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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



{Mar ell ^ 



never seen them injured by frost. Freezing has 

 done more damage in our neighborhood than 

 most people are aware of." [To which we would 

 add, that it is a kind which bears freely on young 

 trees, and makes a very beautiful growth, points 

 which will make it a greater favorite than the 

 present popular Pennsylvania, " Smith's Cider" 

 Apple.— Ed. G. M.] 



Destruction of Peach Buds. — J. A. McK., 

 Cynthiana, Ky., says: "Observation for twenty- 

 five years leads me to believe that 12° below 

 zero of still air kills all the peach buds ; that 

 18° injures young trees in a low situation, and 

 22° kills all peach trees. Am I right, or will 

 buds and trees, under favorable circumstances, 

 resist greater cold ? I wish at your leisure you 

 would give us through our monthly " visitor and 

 friend," what is definitely known on this subject, 

 also about what degree of cold kills flower and 

 fruit buds of other plants in common cultivation 

 ©ver the country." 



[The degree of cold, by itself, has notliing to 

 do with the destruction of trees or buds. A tree 

 will retain its heat, which is its life, under a very 

 low temperature sometimes, and yet die at others 

 under a higher one. For instance the Eucalyp- 

 tus globulus has been known to endure a tempe- 

 rature of 12° to 15° below freezing point in 

 England without injury, while ia any of the 

 Northern States of the American Union it is 

 killed " dead at once " by a single degree of 

 frost. So of many other things. — Ed. G. M.] 



The Yellows in the West. — Baird & 

 Tuttle, Bloomingtou, 111., write: " Referring to 



the note in the January Monthly in regard to 

 yellows in the peach tree, we would ask is not 

 the disease confined to orchards from Eastern 

 grown trees? Do peach orchards that are 

 planted with trees which are raised in the West 

 from Western seedling peaches suffer from the 

 yellows ? From our observation and experience 

 we will say Western grown seedling peaches are 

 free from this disease. We would like to hear 

 from parties who have experience on the sub- 

 ject." 



Peach Budding. — J. A. McK., Cynthiana, 

 Ky., asks: "Will some of our experts tell 

 me just the modern mode of budding. How it 

 is that one can bud, with a tyer, anything like 

 five thousand peaches in a single da}^ ? We can 

 bud on possibly two thousand, but when another 

 can do five times as much, I beg that he will tell 

 me all the particulars, as well as it can be done 

 on paper, just how he gets down to his work. 

 How he holds his knife, his buds, »S:c.; and 

 altogether just how he proceeds to operate with 

 such rapidity ; what knife is used ; what is the 

 best substance for ties; just how applied; also 

 treatment of the buds afterwards; whether ties 

 are ever removed ; whether buds are protected 

 in Winter, and how; at what time relative to 

 the swelling of the buds to cut of the stock ; and 

 whether it is necessary to cut more than 

 once?" 



Doyenne Boussock Pear. — A correspond- 

 ent from Pleasant valley, Bucks Co., writes : 

 " Doyenne Boussock I think is the hardiest pear 

 I have." 



Forestry. 



COMMUNICA TIONS. 



THE TWO CATALPAS.-A MEMOIR OF THE 

 SHAVANON. 



BY DR. JOHN A. WARDER. 



(Intended for the Pennsylvania Fruit Growers' Society, but 

 received too late for reading.) 



Having some years since been complimented 

 by the vote of your excellent society with the 

 privileges of honorary membership, and hold- 

 ing also perhaps a birth-right membership in 

 every good undertaking in the dear old State of 



Pennsylvania, your fellow comes before you in 

 this way as some compensation for the inability 

 to enjoy a personal intercourse with his good 

 friends of the Pennsylvania Fruit Growers' So- 

 ciety. 



Like ourselves in the State of Ohio, so you in 

 the parent State have advanced, in practice if 

 not in name, from a pomological society to one 

 which considers other and more general topics 

 related to horticulture. Thus the functions of 

 your committee are to look after the trees, arbori- 

 culture or sylvfeculture, and it is to be supposed 



