HDITOE'S TABLE. 



1 do not iintloi-etiind the pl\ilo>opliy of it. Poultry will scrntcli in tiny place frt-sh dng and 

 nianurt'd. Thoy may in my ca>e Imvo ron-li rod t;ood Bi-rvice by frightening or otiicrwir^e annoying 

 the curculio — as seventy or eighty fouls had tiie run of the ]>liice lust benaou. Wm. HorKfNs. — 

 Poiiutna Brunswick, near Troi/, ^V. Y. 



Chinese Peach. — In the spring of 1850 I received, ns a present from my friend, Mr. Ciiaiii.es 

 Downing, of Newburgh, a peach tree imported from China direct, and as Mr. D. informs me it 

 has not yet fruited with him, I presume mine is the first in this country-. 



On the 2d of March, 1851, the blooms first expanded, and on the 20th of July following a half- 

 dozen peaches ripened. Last year they flowered about the same time, and ripened the 12th of 

 Julj-^, the flowers expanding some ten or twelve days earlier than the general sorts. The fruit is 

 of the second size, small stone and cling, greenish cheek tinged with pale red principally around 

 the stem ; inclined to be long and somewhat flat, much inore so than ordinary peaches ; the skin 

 remarkably thin ; flesh juicy, of the very highest vinous flavor ; the whole af)pearance what would 

 be termed beautiful. It has now been tested for two years by persons who are competent judges 

 — for we flatter ourselves in this part of the world we know what peaches are — and all concur that 

 it is the most delicious peach they ever tasted. To have it in perfection it must be taken from 

 the tree, the skin being too thin to bear transportation. Last summer I took to a friend thirty 

 miles on the railroad one packed in cotton, and the slight jar of the road caused it to turn almost 

 black — I mean the color fruit becomes when it gets bruised. The original tree is of a low dwarf- 

 ish habit, while those I have budded are of a strong, vigorous growth. I have disseminated it 

 freely, giving buds to all who have asked, and .am in hopes that in the course of a very few years 

 it will be common all over our country. I consider it the most valuable acquisition we have 

 ever received in that dejxirtment, and if I can get a competent person will send yow a correct 

 drawing this summer, provided we don't lose our crop. IIenry Lyons. — Laurel Park, Colum- 

 bia, s. a 



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Osage Oraxge. — I notice in the number of the Horticulturist you were so kind as to send me 

 the request of a gentleman to be informed " whether the Osage Orange is liable to throw up 

 sprouts from the roots of a hedge ?" I can, with confidence, give assurance that it will not. I 

 have 16 rods of an Osage Orange hedge between my garden and orchard, which has been repeat" 

 edly, deeply, and closely plowed on the orchard side, and close-ly au.d well spaded on the garden 

 side, without inducing a sprout to show itself. And, further, a few isolated plants were left in the 

 nursery bed to aseerain what they would come to in lat. 42" north, and the ground around them 

 used for onions, beetf, salsify tte., without bringing up a sprout. And, further, in order to ascer- 

 tain how late the Osage Orange could be cut down iu a hedge without destruction, on the 29th 

 day of June last I sawed down one of these Osage Oranges even with the ground which now 

 exhibits five healthy sprouts from about the stump emhj. The plants of the Osage Orange are 

 very distinctly of the tap-rooted kind. 



The defection of seed so frequently complained of, I believe to bo generally a deficiency of 

 soaking. I met, on my first imdertaking the eidture of the Osage Orange, with the almost entire 

 loss of §10 Avorth of seed, which I procured in Pittsburgh, although I carefully followed the 

 directions of the nurseryman, iu soaking six days and changing the water daily. The following 

 year I soaked the seed two weeks, changing the water, producing tolerable success. Last spring 

 a quantity of seed was set aside in a marble mortar filled with water, and from neglect was not 

 discovered until four weeks after planting; T then planted them. The season of soaking had now 

 been between six and seven weeks, and I believe the seeds all vegetated and the quicks are now 

 equal, if not superior, to those planted a month previous. I have used difi"erent native plants for 

 live fencing, with indifferent success. I arh now under the impression that the Osage Oran 

 better adapted for this purpose than anything else obtainable in the United States. By 



