DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



such, "Wellington Plum, Wilmot's early Or- 

 leans. Nectarine, but a distinct plum from the 

 Caledonian. ' Wim. Lunn. 



I concur in the above, George Shepard. 



Notes on Plums. — In the Horticulturist for 

 April you publish an article from your corres- 

 pondent, C. G. ScRivERS, of Cincinnatti, on 

 the Gen. Hand Plum. After reading your for- 

 mer notice, (with a drawing attached,) I disco- 

 vered that you had fallen into an error when 

 you supposed that it originated with Mr. Sin- 

 clair of Md,, and had written out an article 

 on the subject, but being very busy, had neg- 

 lected to send you a copy previous to the pub- 

 lication alluded to aboYe. 



Your correspondent gives the true origin, &c., 

 of this plum, as I received it from Mr. Samuel 

 Carpenter, of Lancaster, Ohio, and the notice 

 I first sent you from Ohio in relation to the 

 Gen. Hand Plum, its bearing qualities, size, 

 &c., was predicated upon a tree upon the lot 

 of Mr. S. Carpenter, grown from one of the 

 grafts received from his brother in Penn. 



In relation to the Montgomer3'^ Plum, I have 

 only to say, that I have as repeatedly seen the 

 fruit and eaten of it, as I have the Gen. Hand, 

 and it is all your correspondent says about it, 

 only that it is called the Montgomery Prune, 

 instead of plum, by Mr. Carpenter. 



There is another plum grown by Mr. C. which 

 he ranked, I believe, as superior to either the 

 above, and wliich he called the " Ground-acre." 

 It is not so large as either the above, but I be- 

 lieve superior in flavor. I have a few trees of 

 each of these plums, brought with me from 

 Ohio, and thinking you would like to test the 

 Mongomery Prune, I have sent you this day 

 a scion of the same. The Ground-acre is far 

 too advanced to cut you a scion for grafting this 

 spring. 



If the above is of any service to you, use it 

 as you deem proper. I always think that we 

 cannot have too much light on any new fruit, 

 and I could have given you all the information 

 in relation to these plums when I first noticed 

 the Gen. Hand Plum, as well as now, if I had 

 then felt its importance equally as much. 



As soon as the busy season is over I will no- 

 tice the " Primate" apple, or as it is dubbed by 

 some, the " Rough and Ready ," and show when 

 ^ht into the country and by whom, &c. &c. 



I regret for the cause of pomology, that men 

 should pick up a fruit and suppose it a seedling 

 at once, and dub it with a new title, and send 

 it forth, saying it must be a seedling, because 

 Messrs. Thomas and Barry do not know it. 

 A sage conclusion truly, showing how easily 

 and upon how trifling a foundation a man will 

 form an opinion, and then promulgate the same, 

 for although Mr. Barry did not know the fruit, 

 it is growing within a very short distance of 

 Rochester. We have names enough for apples 

 if the original ones could be kept sacred, and 

 not re-christened so often. 



It is this that creates such confusion in Po- 

 mology, and against which we cannot guard too 

 much, and with you I will war continually to 

 suppress it. 



We have a seedling Tea Rose raised by my- 

 self, light straw with deeper centre, exquisitely 

 fragant, large size, and full double, much like 

 Lamarque, but more compact. It is an acquisi- 

 tion. I will send you a plant after a while, and 

 will leave the opinion of its merits to your un- 

 biassed judgment. A, Fahnestock. Syra- 

 cuse, Jpril 14, 1851. 



Fine Strawberrij Crop. — Allow me to add 

 one to the numerous accounts of large crops of 

 that excellent fruit, the Strawberry. 



In the spring 1849, I selected a small patch 

 of ground 8 by 18 feet for a bed. It was noth- 

 ing better than common garden soil, which in 

 the spring of '48 had been trenched one spit 

 deep, turning under plenty of stable manure. 

 I gave it a top-dressing of well rotted manure, 

 plaster and cliarcoal dust which had laid in the 

 air and weather two or three years. 



I planted my strawberry roots (Black Prince, 

 originally from A. Saul k Co., Newburgh,) 

 in rows eighteen inches apart and two feet in 

 the rows. Every plant lived and grew finely. 

 I allowed all the runners to take root, and the 

 next spring ('50) the bed was a complete mat 

 of vines strong and thrifty. 



The first picking was twenty-one quarts; the 

 next was lost by rotting before fairly ripening, 

 owing to the excessively warm rainy weather 

 at that time, probably as many as ten quarts 

 rotted on the ground j however, what we ac- 

 tually picked and measured amounted to thirty 

 quarts, from the bed 8 by 18 feet. As for size 

 they would compare favorably with any 



