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Tlie Horlicidturisl and Journal 



and is well adapted to the Southern climate. — 

 Rural Alahamian. 



New Fruits. 



rrHE following list of new fruits was accepted 

 J- and recommended by both the Committee 

 on foreign fruits of the last session of Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society, and also Western N. 

 Y., Horticultural Society, as being of more 

 than ordinary merit. Wm. G. Ellwanger was 

 the chairman. 



Beurre Samoijeau. — Medium size ; skin 

 yellow, with a red cheek ; flesh buttery and 

 juicy ; last of September and first of October. 



Madame Desportes. — Medium size ; skin 

 yellow with reddish dots ; flesh melting and 

 juicy; September and October. 



Abbe de Beaumont. — Medium size ; skin 

 greenish yellow, marbled with russet ; flesh 

 melting, juicy, and very good ; August and 

 September. 



Eugene Apperi. — Medium size; roundish; 

 skin rough ; brownish yellow ; flesh melting ; 

 sweet ; perfumed ; delicious. 



Rohnaslon Dudiesb. — Medium size; pyri- 

 form ; skin dull, yellowish green ; flesh fine ; 

 very jvxicy ; melting ; vinous ; very good ; 

 October. 



Apricots. — Early Moorpark. — Medium 

 size ; very early and excellent ; J uly. 



Alberge de Montganiet. — Medium size: 

 early ; with handsome mottled red cheek ; 

 juicy and very good ; tree very hardy ; July. 



Rivers' Peaches. — Early Victoria. — 

 Size of Early York ; fine flavor ; first of Sep- 

 tember. 



frincess of Wales. — Very large and beau- 

 tiful ; its color cream with rosy cheek ; melt- 

 ing, rich, and excellent ; first of September. 



Rivers' Peaches. — Early Silcer. — 

 Large, melting, and rich ; juicy and of first 

 quality ; early in August. 



Plums. — Heine Claude Rouge. — Small, 

 round purple ; size of green gage ; flesh green ; 

 juicy, with the rich green gage flavor ; Sep- 

 tember. 



Jodoigne Green Gage. — Size and form of 

 good green gage, beautifully marked with 

 purple ; fine quality ; September. 



Columbia rear.— This variety is con- 

 sidered, by the Country Gentleman, as worth}^ 

 of more attention, not having received as 

 much in the past few years as it deserves. 

 The common objection that it blows off" easily, 

 may be partly obviated by gathering a little 

 earlier than most winter pears, and partly by 

 planting in more sheltered places, or away 

 from the sweep of winds. We have found 

 our supply to ripen finely during the present 

 month (January) in a cool cellar, without any 

 special attention, the specimens becoming 

 juicy, melting and agreeable, and although 

 not quite so rich, comparing well with the 

 Josephine de Malines and Winter Nelis, ripe 

 at the same time. The Columbia is fine 

 grained, and free from the hard grains some- 

 times found in the Lawrence, and the unsof- 

 tened sides often occurring in the Winter 

 Nelis. It is true that the Columbia is not 

 always equal to those of the present season, 

 showing the importance of understanding its 

 management better. The smooth, fair sur- 

 face which the fruit always possesses is a re- 

 commendation in its favor. 



Hoo.fac Thoruless Blackberry. — A 



new variety, discovered in Massachusetts in 

 1864, and cai-ried to Ohio ; said to be very 

 hardy, and stood the winter of 1872-3 with- 

 out injury ; quality of fruit sweet and melting ; 

 flesh firm, productiveness remarkable, bearing 

 canes are described as ahsohitely thoruless. 

 The new growth, however, has a very few 

 small thorns on the under side of the leaf 

 stalk, never to exceed one-eighth, and seldom 

 more than one-sixth of an inch long ; these 

 shed off when the leaf falls, and the brush can 

 be handled as readily as willow twigs. 



Meuiedy for Slugs.— A correspondent of 

 the Gardener^s Chronicle says that he has 

 found gas-tar water, diluted to the color- of 

 weak coffee, to be the best preventive to the 

 ravages of slugs on all garden crops, and also 

 an excellent manure, applying it by night 

 from an ordinary watering pot, and half the 

 slugs will be killed, and the rest much weak- 

 ened. A second dose, after an interval of a 

 week, is sufficient to banish them altogether. 



