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THE GENESEE PARMER. 



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HINTS FCn. 



Transplantinc of all deciduous trees Will 

 Evergn be transp 



nearly all the month. Large trees cannot be movi d 

 with safety, unl rge balls of earth attached. 



Plants from one to tw safe. A 



our ii- mlock, Red ana 



fFliiti • im Fir and Juniper, are all 



worth; ition and ■■ 



foreign trees the Norway Spr Fir, Chi- 



and Siberian Arbor e ■• and Austrian 



Pine axe among the most common re all fine 



ow Bold cheap in 

 The new 1.II3 



in pots for ?al, and may b mt any 



I these, now to be had at the 

 nurseries, are the Deodar Cedar, the Auracaria or 

 Brazil Pine, the Cedar of Lebanon, Himalo 

 Spruce, and Pinns Excclsa. These are all elegant 

 for lawns. 

 Hedges of JYorway Spruce, lied Cedar, Hemlock-. 

 Arborvitce. fcc, may be made all the month, S 

 plants, one or two feet high, are the best for this 

 purpose. 



Hardy Annual Flower Seeds may now be 

 where wanted to bloom — and those raised In frames 

 i ou1 on a dark day. 

 Border Plants of all sorts wintered in the house 

 or in frames, may be planted out in masses. The 

 :ipal of these are the Everblooming Rote*, Scar- 

 Petunias, Salvias, Helio- 

 ,. <k,c. Phloxes of the more dwarf valie- 

 nt plants for masses, and as a stock 

 of th Kept in pots, may be plant 



i me. Dahlias should be planted about the la tter 



if the month. Strong- young- plants raised from 



n will give a better bloom than old roots. 



VSG-STATION IN MISSISSIPPI. 



Dear Sir : — T have this day (March 7) measured 

 trees here, so as to be certain in 

 1 measured a peach tree, budded Sept. 

 L8, 1846, removed from my nursery 6 days ago — it 

 measures 9 inches in circumference within 6 inches 

 of the earth, and retains this size for over two feet. 

 Apple, grafted in Feb., 1848, over 2 inches. A cut- 

 ting of a se< dling pear, put out Feb., 1848, is now 2 

 in circumference. Quince cutting, put out 

 Jan., 1848, over 2 inches. Pawlonia Imperialis — a 

 cutting of a root not larger or longer than a pencil 

 was put out Feb., 1848 — it is to-day 7 inches 

 in circuml , and I suppose it to be over 10 feet, 



as 1 had no pole convenient. Asparagus '2t> inches 

 high to-day — not strong enough yet for cutting. — 

 Red bud in bloom. Dog-wood in bloom. Double 

 Flowering Apple in full bloom on the 5th. 



I saw an apple tree bloom to-day. Several varie- 

 ties of pear in bloom. Forest trees have quite the 

 appearance of spring — in a few days the trees will 

 be green, as red oak and post oak buds are nearly 

 bursting. The bark of the forward seedling peaches 

 and of quinces will now admit of budding ; and by 

 way of trying, I budded a peach on Monday, the 5th, 

 and a plum to-day. 



These items may prove pleasing to you, and if you 

 deem them to be worthy of record, hand them to 

 Genesee Fanner. [We are much obliged for them. 

 — En.] With respect, &.c, yours, M. W. Philips. 

 Washington, Miss., March 7, 1849. 



SUMMER BON CHRETIEN PEAR. 



Friend Farmer : -The objecl of this communi- 

 cation is i' to an old and honored friend. 

 the Summer Bon Chn in Pear, and Bay, come up 



sat. That 

 differenl vari . the same 



1 ion, 1 belie ■ trine ; and 



1 bow- 



ever n rving 



fa place in ainly ranks 



itry. The tree is one of the 

 mo - healthy and . .-. it seems to 



borne on the quince, apple ii ie also a 



good bearer, and i >i the fruit's lacking i : 



it is one of the highest flavored varieties grown in 

 this part of the State. A neighbor of mine who lias 

 the Onondaga or Swan's Orange, White Doyenne, 

 GanseVs Bergamot, and Dearborn's Seedling, in 

 bearing, together with the Summer Bon Chretien, told 

 me a few days since that he thought the latter deci- 

 dedly the best pear he had ever ate. David Thomas, 

 too well known to the fruit culturists to need an in- 

 troduction, once told me that he considered the Sum- 

 mer Bon Chretien the best eating pear he had. The 

 Fruit Culturist, by J. J. Thomas, if my memory 

 seryes me correctly, does it very good justice. My 

 friend Thorp, of the firm of Thorp, Smith k, llanchet, 

 of the Syracuse Nursery, told me that he had 

 them on the Hudson and thought that DowNiNg's de- 

 scription of them was correct for that section, but 

 that it would not apply here. I think then that it is 

 but fair to conclude that although it may prove indif- 

 :' rent on the Hudson or in more southern and eastern 

 longitudes or latitudes, yet for this country or even 

 farther North, for I am told that it prospers in the 

 vicinity of Montreal, it should nol be given up. But 

 in both the garden and orchard, it should have a place 

 among the first class of pears. (Venus. 



Hinmanville, Oswego Co., April, 1849. 



We find this old pear in our markets every year 

 in abundance, indeed much more plentiful than any 

 other : and while we admit that it may be called 

 good, we must say that it is. to our taste, inferior 

 greatly to Bartlett or Seckel. We think with Cbphus 

 that it succeeds much better here than in the East. — 

 Ed. 



'Doksing's Fruit and Fruit Trees of America. 



The Season. — The spring so far has been exceed- 

 ingly cold. About the middle of April, after a week 

 of mild, growing weather, we had three days of ex- 

 treme cold. The ground was frozen two to three 

 inches deep, and all out door work suspended. In 

 some places the fruit crop, particularly peaches is 

 said to be injured: but, as far as we have seen, the 

 prospect here is fair. Neither the unusual severity 

 of the winter, (as low as 10° below zero,) nor this 

 untimely April frost, has materially injured the crop 

 in this vicinity. In the South the peach crop will 

 probably be an entire failure. 



To Preserve Flowbrs. — Ladies who wish to 

 preserve flowers are recommended to try nitrate of 

 soda. As much as can be held between the thumb 

 and finger placed in the water with flowers, will 

 preserve their freshness and beauty, it is said, for a 

 fortnight. 





