Vol. VII.— Nn. 49. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



ham, ill tliis iieighborliood, and coaimeiiced anew 

 farm. In a year or two afier tliey commenced 

 their farm, Mr Fulton and his wife, as the wo- 

 man informed nie, returned to Massachusetts to 

 visit tlieir friends, where she collected a consider- 

 able quantity of pear seeds, which she j)laiitedon 

 her return home. I have counted on this farm, 

 by this woman's jilanting, aliout forty trees. — 

 Tliere are two or three trees, the fruit of which 

 very nearly resembles each otiier. The rest of 

 the trees produce only ordinary pears — some of 

 them very ordinary. The family derive a consid- 

 erable income from their pears, as this sort of 

 fruit is rather scarce with us. Their more ordi- 

 nary kinds sell [jretty well to those whose taste for 

 fruit is not much cultivated, and also for preserves. 

 Some of the sorts are well suited for this use. I 

 have resided in Brunswick twenty-six years, and 

 have nearly as long been ac(piainted with this 

 pear. As this is the only good pear for the mar- 

 ket in this neifihborhood, I supply myself with it 

 for three or four weeks, by having them gather- 

 ed and brought me before they soften. I have 

 thought them as delicious, thus ripened in the 

 house, as on the trees. 



I very highly approve the design of your Horti- 

 cultural Society, to collect and give names to val- 

 uable native fruits. With a profusion of conunon 

 and ordinary fruit, nature, now and then gives a 

 new varicli/, well worth preserving and of intro- 

 ducing into the nursery. We sometimes meet 

 with very valuable kinds which have lost their 

 iiaLues. Ill these cases it is worth some pains, it 

 we can, to restore their names. For fruits, like! 

 persons, can not be inquired for without names, 

 — and in both cases are but little respected. 



We have a native apple in this neighborhood, 

 which I very Inghly value. We begin to eat it 

 the first of September, it goes through November, 

 sometimes into December. It is a good sized ap- 

 ple, thin skin, a yellowish white, a mild, sour, 

 juicy, sprightly, and begins to decay at the sur- 

 face. The tree is vigorous, grows fair, and is a 

 good and constant bearer. I have seen no apple 

 which I prize so highly for the autumn months. I 

 generally confine my eating in the autumn months 

 to this a|)ple, and am satisfied. The parent stock. 

 a seedling, is still living. The seed was planteci 

 by a Capt. Hai.et, about sixty years ago ; anil 

 the apple bears the family name. This apple Ikls 

 not, until about three or four years ago, emigrated. 

 It has been grafted and established around us 

 about twenty years. Three or four years ago I 

 sent some of the scions to some of my Massachu- 

 setts friends, and among the rest, 1 believe, to Mr 

 Saih'l G. Perki.xs, and to Mr John Swett, of 

 Dorchester. You may, perhaps, find specimens 

 of the apple, the present .season, at their places. 

 Respectfully, your obedient servant, 



JOHN ABBOT. 

 Brunswick, May 11, 1829. 



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It was iilanted about a foot from a south-east 

 Wall, and not trained to it, as is commonly done ; 

 the sod is a strong clayey loam. As the plant 

 grew vigorously, 1 generally cut the shoots into 

 S or 12 in., and gave the roots a good dressing of 

 leaf mould ; and it never failed to prodiice a nu- 

 merous show of perfectly blown roses, of a most 

 splendid appearance, and uninjured by any insecLs. 

 I am. Sir, &c., 



JOHN FRASER. 



The Cottage, Batlersea, Feb. 12, 1828. 



From Ihe Gartlener's Magazine. 



On the Cultivation of Dahlias, (now Gtorginas.) 



By a Florist. 

 Sir — A good criterion for planting this root is 

 about the time of planting early potatoes for a 

 first crop, but no sooner. They grow well in a 

 rich light soil of almost any kind. In dividing the 

 root, it is advisable to leave, at least, two eyes to 

 each plant, cutting through the neck or crown ; 

 the spring is the most preferable time for dividing 

 them, although some do it on taking them up in 

 the autumn. Those who possess a hot-house 

 should put each part into a pot of 6 or 8 in. in di- 

 ameter, with some good rich mould, so as the 

 crown may just appear at the top of the pot ; then 

 [ilace tbeni in the green-house, where they will 

 soon make good plants ; and, when all danger 

 from frost is over, they may be turned out into 

 holes prejiared for them. In this manner, after 

 liciug so long confined, they will grow most luxu- 

 riantly. A common cucumber frame may be suc- 

 cessfully used in this way. 



I am, Sir, &c. 

 F(tr!(a)T/8, 1829. A FLORIST. 



round the lower part of the stems. Nor will com- 

 mon horses go u,,on the stones, or endeavor to 

 touch the trees, and icaroff the bark ; hut against 

 high bred horses, which are disposed to attack 



•^'•■''7' S of "ood, the stones are not a suflicient 



(enec, unless they are packed with a surface very 



rugged, and extended 6 feet round the tree 



Against displacement by winds, the stones are a 

 better security than can he provided bv any man- 

 ner of staking, or binding; for they area power 

 always in action by their weight, and the surface 

 of the soil is shaded by them from the too great 

 power of the sun, whilst the rains sink through 

 and encourage the roots to sprout afresh, and ex- 

 tend themselves through the soil; thus they serve 

 the jiurpose of mulching. 



