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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



]>\ int eight feet bj four. He trained it on wire trel- 

 I1809. It should be cut back in the S])ring to five 

 feet, and the laterals shortened in. The laterals 

 only bear, and they are apt to break if not short- 

 ened in. 



Mr. Hooker said that Mr. Caepenteb advises 

 wire trellises, and tljat the old cases should be 

 trained on the lowest wires, and the new canes 

 trained up. 



Mr. Penfield, of Lockport, found that the ber- 

 ries are apt to drop off before they are fairly rii)e. 



Mr. HoAG planted half an acre a year ago la^it 

 spring. They were set six feet by four, but they 

 were too close ; eight or ten feet by h)ur would be 

 better. He had some fine fruit this year. Eectini' 

 mended cutting back, as the plants bear better. The 

 berries should liang a week after turning black. It 

 is very prolific. 



Mr. BissEi.i, said that this plant fills a vacancy 

 which has long been felt — it comes in between the 

 raspberry and the commencement of the peach sea- 

 &<>n, and when there is a scarcity of fruit. "With 

 him, each pljint bears from two hundred to four 

 hundred berries. 

 _ Mr. HoAo said that his berries were not yet all 

 ripe, but he found them good, when eaten with 

 plenty of sugar. 



Mr. Fj'.ost stated tliat he had found great diffi- 

 culty in telling when they were ripe; that those 

 who cultivated largely about New York, placed 

 straw on the ground between the bushes, and, by 

 jarring tlie i)lants, the berries fell on to the straw, 

 and were t'len gathered. 



Mr. Scott remarked that when it will foil it is 

 too ripe — it is too sweet, and too soft to be carried 

 to market. 



Mr. Barey thought the Dorchester, or improved 

 High Bnsli blackberry, a very pu})erior sort, and 

 would advise, it in preference to the New Rochelle. 



Mr. Downing thought tha New Rochelle much 

 the best for market, but the Dorchester is the 

 highest flavored, and Newman's Tliorrdess variety 

 had a better flavor than either. 



Mr. Ho AG said that the New Rochelle made ex- 

 cellent wine. 



The subject of Preserving Fruits elicited quite a 

 number of remarks, but nothing decidedly new was 

 brought out, except by 



Dr. Bristol, of Dansville, who had found much 

 difficulty in preserving fruit so that it would not 

 mould on the top, where there was always a va- 

 cancy, caused by the shrinkage during cooling. His 

 method to obviate it is briefly this : He uses a glass 

 bottle, with a covk perforated to admit of a metal- 

 lic tube, the upper end of which also passes through 

 another cork, fitting into a small vial, which is filled 

 with syrup. The jar is filled witli the fruit, and 

 tmdergoes the usual method of standing in boiling 

 water to exclude the air, when the cork and aii- 

 paratus just described are applied, and, a^ the con- 

 tents of the vessel shrink as they cool, the syrup 

 from the vial runs in, and kee]!s the jar full. "When 

 it is quite cool, the tube is cut with a pair of sharp 

 shears, and, if nicely done, it is quite tight. A lit- 

 tle wax on the end of the tube and over the cork 

 completes the oi>eration. 



Tfie ballot for a list of the 12 best varieties of 

 apples, and 12 best pears, and 6 best peaches, for 

 Dj^ket purposes, resulted as fpUo^s; 



Apples. — Out of 19 votes cast, the Rhode Island 

 Greening received 19 ; Baldwin, 18 ; Roxbury Rus- 

 eett, 17; Red Astracan, 14; Talman Sweet and 

 King of Tompkins Co., each, 13; Northern Spy 

 and Esopus Spitzenburg. each, 12 ; Fall Pippin, 9 ; 

