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dosed wounds made by pruninj^. As the trees 

 seemed vigorous I paid little attention to the sub- 

 ject, until another nurser3'tnan called my attention 

 to the subject; and stated, that not beinif able to 

 supply the demand for apple trees, he had been at 

 several nurseries in this state to purchase, and 

 was hard set to get a supply, because so many 

 proved diseased in this way, and that thousands 

 had to be thrown away. Since this, a young 

 i'ricnd of mine has returned from Virginia, where 

 he had sold and delivcsred several thousand trees, 

 grown at one of the largest nurseries of the apple 

 in our state ; and he informs me tiiat his trees 

 were very generally so ; and that he was not 

 aware that the appearance was at all prejudicial 

 to the health or Value of the trees; nor did the 

 propagator of them seem to be aware of their 

 hurtful nature. 



Can this insect be the " woolly aphis," de- 

 scribed in your Fruits and Fruit Trees, page 66 ? 

 And if so, what can nurserymen do to get rid of 

 a pest which, unfortunately, is by no means 

 " rarely seen ?" I have detected the presence of 

 the insect much the most frequently on trees 

 which grow in a gravelly, or slaty soil, and sel- 

 dom on trees growing in a mellow loam. Re- 

 spectfully, &.C., J. Fulton, jr. Chester county, 

 Pa., Dec. 14, 1848. 



P. S. Am much obliged for your selection of 

 late varieties of the plum and cherry. But what 

 of such varieties as Blue Imperatrice, Late Duke, 

 Rumsey's Late Morello, Buttner's October, Bi- 

 garreau Tardif de Hildcsheim ? A word about 

 these ? 



[We are always glad to hear of such thorough 

 orchard planting. 



The little insect you speak of is not the woolly 

 aphis. If nurserymen would use wood ashes plen- 

 tifully, in preparing the rows for their stocks, 

 they would not be troubled with it; and we re- 

 commend a shovel full to be mingled with soil, and 

 applied directly to the roots of all your trees so 

 affected when you are planting. 



The sorts of fruits you inquire about, are excel- 

 lent ; but their qualities have only been proved in 

 a few localities, and we cannot therefore recom- 

 mend them for general use. The next session of 

 the Congress of Fruit Growers will enable us to 

 lay the general experience of the country, regard- 

 ing new varieties, before the public. Ed.] 



Notes on Fruits. — Dear Sir: In my com- 

 munication in your last number, it reads, when 

 speaking of the great variety of pears at Boston, 

 — " Why not, from their 1,200 varieties of pears, 

 throw away the 1 ,080 worthless ones ?" It should 

 read, 1,180; for I did not suppose more than 20 

 of them were really first rate. But I may err; 

 for I find that you must have some splendid pears 

 of which we have never heard. For a writer 

 (Dr. Valk,) in your Nov. number, in selecting 

 35 of the best kind, does not include either the 

 White Beurre, Seckel, or Washington. His taste 



for applet must greatly vary from ours ; as th<^ 

 '' Pennock's Red Winter" is one of the selected 

 kinds. We deem it unworthy of cultivation ; and 

 not only inferior to 50 of the best old varieties, 

 but to all of our new seedlings, that we deem 

 worthy of cultivation. I wrote to several old 

 horticulturists in Philadelphia, in relation to the 

 shape of the Hudson Strawberry. There is but 

 one reply ; the substance oi' which I give you from 

 a letter of Messrs. Landrcth &. Fulton: "The 

 Hudson Strawberry of this city is not a necked 

 fruit; and this fact is noted in Johnson's Diction- 

 ary of Gardetiing, revised by our Mr. Landrcth." 

 I trust you will consent to yield the neck, at the 

 same time that you admit that pistillate straw- 

 berry plants never change their character. I have 

 never yet seen a fruit of the Hudson with a neck. 

 A chance fruit may assume that shape. [How 

 do you get over the fact, that Mr. Ernst, of Cin- 

 cinnati, finds his Hudson ncc/cfrf .? Tliat the Hud- 

 son frequently grows without a neck we admit ; 

 but that, whenever it is not grown in a rich soil, 

 or the berries produced are extra large, it is a 

 necked fruit, here, we shall always contend on 

 the evidence of our own senses ; having tested 

 the Cincinnati Hudson, and found it the same as 

 ours, we have no longer any doubt. Ec] It is 

 here considered the most valuable of all strawber- 

 ries, and is more cultivated tiian all others. Mr. 

 Abigeist brought this variety to our town some 

 30 years since, from Philadelphia. He was the 

 only individual, in that day, who was aware of 

 the true character of the strawberry plant ; and 

 kept his secret here, as he had done for years in 

 Philadelphia. He made a handsome independence 

 by the sale of this fruit alone. They then com- 

 manded from 2.5 to 50 cents per quart. His se- 

 cret known, and they sold frtim 5 to 10 cents. 



On what principle does the Buffalo convention 

 recommend that the Golden Russet should be 

 called the Bullock's Pippin ? It is certainly a 

 Russet, with a golden colour. But I see no re- 

 semblance that it bears to our Pippins. If its 

 name must be changed, I would prefer to see it 

 have its old Jersey classical name of Sheep's nose ; 

 as, in shape, it resembles the nose of that useful 

 animal. Yours, ■with regard, N. Longworth. 

 Cincinnati, Nov. 29, 1848. 



Cherokee Rose for Hedging. — We were 

 about to write an article on the use of the Chero- 

 kee rose for hedges, when a correspondent favored 

 us with the following from the pen of Thomas 

 Affleck, Esq., which first appeared in the New 

 Orleans Commercial Times. It will be read with 

 interest: 



" Fencing timber is becoming scarce through 

 all of the early settled parts of the south. Many, 

 a very great many planters find a difficulty in 

 putting their fences, annually, in proper order; 

 and not a few have not the means of doing so, 

 but have to risk their crops under fences that 

 offer a very insufficient protection. And even 