" The best trees to jilant out are certainly those 

 whose roots and heaiis have been properly thin- 



ned by pruning and citltivation 



in a nursery. Such 



From Liiudon's Gardener's Magazine. 



On the Culture of the Double Yellow Rose. Bv Mr 

 John Fraser, Gardener to the Hon. Wiiliam 

 Fraser. 



Sir — As I have seen several methods of culti- 

 vating the double yellow rose, mentioned in yotir 

 valuable Magazine, I am induced to send you an 

 account of the manner in which I treated it in the 

 north, in N. latitude 57^ 37', and W. longitude 

 30 7'. 



From the Gardener's Magazine. 



•d Plan for transplanting large Forest Trees in 

 Parks. By Sir Charles Miles Lambert Monck, 

 Bart. F.H.S. 



Tired and disaiipointed by the frequent failure 

 of single trees which had been carefully trans- 

 planted, and secured by stakes ami bandages, and 

 having a quantity of refuse stone in large lumps, 

 the writer used these stones as a midching for 

 trees about eight feet high. Each tree had two 

 two-horse cart-loads, not " built up high, but pack- 

 ed close by each other, and set on edge, so as to 

 make a tabular but very rugged surface around 

 the foot of the tree, and extended to the distance 

 of four feet. 



" These trees succeeded well, and far beyond 

 my ex[)ectation. On considering the cause of 

 their success, it appeared to me that the stones 

 served the three purposes of fencing, staking, and 

 mulching; the firsi ofwliich is always necessary, 

 to defend them from the assaidts of cattle ; the 

 second is equally so, if the plants are tall, to save 

 them from being displaced by winds after they 

 shall have taken fresh root ; and tlie thii-d also is 

 necessary, in case of a dry summer, the first after 

 the transplantiition of the trees, to protect the soil 

 from over-drouglit whilst they are striking fresh 

 root into it. The stones, placed as I have des- 

 cribed, are a sufficient fetice against horned cat- 

 tle, which, having feet made for going upon soft 

 ground, will not mount the rugged surface of the 

 stones. Sheep and deer will scarcely annoy trees 

 whose bark has acquired roughness ; but they 

 may be easily repelled by a few thorns bound 



may be planted out at greater ages and sizes than 

 trees taken from plimtations of a few years' growth 

 and will both strike fresh roots more certainly, 

 and grow faster ; but these last may be taken up 

 when from 10 to 20 or 25 feet high, and planted 

 out with fiill success, provided the two following 

 particulars nre observed : first, to get up as much 

 root as possible ; next, to reduce the branches 

 down to due proportion with the root which haS 

 been got up. A great part of the root is unavoid- 

 ably lost in the taking up of the tree, and it is the 

 most efficiait part, being the extreme fibres. The 

 root has thus lost its natural proportion to the 

 head, and is now insufficient to supply it with 

 moisture. Trees planted out in this state, often, 

 after haviuf; put forth their leaves, die suddenly ; 

 and others, which continue to live, will fall into a 

 languid state, and die off gradually, or recover 

 their vigor very slowly." 



From llie Gardener's Magazine. 



.fin effectual Mode of Destroying Slugs among Cau- 

 lifoivers and Cabbages. By Mr Henri Pike, 

 Gardener at Winktield Park, Berkshire. 



Sir — Having had all the young cauliflowers 

 and cabbages in my garden devoured by the slugs, 

 after I had repeatedly planted them, and having 

 tried every expedient recommended in your valu- 

 able Magazine, such as salt, lime, and dibbling 

 holes round the borders, and all having failed, I 

 at last spread some well cut chaft' round the young 

 plants under hand-glasses, and some round the 

 outside of the glasses. The success has been com- 

 plete. The slugs in their attem[)t to reach the 

 (ilant, find themselves immediately enveloped in 

 the chafF, which prevents their moving, so that 

 when I go in the morning to elevate the glasses 

 to give the plants air, I find hundreds of disabled 

 slugs round the outside of the glasses, which I 

 take away, and destroy. This mode of jiroceed- 

 ing being so simple and so effectual ; I have 

 tbougbt it would be doing a public service to let 

 it be known tlirough the channel of your Maga- 

 zine, p;irticidarly as (from the mildness of the 

 winter) the damage done by the slugs has been 

 so universal. I am. Sir, &c., 



HENRY PIKE. 

 ninkfield Park, Berks, Feb. 9. 



It is conjectured that the magazine of the steam 

 frigate Fulton, was designedly fired by a sailor 

 named Jack Hanan, who expected punishment 

 for robbing a midshipman's trunk. 



