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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[January, 



Dwarf Apples. — On nxy Pommkr de Paradis 

 stock, Apples may be planted eighteen inches 

 apart each way, and when they begin to touch 

 each other may have each alternate tree removed, 

 leaving the plantation at three feet apart each 

 way. At this distance they will do to stand many 

 years. I had nearly 1,000 sorbs in the season of 

 1868 in fruit, many of them bearing six to twelve 

 Apples, the trees being twelve inches by eighteen 

 inches apart, and most of them only one foot to 

 one and a half in height. The great thing with 

 this stock is that all the large Apples, which are 

 generally strong growers and slow bearers, bear 

 abundantly in two or three years, and produce 

 fine handsome fruit, generally better flavored 

 than when from the Crab or Doucin stock. The 

 management of these trees is very easy and simple 

 — that is, if any of them should have an inclination 

 to grow too luxuriant, merely lift them out of the 

 ground, tread down the place firmly, and then place 

 the tree on the part so hardened, covering its 

 roots with a few inches of the surrounding soil, 

 thus raising the tree on a little mound, which will 

 prevent the roots striking too deep into the cold 

 crude soil ; and as a consequence, the wood will 

 be well ripened and a fruitful tree be formed. 

 Little pruning is necessary ; a few over-luxuriant 

 shoots pinched back slightly once in summer, 

 and a neat and thin regulation of its branches in 

 autumn and winter, is all that is required. Avoid 

 too much summer pinching and pruning, other- 

 wise your trees will become ugly little stunted 

 scrubs, with their skins so tight that the life is 

 strangled in its ascent, and deformed abortions 

 will be all you will have. Be generous to your 

 trees; do not overpinch, overprune or overload 

 them, and they will repay you with interest. — 

 Scott's Orchardist. 



NJEW FRUITS ^ VEGEJABLES. 



The Northampton Apple. The Horticultural 

 Editor of the Lebanon Valley (Pa.) Standard, an 

 accomplished and intelligent horticulturist by 

 the way, giving a list of Winter Apples suited to 

 that section says: "Baldwin, Newtown Pippin, 

 Lady, Fallawater or Pound, Bellflower, Rambo, 

 Vandevere, White Pippin, Seek no further, Ro- 

 manite, to which list may be added an Apple 

 peculiar to Lebanon, bearing with us the name 

 of " Northampton " from the locality whence it 

 was introduced many years ago by Abraham 

 Light, deceased, and wliich is not described in 



any of the books. We sent a specimen of the 

 books. We sent a specimen of the fruit to Char- 

 les Downing last May, and received the reply, in 

 answer to our request for a name, that he had never 

 seen the variety before, and requested us to send 

 him a specimen for trial this fixll. It is not procur- 

 able from any nursery and yet its many excellent 

 qualities of flavor, size, appearance and bearing, 

 coupled with the long period in which it can be 

 used, from October to May, entitle it to a promi- 

 nent place in the smallest collection or orchard." 



Lucy Grieve Pear. We have from Messrs. E. 

 G. Henderson, of London, a beautifully executed 

 colored lithograph of thi^ new English Pear, 

 which is attracting much attention among Eng- 

 lish Pear growers. The description which they 

 send us, and which we give below, is from the 

 pen of Dr. Hogg, the Downing of England : — 



" Fruit large, above the average, upwards of 

 three inches long, and two and a half wide, oval 

 in outline, combining the features of Glou Mor- 

 ceau and Swan's Egg. Its complexion lemon- 

 yellow, with a red blush towards tlie sun, and the 

 whole surfaced with cinnamon-colored russet 

 dots. Flesh white, very tender and melting, very 

 juicy, and richly flavored. It is a delicious Pear, 

 having the texture of flesh found in Marie Louise, 

 and ripens in October." 



" The seed of this Pear was sown in a flower-pot 

 by the daughter and only child of Mr. Peter 

 Grieve, gardener at Culford Hall, near Bury St 

 Edmund's, who carefully tended the plants till 

 they were large enough to be planted out; but 

 ere the fii-st of them bore fruit, in 1873, tlie little 

 maid was in her grave. The first-class qualities 

 of this fruit will perpetuate her name, and as a 

 living record become at once a professional sou. 

 venir and ' forget-me-not.'" 



QUERIES. 



Petition.— J. H. C. says :— "The form of petition 

 in the Gardener's Monthly, page 347, is well 

 timed and should be copied extensively, and 

 signed by thousands and in good time sent to 

 Congress. If this be done we surely will have the 

 desired change. Let all our horticulturists at- 

 tend to it in good time. 



" Our request is so evidently right, that we will 

 be almost certain to succeed." 



[This did not reach us in time for our hist. We 

 trust the petitions will go in, if not already gone. 



