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DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



ultra of ils class of yellow cvcrbloominp: Roses, 

 will, I fear, prove a ilownrifrht disappointnicnl. I 

 liave had six plants in my possession for eighteen 

 months, anti have never seen but two flowers. In a 

 woril, it is a xhij bloomer, and I am sure does not 

 jtossirss the (iiuilitios to make it a jiopular Jlose. 

 Does this correspond with your ex]icricnee ? J. 

 B.S., Philadelphia, JuneiSth, IS-Hi. 



[We answer, yes : and hearinp; this same account 

 from rose trrowers in various parts of the country, 

 we liavc little doubt that tlie opinion of our corres- 

 pondent is, for this climate, a sound one. — Ed.] 



Red Astraciian Apple. — This is certainly a 

 fruit of rare merit. In my judgment it has no su- 

 j>erior at its season. It ripens in my garden about 

 the same time as that general favorite, the Yellow 

 Harvest. Perhaps it is not quite so high flavored, 

 although I am sure it laclcs but little. But what 

 can approach it in beauty ! I picked a basket of 

 this fruit to-day (July Ifith), every specimen of 

 which is like a perfect wax fruit — brilliant jiur- 

 plish-red, with abloom like a plum. This bloom, 

 by the way, is a trait of Russian Apples. The tree 

 bears only too much, and is as regular in its pro- 

 duct as the return of the swallow. Yours. Long 

 Jsland. 



Failure or the Cherry Chopin the Vici- 

 nity OF BosTO.v. — There has been an unusual fai- 

 lure of the Cherry crop in this neighborhood the 

 present season. The excessive hot weather in 

 April caused the trees to show an early bloom, 

 and the prospect for an abundant supply was very 

 flattering for the first half of May. We then had 

 very cold weather for the season, and a number of 

 frosts occurred, in some jilaces rather severe, but 

 not sufliciently hard near Boston to aflect the fruit 

 unfavorably, although there were strong fears that 

 this would be the case ; but the very severe and cold 

 northeast storm that prevailed a number of days the 

 last of the month, had a more disastrous etTect. It 

 caused not only the Cherries, but Pears and other 

 fruit to blast, and at least half the Cherries were 

 ruined and dropped to the ground. It is said "half 

 a loaf is better than none," and many were flatter- 

 ing themselves that although half their crop was 

 ruined, the increased price of what remained would 

 nearly or quite make up the deficiency in quantity, 

 but here again they were to be disappointed. Just 

 as the fruit began to swell and show colour, we 

 had a continuation of wet and cloudy weather, 

 which caused it to crack; a speedy decay followed, 

 and hardly a Cherry remained upon many trt cs fit 

 to eat. Indeed, from our own trees, which have 

 invariably produced for the last ten years at least 

 thirty bushels of Cherries every season, we diil not 

 gather more than two bushels: these were insipid 

 and almost tasteless, and so destitute of their pecu- 

 liar flavor, that the different varieties could not be 

 recognized unless they were taken directly from 

 the tree. 



We believe the failure was general, for we have 

 hardly seen a sound Cherry this year in the market. 

 In consequence of this failure, our exhibitions of 

 Cherries at the Horticultural Hall, the present sea- 

 son, has been much less interesting than for many 

 years past. But notwithstanding all this, some 

 cultivators have contrived to exhibit tolerably fine 



specimens of (his delicions fniil, especially of somo 

 of the late varieties. But what is consitiered line 

 this year would hardly be looked at in common 

 years. Yours, J. B. Boston, July [0th, 184U. 



Defoliation of the Plu.m. — My soil is light 

 and every season about miilsummer most of the 

 leaves of my i>lum trees drop oU'. The consequence 

 is my plums ri]ien badly or do not ripen at all. My 

 soil is a li.ght anil sandy loam. — Yours, Philadel- 

 phia, Jhigust 10. 



[If our correspondent will give every bearing 

 tree whose trunk is as thick as his arm, half a i)cck 

 of coarse salt, strewed over the surface of the 

 ground in April eveiy season for three or four 

 years, he will finil the trees to carry their foliage 

 well, and of a deep green color through the whole 

 season, bearing also crops of fine fruit. 



In a previous notice we have spoken of the re- 

 markable ctfccts produced on the verdure of a haw- 

 thorn hedge here last season by the application of 

 salt. We ought to add that this siiring we omitteil 

 its ajiplication, and the consequence is that now, 

 the middle of August, the hedge is becoming quite 

 brown and dingy, notwithstanding the absolute 

 moisture of this summer compared with the great 

 drouth of that of '45. — Ed.] 



The Glout Morceau Pear. — ^We learn by a 

 letter from Otis Johnson, Esq., of Lynn, Mass., 

 that the Glout Morceau Pear does not stucceed at all 

 in his garden at Lynn, and he adds that he is in- 

 formed by a gentleman in Salem that the fruit also 

 blights in that citj'. Mr. Joh.\son we know to be 

 one of our most skilful cultivators of thisfruit, and 

 he adds that his trees of this sort are on "Quince 

 stocks — of good size and all quite thrifty. The 

 fruit sets very plentifully, but blights and falls at 

 an earl}' stage, and this is the only variety under 

 my cultivation that blights." 



In Boston, as we have ourselves seen, and as our 

 readers know by Col. Wilder's article, this is one 

 of the finest of fruits — and we may add that we 

 have never seen a blighted pear of this varicf j- any 

 where in the interior. We fear, therefore, that, 

 even on the Quince stock, the Glout Morceau may 

 prove too delicate to be worthy of cultivation quite 

 near the sea, as at Salem, or Lynn, though highly 

 valuable elsewhere. It is only b)' a collection of 

 such facts, furnished by cultivators of juilgmcnt and 

 experience like Mr. Johnson, that Pomological 

 knowledge can ever be rendered ample and satis- 

 factory, in a country so various in its climate and 

 soil as our own. 



Jenney's and Mottier's Strawberries. — We 

 observe, in the report of the committee upon 

 fruits, of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 made June 20lh, it is stated that Jenney's and Mot- 

 tier's Seedling Strawberries "are very acid and 

 not worthy of cultivation, and better adapted to a 

 southern climate." On the 4th of July, the com- 

 mittee report of the Jenny's Seedling, that " the 

 berries were large, and notwithstanding the season 

 has been unfavorable for the ripening of straw- 

 berries, still the flavor was extremely rich ,- we 

 class it among the best. In justice to Mr. Jenny 

 and ourselves, we must add, that his former spcci- 



