant five 

 acres of grapes. Could we do better than plant 

 the Concord, with a view to grafting to leading 

 white or other sorts ? Further, what variety of 

 crab-apple would you advise us to plant, with a 

 view to selling the fruit in New York, and 

 Geneva, N. 'Y. ? Nurserymen advise us to plant 

 Ilyslop. What work can you recommend as the 

 best on tlie cultivation and management of the 

 standard and dwarf pear? also on the grape? " 



[While visiting the fruit farm of Col. Edwai'd 

 Wilkins, of Maryland, last fall, Mr. W. told the 

 writer that he had had so much profit from an 

 orchard of dwarf pear trees, that he was about 

 to set out — we believe — 50,000 more. These were 

 of the Duchess d'Angouleme. Another of our 

 large standard pear-growers finds the Bartlett,for 

 fall, and the Lawrence, for winter, the best stan- 

 dard varieties. For market, however, one has 

 to study what is his market, and what is the 

 demand there. We have known some old jieople 

 al)out (ierniantown make fabulous sums from 

 old Catharine Pear Trees, by merely whipping 

 off the fx'uils, and selling them immediatel}', on 

 the market prices of Philadelphia. But this 

 would be useless in a place where they could not 

 be all gatthered one da}' and sold the next. Con- 

 cord w( ul 1 be the best variety in most localities 

 not over-favorable for grape-culture ; but if you 

 are on liirht, dry ground, as on the Hudson 

 you probably are, the Salem, Brighton, Dela- 

 ware, or others of the better class, ought to do 

 well. All kinds do better grafted on Concord or 

 Clinton Roots. Hyslop or Transcendent Crgi-bs 

 are very good market fruits, but man}- prefer 



