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GENESEE FARMER. 



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Fruit Trees— UiukUng and Gnit'tiiig. 



As it is the season, Mr. Editor, when fruit 

 trees are usually inoculated, [ beg leave to say a 

 word or two on the sul)ject of budding, it is so 

 generally said that grtifting should be done in the 

 spring, and budding in the summer, that most 

 persons suppose that neither can be done to any 

 good purpose at any other time. 1 am satisfied, 

 however, from experience, that this is a mistake, 

 and that both can be done successfully, either in 

 the spring or summer, and that whenever the 

 trees are in a fit condition for budding they are 

 also so for grafting. In the spring the buds 

 should be taken from scions cut early, and as 

 there is no foot-stalk of the leaf to take hold of, 

 in inserting the bud, the slice of wood should be 

 made longer above tb.e bud, say fliree quarters of 

 an inch, by which tiie bud may be pushed into 

 place, and a pai't of it then cut off. 



When scions are cut in July or August, for 

 grafting, the upper part of the leaf should imme- 



ately afterwards, must have perceived the bad ef- 

 fects of doing so. By watering during a shower 

 you avoid this, and the tO}) of the tree being wet 

 by the rain and moisture of the air, the flow of 

 sap is increased and the watering of the roots 

 comes (it the right time to be of service to the 

 tree. 



Our crops here this season, of every kind, are 

 remarkably good, both in the field and garden. 

 Truly yours, A. H. 



MeadviUe, Pa., July 28, 1846. 



Blight ill the Pear Tree, 



In ail articlo on this subject, in the Aug. No, of thellor- 

 ticuliiirist, 51r. Downing suggests, as a preventive to the 

 '■frozen sup blight," to whitewash the ste>iis and prhicipal 

 hranches of all valnnble Pear Trees 'm the av.lvmn, after the 

 leaves have fallen. It appears qitite reasonable that a cout of 

 whitewash may in sonic degree prevent that form of blight, 

 induced by sudden freezing ond thawing in winter. The 

 " insect bliglit" is the most annoying in our region. Many 

 fine pear trees have been lost by it within a few years. — 

 The poison is deposited in tlie tops of the branches, and 

 s| reads.so rapidly that, if net observed and cut away at once, 

 diately be cut off, leaving; the stem : and, if they '*'- '« tlifficult to save the tree, da iji time is the remedy for 

 •^ - ..'->.'.. •' this. We have been told by many that they have cut near- 



ly all their trees away, and could not arrest it; reason, 

 they did not begin till it was too late. 



This summer we had a O'olden Reineile apple tree, a 



are not to be put in the same day, the lower part 

 of the scion should be inserted in a potato to 

 keeo it damp. Where grafts can be got in the 



neighborliood. August is quite as safe a time tol d^''?'-'"' 1°^''«'^' ^^'"' iVuit attacked with the insect blight, 

 o - o 1 . , and we saw- gurn oozing from the place where the brancnes 

 insert them as m the spring, and there is less kvere stung. WeatoncocutoiT.cle.irbelow where the least 

 danger of the scions being spoiled by improper j indication of the disordered sap was visible ; and we visit- 

 methods of preserving them. I have a pear tree I f^ *^ '/,^,°,f -''^ ^y^^^^:''^'^- "j" operatiaii, an« 

 . ,i , , ?_i_ J *- . 1 so we .saved ti. Vigilance and prompt action ni this, as id 

 in my orchard in wiiiGu i put ten or twelve buds l manvotiier matters, are indispensable. Onour wayup the 

 this spring of the Virgalieu Pear, budding the valley a few days ago, we saw 3 or 4 bcamiful large pear 

 f o 1 i,> <:> 1 1 trees, all black and dead ; last year the same trees were 

 branches about halt way from the tree, and cut- h-althy and luxu.iant, and bore a fine crop. A little thuely 

 ting off the limb as soon as the bud had taken ; attention would undoubtedly liavc saved them, and a great 

 thp o-rnwfh has hepn verv p-ood and each bud I «^ving it would have been. Their owner will probably 

 tne growin nas oeen vei> goou, ana eacn f^i^" L^claim. " I will plant no more pear trees. It's no use." 

 averages now over a foot m length. 



Watering. — V/hile speaking of fruit trees, I 

 would say an additional word about the right time 



Svvainistouc Seedling Strawberry. 



The two leading Horticultural journals seem to differ 



to water" those that have been transplanted. — i very widely regardiiig the merits of this celebrated new 

 ,, 1 ii • i 1 • ]• X fruit, of which much h'ls been said. lUr. Hoyey s.ays m 



Many persons lose their trees by an mdiscieetj ^j^ ^^^ j^.^^fj^^^jj l^^^^ been "grown abom Boston thes- 



pouring on of water in the morning and evening, 

 during the hot season. From the little attention 

 I have given to the subject, I would suggest as 

 the best time to water trees, that it should be done 

 when it rains. It may seem at first like carry- 

 ing coals to New Castle to do this ; yet it works 

 well in practice, and is probably not wrong in 

 theory. It is a very heavy shower w'hen there 

 falls an inch of rain, and most frequently show- 

 ers produce but a quarter of an inch, which is 

 quite inadequate to reach the roots of a tree. — 

 Now, if a sufficient quantity of well rotted ma- 

 nure is mixed with the ground at the planting of 

 a tree, it will keep the earth from packing, and 

 the soil will absorb three or four buckets full of 

 water almost as fast as they can be poured on. 

 This, if done when it rains, and when the best 

 kind of water for the purpose can so easily be 

 obtained, will last a tree for some time, generally 

 longer than the interval between rainy days in 

 the summer season. Any person who has wa- 

 tered a newly transplanted tree or shrub, when 

 the hot sun has shone upon the ground immedi- 



four years, and has proved wholly unworthy of general 

 cultivation." Mr. Downing, in the first number of the 

 " Horticulturist" .says that a year ago he sat on a "Com- 

 mittee of lasti^^ at one of tho exhibitions of the Society 

 there, where all the leading kinds were exhibited, and thai 

 notliing there seen or tasted, surpassed, or even equalled 

 e Swainstone in point of high flavor.^' He also adds 



the 



that he has it full bearing himself, and that " It in certainly 

 a strawberry of the highest flavor, of great beauty of ap- 

 pearance, and an excellent bearer." ^^'^^'^ ■" -■"'^* ' 



Who isricht ? 



The Fastolff Raspberry. 



This new and fine frnit is figured in both the " Horticul- 

 turist" and llovey's Magazine" for August. Hovey's fig- 

 ure is more than one-third larger than Downing's. Indeed 

 the diflerence is sogrcat as to exclude all similarity. The 

 conclusion we naturally arrive at, is that one is wrong. — 

 Who is right ! IIovEV says he procured his drawing, which 

 irs really a very beautiful one, from Messrs. Youkls,, of Eng- 

 land, who have the credit of introducing the fruit. 



It has borne with us the past season. The fruit was very 

 fine, and would correspond with the figure in the " Horti- 

 culturist," but they received no extra care or culture. At 

 any rate, it is a valuable fruit, and should be in every good 

 garden. IMr. Downing says it proves itself worthy of all 

 the praise that has been lavished upon it. 



A YOUNG MAN ih Springfield, Maes., was recently fined 

 §20 and costs, for stealing cherrie*. and for mutilating the 

 tree in the operation. 



