THE GKNESEE FAKMEK. 



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THE MERVEILLE DE SEPTEMBER CHERRY. 



Some five or six years fifro we received 

 had little faith in its being of 

 much value, and hence propaga- 

 ted it very sparingly. On its 

 coming into bearing, some tvro 

 or three years since, we found it 

 sm;il], rather dry, and of indiffer- 

 ent liavor, and concluded it was 

 nearly worthless ; but we find, as 

 the tree grows older, the fruit im- 

 proves both in size and quality ; 

 and this year we had two trees 

 that bore a fair crop of handsome 

 'fruit, not first rate, but of fair 

 quality, and ripening at an extra- 

 ordinary season for a sweet cherry 

 — the beginning of September; 

 and if let alone by the birds, 

 would last through the greater 

 part of that month. 



The fruit is medium size, dark 

 purplish red, when fully ripe, re- 

 sembling in size and color the 

 Early Purple Ouigne. The flesh 

 is rather firm, sweet, and pleasant; 

 must be fully ripe to be in its best 

 condition, and appears ripe long 

 before it is so. Worthy a place 

 in large collections, as being the 

 latest sweet cherry known. The 

 tree is an erect, rapid grower, like 

 the heart varieties, and bears feir 

 crops. Fruit improves as the 

 trees grow older. Season, Sept. 



a cherry under this name, from France. We 



Our space is so much occupied 

 with notices of the Pomological 

 Congress and the fruit exhibition 

 of our own State Society, that we 

 are compelled to omit other mat- 

 ters that should have appeared in 

 this number. 



Manufactured Manures. — A meeting of gentlemen connected with the agricultural 

 interests in England, was recently held in London, to take into consideration measures 

 for the reduction of the cost of guano and other portable manuras. Resolutions were 

 passed to the effect that the establishment of a public company for the manufacture of a 

 cheap manure equal to guano, would be abundantly remunerative to capitalists, and a 

 great national advantage; and that a provisional committee be appointed to carry out 

 that object. 



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