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Experiments with the Pear upon the Apple. 



Vol. XI. 



pJCentucky, where it displays its most 

 nesEf"! vegetation. Its comparative rare- 

 and 0."-'^^ maritime parts of the Carolinas 

 LQyjgjj^'jOrgia, in the Floridas, and in lower 

 mer than'^ owing less to the heat of sum- 

 in some part'^^ nature of the soil, which, 

 rens,and in ofi too dry, as in the pine-bar- 

 which border t?. t°° ^'^t' ^^ ^" ^^^ swamps 

 found mingled wfj^ers. It is commonly 

 hickories, the blacfi^'i^'" ^rees, such as the 

 the Kentucky cofree-^J""^, and butternut, 

 nadensis,) and the wild (Gymnocladus ca- 

 sometimes constitutes, aPJ^'J'"'''^®.',^"*, /^ 

 tracts of the forest, as was\ considerable 

 elder Michaux, on the road h§P^^ ^^ ^^^ 

 to Louisville, in Kentucky. ^Beardstone 

 geography of this tree may be sa^^ 

 brace the middle region of Europv/"^' 

 Berlin and Warsaw, on the north, u ,'h" 

 shores of the Mediterranean and Naples 

 the soDth ; Ireland on the west, and Ctitn 

 on the east. It is successfully cultiva* ^„ 

 along the maritime parts of the Unitel 



on 

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Brussels, there is a tree which has a clear 

 stem three feet in diameter, with a compact 

 globular head. When Lacken belonged 

 to France, the palace was occupied by the 

 Empress Josephine, who brought her gar- 

 dener from Paris ; and the poor man, while 

 he was gathering seeds from this tree, fell 

 from it, and broke his neck. At Schwobber, 

 near Hanover, there is growing, in alluvial 

 soil, near water, a tree more than one hun- 

 dred and twenty years old, and eighty feet 

 in height, with a trunk two feet in diameter, 

 and an ambitus of thirty feet. In Italy, the 

 tulip-tree attains a height of seventy or 

 eighty feet, flowers freely, and ripens seeds 

 every year. 



The elder Michaux measured a tulip-tree, 

 three and a half miles from Louisville, Ken- 

 tucky, which was twenty-two feet and a half 

 in circumference five feet from the ground, 

 and from one hundred and twenty to one 

 hundred and forty feet in height. In 1842, 

 there was felled from the estate of Mr. John 



ttiuiig me maruime pans or me Unitell^ • • ;, ..-—--.----— . -. 



States, from Newburyport, in Massachusetts,!^!!,'';'" Llangollan, Kentucky, a tulip-tree 

 ♦^ Q<. i\/r »„ • r^-_'_- ' ;>'dit feet m diameter near the p-round. and 



to St. Mary's, in Georgia 



The period at which the tulip-tree was 

 first introduced into England, is uncertain. 

 The honour is said to have been conferred 

 on the Earl of Norfolk, as far back as 1663. 

 It is certain that it was cultivated by Dr. 

 Henry Compton, at Fulham, in 1688, at 

 which time it was wholly unknown as a 

 timber-tree. According to Miller, Mr. Bar- 

 ley, at Hoxton, and Mr. Fairchild, were the 

 first who raised this tree from seeds; and 

 from their nurseries it is probable that the 

 numerous old trees which are spread all 

 over Britain were procured. The oldest 

 tree in England, estimated at over one hun- 

 dred and fifty years of age, is at Fulham 

 palace. It is about fifty feet high, and its 

 trunk, at one foot from the ground, is three 

 feet in diameter. The largest tree in Brit- 

 ain is in Somersetshire, at Hestercombe, 

 which is one hundred feet in height, with a 

 trunk three feet in diameter, and ripens 

 seeds every year 



The first notice which we have of the 

 tulip-tree on the continent, is in the "Cata- 

 logue of the Leyden Garden," published in 

 1731. From the number of these trees ex- 

 isting in France, the south of Germany, and 

 Italy, there can be little doubt jt spread as 

 rapidly in those countries as it "did in Brit- 

 ain. Public avenues are planted of it in 

 Italy, and as far north as Strasburg and 

 Mentz. It stands the open air at Vienna, 

 and attains a large size there ; but it will 

 not endure the climate north of Warsaw, 

 nor Moscow, without protection. In tlie 

 grounds of the palace of Lacken, near 



I'dit feet in diameter near the ground, and 



™*^'eet in diameter seventy-five feet above. 



I" t'mk was perfectly straight and sound, 



f" Z^^ sawed into boards of common 

 lengths. 



At Gmet. p^-j^^.^ Bushwick, near New 

 York, on ^q ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^ -^^ gj-^g^ ^^^^^ 



IS a tuJip-tret w.ich has a circumference o\ 

 twenty-one feu. .^ ^h^ee feet above the 

 grounc^ and a hSoMof seventy feet. 



In 1807, there ex«tod a tulip-"tree in Ham- 

 ilton, Adams county, ^e„ni^ani ^^^,^^^ 

 by John Pearson m a co^^^^jnication to Dr. 

 James Mease, in the " M^m^irs of the Phil- 

 adelphia Society for promotng Agriculture," 

 tor that year, which had a Crcumference of 

 thirty-six feet, with a trunk iijrty or forty 

 feet to the forks, a large head, a,<i to all ap- 

 pearances, perfectly sound. In •h.Q game 

 work he mentions another tree as growing 

 near the Virginia head of the river ^oan- 

 oake, which was thirty-nine feet in circatn- 

 ference four feet from the ground, apparent, 

 ly sound, and about forty feet to the forks. — 

 Browne'' s Trees of America. 



Experiments with the Pear npon the 

 Apple. 



The following account of experiments made by T. S_ 

 HuMRicEHousE, of Cashocton, Ohio, we take from the' 

 Magazine of Horticulture, a work we frequently find 

 ourselves extracting from, and as we trust to the bene- 

 fit of our readers. It is not successful experiments 

 alone that are available to the practical farmer or 

 gardener; we want as well to be advised of failures, 

 as of attempts that have succeeded in our hands. 

 I Thus time, labour and expense may be avoided: and 



