DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



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this neighborhood appears to me to agree perfectly 

 with the cut and description of the " Early Straw- 

 berry" Apple of your Fruits and Fruit-trees of 

 Jlmerica. — C Burlington, N. J. 



Answer. — The Red Juneating is not now consi- 

 dered a standard name, the European apple to 

 which that name properly belongs being now called 

 the Early Red Margaret. (See Catalogue of Lon- 

 don Hort. Soc. — Lindky's Guide to the Orchard — 

 and our Fruits and Fruit-trees.) 



The apple known in most American collections 

 as the Red Juneating is a totally distinct fruit — the 

 Early Strawberry Apple. It is an American fruit, 

 ripening about the same time as the Early Red 

 Margaret, (Red Juneating.) but very distinct from 

 it, so that no person who once compares the two 

 fruits, can ever confound them. 



The Early Strawberry has a long stalk, and is a 

 high colored fruit, striped with dark red. The 

 Early Red Margaret has a short stalk and is a dull 

 colored fruit, with faint red stripes. We have 

 had both fruits in bearing this year, and have com- 

 pared them for several years past. The Early Red 

 Margaret is correctly shown in the beautiful co- 

 lored plates of Ronald's Pyrus Malus Brentif or den- 

 sis, and in the Pomological Magazine. Our Early 

 Strawberry Apple is not described in any European 

 work that we have seen. It is greatly superior to 

 the Early Red Margaret in productiveness, and es- 

 pecially in long keeping and ripening gradually, 

 qualities that are rare in early apples and for which 

 the market dealers in New-York rate the Straw- 

 berry Apple very highly. — Ed.] 



The History of the Noisette Rose. — The note 

 regarding the origin of this rose quoted in our first 

 number from the Annals of Horticulture, has at- 

 tracted the attention of some friends at the south, 

 acquainted with the facts regarding its production. 

 We have before us a note from John D. Legare, 

 Esq., of Charleston, S. C, with some interesting 

 details regarding this plant, which certainly clear 

 up all doubts regarding its origin. 



Mr. Legare informs us that the account given 

 in the English journal of its having been origina- 

 ted on Long Island, and carried thence to Rouen, 

 is entirely a fabrication. Its true history he says is 

 that it was raised from seed by Mr. Philip Noi- 

 sette, of Charleston. Mr. L. informs us that he was 

 for many years acquainted with Mr. Noisette, who 

 owned a small farm on Charleston neck. From his 

 own lips Mr. Legare heard the accountof the ori- 

 gin of this rose more than once, and if he is not 

 greatly mistaken he showed him the parent plant. 

 Mr. Noisette frequently spoke of the attempts of 

 the nurserymen in Europe to rob him of the honor 

 of originating the first of this beautiful class of 

 Roses — which he attributed to the then low opi- 

 nion entertained by them of this country; as at 

 that time its origin was attributed to his brother, 

 the nurseryman at Paris — this last English story 

 hail not been dreamed of. Mr. Noisette men- 

 tioned to Mr. Legare the sorts of roses between 

 which the original Noisette rose was a hybrid — but 

 the latter does not recollect which were the varie- 

 ties. "Certain it is, however," says Mr. Legare, 

 " no one in tlic neighborhood of Charleston but 



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knows as to its originating here and by the hands of 

 Mr. Philip Noisette." 



Effect of Salt upon Depth of Verdure. — 

 Every one who knows the English Hawthorn, 

 knows how much it suffers in this latitude with the 

 heat of our midsummer sun. Beautiful as it is in 

 early spring, it usually becomes, after the month of 

 July, so brown and dingy in its foliage, as frequent- 

 ly to present the appearance of a dead rather than a 

 live fence. 



Having a fine line of this hedge on one of the 

 boundaries of our premises, and observing that the 

 borer was commencing his attacks upon portions 

 of it, we applied in April, 1845, a pretty plentiful 

 dressing of salt along the whole line of hedge, and 

 immediately, about the base of the thorn stems. 

 The application was strong enough to kill the 

 young tufts of grass, that were growing here and 

 there among the roots of the hedge. The hedge 

 itself was greatly improved in luxuriance by it. 

 But what most surprised us was this : the spring and 

 summer of 1845 were perhaps the dryest and hottest 

 ever known here. Trees and plants of every kind 

 suffered greatly. For the first time, within our re- 

 membrance, since the hedge was planted, it main- 

 tained its healthy and green verdure, through the 

 u7(o/e season till autumn. We attribute this solely 

 to the action of the salt, and cannot but think, 

 therefore, that it must be one of the most valuable 

 alteratives, when the soil is naturally too dry, for 

 any tree or plant, provided the tree or plant to be 

 grown there is one that will bear salt. 



A dry soil is one that from its texture has too 

 little capacity for retaining moisture. Common 

 salt has an unusual capacity for attracting it. This 

 is probably one reason why the plum tree, which 

 loves a moist soil, thrives so well after the appli- 

 cation of salt. 



Budding in the Spring. — The French often 

 inoculate or bud in the spring, but we believe the 

 practice is mostly confined to the propagation of 

 Roses. There is no reason, however, why it should 

 not be applied to fruit trees, ornamental trees and 

 shrubs. 



We forwarded some grafts in April to our corres- 

 pondent, N. Longworth, Esq., of Cincinnati, of a 

 rare variety of Mulberry. The INIulberry is by no 

 means an easy tree to propagate by grafting. Mr. 

 Longworth writes us regarding this as follows: 



"I received the Johnston Mulberry grafts you 

 sent me, antl also some from Professor Kirtland. 

 Not one graft out of thirty lived. 



" I retarded or kept back a single graft contain- 

 ing /owr buds, till the bark peeled. All these buds 

 (which I inserted in the common way) grew. I 

 was equally successful in budiiing, at the same time, 

 Pears, Nectarines and Apricots on stocks that had 

 had their buds killed by the winter. Why have 

 not writers on horticulture dwelt upon this ? I 

 shall hereafter abandon the grafting of large trees, 

 and buil in the spring. If the first bud fails, I can 

 repeat it in June. Yours, with regard. N. Long- 

 worth. Cincinnati, O., June 18th. 



Cloth of Gold Rose. — This new Rose, which 

 has been sold at so high a price, ; nd upon which 

 so many praises have been lavished, as the ne plus 



