1885.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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much injured by the frost as the others ; but oh, 

 didn't they mildew though. I said they bore 

 nearly a full crop; well, so they did, but one- third 

 of them could not be used. 



I had also turned out some corn which I had 

 raised in pots in my hot-bed. I covered this corn 

 with flower pots, and when I uncovered it I found 

 that nearly half of it was completely killed by 

 the frost ; on examination I found that where 

 the flower pots had not touched the ground all the 

 way around, the corn was not frozen. This was 

 the case with tomato plants, squashes and beans, 

 that had been covered in the same way. Can this 

 be accounted for by there being a free circulation 

 of air inside the flower pots, being at the same 

 time protected from the frost ? Nature gives us 

 some queer things to think about sometimes, and 

 if we profit by them we may be able to protect 

 ourselves and our plants also, from a great many 

 ills which might otherwise befall us. 



I also had some very fine cauliflower and cab- 

 bage plants set out, and were growing nicely ; the 

 frost killed the cauliflower but the cabbage plants 

 were very little injured. Beets, onions, carrots, 

 &c., were not injured. GUndale, Mass. 



[This is a very interesting piece of experience, 

 and yet is in the line of similar observations which 

 have been reduced to an axiom, that whatever 

 tends to injure the growing foliage, tends to re- 

 duce the vital powers of a plant. — Ed. G. M.] 



was the Newtown pippin, when planted, but 

 twenty-five years ago the writer cut off the tops 

 and grafted it to Tewksbury Winter Blush. This 

 j tree is still living, is in a healthy condition and 

 bore last year, but not a full crop. 



Falls Church, Va., March 6th, 1885. 



ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY BUSHELS 

 OF APPLES FROM ONE TREE. 



BY D. O. MUNSON. 



In your December number a correspondent 

 reports an apple tree bearing forty-three bushels of 

 apples in one year, and in your March number 

 Mr. N. S. Piatt calls attention to a tree in Cheshire, 

 Conn., of unusual size which had produced over 

 one hundred bushels in one year. The writer of 

 this remembers a tree standing on the farm of 

 P. S. Dodge, Montgomery Co., Md., eleven miles 

 north of Washington, D. C, that bore in the year 

 1859, one hundred and twenty bushels of apples. 

 The fruit ripened in September, and was good for 

 cooking and tolerably good eating when fully ripe. 

 I did not know the variety and it was probably a 

 seedhng ; the tree was of immense size with several 

 branches as large as an ordinary apple tree. I 

 also know another tree planted forty years ago on 

 a part of the Munson Hill farm, now owned by 

 Judge J. H. Gray, Falls Church, Va., that bore in 

 one year seventy bushels of apples. This tree 



NOTES FROM ZANESVILLE. 



BY .K. J. M. 



Seventeen degrees below zero has killed all the 

 peaches and most varieties of grapes. Catawbas, 

 Hartfords, Nortons, Brightons, Jeffersons, and 

 even the white Concord seedlings, Martha, Lady 

 Belinda, Antonette, Eva, the buds are mostly 

 killed, while Worden is not. Rogers Hybrids are 

 all killed. Concords and Delawares and Ives are 

 not hurt much. It was quite severe on shrubbery. 

 The Japan Snowball (V. plicatum) and roses are 

 killed to the snow line. Magnolia buds are injured. 

 Rhododendrons are browned in leaf and bud. 

 Some of the broad leaved varieties of Retinosporas 

 are browned, while erioides and plumosa are not. 

 I have a Lawson cypress, 6 (t., that is hardy, the 

 only one not killed several years ago. 



The Japan Maples I have, — stand the hottest 

 sun, dryest summer, and coldest winter. They 

 stand the sun as well as Schweidleri at least, and 

 no place is complete without them. I find Azalea 

 Mollis quite tender ; it has to be shaded and 

 watered in summer and protected in winter. The 

 Ghents are hardy. 



Grape Rot. — There is not much use in giving 

 remedies for it, unless you know what the disease 

 is. Two or three diseases are called rot, that no 

 more resemble decay than blight or mildew. The 

 most prevalent disease in this section, Phoma uvi- 

 cola is called " rot." This spore has destroyed 

 hundreds of tons of grapes in this section without 

 regard to soil or methods of culture. Nothing 

 short of protection from moisture will prevent it. 

 It is on the wild grapes in the tree tops. There is 

 another spore that affects the stems and fruit, that 

 is called mildew or mottled rot. This affects the 

 Catawba mostly, while Concords are exempt. This 

 like the Uvicola is a wet weather bird. 



White Grapes. — There is just a little senseless 

 mania in regard to white grapes. That color or 

 want of color is no more desirable in grapes than 

 in peaches and apples. Last year the Martha and 

 Lady were not so salable in some markets as the 

 Concord, and did not bring half as much in the 

 Chicago market as the Delaware. Some wanted 

 the Martha and Lady. At present I want neither 



