NEW ENOtAND FARMER. 



Published by John B. Russell, at JVo.- 52 JVbrth Market Street, (at the Agricultural Warehouse).— Thomas G. Fessenden Editor^ 



VOL. YII. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1829. 



No. 49. 



HORTICULTURE. 



To the Corresponcllug Secretary of the Mass. Hort. ^ociely. 



schedule of fruit trees of 52 choice vari- 

 eties, presented to the horticultural so- 

 ciety of massachusetts, bt wm prince & 

 sons, proprietors ok the linnj;an bo- 

 tamic garden, near new york, april 1829. 

 the descriptive remarks ey wm prince, 

 sen'r. 



PEARS. 



No. 1. Delict d' Jjrdempont, or Delight of Ardem- 

 pont. 

 2. Reine d' hyver, or Queen of If inter. 

 S. St Gall, or If'ine pear. 



4. Sucre d' Hoi/trswerda, or Sugar pear of Ho- 



yerswerda. 



5. Bon Chretien Tare, or Turkish Bon Chre- 



tien. 



6. Quaraiite onces, or Forty ounces. 



7. Bo7i deux fois C"an, or Fijie twice-bear- 



ing- 



8. Prince's kite Virgalieu, a seedling of the St 



Mich.-iel of Franre. 



9. Cuisse Madame of France, erroneously call- 



ed in England, and frequently in this 

 country Jargonelle. 



10. Green Chisel, or Citron de Cannes of France 



— a diftln-ent fruit is often erroneously 

 called liy this name. 



11. Sucre verl, or Green Sugar of Franne. 



12. Prince's Sugar, a native seedling discoverctr 



near my residence — it is melting, ripens 

 in September, and is the largest and finest 

 Sugar i)ear 1 have ever seen. 



13. Archduke d' Autnche, or Archduke of Aus- 



tria. 



APPLES. 



14. Doivnton Golden Pippin. 



15. Grange. 



16. Sinequanon, the highest flavored early ap- 



ple I have tasted. The fruit of fair size, 

 nearly green when ripe, and is in eating 

 at the end of July, or beginning of Au- 

 gust. I deetn this one of the greatest ac- 

 quisitions to our table apples of early ma- 

 turity ; itwas discovered by me in a field 

 near this village, where the original tree 

 uow stands, and is known to the owner 

 by the title of Come-by-chance. 



17. Reinttte J'an Mons. 



18. Red and Green Sweeting — a very large ob- 



long fruit, often weighing a pound ; it it^ 

 stri|>e(l red and green, very sweet, and of 

 a pleasant flavor, ripens in August and 

 September, shortly after the Yellow Har- 

 vest and Sniequanon, and is greatly es- 

 teemed. 



19. Flushing Spitzenburgh — a large round ap- 



ple, somewhat flattened, or compressed, 

 color very dark red, and much mottled 

 with white specks, and striped — it has 

 •oine acidity, and is high flavored, and 

 the flesh white. Mr Cox seems to 

 have confused this with the following, 

 than which no two fruits are more distinct. 



No. 20. Esopus Spitzenburgh — fruit oval, or oblong, 

 of a bright red, flesh. yellow, possessing a 

 delicate acidity, and vei^ high flavor — 

 perhaps we have no apple superior to 

 this. Both the foregoing and the pres- 

 ent one are late fall and early winter 

 fruits, but No. 19 will keep the longest 

 of the two. 



21. American jYonpareil — a large flat apple, 



color red, striped, possesses a delicate 

 acidity, and very high flavor, its period 

 of maturity is about two or three weeks 

 before the two preceding kinds, and it is 

 held in great esteem. 



22. Moore's Sweeting — this apple is supposed 



to have originated on the farm of Mr 

 Joseph Moore, at Newtown, about three 

 miles from this place, and is therefiu"e 

 known ;imnng niu' Island fanners by the 

 appellation of Jose Moore's Sweeting — 

 it is rather below medium size, its color 

 very dark reil — in taste sweet, and of 

 pleasant flavor. Its great value, how- 

 ever, is as a late keeping ap|>le, when it 

 commands a high price at market. On 

 this account it is extensively planted in 

 the orchards on our Island. 



F denotes freeslones. 

