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ter ripens its fruit licre well, if it lins an open or sunny nsiK'ot, nml is, in my opinion, greatly 

 eiipeiior to the former. Is not tiiis seini-tondernefs of the hulxl/a corrobonitivo of itH foreign 

 origin, which many ass-ign to it? (3) Speaking of Grape.^, why is it that some of your KochcBler 

 pomologista 80 ''set up" the Clinton Grape? It is harJy and iirolific; that is all 1 can 8.»y in its 

 favor. ^Yhat its merits as a wine Grape may be, 1 know not ; but as a dessert fruit, it is infe- 

 rior, decidedly, to many of the native Grapes found in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Last 

 season I allowed some bunches to remain on the vines until my Calawbas were ripe, and 'even 

 then one could say they were "sour," without being called "foxy." It may do in 45" N. latitude, 

 where they cannot gi-ow any thing better. (4) 



Our prospects for most kinds of fruit this season, are very good. The Peach trees, that are 

 alive, have generally fruit enough on them. 



The curculio is much less troublesome this season, thus far, than usual. Have they, too, been 

 killed by the winter ? 



I think we shall have a fair crop of Plums. Our standard Pear trees are generally email as yet j 

 but these young trees have generally fiuit on them, enough to give us a forctaJte of good things 

 to come. 



Cherries and the small fruits jiromises well. I had May Bl^arrcaiis ripe on the first day of 

 June. 



Ajiplcs are of course more common here than any other fruit . Our varieties are nearly the 

 same as with you. The Apple worm has seriously injured the crop for two or three years past. 

 Many of our farmers are very negligent of their fruit trees. When they have planted thtm, they 

 think their duty is done ; the orchard is laid down to grass, and the trees struggle along the best 

 way they can. Others carry their notions of duty further : they have learned from their fathers 

 that Apple trees should be trimmed in the spiing ; and accordingly around with saw and prun- 

 ing chisel they go at 'em. Their notions of pruning reminds one of the ideas of the Connecticut 

 deacon, lespccting family government. He read in his bible, " correct thy son betimes." lie 

 understood this to mean by times; i. e. at stated periods, or set times. Accoidingly, he was 

 accustomed to call his boys before him at regular intervals, and give them "the flax," however 

 exemplary their conduct might have been ; thus fulfilling, as he thought, a scriptural injunction. 

 However, thanks to our favorable soil and climate, notwithstanding all the negligence of our cul- 

 tivators, we believe we produce as good Apples as can be found in any part of the United States, 

 the truth of which we will endeavor to convince you, if you will give us the pleasure of seeing 

 you here about the time of our next County Fair, the first week in October. 



I have thus poured out before you the contents of my little budget, if you find nothing worth 

 saving, among the shrubs and fragments I have placed before you, they can be easily burned up ; 

 if I have communicated anything worth your notice, I shall be gratified. A. S. N. 



(1.) We cannot see very serious difficulty in protecting a few garden trees from the grub, 

 if no other remedy be resorted to tlian that of frequent examinations and removal of the 

 grub. In the orchard this operation would incur a considerable amount of labor. We have 

 known wood ashes to prove an effectual barrier, when placed around the base of the tree 

 on the ground surface where the moth deposites its eggs. Air-slaked lime also answers a 

 good purpose. Either should be applied in the spring, say in May, and be alloAved to remain 

 all simimer. Both these applications make a good dressing for the tree, when spaded or 

 forked into the soil in the autunm. 



(2.) Quinces and Quince stocks suffered in the same way around Rochester in exposed 

 localities. They have never been known to suffer in the slightest degree before, even in 

 the coldest winter. The cause of injury last winter was first a thaw, which laid the ground 

 followed suddenly by a liard frost accompanied with liigh wind. 

 Wc never entertained the slightest suspicion of its being a foreigner. 



