EDITOE'S TABLE. 



(4.) Doctors will disagree. We do not consider the Clinton equal in quality to the Isa- 

 lella or Cataicha^ but it is so hardy and productive, and so sure to ripen well when these 

 others often fail, that we consider it valuable. People's taste differ very much in regard to 

 flavor and sweetness or acidity of fruits. What one calls delicious^ another may pronounce 

 intolerable ; one is all for sweets, and another all for acids. We know many persons who 

 absolutely prefor good Isahella Grapes to BlacTc Hanidurgs or Chasselas. Some people can 

 eat half a peck of sv\'eet Apples at a sitting, while others would no more taste one than 

 they would raw Turnips. It is fortunate, too, that there are such a variety of tastes. 



A Letter from Wisconsin'. — Believing that in order to cultivate fruit trees successfully, it is 

 necessary to observe accurately the seasons and the effects produced on the different varieties. I 

 shall (if you desire it), furnish you from time to time, with such facts as come under my own 

 observatioa in this locality, and of which you can make such use as you see fit. [We will be much 

 obliged for them. — Ed.] 



la my last note to you in February, I referred to the blight of Pear trees, and sent you a shoot 

 from an affected tree. A few days afterwards I discovered two others, — one a dwarf, the other a 

 standard, — that exhibited the signs of disease. A person from a general observation of the trees 

 would call them sound, but on close examination you would discover spots on the trunk of the 

 tree or larger limbs, of a different shade from the balance of the tree, but not apparently dead . 

 and on cutting into it you would find the inner bark presenting the same black appearance as in 

 the shoot sent you. The other portions of the tree were perfectly sound, and the last year's wood 

 and buds perfectly fresh. My own impression is, that there was sufficient vitality left to start 

 the trees in the spring, and probably if left (I cut them off and grafted), they would have put 

 forth leaves at the proper time, and continued to grow until the sap carried the disease through 

 the trees, and thus die with the so-called "fire blight." I also observed this spring among my 

 dwarf Apple trees one that did not start at the proper time ; and on examination I found the 

 bark, for three or four inches above the ground, entirely dead. 



Roses, called hardy, such as Blanche Vibert, La Heine, Marqids Boccella, Ac, were killed nearly 

 to the ground, but presented a different appearance from the trees, being dried up, or burned by 

 the heat of a clear sun in a frozen state, there being, as usual, no snow to protect any portion. 



This spring has been a very unfavorable one for transplanting, having been very dry, with 

 strong, cold, and drying winds prevailing most of the time; from the middle of February up to 

 the last Saturday, there being less than five inches of rain. On the nights of the 28th and 29th 

 of April we had severe frosts, with light frosts up to the 'Zth inst. At the time of the severe 

 frosts, most fruit trees, except Apples, were in bloom, but Peiir trees suffered the most. On one 

 Bartlett and two Duchesse d' Angouleme, the leaf-buds as well as blossoms, were entirely killed 

 The Duchesse ^' A7}goulcme, thus far, proves the most tender of any of the twenty-five varieties 

 I have tried. It stands our trying winters well, but is very easily affeeted by frosts when put- 

 ting fortli its leaves. 



There is one other point on which I wish to say a few words, and make a suggestion, Iioping 

 that it may be beneficial ; and that is, the delay of fruit trees on the route from the east to our 

 western States. I can truly say on this point " our sufferings have become intolerable." A week 

 ago I received a ease of fiuit trees, forwarded by rail-road from your city, that was only twenty- 

 four days in reaching Milwaukie ; and a friend informed me a day or two since, that he had an 

 invoice of trees, — shipped by E. and B., of Rochester, — on the 2l8t of last month, and that he had 

 then heard nothing from them. Cannot something be done to avoid this delay? I will pi'opose 

 that the nurserymen of your city, and other places if deemed best, unite and employ a person at 



o, to receive and forward fruit trees and plants from that point. Let this be his only 

 ness, during the season of shipping trees ; and leave tlie forwarding from that point enti 