 C ' cliiio^stones, 



23. Red cheek Mctccoton, F. 



24. Red Rareripe, F. ' 

 20. Ntulh, C. 



•26. ffhtte jVutmeg, F. 



27. Green JVutmeg, or Early Anne, F. 



28. Monstrous Lemon, C. 



29. IVhite Mdecoton, F. 



30. Prince's Red Rareripe, F. 



31. Green Catharine, F — the London Hort. 



Society have rrroneously placed this as 

 a synonyme of the Catharine of Europe, 

 which latter is a clingstone, anil totally 

 different in appearance. 



32. JVew Sweetwater, F — a very fine variety, 



being a new seedling which originated 

 here only three or four years since — it 

 bears some aflinity in the appearance of 

 its wood, to the white blossom and the 

 snow peach. 



CHERRIES. 



33. Prince's Duke — a .seedling from the Car- 



nation, pro<luring the largest fruit I have 

 ever seen, whii-li is very luscious, and 

 fine flavoreil, but the tree is not a plen- j 

 tifiil bearer. 



34. Remington mite Heart — the latest of all 



native varieties, the fruit of moderate i 

 size, and not high flavored — originated 

 in Rhode Island. 



35. Perfumed Crinquanier,ov Crinquanier Par- 



fume. 



36. Elkhorn — a black fruit of remarkable size, 



and ripening about twelve days after the 

 Black Tartarian — it is one of the great- 

 est acquisitions to this class of fruits, is 

 solid, and well adapted for carriage to 

 market,and the tree produces abundantly. 



No. 37. American Amberheart, originated here from 

 seed, about si.\ years since, and is much 

 esteemed. 

 33. Pigeon's Heart, or Ca;ur de Pigeon. 



39. White transparent Crimea, or true Whitt 



Tartarian — a very beautiful fruit, entire- 

 ly dilfcrent from the kind usually sold 

 as the White Tartarian. 



40. China Heart — a. fruit of very jiecnliar 



agreeable flavor, of medium size, and 

 beaniitiilly mottled, in this rts|)ect re- 

 senililing painted Clhina — the tree is ex- 

 ceedingly productive, and when of small 

 size ;he lower branches have an inclina- 

 tion to droop. 1 reared this from a 

 seed of the White Ox Heart. 



41. Spanish Chesnut — a fruit three or four 



times the size of our native chesiuit, ex- 

 cellent raw, or boiled, and held in great 

 estimation in Euro|)e, and in the South 

 of France tind Italy constitutes an arti- 

 cle of food for the poorer classes. It is 

 an astonishing circumstance that this 

 tree has been so little cultivated in our 

 country — some trees in this vicinity 

 have produced many bushels annu- 

 ally. 



42. Golden JVectarine — this is a clingstone, of 



a most beautiful waxen appearance, the 

 rich yellow being finely mottled with 

 red— it produces greatly when paved 

 aronnd, as recommended in the treatise 

 re'Jiillv piihli.sheil. 



43. Pilinaslon Orani;e JWciurine, a new varie» 



ty much extolled in England. 



44. Mnsch Miisch Apricot, greatly esteemed in 



France. 



45. Diapree Rouge, or Red Diaper — a pluiu 



lias been sold for this of which I pur- 

 chased one, but wlii'.'h, on testing it, I 

 found to be the Petite Reine Claude, a 

 small green fruit — you wilL easily dis- 

 tinguish the genuine now sent by its 

 growth. 



46. Large red Thoulouse, or Gros rouge dt 



Thovlouse. 



47. Reine Claude Violette, or Violette Gage. 



48. Belle de Rion, or Beauty of Rion. 



49. Monsieur. 



50. Duane's purple French, size of an egg. 



51. Cooper's Large Red. 



52. If'hitc Gnge — this was originated by me 



from the seed of the Green Gage ; it is 

 larger than its parent, and exceedingly 

 productive. It is this kind of which a 

 gentleman of Charlestown* announced 

 his having sold above $40 of fruit from 

 one tree last year. 



RECAPITULATION. 



Thirteen varieties of the pear. 

 Nine ' ' apple. 



Ten ' ' PEACH. 



Eight ' ' CHERRY. 



* See current volume ol the New England Farmer, yagtm 

 86, 143. 



