1883.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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even if they were not the most productive, believ- 

 ing that they would command such a price as to 

 make their culture profitable. When the Hubbard 

 squash and Early Rose potato were first sent to 

 market, the marketmen rejected them. The Stone 

 Mascn cabbage has one fault, which is more 

 noticed by seedsmen than by farmers — a tendency 

 to rot at the stump. Burbank's Seedling potato 

 is decidedly later than the Early Rose. Early 

 potatoes are most needed, as they are least liable 

 to injury by the potato beetle, the last brood of 

 that insect being the worst. There is no better 

 cropper than Beauty of Hebron ; it is much like 

 the Elephant. The Early Munich turnip is the 

 earliest of all, and a decided acquisition. The 

 American Wonder pea is as early as the Dan 

 O'Rourke. The John Bull pea has very stocky 

 leaves; it is the best of the stocky peas, which 

 do not generally fill out well, but this does; the 

 pods and peas are both very large. Our hot, dry 

 climate is not so favorable to peas as a moist, cool 

 climate like that of England. Mr. Gregory rec- 

 ommended the extra early French turnip for trial 

 The Peerless White Spine cucumber is an improve- 

 ment on the common variety. Tailby's Hybrid is a 

 fine kind. The Broad Wax pole bean is a desirable 

 variety. Carter's Strategem pea is desirable for 

 amateurs. Potter's Excelsior corn is white and 

 very sweet. The Cuban watermelon sometimes 

 weighed forty pounds; it is the same as the Excel- 

 sior and a fine variety. The Long Hill watermelon 

 is a good variety ; fairly early. The Valencia and 

 Surprise are two excellent muskmelons; the latter 

 is very delicious. Hancock's Early pea gives most 

 satisfaction among the hard yellow varieties 

 Laxton's Earliest and Ferry's First and Best are 

 the same. The Little Gem squash is fine for family 

 use, though its color is not deep enough for pies, 

 W. D. Philbrick said that the Early Drumhead 

 cabbage, introduced by Henderson, is so early 

 that it may be followed by a crop of squashes. 

 It is larger and more solid than the Wyman or 

 \ /akefield. 



Flat Chinese Peaches.— Ht should be remem- 

 bered that when these arc referred to, the whole 

 race is referred to. There are varieties of these, 

 some perhaps better than others. The one being 

 propagated in the Southern States is known under 

 the Chinese name of Peen-to. 



Profit in Cabbage. — Joseph Harris tells the 

 American Farmer thdit: " It would not have been 

 a difficult matter to grow 5,000 good heads of cab- 

 bage per acre, which could readily have been sold 



at ten cents per head. The planting, cultivating, 

 harvesting, burying for the winter, and marketing, 

 would not cost over one cent per head, thus afford- 

 ing a profit of $450 per acre. This is five per cent, 

 interest on $9,000 per acre. We can afford to 

 smile at those who sneer at us for plowing our 

 land four or five times to destroy weeds and get '.t 

 into good shape for starting a good field-garden." 

 The chief object Mr. Harris had in view was to 

 point out how much superior good land and well 

 cared for soil were to the ordinary slipshod 

 methods of treating the ground. 



Elevations for Peach Growing. — It may be 

 remembered that when altitude is spoken of in 

 peach growing, mere height above the sea is not 

 intended — any elevated spot which will admit of 

 the fogs falling into the lower ground is the idea 

 intended to be conveyed. And this is probably 

 true of all fruits, as of peaches. However, in re- 

 gard to peaches, the editor of the Coujitry Gentle- 

 man remarks " that it is not altitude above the sea 

 level which affects the bearing, but ground suffi- 

 ciently elevated above sheltered valleys to be above 

 the lakes of cold air which settle in those valleys. 

 We have found by the thermometer a difference of 

 several degrees, on cold, still nights, between the 

 temperature at the bottom of such valleys and only 

 fifty feet up. Those valleys may exist on table 

 land a thousand feet high, and be fatal to the 

 peach crop ; and hills where the crop escapes may 

 be onlv a hundred feet above sea level." 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Grafting the Apple on the Pear. — "R. Y.," 

 Austin, Texas, says: "I have suffered year after 

 year from the depredations of the borer, to such 

 an extent in my apple orchard, as to dishearten 

 me. I find the apple is more reliable here than 

 the peach, and the flavor is far ahead of some 

 varieties grown at the North. I would have no 

 difficulty in raising great quantities of this fruit, 

 and could make it a source of profit by judicious 

 selections and proper care, but all the remedies 

 yet tried have not proven a perfect success in 

 ridding my orchard of this pest. Close^observa- 

 tion has convinced me the pear is the healthiest 

 and longest lived of all the fruit trees, and as the 

 borer does not touch it (at least this is my experi- 

 ence), I am of the opinion that if the apple can 

 be made to succeed on the pear stock, we will;^find 

 a remedy against the borer. The difference be- 



