ORNAMENTAL TREES THE COTTON-WOOD, 



tendency to rot, and is a most vigorous grower on its own stock, and, nniformly, 

 an ahundaiit bearer. ]SIaturing between the liartlett and Buerre Die!, it seems to 

 unite the characters of both. Kipening at sucli a time, when nothing is conii)ar- 

 able to it in size, commends it particularly to the market grower as an orchard 

 pear. 



Cohimht<(. — The white, melting, buttery flesh, not wanting in richness, and of 

 delicious flavor, combined with the thin, smooth skin of a lemon yellow ; with 

 great luxuriance of growth in the tree, bearing uniformly abundant crops,' and 

 hanging well, in spite of high winds, to the period of maturity, has led me to 

 purpose working many of my trees, the coming spring, with this variety. No 

 ])ear, all things considered, has given me greater satisfaction; its great beauty 

 and sterling worth highly commend it to the orchardist as a market pear. 



White Doyenn6 — St. BlichaeVs. — Now five years in bearing ; the first year gave 

 fair fruit, entirely free from cracks or specks upon its surface. Since then, no 

 tree out of about a dozen has borne a crop of fair fruit. While, on one side of 

 the tree, the fruit would be badly marred, on the opposite, a part only would ex- 

 hiljit the disease ; and some specimens would be quite fair. On other trees, no 

 fair fruit would be observed ; and yet, all the trees have made, from year to year, 

 a growth of wood equal to the Louise Bonne of Jersey, and retained their foliage 

 of healthy color quite as long as any variety in the orchard. The fruit on the 

 sides of the trees facing the northeast, were uniformly marred — so as to suggest 

 the atmosphere' as the cause or the medium of its transmission. Is there, from 

 any quarter, light as to the nature of the disease, giving promise that we shall 

 ever enjoy, in perfection, this noble fruit in our stricken region. 



The Belle Lucrative, often reported as indifferent, and of poor quality, with me 

 has uniformly proved exceedingly rich, melting, and of high flavor, with a juicy 

 flesh of fine texture. None has been more honeyed — fully equalling, in this 

 respect, the Seckel. It has exhibited a tendency to overbear. When properly 

 thinned, the fruit is uniform in size, and large. The Seckel, Winter Nelis, 

 Easter Beurre, Glout IVIorceau, and Beurre Diel, merit the praise awarded them. 



(to be COXTIXrED.) 



ORNAMENTAL TREES— THE COTTON-WOOD. 



BY LEWIS P. ALLEN, BLACK ROCK, N. Y. 



My northern readers may not recognize this well-known tree under this popular 

 name, which it commonly bears in the Southwestern States. It is the Populns 

 Canadensis of the books. 



There are two or three varieties of this family of Poplar. They are frequently 

 called "Balm of Gilead" by country people ; yet they are the true cotton-wood, 



' Tlie prevailing storms, during the autiimual months, are from the northeast. 



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