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Till-: GARDENER'S MONTH LV 



[ October^ 



ment. and ho n'uards the results as promising. 

 He h:»d <roo(l fniit in July. 



Ckksckxt Skki>ling Strawiu:i!I{v. — The 

 (?rcM-on( St'cdlin^ ori;^ina(od with AVilliiun Par- 

 inelce, X»?\v Ilavon, Conneclicul, in 1.S70. 



CoDLiNf; Moth Destkoyers. — Mr. P. IT. 

 Foster, Baliyhm, X. Y.,wrilos: "I think you 

 didnot underslandnivnioaniniTwhen T wrote you, 

 in the ,Vui;ust nuniher. I thou'^ht it an oiilrap;e 

 (oproiure a patent on .^ueh a manlier of capturing 

 the Ajjple worm. Smh mode I have practiced 

 for year.^. and have not been called upon to pay 

 royalty, and the same has been in print a 

 thousand times, and so far as the poisoning the 

 bands are concerned. I have used that mode in 

 1'877, and have thoroughly tested it the present 

 season, and have found in my experiments an 

 ehtire failure, as the worm does not appear to 

 swallow jifter it leaves the fruit;. The fact is, 

 our managers of the Patent Oflice must be want- 

 fng in general intelligence, when an individual 

 can obtain the exclusive use of any mode of 

 proceeding tliat has been in use as long as the 

 one in question, and obtain the legal right to 

 prosecute those who have used it for jears." 



Fri'it i>' EuRorp;. — The Apple and Pear 

 crops have failed in England. 



CuRCULio IN California. — A California 

 fruit grower says he believes the curculio has 

 not yet made its appearance in that State. The ' 

 occasional failure of the Apricot is believed to I 

 !>e due to other causes. 



Peaches in England.— In England Peaches ; 

 will only ripen their fruit when the trees are j 

 trained against a sunny wkll or fence. Great : 

 care and skill are required in this training, or | 

 tlie parts nearest the ground would be soon ; 

 bare of young wood, from which alone the 

 Peaches come. The branches are trained fan- \ 

 fashion, and so directed by the trainer that 

 under no circumstances would one branch cross } 

 another, no matter how fiir they gre\v. The 

 following from the Garden gives an account of a 

 fine one so trained: I 



"A Peach tree at Sunlnn-}' Park measures , 

 tweniy-two by twenty-two feet, equal to 484 | 

 square feet. Suppose we allow an average of j 

 eight to a square foot, the result would be 3872, ^ 

 or 322 dozen Peaches. An Elruge Xectarine in j 

 the same house covers 22-5 square feet, and \ 

 carries 150 dozen splendid Xectarines. The trees 

 are about fourteen years old, and perfect speci- ! 

 mens of good cultivation. In the same range 



there are two larije vinorii>. the crops in which 

 arc equally good." 



Pori'LAR Pennsylvania Apples. — The 

 Pennsylvania State Hoard of vVgriculture is doing 

 good work regardinu; tlie collection of statistics 

 of the State. Secretary Edge , in his July blankw, 

 called for information regarding what each re- 

 spondent would, from his own knowledge, regard 

 as the three ))est Api»ies of three seasons, not 

 particularly as market Iruit l)nt for personal use. 

 The following are the responses : 



suMMKR. tjucfn, i'>t N. Spy, 7i< 



K. liar vast, 102 Falliiwiiter, 'A Sniitir'i (iilfr, 4'J 



Itcrl Astrai'lian, )'i4 (iravcnstciii, is Rkx. Itii^scU, 4t> 



HoukIj, '»0 York Iinpeiial, in KingofTlionipk. 



Townscnd, IS Wine Sap, s County, 40 



Jiononi, 10 Doctor, Scolc-no-further, 38 



Pousc, r> Strawl)erry, H Konianilu, 18 



Red Streak, fi Vanclcvor, r> Swaar, 8 



Caleb, 4 Porter, Spitzonberg, 8 



FAM,. Fameuse, 4 IJen I>avis, 4 



Maiden's? Blusli, 104 wintkr. Newtown Pippin, 4 



Siiii)kc House, 94 Baldwin, US Hidgr Pippin, 4 



I P.anibo, 70 R. 1. Cireeninp;, 9« Rome K«'auty, 4 



These lists are extremely useful. They do not, 

 of ('ourse, show that the most popular kinds, as 

 shown by the number of votes are the best. Per- 

 haps hundreds of those voting for Early Harvest, 

 Maiden's Blush, or Baldwin, never heard of 

 Fameuse, Ben Davis, or Ridge Pippin, and those 

 or some others might, perhaps, lie as good as 

 the best. But if one wants to plant something 

 that is prett}' good, and is willing to risk their 

 not being perhaps the very best, he will not go 

 far wrong in taking up with the popular favorites. 



NEW OR RARE ERUITS 

 AND VEGETABLES. 



New Foreign Grape, •■Welcome." — Mr. 

 James Ricketts, Newberg, X. Y., writes: "I 

 send you, this day, by express, pre-paid, one 

 bunch of mj- new exotic seedling Grape, Wel- 

 come, so named by the Examining Committee 

 of the American Pomological Society', last year, 

 in Baltimore. It is a seedling of the Pope Ham- 

 burgh, fertilized by the common Hall Muscat. 

 A good setter and splendid growth, foilage like 

 Hamliurg. I will send you a few srapes of the old 

 Black Hamburg, for comparison, that was raised 

 in the same house. I think it outranks any of 

 the old varieties for flavor. If you can get any 

 of the different kinds I wish you would make a 

 comparison. I will send you one of the vines 

 this Fall for trial. The fruit I senjl have been 

 ripe over one month in a house. 



