1876.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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Black Douglass, McMahoii and Earl Koslyn, all | posure to the hottest sun, Earl Roslyn bears the 

 grown tngether and under the same circumstance?, palm. Will you please add your opinion of the 

 and find that for brilliancy of color, dwarf but vig- leaves enclosed." 

 orous habit of growth, and ability to bear ex- 1 [They were very superior kinds.— Ed. G. M.j 



;ruit and megetable gardening. 



CO MM UNICA TIONS. 



NOTES ON NEW FRUITS. 



BY WJI. F. BASSETT, HAMMONTON, X. J. 



Southern Thornless Red Raspberry has more 

 than sustained the promise of last season. Con- 

 siderably resembling the Brandywine in appear- 

 ance, it is decidedly better in quality, and cus- 

 tomers who would not have the Brandywine, 

 were satisfied with the Southern Thornless Red. 



Norwood Prolific does not appear to be adapted 

 to this section. 



Prouty's Seedling Strawberry I consider worth 

 all the new varieties of the last ten years, for 

 this section. The foliage is healthy, growth 

 strong, it bears abundantly, and the fruit is very 

 firm and the best in qualitj' of some dozen varie- 

 ties I fruited. 



Snyder Blackberry is a very vigorous grower, 

 and from reports of it from other sections I 

 hoped to find it a good thing for home use at 

 least, but the quality of the fruit was not satis- 

 factory. Probably it requires a heavier soil. 



Hoosac Thornless does not succeed on our 

 sandy soil — growth rather light and fruit small. 



BLODGETT'S SEEDLING PEACHES. 



BY MR. LORIX BLODGETT, PHILA. 



I decided to-day to put some of my seedling 

 peaches on exhibition, and took nine varieties 

 out, placing them in Division J., No. 6, of the 

 Pomological Annex to Agricultural Hall, making 

 eighteen plates. I hope you will see them on 

 Saturday and find them worthy of notice. 



My seedling peaches have now borne six suc- 

 cessive full crops, the yard 25x150 feet, yielding 

 on twenty-five trees from thirty to one hundred 

 bushels each year, last year being th'e great crop. 

 They give us a full and continuous supply from 

 August 15th to October 20th, the latest being the 

 best and most valuable to propagate ; but this 



year the continued cold weather leaves them 

 less bright in color, and less perfectly sweet than 

 in all previous years. 



I have very reluctantly concluded to give 

 some of them to the public, at least so far as to 

 name them, and announce that they can be got 

 of me in the form of cuttings, unless some one 

 chooses to propagate them. 



I hope you will allow me to name the large 

 October freestone No. 3, (yellow) the "Meehan." 

 It is the finest peach when perfect that I have 

 ever seen. On at least three occasions some of 

 them have weighed half a pound each ; the best 

 were in 1872 and 1874. In 1872 they were sold 

 on Chestnut street by Bilyeu at $12 a crate 

 (basket and a half) and retailed at 15 cts. to 25 

 cts. each. Last year the tree bore nearly fifteen 

 bushels, and was much broken then and still 

 more by the storms of July 10 and September 16, 

 tliis year. There are four plates of these on the 

 exhibition tables. No. 12 is a magnificent gold- 

 en yellow clingstone ; No. 13 is almost identical 

 with No. 12 — both perfectly sugary and rich ; Nos. 

 14 and 15 are very fine yellow freestones, diflfer- 

 ing very little, but 14 the most prolific; in most 

 years it is scarcely distinguishable from No. 3. 

 No. 11 (exhibited) is the latest, and not yet ripe; 

 it is a very rich yellow cling, but not equal in 

 quality to Nos. 12 and 13. 



It is too late for the white melting peaches, of 

 which I have some very valuable. No. 1 is the 

 best (poor specimens are on the plate). It is 

 very large, a freestone, perfectly white, and per- 

 fect as a melting peach. I have put two other 

 whole freestones on the stand— Nos. 22 and 24 — 

 but they are not worth propagating. 



In September two very fine white clingstones 

 ripened which I have never shown. Both are 

 very large, heavy, rich and melting; but still, 

 being clingstones, are not so much in favor. 



Of the small white melting freestones — most 

 delicious peaches — coming from September 1st to 

 20th, I have five diff'erent seedlings closely re- 

 sembling each other. These are the Willow 



