EDITOR'S TABLE. 



PoMOLOGiCAL Gossip. — A3 I am confined to the house by a rainy day, and on taking up the 

 Horticulturist saw your solicitation for rough notes, Ac, thought aroused me to give a few, and to 

 let them go for what they may seem worth. 



Peaches have been very plentiful with us this summer. The two Crawford varieties were ex- 

 ceedingly fine. Some of the late Crawford's actually measured eleven inches in circumference, 

 and, when well ripened, really luscious. I have esteemed the above two varieties as really 

 splendid market fruit — so very valuable, that now I have two hundred trees of the Cravfords 

 nicely in bearing on my grounds, along with all the other leading varieties of the present day, 

 some of which far surpass the Crawfords in beauty and richness of flavor ; yet for real profit I 

 will give Crawford's Early the preference. Its hardiness and proof against the sudden changes of 

 the weather, curled leaf, and late frosts, will soon place it at the head of all varieties for exten- 

 sive cultivation. I will here state that your strawberry McAvoys Superior, or fine prize with 

 me proves to be the Extra Red, like Prince sent me from Long Island. 



Plums, — I have had a full crop of all the leading kinds for the last eight years, such as the 

 Jefferson, Washington, G. Gage, Hiding's Superb, Smith's Orleans, Lawrence's Favorite, and so on ; 

 also. Nectarines and Apricots, all simply saved by jarring the trees and killing the curculios from 

 the cotton sheet prepared for the purpose, as follows: The sheet always to be made suflaciently 

 large to catch all that may fall on either side, to be cut up half way in the centre, and hemmed 

 so as to pass around the trunk of the tree; then, with one long and two short sticks to be lashed 

 fast to the ends, two boys and a man can run over a fruit garden in a few minutes, and will 

 always have the satisfaction to find the curculios to lessen in numbers rapidly ; and as soon as 

 only one or two are caught, the sheet may be hung up till the next year. The reward will be 

 certain and rich. 



Straicberries. — Hovey's Seedling, Burr's New Pine, Early Scarlet, bear large and fine berries, and 

 are heavily loaded every year. No failure so far. Swainstone's Seedling, Boss's Phcenix, Keens 

 Seedling, Myatt's Eliza, Princess Royal, British Queen, Methven Scarlet, are rather poor bearers, and 

 will hardly pay for culture. But I must here remark that the English Swainstone Seedling, in my 

 opinion, is the richest of all foreign imported varieties, and a tolerable good bearer in a deep rich 

 soil, (having ripe fruit and blossoms at the same time,) berries large, conical, fine in flavor, far 

 ahead of Burrs' Xew Pine when well ripened. Try it and see, or try it again ; it's the highest 

 flavored berry of the day. Black Prince is with me an enormous bearear ; large and good. I 

 have taken it into the field for a market berry along with McAvoys Superior, Extra Red, and Xo- 

 1 pistillate. These varieties of McAvoy's I obtained from Wm. Pi. Prince, Flushing, L. I., which 

 he assured me were genuine; and I am pleased to know they are so. Tlicy bore the past season, 

 and I must say are very important varieties. The Superior is decidedly the best berry of the 

 three ; yet the Extra Red is valuable as a market fruit, being large and quite prolific, yet it has 

 a queer habit — some of its berries, when under high cultivation, grow in shape like a new moon, 

 and many others do not fill up full, and occasionally show green in the end of the fruit, like the 

 bursting out of a leaf; and this is the kind that has been sold to hundreds for McAvoy's Superior, 

 by the descriptions iu tlie Hortimlturist, from different parts, which is good proof Now I have 

 some twenty of the leading varieties of Strawberry, and when planted in the garden, row for 

 row, one row of the Extra Red will multiply and produce more plants perhaps than all the rest 

 together; while the Superior multiplies but moderately, and somewhat resembles Burr's Xew 

 Pine in foliage, lying closer to the ground than the Extra Red, and the leaves are not crimped like 

 that variety. The Xo. 1 pistillate is an extraordinary large, fine fruit, but lacking in flavor, Ac. 

 I have also a recent variety brought fi-om England, by a gentleman in Hamilton; it is called 

 Crawford's Superb Pistillate, conical, large, and exceedling prolific; color dark mahogany, a very 

 valuable variety, and a great and free grower. My seedlings from the British Queen make 

 smile ; indeed, such foliage as some of the young plants have, is astonishing — far stronger 



