TIIK FIRK HLUIUT — CRACKING OF PKARS. 



])arts are thrown off. The tree resumes its usual healthy action in the fomiinpj of 

 woiiil aiul the niaturini; of fruit. Tliis I have proved not only once, but in twenty 

 instances or more ; and not one year, but a scries of years. Trees treated thus years 

 a<xo, arc now healthy and full of fruit. I have been pained to witness the destruc- 

 tion of valuable trees in other collections for want of timely and proper attention, 

 the proprietors holding on to the old notion of inxcct poison, and in hopeless de.'^pair 

 looking on the work of destruction. It is not safe to delay one moment after it is dis- 

 covered to exist in a tree, but instantly to apply the knife. This disease may, with 

 great propriety, be termed veget-.ible mortification, which extends rapidly inward to 

 the sap vessels, to the vitals of the tree ; when these are once reached on the body 

 of the tree, all hope to save it is at an end. 



A remark, if yim please, on the singular freak of my "White Doyenne trees, in 

 producing fine, splendid fruit for years after planting, then for the space of nine or 

 ten years uniformly cracking and producing only unsightly and worthless fruit ; then 

 suddenly to resume their former habit in the production of as fair and handsome 

 fruit as you could wish to look on, or to eat ; and this without any apparent cause, 

 or the least cbange to the soil or any thing being done to the tops. This to me is 

 altogether an unaccountable mystery. I had attributed the return to their former 

 habit, of the production of fair and good fruit to the last two or three unusually dry 

 summers, but this being an unexampled wet one, and my fruit being now fully 

 formed and grown, without the blemish of a crack, I am just where I started, a 

 "Imow nothing" on that subject. And I think the facts developed in my trees up- 

 set all the theories that have been started as to the cause. At all events, they prove 

 conclusively that it is not to the vai'iety having run out by old age, or that the trees 

 had absorbed from the soil all the particles necessary to their healthy action, and the 

 perfection of fruit. As I have observed in a former communication, my trees are 

 scattered over my grounds, some in cultivated land, and others in grass; the latter 

 have never been disturbed about the roots, some the first fruited ; the others have 

 shared in the benefits of the other crops in the cultivation, and yet all have acted 

 precisely alike. I feel very desirous for more light on the subject; can you or some 

 of your numerous subscribers furnish it ? I certainly shall feel myself greatly 

 oblijred for it. 



Philadelphia has lately been visited, by a deputation of the Councils of Roches- 

 ter, New York, who have discovered that by the late connections or links of Rail- 

 roads they reside nearer to tide water via Pennsylvania than by their own roads, 

 and accordingly they had a good jollification. Ex-Mayor Smith of Rochester, made 

 the following remark respecting the nurseries of that place : — 



" Allow me to mention one oilier brancli of industry, whose results are permanent, and 

 which is in fact a growimj branch ; that is the cultivation of fruit trees, which already 

 employs in the vicinity of Rochester at least one thousand persons, with sales last year 

 reaching half a million of dollars. More fruit trees are raised in Monroe county than in 

 United States besides, and these find a market in every hamlet from the interior 

 ifornia to the northern borders of Maine." 



