prown on dwarf trees twelve iDches in circumference — and all covered with the 

 richest crimson without a single spot or defect of any kind whatever. 



It is almost too acid, yet many people relish its ppritrhtlincss, and in the market 

 it carries all before it, commaniliug twice a.s nmch as any other variety of its season. 



We add Mr. Downing's excellent description : — 



A fruit of extraordinary beauty, first imported into England M-ith the White 

 Astrachan, from Sweden, in 1816. It bears abundantly, and its singular rich- 

 ness of colour is heightened by an exquisite bloom on the surface of the fruit, 

 like that of a plum. It is one of the handsomest dessert fruits, and its quality is 

 good, but if not taken from the tree as soon as ripe, it is liable to become mealy. 

 Ripens from the last of July to the middle of August. 



Fruit pretty large, rather above the middle size, and very smooth and fair, 

 roundish, a little narrowed towards the eye. Skin almost entirely covered with 

 deep crimson, with sometimes a little greenish yellow in the shade, and occasionally 

 a little russet near the stalk, and covered with a pale white bloom. Stalk rather 

 short and deeply inserted. Calyx let in a slight basis, which is sometimes a little 

 irregular. Flesh (juite white, crisp, moderately juicy, with an agreeable, rich acid 

 flavour. 



TRANSPORTATION OF FRUIT TREES. 



BY WILLIAM STOMS, CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



The time is near at hand when orders will go forward for Fruit and Ornamental 

 Trees, for fall planting, and fall sales. And as this is a subject so little treated upon 

 by Horticultural writers, and one at the same time so pregnant with vexation, tribu- 

 lation and loss, on the part of both vender and purchaser, I will venture a few 

 remarks on the subject, in hopes to contribute something towards arresting attention 

 in the right quarter, tending to a correction of a great, and, I may say, growing evil, 

 on account of the continued delinquencies on the part of transportation Agents. 



The many abuses heretofore suffered, call aloud for some corrective — and I know 

 of no better way than to keep the matter constantly he/ore the public. In this way 

 the hardened transgressor may be induced to "chime in," on the same principle of 

 the Irish girl who married her persistent suitor, to get clear of him. Perhaps, how- 

 ever, after the subject is once opened up, some one of your numerous readers may be 

 able to suggest a remedy more effective than the following : — 



It is well known, I presume, to every dealer in Fruit and Ornamental Trees, that 

 Railroad, and other transportation Agents, are in the habit of putting aside bundles 

 of Fruit Trees, because of a little inconvenience in hauling, whilst flour, whiskey, 

 and many other articles not perishable, are sent along with accelerated speed. 



With folded anns they seem to stand by and witness the perisliahle cargo of Fruit 

 Trees^ dry up on a sunny wharf or heated warehouse, until the very life is dried out 

 em. — That this has been a most shameful and inexcusable abuse, hundreds of 



