EDITOR'S TABLE. 



Summer and fall Apples are not only benefitted, by being taken before fully ripe, but their 

 time may be greatly prolonged. I have kept the Summer St. Paradise until Christmas, by taking 

 them a little green, wrapping each one in jiaper, and packing them in the bottom of a che^t, 

 under some clothes. 



Peaches, with us, ought to be very nearly ripe before taken from the tree — at least the early 

 varieties ; the later ones will bear taking off greener. The Heath Cling, if taken at the proper 

 time, can be kept until near the end of the year, by taking them from the tree before they are 

 at all soft, wrapping in paper, and put into a close drawer or chest. 



Cherries are not fit (at least, most kinds) to be eaten after they have been picked fifteen hours ; 

 but the great error here, is, three-fourths of them are taken nearly a week before ripe. I have 

 for years endeavored to persuade some of m}^ customers to leave the Black Tartarian until ripe, 

 but of no avail ; they will pick them when half ripe, and then complain that I sold them a red 

 Cherry, instead of a black one. 



Sti-awberries, above all, I think should be fresh from the vines. "VTe never think of keeping 

 them over night for market, but generally send them to the town within three or four hours after 

 gathering. They are at once picked into quart boxes, handled carefully, carried two miles in a 

 spring wagon, and look as when plump and fresh almost as on the vines. A lady from Philadelphia 

 once saw some of my Strawberries in town, and remarked that few came to the city market in 

 as fine order. While upon the subject, I will state that with me, the Hovey^s Seedlijig, Burr''^ 

 New Pine, LongwcrtJis Prolific, and British Queen, are my favorites among some dozen varieties 

 that I have experimented upon. 



In Plums my experience has been small, as the Curculio saves me the trouble of learning how 

 to keep them. However, some fine Columbia, Jefferson, Princes Imperial, and Washington Plums 

 have borne. Samuel Miller. — Calmdale, near Lebanon, Pa. 



Read's Axglo-American Apple. — ^This is to say that I have a seedling Apple that will excite all 

 fiuit growers, when once brought to notice. As I am in possession of most of the leading varie- 

 ties of the present time, and these in bearing, I am fully able to judge of its qualities pretty cor- 

 rectly, and when brought on the table with Gravenstein, Sweet Bough, St. Lawrence, and other 

 leading apples of the same season, it is always consumed first, and the remark always comes out, 

 if any are present that have not partaken of it before, ! what a splendid apple ! In short, it is 

 among Apples what the secJcel is among Pears, — it possesses a mingling of juices that is not to be 

 found in any other Apple. It may be called sweet, soft-fleshed, melting, and lich. It is a good 

 baking or stewing Apple. Begins to ripen in August, and lasts till December. The Apple has 

 crimson stripes from the stem half way up its sides with a prominent seam from stem to blossom, 

 which feels and looks like a thread stretched over the skin. Its great excellence caused me to 

 graft it on large trees immediately, so that at this time I could cut a great many grafts. I have 

 not yet let it go out abroad, but intend to do so. It you would like to propagate some foui- or 

 five thousand, I could furnish you with the scions. I brought fifteen or twenty fine large Apples 

 from the tree, on purpose to send to you, and hid them in a bed room off tlie kitchen, till I could 

 go to the station ; and when I brought them out to send to you, they were too ripe, — the cooking 

 stove had spoiled them. They look very much like your colored drawing of the Melon Apple, 

 but a great deal larger; and if I can judge rightly, it is destined to cast all of its season far into 

 the shade. Kext year, probably, I shall have bushels of this truly splendid Apple, when you 

 shall see it W. IL E. 



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