1880.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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has proved perfectly hardy with us, does not 

 mildew, is a larger and, we think, a sweeter 

 grape than the Salem. I have kept the grape 

 until the holidays. Would like your opinion of 

 it." 



[This is a shorter and wider bunch than the 

 Salem. The flavor was delicicnis. It is the 

 nearest approach to a well ripened Black Ham- 

 burg grape that we remember to having come 

 before us. The fruit has the same fleshy (as dis- 

 tinct from pulpy) character. — Ed. G. M j 



IsHAM Sweet Apple. — W. H. P., Kingston, ' 

 Rhode Island, says : " I see notice of the Isham 

 Sweet apple in your paper recently, in which 

 after speaking of the tree you speak of the 

 fruit as follows: Of much finer grain, more juicy, 

 and a much better keeper than the Bailey 

 Sweet; quality best, keeps through the winter. The 

 underscoring is mine. I want to find the best 

 rich sweet apple which rvill keep through the 

 vnnter. Do you know the Isham to be such? If 

 not the best, please name the best kind of winter 

 sweet you know suited to this Rhode Island 

 latitude." 



[We suppose no one has fruited the Isham 

 Sweet in Rhode Island, and the best for local 

 culture depends wholly on local experience. We 

 should be much obliged if some Rhode Island 



correspondent will tell us what sweet kinds have 

 been found to do best there. — Ed. G. M.] 



Fruit Insects in California. — R. S., San 

 Jose, under the date of August 8th, writes : — 

 '' Our fruit trees here are now infested with 

 what they call the " Red Scale Insect." It has 

 destroyed thousands of trees. Concentrated lye 

 has been used with some success — quantity one 

 to five of water. The insect discolors the bark 

 underneath to a purplish red hue, found upon 

 scraping the infected parts. Rumor says it has 

 been brought here in orange boxes, and that it 

 is quite common in Sicily ; be that as it may, 

 there is quite a scare about it, and many fear 

 the total destruction of their trees. Meetings 

 have been held for discussion as to the best 

 mode of getting rid of him ; cannot you give us 

 a point ? I think your article on " Scale on Or- 

 chard Trees," in this month's number would do 

 the business. Those who have fought him have 

 done so in the winter after leaves are all gone, 

 and the insect, to my way of thinking, impervi- 

 ous and dormantly secure in his scale. Would 

 it not be better to fight him in the spring at or 

 about the time he is hatched out and leaves the 

 scale to make new locations and found new col- 

 onies? It seems to me this is the best time for 

 its destruction. The task is a gigantic one, as 

 in some orchards not a tree but what is infested. 



Forestry. 



CUMMUNICA TIONS. 



FORESTRY IN NORTH AMERICA. 



The Pertinent Laws and Regulations, and the Future of North 

 American Forests. 



BY JOHN BOOTH, KLEIN FLOTTBRCK, GERMANY. 



Translated for the Gardener's Monthly by G. W. De B. 

 (Concluded from page 307.) 



A Boston authority of the highest national 

 repute has addressed us some very valuable re- 

 ports on these questions, from which we extract 

 the following: 



" Of the twanty-six States composing the New 

 England, the Middle the Western and North- 



western divisions, up to the Rocky Mountains 

 only three grow more timber than their own 

 consumption ; and in these the trees, owing to 

 the great demand, are cut down so indiscrimi- 

 nately that logs of 6 to 8 inches diameter are 

 frequently found in the saw-mills. If this course 

 is continued another tlecade, we'll see also these 

 three States at the end of their timber. Still the 

 woods nre spoliated as if our welfare depended 

 on their speedy disappearance. What is to 

 come after mocks all description, for not a sin- 

 gle one of our many industries can prosper with- 

 out a plentiful supply of wood. There are more 

 than enough theories and learned treatises on 

 the influence of forests and extensive woodlands 



