EDITOR'S TABLE 



Fruit in the West. — The dreadful effect of tlie last awful winter on the fruits of the 

 West, is recorded in the following articles. We place them on record for the information of 

 our readers, and for future reference. 



Fruit in Wisconsin. — J. C. Brayton, the horticultural editor of the Wisconsin Farmer, 

 writes to the Ohio Farmer from Aztalan Nurseries, Wisconsin, May 28 : — 



" The following varieties of the cherry and other fruits, have endured the cold of the past 

 winter, nearly in the order in which the names of the several species are written: — 



" C/ierries. — Early Purple, Guigne, Cleveland Bigarreau, Florence, Elton, Downer's late 

 Red, Gov. Wood, Holland Bigarreau. Next to these, Knight's Early Black, and Black Tar- 

 tarian. All others are killed down, of the Heart and Bigarreau classes. 



" Plums. — Nearly all killed down ; White and Red Maguum Bonums, and Smith's Orleans, 

 form the exceptions. 



" Pears. — Onondaga, Flemish Beauty, Virgalieu, Oswego Beurre, Stevens' Genesee, 

 Doyenne d'Ete, Duchess d'Angouleme, Sisson, and Seckel. Nearly all others killed. 



^^ Apples. — Those that were uninjured are: Early Pennock, Fall Stripe, Autumn Swaar, 

 Fall Wine Sap, Fameuse, or Snow Apple, Fulton Strawberry, Fall Orange, Sweet June, Vance's 

 Harvest, Sops of Wine, Lowell, or Tallow, Red Gilliflower, Rosseau, St. Lawrence, Sweet Pear, 

 Utter's Large, Belleliower Yellow, Baily Sweet, Blue Pearmain, Black Vandevere, English 

 Russet, Perry Russet, Red Spitzenburgh, Rawle's Jennet, Herefordshire Pearmain, Talmau's 

 Sweet, White Winter Pearmain, Westfield Seek-no-further, Wine-sap." 



Fruit in Illinois. — E. S. Cooper, of Henderson, Illinois, writes thus to the Knoxville 

 Journal : — 



" The severe effects of the cold of last winter upon fruit and other trees, are without a 

 jiarallel in the history of this country. During the most intense cold, the mercury sank to 

 about thirty degrees below the zero of Fahrenheit. 



" The more tender varieties of fruits, as peach, nectarine, and apricot, are generally killed 

 to the ground. 



" Even some of the young shoots of the hickory, butternut, and some other indigenous 

 forest-trees, have suifered to a considerable extent. 



" Quinces are generally killed. The more hardy varieties of fruit, as apple and pear, have 

 suffered far less on high, rolling land, than the same kinds on level soil. " 



" Young trees from Eastern nurseries have fared as well, oi- even better, than those reared 

 from seed in our vicinity. Dwarf apple and pear-trees have almost entirely escaped. 



" In an orchard of over four hundred dwarf pear-trees, including almost every variety recom- 

 mended by Downing, I have not had more than three or four killed, and these were all the 

 Summer Franc Real. I only lost one dwarf apple, and it was on a wet piece of land. The 

 Yellow Belleflower, Lady Apple, Fameuse, and Herefordshire Pearmain, appear to have en- 

 tirely escaped in every locality. 



"The following varieties of apples have not been seriously injured, except on lands de- 

 cidedly wet, viz : American Summer Pearmain, Red Astrachan, Benoni, Prince's Harvest, 

 Early Strawberry, Golden Sweeting, Keswick Codlin, Autumn Strawberry, Cooper, Duchess 

 of Oldenburg, Fleiner, Hawley, Lowell, Maiden Blush, St. Lawrence, Baily Sweet, Yellow 

 Belleliower, Belmont, Danvers' Winter Sweet, Hubbardston, None Such, Lady Apple, Lady's 

 Sweet, Mother, Newtown Pippin, Golden Russet, Spitzenburgh, Talman's Sweeting, Wagoner, 

 Cole's Quince, Genesee Chief, Scarlet Pearmain, and Well's Sweeting. 



" The following varieties have been severely injured, and in many cases killed outright, 

 viz : Large Sweet Bough, Summer Rose, Fall Pippin, Holland Pippin, William's Favorite, 

 Drap d'Or, Gravenstein, Hawthornden, Jersey Sweets, Porter, Pumpkin, Sweet, Baldwin, 

 Bourassa, Norton's Melon, Nortliern Spy, Rawl's Janet, Beauty of Kent, Winter Swaar, 

 Summer Queen, and Mylum. 



"The following varieties of pears have generally escaped, viz : Bloodgood, Beurre Giffard, 

 Doyenne d'Ete, Osborne's Summer, Tyson, Buffum, Beurr-? d'Amalis, Beurre Goubault, Beurre 

 Golden of Bilboa, Bergamot, Crassanne, Belle Lucrative, Dix, Doyenne White, Doj'enne Gray, 

 Forelle, Fulton, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Oswego Beurre, Oswego Incomparable, Seckel, 

 Stephen's Genesee, Swan's Orange, Beurre d'Areniburg, Passe Collinar. 



_" The following varieties have generally been severely, if not fatally injured, viz : Bartlett, 

 Madeleine, Rostiezer, Summer Franc-Real, Brown Beurre, Beurre Bosc, Beurre Diel, Duchess 

 d'Angouleme, Flemish Beauty, Henry IV., Marie Louise, Easter Beurre, Glout Morceau, 

 Prince's St. German, Vicar of Winkfield, Angora, Winter Nelis, Ott 



le following varieties of cherries are fatally injured, viz : Black Eagle, Black Tartarian 

 Seedling, Downton, Downer's Late, Elton, and Yellow Spanish. 



