1856. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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month. Fruit very hardy, hanging long on the 

 tree, shriveling slightly. Excellent for the dessert 

 and for preserves. Great bearer. Foreign. 



IMPEKIAL GAGE — PRI^•CE'S IMPERIAL GAGE. 



Large medial : oval, distinct suture ; pale green, 

 with a yellow tinge, and clouding of darker green, 

 thick white bloom ; stem medial, in a moderate 

 cavity; flesh gi'eenish, melting, very juicy, of a rich 

 sprightly, delicious flavor. Mostly freestone. 1 to 

 15 Sept. A vigorous grower and prodigious Iiear- 

 er. Dark shoots and leaves. Fruit rather inclined 

 to rot. Adapted to rather dry soils. Native of 

 Flusliing, N. Y. 



smith's ORLEANS. 



Large ; roundish-oval ; broadest at the base, dis 

 tinct suture on one side ; reddish purple, azure 

 bloom ; stem short, slender, in a deej), narrow cav- 

 ity ; flesh yellow, rather firm, juicy, of a sprightly, 

 vinous flavoi-. Clingstone. Sept 1 to 20. Tree 

 hardy and vigorous, and adapted to various climates 

 and soils. Very good for market. Rather inclined 

 to rot, when hanging very thick. 



CoWs Fruit Book. 



Correction. — Our attention has been called to 

 an omission in the report of the transactions of the 

 U. S. Agricultural Society, at its late meeting at 

 Washington. The name of Frederick Hol- 

 BROOK, as Vice President for Vermont, was not 

 given. The error probably occurred in changing 

 the arrangement of the names from one solid col- 

 umn, as we found it, into two columns, as it stands 

 in our paper. 



For the New England Farmer. 



PLANTING PINES. 



Mr. Editor : — As I am intending to plant out 

 and raise a few acres of ivhite pine timber, I wish 

 to learn the best method of propagating the same 

 from the seed, and also the best method of nursing 

 and cultivating the trees. I have several acres al- 

 ready of this valuable timber growing, (indigenous,) 

 on land formerly covered with hard timber, and is 

 about twenty-two years since it was first discovered, 

 probably the first year of its growth. These were 

 but small bushes in 1839. I had them trimmed 

 up and thinned out a little at that time, and have 

 thinned them out for fire-wood occasionally since, 

 and the quantity and value of the timber, aside 

 from its beauty, is far greater than it would be, if 

 the first growth had been allowed to stand till now. 

 Any suggestions by you or any of your correspon- 

 dents in relation to this subject will be duly appre- 

 ciated. John M. Weeks. 



fVest Farms, Salisbury, Vt., Feb. 15. 



Remarks. — Last summer, during a visit to the 

 Cape and Martha's Vineyard, we saw many acres 

 covered with young pines imder cultivation. We 

 are not able to state the process, but have no doubt 

 that brother Phinney, of Barnstable, will enlighten 

 us with the whole story, through the Patriot, which 

 we shall be happy to spread before our readers. 



For the Neiv England Farmer. 



PLAN FOR A CHEAP SUMMER HOUSE, 



Mr. Editor : — In answer to the inquiry of Mr. 

 Hill, of Yarmouth, in the last JVew England Far- 

 mer, for "a i)lan for a small and cheap summer- 

 house, upon which vines may run, and in an unpre- 

 tending garden," I will state the course adopted by 

 myself, a few years since, to obtain such a summer- 

 house. Having occasion to use about one hundred 

 white cedar posts for fencing, I had the bark care- 

 fully stripped off and laid aside for an experiment 

 in rural architecture. This I proceeded with in my 

 own way. I set in the ground at one side of my 

 garden four red cedar posts, about ten feet long, 

 leaving say seven feet in length above the surface. 

 These were set about eight or ten feet apart, in the 

 form of a parallelogram, and were the posts of my 

 summer-house. I then nailed pieces of rail around 

 the top, for the plates of the roof, and on two sides 

 fastened the ribs for the same, made of strips of 

 board, and across these ribs longitudinally nailed 

 other strips. I had thus a stiff" frame for a roof, 

 which I proceeded to cover with the broadest strips 

 of the bark, nailing them on up and down, in the 

 old style of boarding roofs. The roof has a sharp 

 pitch, and a projection at the eaves of a foot oy 

 more. On three sides of the house I formed a 

 door-way, or open space, by setting smaller posts 

 in the ground, and nailing them at the top to the 

 plates. Pieces of board were nailed cross-ways for 

 ribs, leaving the open spaces for door-ways on the 

 front and sides, and running entirely across the 

 rear part of the building. These ribs were then 

 covered both inside and out with the bark, being 

 nailed on in strips lengthwise. 



I thus made myself a very cheap and pretty sum- 

 mer-house, around which have been planted the va- 

 rious climbing roses, and which, in time, I hope to 



