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Porter. Only fault, time of year that it ripens. 



ComeU's Fancy and William's Favorite. For all 

 pactical purposes either will take the place of 

 both, good growers, productive, September. 



Hagloe. Very fine apple, tree slow grower. 



Fall Flat Top (or Henry Young). Another 

 local apple, which stands at the head of the list 

 of September and October apples, should be 

 planted in the family orchard especially. This 

 apple does not ripen as evenly as is desirable for 

 market; tree strong grower, fruit large, color 

 green, nearly covered with red stripes, quality best. 



White Doctor. Strong grower, productive, 

 fruit large, quality medium, color white. 



St. Laurence. Good grower and bearer, quality 

 good, too small and apt to be knotty ; only for 

 home use. 



Leland Pippin. Good grower, fruit large, qual- 

 ity good, to be recommended, ripe 1st of Sep- 

 tember. 



Fallawater. Strong grower, productive, very 

 large, fair quality, drops badly unless picked 

 early, profitable. 



Rhode Island Cheening. Good grower, produc- 

 tive, quality best, ripens here in September. 



Baldivin. Strong grower, productive, quality 

 best, must be picked early, and will keep here 

 until Christmas. 



Nero. Another Jersey apple, good grower and 

 productive. 



Cooper's Market. Good grower and productive, 

 keeps well. 



Jersey Russet. Good grower and productive, 

 drops badly before ripening on sandy soil. 



Monmouth Pippin. Strong grower, fruit large, 

 and quality good, not a long keeper as]a general 

 thing. 



Ladies' Siveeting. Very good keeper. 



Smith's Cider. This we place last, thinking 

 that in most orchards in this section for market 

 apples, every hundred trees ought to have ninety 

 of them of this variety, as it fills the bill for all 

 the season when apples are most^in demand. It 

 is ready to market from September 20th, until 

 the first of March. Tree grows about as well as 

 any other variety in the orchard, bears young 

 and abundantly. It will produce more^bushels, 

 and bring more money to the acre of trees, 

 than any other of our one hundredVaneties now 

 of bearing age. The objections to this apple 

 are, that is not so high flavored aa some other 

 varieties, especially when" the trees are over- 

 loaded with fruit, and this tree'is a 'heavy crop- 

 per, often year after year. 



GRAFTING THE FEATHERY WEEPING CHERRY. 



BY GEN'L W. H. noble, BRIDGEPORT, CONN. 



This weeper — "Cerasus pumila pendula" — 

 many nurseiy catalogues name " as always scarce 

 and difficult to work." If I do not mittake the 

 tree which answers to this name, the only trouble 

 is in the method of your working. Its delicate 

 vine-like grafts and buds of one season's growth 

 are too frail and feeble readily to unite with even 

 vigorous stocks. But thrifty scions of two yeai-s' 

 growth or more, cleft grafted therein, will surely 

 take, and soon give us a fine graceful tree. An 

 old grafter has proved this on my grounds re- 

 peatedly. If his plan is not new to you it must 

 be to many who find this cherry " difficult to 

 work." 



THE APPLE BORER. 



BY B. F. TRANSOU, HUMBOLDT, TENN. 



I have been a careful reader of your Monthly 

 a long time, and I think with profit. I en- 

 tertain the highest regard for your judgment and 

 plain practical suggestions you generally make 

 on all subjects you write about. Of course the 

 varied soil and climate of the United States must 

 produce a considerable diflTierence upon the vege- 

 table as well as upon the animal kingdom. What 

 Avill hold good in your State may not exactly in 

 our State; not so much diff'erence, however, with 

 us (except late fruits and vegetables) as with 

 other States differing greater in climate. The 

 pests we have in our orchards also may difier. 

 We beg leave to differ with you at least about 

 the apple tree borer, as given in the Gardener's 

 Monthly and Horticulturist. April No., "Season- 

 able Hints," you say (or the inference is) the 

 borer does his work at or near the surface of the 

 gi-ound — "remedy, tarred paper, an inch or 

 more below the surface and two or three above." 

 This would not protect our trees in Tennessee, 

 as we often as otherwise find the borer from one 

 to three feet above the surface. 



The first and second year after planting in or- 

 chard, particularly if. the soil is thin, and, as you 

 say, " starved," the borer is likely to commence 

 his depredations, and if not destroyed bores into 

 the pith or heart of the tree, going up or down, 

 killing the tree. Strong soap applied to the body 

 of the tree Spring and Fall, or strong or thick pa- 

 per tarred, is the best preventive we know of 



[The " flat-headed borer " operates in any part 

 of the stem, and this is the one probably that 

 Mr. T. refers to. So far as we know this species 