 Sweet Bough, 8; Primate and Cayuga Red Streak 

 (20 oz.), each, 7 ; Golden Sweet, Gravenstein, and 

 Early Harvest, each, 6 ; Golden Russett and Yel- 

 low Be'lflower, each, 4; Swaar, Jonathan, Rambo, 

 and Seek-no-further, each, 8 ; Cooper's Redling, 

 Duchess of Oldenburgli, Peck's Pleasant, Porter, 

 American Summer Peurmain, and Vandevere, each, 

 2; Colvert, Early .'oe. Early Summer, Hawley, 

 Prince's Harvest, Fall Orange, Sops of Wine, Hill'i 

 Sweeting, Green S\\ eet, Auiunin Strawberry, Gold- 

 en Pippin, Red C;.nada, Benoin, Melon, Pound 

 Sweet, Wagener, Jersey Sweet, Newtown Pippin, 

 Ribstou Pippin, M.immoth Pippin, Spicy Sweet, 

 Hubbardston Nonsuch, Large Yellow Bough, and 

 Maiden's Blush, each. 1. 



Pears. — Out of 21 votes cast, the Bartlett re- 

 ceived 19; the Louise Bonne de Jersey and the 

 Duchesse d' Angouleme, each, 18; White Doyenne, 

 17; Easter Beurre and Lawrence, each, 16; Vicar 

 of Winkfield, 1.3; Seckel, 12; Flemish Beauty, 11 : 

 Beurre d' Anjou, 9 ; Beurre Diel and Tyson, each, 

 8 ; Sheldon, ; BufFam and Bell Lucrative, each, 5 ; 

 Glout Morceau, Beurre Superfine, Urbaniste, Blood- 

 good, Brandywine, and Beurre Giffard, each, 3 ; 

 Theodore Van Mons, Beurre Clairgeau, Beurre 

 Bosc, Onondaga, Rostiezer, Stevens' Genesee, Os- 

 band's Summer, and Ananas d'Ete, each, 2; How- 

 ell, Ontario, Dearborn's Seedling, Beurre d' Amalis, 

 Gris d'Hiver, Brown's i^utumn, Comstock's Beauty, 

 Comstock's Mammoth, Winter Nelis. Jalouse deFon- 

 tenay, Doyenne Boussoch, Nouveau Poiteau, aod 

 Bergamotte Lucrative, each, 1. 



Peaches. — Out of 15 votes cast, Crawford's Eai'ly 

 recjived 1-5; Crawford's Late, 13; Early YcH-k 

 (serrate), 11; Old Mixon Free, 10; Morris' White, 

 5 ; Coolidges Favorite and Large Early York, eacli, 

 4; Honest John, 8; Old Mixon Cling, White Im- 

 y)erial. Red Cheek "Meloco ton, Durock Freestone, 

 Geerge IV., Walter's Early, and Early Barnard, 

 each, 2 ; Ward's Late Free, Jacques Rareripe, Early 

 Tillotson, Lemon Cling, and Columbia, each, 1. 



THE 0RTLE7 AIPLE. 



As a general rule, varieties of fruit are best 

 adapted to the locality in which they originate. Tlie 

 Ortley apple seems to be an exception. It is a na- 

 tive of New Jersey, but does not succeed well there, 

 or in the Eastern States, or in New York; but at 

 the AVest, according to Elliott, on strong, rich soils, 

 " it proves one of the hardiest, most productive, 

 profitable, as well as best known varieties. Mr. 

 Eknst, of Cincinnati, stated at the last meeting ©f 

 the American Pomological Society, that the Ortley 

 " was a great favorite at the West, where it is culti- 

 vated mostly under the name of White Beliefleur." 

 In New York, according to Mr. Saul, of Newburgb, 

 '• it is a miserably mean tree and a poor bearer." 

 Mr. Barry, of Rochester, N. Y., said "it was fii>e. 

 at the West, but not in this locality." When growa 

 on strong, rich soils at the West, according to Elli- 

 ott, the fruit is very much larger than when grown 

 at the East. '• Skin, smooth; form, oblong, oval, 

 poro^tiroes rQtmdish conical; color, pale jello wish at 



