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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Aug. 



THE RETNE HORTENSE CHERRY. 



Fruit large, roundish oblong. Stalk about \\ 

 inch long, and rather slender. Skin very waxy — 



pale red, similar to 

 Belle de Choisey. — 

 Flesh pale amber 

 colored, tender, juicy 

 and sweet. Stone 

 medium size. Tree 

 bears very early and 

 abundantly ; in its 

 growth similar to 

 May Duke — is very 

 hard, and will prove 

 valuable for North- 

 ern localities. Ri- 

 pens from the begin- 

 ning and middle of 

 July: began to ripen 

 about the 4th this 

 season, and on one 

 tree was wholly ripe 

 on the 9th. It is one 

 of the best for dwarfs. 

 Cultivated on the Ma- 

 haleb, trees two years 

 from bud will be nice bearing bushes. 



This is the second year this fruit has borne 

 with us, and we are glad to say that it sustains, 

 much better than many others, the high character 

 which the French and some English cultivators have 

 given it. We can recommeud it among the smallest 

 assortment of garden trees. 



A FEW HINTS FOR AUGUST 



The most important operation during this month is 

 the increase of trees and shrubs by budding and lay- 

 ering. Much of this has already been done, but 

 there is, no doubt, a great deal yet undone. Plums 

 are usually budded first, as they are apt to cease 

 growing early, and the bark will not peel. Indeed, 

 unless in a particular case, if not done now it can 

 hardly be done this season. Pears should come next, 

 lest leaf blight may check the growth so much as to 

 prevent the bark rising. Cherries should be done 

 at once, as the young wood is now ripe enough to 

 take buds from. Apples, peaches, apricots, necta- 

 rines, pears on quince stock, or cherry on mahaleb 

 stock, may all be budded any time between now and 

 the middle of September, as the stocks all grow till 

 late in the season. 



Rose or other buds put in early in July should now 

 be opened, as tbe bandage will become too tight; if 

 necessary they might be retied. 



Layering of Roses, Carnations, fyc. — Various or- 

 namental trees and shrubs that produce little or no 

 seed, and do not strike easily from cuttings — quinces, 

 grape vines, gooseberries, and a multitude of other 

 thing may now be increased by this operation. 



Strawberries. — New plantations may be made 

 now at any moment of suitable weather — damp and 

 cloudy if possible. Old beds should have a dressing, 

 all the runners cut off, and cleared of weeds. The 

 soil for strawberries should be well trenched and 

 manured. 



Raspberries should have the old canes that bore 

 this year cut away as soon as the fruit is gathered. — 

 This allows the young canes for next year's bearing 



to strengthen and ripen fully, and pass through the 

 winter more safely than if left crowded up, as is usual- 

 ly the case. 



Pyamidal Pear Trees, <J«c, will require to be 

 looked over now and again, all this month; the de- 

 sired form of the tree must be maintained, and the 

 head kept open by stopping some branches, encour- 

 aging others, and removing some entirely, or at least 

 cutting them back to within two or three eyes of the 

 old wood. 



JYursery trees should not be pruned up to single 

 stem till strong enough to stand straight. Young 

 peach trees of this season's growth should have the 

 side branches shortened, or the ends simply nipped 

 off. All crooked growing sorts should be kept tied 

 to a suitable stake, as, if allowed to bend over, the 

 course of the sap is interrupted, and growth directed 

 to a wrong point. Grafts of last spring should be 

 looked over again, and any shoots that have grown 

 out from the stock about them removed. 



Dahlias. — Thin out surplus and weak branches, 

 and keep neatly tied to stakes. They are easily 

 broken by the wind. All other flowreing plants 

 should be kept neatly tied up, and flower stems should 

 be removed as soon as the flowers droop, as they be- 

 come unsightly. 



Young plants for next seasen's bedding out may 

 now be propagated from cuttings of Pansies, Petu- 

 nias, Verbenas, Scarlet Geraniums, &c. 



In view of the Pomological Conventions that are 

 to be held this fall at Syracuse and New- York, we 

 are anxious to collect as much information in regard 

 to the fruits of this region as possible. The Straiv- 

 berry, Currant, Raspberry, Gooseberry and Cherry 

 season is about closed with July, and we will feel 

 greatly obliged if any of our friends who may have 

 made notes respecting particular varieties, will fur- 

 nish us a copy. With August we get our Apricots, 

 Early Pears, Apples, Peaches and Plums, and we 

 hope that as they ripen they will be critically exam- 

 ined. 



We are indepted to Mr. Mr. Zera Burr, of Per- 



rinton, for specimens of his seedling Cherry, described 

 in our last volume, about a year ago. It is a hand- 

 some, delicious fruit, and the tree is quite remarka- 

 ble for its luxurient foliage and upright, compact 

 growth, surpassing even the Black Tartarian. It 

 grows late in the' season, when all others have stop- 

 ped, so that in the autumn months it may be distin- 

 guished by its freshness of foliage. 



Erratta. — On page 170 of last number, the word 

 " plums" was left out after " eke some," leaving the 

 sentence, as our correspondent has remarked, "on 

 one foot." Again, on the preceding page, in "JJJnts 

 for July," " Plants that are headed out," should 

 read "plants that are bedded out. On page 168, 

 there are several errors that show great carelessness 

 on the part of the printer. Foliage is given foi- 

 lagc in half a dozen places; Europteus is printed 

 Europasus; Cytissus, Cytussus; Hawthorn, Hawr- 

 thorn, he 



It is a truth well established among cultivators, 

 that land planted with fruit trees of good varieties, 

 will yield more to the acre, for man and beast, than 

 any other crop, with less labor. 



