EDlTOirS TAIJLIC. 



allowing the root-grnfts to prow none, the stock-grafts will be some sixty feet high, Avitli 

 iliametor in proportion, rrodigious! Thoso trees should bo in Barnum's Museum, or the 

 Crystal Palace. 



It is idle to follow Mr. IIovey fiirtlior, wliilc he doals in such loose, extravagant state- 

 ments. "We will close this subject, for the present, by quoting from the ^^Frairie Farmer''' 

 the experience of Edsox IIakkxess, Esq., one of the most extensive Apple tree growers in 

 the west: 



"I have about eight hundred to one thousand grafted and budded trees which have come to 

 bearin". ]S'ot much difference as to the number of those budded and those which arc grafted. 

 Now, instead of finding a great difference in their hardihood, early bearing, etc., I would not 

 give five dollars to have them all changed to budded trees; or, rather, I do not think they would 

 have been any better lot of trees, had they all, at the proper time, been budded on seedling 

 stocks, instead of having been root-grafted. I do not dispute the facts stated by the advocates of 

 exclusive budding, but believe that the inferences they draw from those facts are altogether 

 wrong. There are certain varieties of the Ap]>le, which, planted on a rich soil, are very slow in 

 cjmiu"- to a bearing state. Take the Yellow BcUjlowcr, for instance ; it will take ten to fourteen 

 years to come into a bearing condition, and in that time it v/ould spread out into an enormous 

 tree, whether it be root-grafted or placed upon a seedling stock, of the same or greater vigor 

 than itself. But place this same Bcllflower upon a rigid, slow growing seedling stock, and it will 

 produce an exceedingly large crop three to six years sooner. And' so it is with all the vigorous 

 fast growing varieties ; they are slow in coming to a bearing condition, imless dwarfed on a 

 crabbed seedling, which checks their vigor, and causes them to throw out fruit buds. These 

 dwarfed trees, however, arc not so valuable as those which grow without any check, and become 

 large before bearing. I have sixteen Michael Henry Pippins which are on rather rigid stocks, 

 which have, up to this time, produced an average of fourteen bushels of apples in three bearing 

 seasons. I have also two others on very strong stocks which have not produced more than from 

 six to seven bushels each. But it is probable that the two large trees will, in the coiu-se of 

 twenty years, produce twice as much as any two of the others." 



TnE New Roses. — Fortune's Doiible Yellow is a dull bnff, with a tinge of purple ; flowers 

 small, semi-double, and loose ; about as hardy as a Tea Eose — at the best, it falls far below 

 expectation. We see the PhiladeljjJda Florist has republished Van Houtte's plate irom 

 the Flora des Serres. During the past season, its reputation has somewhat recovered by a 

 more skillful and successful culture. The flowers are produced on wood of the previous 

 year's growth, and therefore the shoots, instead of being cut back, must be preserved and 

 merely thinned out, as is done with the Persian Yellow, Banlcsias, and others of similar 

 habits of flowering. 



The Augttsta, o)-iginated from seed by the Hon. James Mathews, of Coshocton, Ohio, 

 and sent out last spring by Messrs. Tiiokp, Smith, IIanchett & Co., of Syracuse, has 

 flowered finely in our own grounds. It is in habit similar to Solfatare; the flowers a pale 

 yellow, rather deeper than Solfatare, and more fragrant ; the center petals are small, Avhich 

 very much lessens the fullness and perfection of the flower ; it grows and blooms fi-eely, 

 and is altogether a desirable variety, but will not prove to be, as some seem to expect, a 

 '■'■hardy climling yellow Hose.'''' It belongs to the same class as Cliroraatella, Solfatare, and 

 Lamarque, and will prove to he about as hardy as these. 



FauVs Victoria, announced some two years ago as a superb '■'■WInte La i?eine," proves 

 a large and very beautiful Eose of a pale flesh color, with a rosy tint in the center, 



