FRUIT growers' SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK. 



cents. Brinckle's Orange is not only the best fruit, but bears altogether the best 

 crop. He did not think it firm enough to bear carriage a great distance. The 

 plant is hardy, though he found that when covered in winter a better crop is 

 produced, and finer. The Hudson River Antwerp killed back unless covered. 



Nathaniel Draper, of Rochester, had grown the Red and Yellow Antwerp on 

 the same soil for twenty-five years. Used no manure during the time, but kept 

 the weeds down, and the canes tied to stakes. Never lost a cro]), but plants taken 

 from his beds and planted in highly manured soils, have proved barren. Others 

 had observed that high manuring had resulted in strong growth and unproductive- 

 ness. 



P. Barry thought that raspberries might be raised for six cents a quart at a 

 good profit. 



The following remarks on the management of the blackberry, were made by 

 C. P. Bissell, who has many thousand plants under cultivation : The young plants 

 should have good roots. The first season, the branches spread on the ground ; 

 the second and third years throw up strong shoots. Should be planted in rows 

 some eight feet apart, and about the same distance in the rows. For training, 

 the best way is to set posts, and run two wires from post to post, to which the 

 bearing canes should be tied. In the spring, cut the canes back to about five feet, 

 and also shorten the laterals to five or six buds, or they become so heavy with the 

 weight of fruit as to break from the cane. The blackberry fills a vacancy between 

 raspberries and peaches. Had picked over four hundred berries from one plant. 

 After bearing is over, the canes may be untied from the wires, and allowed to fall 

 by their own weight. When fully ripe, the fruit was good, but persons often 

 picked it before ripe. 



P. Barry thought the High Bush or Dorchester Blackberry better and more 

 valuable than the New Rochelle. 



Charles Downing thought the former the best flavored, but it was not so large 

 nor productive as the New Rochelle. The Newman was sweeter than either, but 

 not very productive. 



It was resolved, unanimously, to adopt the name New Rochelle for the variety 

 known by this appellation, instead of Laivton. 



Select Lists of Market Fruits. — A very valuable result was obtained, by each 

 member preparing, in the form of a ballot, a list of the twelve best pears, twelve 

 best apples, and six best peaches, exclusively for marketing. Twenty-one votes 

 were given, and the following list shows the number received for each, omitting 

 all those that received but one vote. There were fewer ballots given for the 

 peaches : — 



Pears. 



Bartlett . 



Louise Bonne de Jersey 



Duchess d'Angouleme 



White Doyenne 



Easter Beurre 



Lawrence 



Seckel . 



Vicar of Winkfiehl 



Flemish Beauty 



Beurre de Anjou . 



Beurre Diel . 



Tyson • 



Sheldon 



Buffum . . . 



Belle Lucrative 



Theodore Van Mons 

 Glout Morceau 

 Beurre Superiin 

 Urbaniste 

 Bloodgood 

 Brandy wine . 

 Beurre Giffard 

 Beurre Clairgeau 

 Beurre Bosc . 

 Onondaga 

 Rostiezer 

 Stevens' Genesee 

 Osband's Summer . 

 Ananas d'Ete . 



