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TEE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[March, 



The Mandarin Orange. — This is one of the 

 luxuries of New Orleans. It is a much superior 

 finiit to the ordinary orange, but, decaying easier, 

 is not suited to transportation, hence we do not 

 get it in our markets. Those who have gardens 

 in Louisiana should plant this delicious variety. 



Brockworth Park and Bonne d'Ezee Pears. — 

 The new English pear, Brockworth Park, is said 

 to be the same as the French Bonne d'Ezee. 



Clapp's Favorite Pear is regarded by a dis- 

 tinguished French pomologist, as one of the best 

 three August pears for that part of the world. 



American Potatoes in England. — It has been 

 long known to us that English varieties of potatoes 

 soon degenerate when planted here. It now ap- 

 pears that it is exactl}' so with our varieties in 

 England. They produce wonderful crops the 

 first year, but soon go backward. 



American Apples. — In a notice of a collection 

 of apples from Ellwanger & Barry the editor 

 of the Garden observes that the flavor of Amer- 

 ican apples is far superior to that of English 

 apples, even the Ribston pippins from Rochester, 

 and which is the king of all apples in England 

 is pronounced " firm, juicy and delicious." Our 

 climate seems to have such an effect on the 

 juices, that to the taste of the editor, our class of 

 sweet apples seemed like eating a new race of fruits. 

 Tlie pears sent with the apples by E. & B., were not 

 regarded as equal to the best English fruit. 



Talman's Sweet is the variety of apple which 

 especially struck the editor of the Garden as of 

 80 fine a flavor among all apples. This may be a 

 good hint to exporters. 



The Best English Peas.— Kinds that prove 

 best for the English chmate, are not necessarily 

 the best here. Still it is good as a matter of in- 

 formation to know what are regarded as the best 

 in the old world. A correspondent of the Garden, 

 gives the following list and we believe he regards 

 them as best in order as named. It is a pretty 

 good list for "the best," and will indicate the 

 enormous number of varieties they must have in 

 England. 



"I will name the following as among the very 

 best Peas in cultivation :—Fii-st crop— Kentish 

 Invicta, Blue Peter, Carter's First Crop, William 

 the First, and Laxton's No. 1 ; the last a very 

 early blue wrinkled Marrow Pea. Second or 

 main crop— Ne Plus Ultra, Dwarf Ne Plus Ultra, 

 Laxton's Alpha, Auvergne, Veitch's Perfection,' 

 Nutting's No. 1, Williams' Emperor of the Mar- 



rows, Laxton's Supplanter, Champion of England, 

 and Burbridge's Eclipse. For late cropping — 

 Ne Plus Ultra, Veitch's Perfection, Moss Podded,. 

 M'Lean's Best of All, James' Prolific Marrow, 

 British Queen, Victoria Marrow, Knight's Tall 

 and Dwarf Green Marrows, Laxton's Omega 

 Yorkshire Hero, Champion of Scotland ; and for 

 the last sowings in August, First and Best and 

 Laxton's No.l and Alpha. 



Protecting Trees from Rabbits and Mice. — 

 This is a very simple matter. A piece of paper 

 tied around the stem near the ground, and tarred, 

 is sufficient. Pine tar should be employed, gas 

 tar often contains creosote in sufficient quantity 

 to penetrate the paper and injure the bark. 



Profits of Forced Peaches. — We believe all 

 attempts to make any very great profits from early 

 peaches have failed in the vicinity of Philadel- 

 phia. We do not know why it has been aband- 

 oned. It would seem that it ougJd to pay. We 

 give the following which we find as a " floating'' 

 paragraph, observing, however, that nothing 

 of profits can be deduced from fancy prices, as 

 competition soon pulls them down. 



From a single tree planted in a tub, and kept 

 in his hot-house, C. S. Holbrook, of Holbrook, 

 Mass., has sold in 18 years, no less than $2,300 worth 

 of peaches — some of them at .$36 per dozen ; many 

 at from $24 to $28 per dozen, and all at an aver- 

 age of $18 per dozen. Tlaey were sold mostly in 

 the months of February and March. 



The Wilder Peach. — Mr. H. M. Englc, of Ma- 

 rietta, Pa., has got out colored lithographs of 

 this, which we favorably noticed last year. Mr. 

 E. is very sensitive about having his name con- 

 nected with any unworthy thing, and hence is 

 modest in pushing anything of his own. We feel 

 quite safe in saying that hundreds of new fruits 

 have been widely advertised on much inferior 

 merit to this. We would not be at all surprised 

 if this " Wilder " peach should distance all the 

 early ones yet brought out. Of course a careful 

 test would be necessary to give this as a positive 

 opinion, but we really think the facts point that 

 way. 



NJEW FRUITS ^ VEGETABLES. 



Large Montmorency Cherry. — Mr. Ellwanger 

 says in Report W. N. Y. H. Soc: " We have fruited 

 this fine acid cherry for several years, and consider 

 it one of the most valuable in cultivation. Tlie 

 tree is very hardy and a great bearer; fruit large 



