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DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



A NoTK ON Pkars. — The White Doyenne Pear, 

 which some liiive saiil was an outcast, llourislics on 

 my fatlier"s estate, as vvitli you, in all its orig'inal 

 vigour. The trees were procured hy him in 1S()2 

 from Prince, under the name of yi)-galicu,a.sl find 

 by his record. 



^\ lien in London, Paris and 13cljiuni, in the win- 

 ter of "44 — "45, I had repeated opportunities of 

 testing the new varieties of pears. I found the fol- 

 lowing to be the finest : Bcurrc d'Aremberg, Win- 

 ter Nelis, Passe Colmar, Glout Morceau, Easter 

 Beurrc, (the latter ripe in London Sth of Dec.,) 

 Beurru Diel, D- Angoulinie, Ne i)lus Meuris, and 

 jMarie Louise. This last is consiilered the finest 

 November pear in England. The season of 1S44 

 was peculiar in England, all the winter pears ripe- 

 ning much earlier than usual. In Paris I found the 

 old St. Germain Aery line. On the 4th of October, 

 J844, dining at Rouen, I found at the depot the 

 handsomest and prettiest specimens of the White 

 Doyenne I ever saw, looking and tasting as though 

 they had been grown on trees as healthy and vigo- 

 rous as the Seckel. Yours, very respectfully. Win. 

 C. W. Baltimore, Md., July 'Slst. 



[The above is an extract of a letter from a zealous 

 amateur in Baltimore. Will om* friends- who still 

 believe in the doctrine of " 0!/<ca.s/s," have the 

 gooilness to observe the line quality of that very 

 old, unsurpassed, and much abused pear, the White 

 DoYEiVNK, in France. It is certainly not yet quite 

 abandoned in that country. — Er.] 



BiGNOXiA GRANDiFLORA. — I have a remarkable 

 specimen of the large flowering Trumpet Creeper, 

 (Bigiionia grandijiora.) It is grafted on the na- 

 tive sort — (common Trumpet Creeper, B. radicans) 

 — the only mode in which I could ever succeed in 

 growing it. It covers a three sided trellis, 15 feet 

 in height. I had the curiosity, a few days ago, to 

 count its flowers and buds. It contained 54 co- 

 rymbs, eacli of which averaged 10 flowers and 27 

 buds — in all upwards of 500 flowers and 1500 buds 

 to expand. I saw no climbing plant in any part 

 of Europe to surpass this, or scarcely to compare 

 with it. Plants grafted this spring are now 6 feet 

 high and in bloom. — W. C. W. Baltimore, July 

 31st. 



[There are two large plants of this fine creeper 

 in our neighborhood, which are growing on their 

 own roots, and arc pictures of beauty every season 

 — though neither of them will compare with tliat 

 of our correspondent in the profusion of their flow- 

 ers. £. grandijiora requires a slight covering 

 here with straw in winter to insure it against the ef- 

 fects of any unusual cold. This variety is much more 

 striking and beautiful in its blossoms than the old 

 Trumpet Creeper. The flowers arc large and not 

 trumpet but cup-shaped. The color is orange on 

 the inside and darker red on the exterior of the 

 blossom. — Ed.] 



The Northern Spy Apple. — It will be remem- 

 bered that our correspondent, Mr. W. R. Smith, of 

 Macedon, N. Y., in an article on this already cele- 



liruted fruit, in a ]ircvious number, stated that 

 <* however valuable for the garden or small oreiiaiil, 

 it is worthless as a market fruit compared with the 

 Baldwin, Newtown Pippin, or Roxbury Russet."' 



The editor of the Genesee Farmer tlissents from 

 this opinion, though at the same time he says that 

 he adiiiils "the fruit docs deteriorate sooner on old 

 trees of diminished vigour than many other varie- 

 ties, such as Rhode Island Greenings, Russets, ice. 

 — but by no means so as to render it ' worthless as 

 a market fruit.' It only renders more careful cul- 

 ture necessary." He adds, " one fact which we are 

 bound to consider conclusive in regard to the me- 

 rits of this fruit, is that all the superb specimens 

 that have appeared in our markets during the last 

 few years, and have attracted such universal admi- 

 ration, have been produced in common country or- 

 chards, under very ordinary culture — such as our 

 good eastern fruit-growers, like Mr. Pell, would 

 consitler absolute neglect. In such men's hands as 

 Mr. Pell the ' Spy' would surpass any thing Mr. 

 S. or any of us have yet seen." 



We have copied these remarks in order to say 

 that in so far as regards cultivation, and theeflects 

 produced by it on the size and fairness of the ap- 

 ple, we are inclined to diflcr from the editor of the 

 Genesee Farmer in the iircscnt instance. We were 

 in the neighborhood of Rochester during the early 

 part of this month, and nothing, in a gardening 

 sense, struck us so forcibly as the unusual health 

 and luxuriance of all the apple orchards that we 

 saw about that city. Certainly Mr. Pell's or- 

 chards, which we have also had great gratification 

 in examining this season, by no means present a 

 more beautiful spectacle than many common coun- 

 try orchards that we saw in the neighborhood of 

 Rochester. The trees were loaded with fair and 

 beautiful looking crops of fruit. No soil can, as it 

 appears to us, be naturally more favorable to the 

 luxuriance and large product of the apple, than that 

 of the neighborhood of Rochester. Its newness and 

 great fertility arc an abuntlant olfset to the system of 

 manuring adopted so judiciously and with such ex- 

 cellent results by Mr. Fell. And we greatly doubt 

 if the high culture of any of our eastern growers 

 of fruit would succeed in producing for along time 

 large crops of fair Northern Spy apples, if this va- 

 riety has the defect in question, in a soil where it 

 originated, and where it is eminently vigorous imts 

 growth. 



Since the publication of Mr. Smith's remarks, we 

 have heard from several growers an expression of 

 a similar opinion. Mr. J. J. Thomas, of the same 

 neighborhood, expresses the same opinion in his 

 " Fruit Culturist." We are therefore inclined to 

 believe that the Northern Spy is more valuable for 

 the garden or small orchard than for market culti 

 vation on a large scale. But we shall be glad tc 

 hear more evidence on the subject, from any or 

 chard grower of this variety. 



The Red Juneating Apple. — What is the true 

 Red Juneating Apple ? The fruit that is known ir 



