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THE GENESEE FARMER, 



already in tbe trunk or roots, cut him out, or destroy 

 him with a wire. Some object to whitewash, but 

 experience will probably show that the borer is more 

 injurious than a little lime on the rough bark of a 

 tree calpable of bearing. 



As to the yellows — which is merely feebleness — 

 the best remedy is good culture, sufficient to keep up 

 the vilahty of the tree under heavy crops. 



For tne purpose of ripening the late wood, causing 

 fruit-buds to swell, and keeping the branches from 

 shooting ungracefully into the air,take a grass-cutter in 

 August, and clip ofi" the tops of the vigorous shoots. 



As to the varieties of peaches which do well here, 

 they are numerous. Those which ripen before Sep- 

 tember, however, are hardly worth raising. Late 

 Admirable is good, and a heavy and early bearer. 

 Crawford's Early is excellent; so of the Late, but it 

 must be well exposed, and is not a free bearer. Ber- 

 gen's Yellow is splendid. Seedlings very frequently 

 are Sue. Peaches, however are very precarious in their 

 quality and appearance in different seasons— varying 

 with the vigor of the tree and the prevailing weather. 



As a general thing, peach trees do better with us 

 than plum trees, and every cultivator should keep a sup- 

 ply of young trees to fill in where the older ones perish. 



'fVest Medford, Mass. D. W. L. 



THE WILLOW. 



' This tree may be propagated very'easily — I mean 

 most especially the (Jolden Willow — either by cut- 

 tings or in the usual manner. For shade, they are 

 graceful and beautiful, at least until old, and they 

 make a more rapid growth than any other tree in 

 our climate. Set along the banks of our rapid, 

 mountain streams, their closely woven roots soon 

 preserve the banks against our torrent freshets, and 

 in this year of " disaster in broken banks," this is no 

 mean office. They will grow anywhere and every- 

 where, in mud and water, gravel and water, on over- 

 hanging banks and rocky precipices. 



We set a large number tbe past summer, prepared 

 as follows: la the latter part of winter the cuttings 

 were prepared, generally averaging from one to three 

 inches in diameter. They were cut and trimmed, 

 and left in a pile until a leisure hour in June, when 

 we stuck them with a crow bar and beetle. Thanks 

 to the wet summer, they "yet live," but we would rec- 

 ommend that they be set earlier, as a general thing. 



Ours were set for fence. We have good fence, on 

 low land, of willows. The willow can be made a 

 vigilant sentinel on low banked creeks, and is worthy 

 attention. Mill-dams and banks of earth, stuck full 

 of these cuttings, once well rooted, are much less 

 liable to be destroyed. Jno. Sanfikld. 

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EEMEDY FOR THE CUECULIO. 



Messrs. Editor^: — The lloosiers in and about 

 this locality have most of us given up the idea of 

 raising plums. The curculio is the worst enemy. 

 The plan I am now pursuing is this: I put all my 

 plum, nectarine and j^pricot trees by themselves; let 

 them grow nnpnined; enrich the soil, taking care to 

 give the trees plenty of salt, and in a sandy soil as 

 mine is, liberal dressings of clay. After the trees 

 are large enough to bear, let the hogs use the lot 

 from the time the trees blossom till the plums are 

 ripe. Protect the trees from the hogs by setting 

 three or four small stakes immediately about the 



tree, secured by ropes, bark or nails, as is most con- 

 venient. The hogs will take care of all plums and 

 their contents as they fall, and after the first season 

 the plum crop is a sure one. This mode has been 

 frequently recommended, but followed out in prac- 

 tice by but few. Why it is so I can't see, for cer- 

 tainly it is simple, and perfectly efficacious for the 

 fruits mentioned above, as well as for cherries, which 

 suffer from the curculio. A tree grown close to the 

 walk or door, where it is frequently shaken by peo- 

 ple passing, will also perfect its fruit every yeas. 

 There is a tree growing in town, planted by my bro- 

 ther (Lyman Brackett) thirteen years ago, which 

 for the past ten years has not missed one season, 

 perfecting a fine crop of fruit. It is almost or quite 

 in the path. The consequence is that the ground 

 being hard trodden, refuses access to the worms, if 

 any are hatched on the tree, and but few eggs are 

 deposited in the growing fruit, because the tree is 

 subjected to frequent shakings by j^eople passing. 



Let all them who love good fruit plant according 

 to the plans above described, and I will warrant a 

 perfect exemption from this pest. 0. Brackett. 



Rochester, Fulton Co., Lid., Aug. 30, '57. 



Varieties of Fruit for the West. — The recetit 

 meeting of the North Western Fruit Growers Asso- 

 ciation held at Alton, 111., the following varieties of 

 fruit were recommended for general cultivation be- 

 tween the 39th and 41st degrees of North latitude: 



Summer Apples. — Yellow June, Early Harvest^ 

 Carolina June, Keswick Codlin, Sweet June, Sum- 

 mer Rose, Dana, Summer Pearmain, Golden Sweet- 

 ing, Hocking. 



Autumn Apples. — Maiden's Blush, Fall Wire, 

 Rawle's Janette, Wine Sap, White Winter Pearraaizi, 

 Rambo, Autumn Swaar, Newton Pippin, Willow 

 Twig. 



Winter Apples. — Jonathan, Buckingham, Down- 

 ing's Paragon, (new,) Fameus, Snow, Roman Stem, 

 White Bellflower, Early Winter Sweet, Yellow Bell- 

 flower, Swaar, Fulton, Peck's Pfeasant, Sweet Non- 

 such. 



Cherries. — American Heart, Knight's Earfy 

 Black, Black Heart, Elton, Yellow Spanish, White 

 Tartarian, Ox Heart, Eariy May. 



Plums. — Yellow Magnum Bonum, Lombard, 



Green Gage, German Prime, Chicasaw, (N.L. Sha^,) 



Blue Imperatrice. 



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American Plums. — In his "Book of the Garden;" 

 published at London, McIntosh says : "Strange tt) 

 say, America, with only three species of the genus 

 Prunus, P. Maritiina and Pubescens from neither of 

 which a cultivated plum has been raised, has never- 

 theless produced more excellent plums than any other 

 country whatever. The original parent of all cultir 

 vated plums, Prunvs Domesiicvs, is not indigenous 

 to that country but has been introduced." 



This is undoubtedly true. But we do not see why 

 it should be regarded as " strange " when it is known 

 that the interest taken in the cultivation of fine fruit 

 is much more general than in England. There is a 

 greater proportion of the intelligence of the country 

 brought to bear on fruit culture in the United States 

 than in any other country; and from the diversity of 

 our soil and climate together with the enterprise and 

 skill of American horticulturists great results may tip 

 anticipated. 



