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THE GARDENER'S MONTHL Y 



{February , 



NEW OR RARE FRUITS 

 AND VEGETABLES. 



JiTEW Fruits for 1879. — So far as we have 

 been able to learn there has been little move- 

 ment towards bringing out any remarkable new 

 fruits this spring. There are quite a number 

 noticed in country papers, in which the country 

 clerk or the village minister with a kind hearted- 

 ness which does him so much credit, declares that 

 he has known John Smith or Thomas Brown 

 a number of years, and is therefore certain that 

 his seedling must be the wonderful event of the 

 age, and so on ; but beyond this there seems to 

 be little to agitate us. The fact is that we have 

 got so nearly what we want, that it is hard to 

 improve on anything. Still there is room yet for 

 a few really excellent things. 



Kieffer's Hybrid Japak Pear. — This admi- 

 rable fruit, wdiich attracted such marked atten- 

 tion at the great Centennial Exhibition, we note 

 is being propagated by Mr. Wm. Parry. 



The Telephone Pea. — This new English 

 variety, is said to yield under ordinary garden 

 culture, thirteen large peas to one pod. 



Round Rooted Chinese YAM.--This variety 

 is an improvement on the old sort, as far as shape 

 is concerned, it produces round roots near the 

 surface of the soil, but the yield is very small, and 

 for the present it can only be considered as an 

 amateur plant, which cannot be recommended 

 for general cultivation, until by improvement, 

 more prolific varieties will have been obtained. 

 Vilmorin, Andrieux & Co., of Paris, have intro- 

 duced it to notice. 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Peaches at Christmas. — J. M. A., San 



Diego, Cal., writes : " I forward by to-day's mail, 

 one box, (3x3x8 in.) containing three"December" 

 peaches, which were taken from the tree to-day. 

 Have had unusually early frosts at my nursery, or 

 the peaches would have remained on the trees 

 until Christmas. I wish to know what you think 

 of their probable value as a late peach. I think 

 they keep later when grown on a moderately 

 stiff soil. Have fruited to a limited extent for 

 two or three years." 



It was a surprise to get peaches at Christ- 

 mas. They were very large cling stones, not of 

 very high flavor : but wherever late peaches are 

 in request surely ought to be very valuable. 



Highland Beauty Apple. — We have been 

 favored by specimens of this new apple; it is small, 

 about the size and general appearance of the well 

 known Tewksbury Winter Blush. It is one of the 

 "sweet class," and agoodapple. We are however 

 in some doubt whether in the very large list of 

 named apples we already possess there is any "va- 

 cancy" for this good little candidate. Under all 

 the circumstances we would not recommend its 

 distribution. We note however that the letter 

 says ; "it is not as good as we have had them." 



June Budding Peach Trees. — W. K. T., 



Little Rock, Ark., writes: "Would you please 

 give us an article in the next issue of the Gar- 

 dener's Monthly, giving the modus operandi 

 of June budding peach trees, time of cutting buds, 

 and everything connected with this manner of 

 budding, and oblige a number of your readers." 



[Grafts are cut in the Spring, just as if you in- 

 tend to do regular Spring grafting. Instead of 

 this the long cuttings or scions are put into the 

 ground, or the cellar, or any other place where 

 they will keep alive , and yet the buds not push into 

 growth. The buds of these last year's shoots are 

 then used to bud in .June, and they push out and 

 make quite good trees before Fall. — Ed. G.M.] 



Forestry. 



COMMUNICA TIONS. \ Catalpa. The evidence accumulates that there 



! are in sevei-al.Western States two varieties, Avell 



marked and clearly defined. One of these, even 

 ON THE NEW VARIETY OF CATALPA. i,, this latitude, freezes down when young, in 

 BY E. E. BARNEY, DAYTON, OHIO. severe Winters, and freezes out and dies iu 



I trust you will not deem me intrusive or \ Princeton, 111., and further north in Iowa, Kan- 

 troublesome, if I again write you a few lines on ' sas and Nebraska. The^other variety, called the 



