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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



fifty pear trees when he set them out. They all died the 

 first year I 



J. J. Thomas had buried a cow in a heap of muck. In 

 a year all had disappeared except bones, and he thought 

 if the carcasses were well covered with soil, so that the 

 roots would not come in immediate contact with them, 

 no harm would be done. 



Benjamin Fish, of Rochester, had placed carcasses 

 midway between the rows of grape vines, and they had 

 certainly done no harm. 



Mr. Ellwanger said if the soil was in good ordinary 

 cultivation, he Would not apply a particle of manure to 

 grape vines. Had trenched his vineyard three feet deep 

 and manured it. It was a great mistake. The vines 

 grew too luxuriantly. Dr. Grant had recommended a 

 mode of trenching, manuring, &c, that would cost $1,500 

 per acre ! It was money thrown away. He would set 

 out the vines without manure of any kind, and if the 

 soil was found to be too poor he would apply manure in 

 the fall to the surface. 



E. Moody, of Lockport, agreed with Mr. Ellwanger. 

 It is a great mistake to manure so heavily. There is very 

 little land that is not rich enough. On clay soils deep 

 trenching might be necessary. 



J. J. Thomas said Dr. Underhill, of Croton Point, who 

 is justly celebrated for his success in raising grapes, 

 trenches and manures his vineyard; but a brother of 

 Dr. Undekhill had told him that he did not, and that his 

 grapes are just as good. He cultivates the surface of the 

 ground some fifteen times during the summer! 



Mr. Qqail, of Middlebury, formerly manured his grape 

 vines, but found it a mistake — produces suckering and 

 too much wood. On the highest and poorest land his 

 grapes were the best. Lime and ashes might be of 

 benefit. 



3. Peaches for Market. 



H. N. Langwortht said there is more money made 

 on late peaches than on early ones. They could be sent 

 to market more easily and safely. The best early peach 

 is Early Purple. Crawford's Early is the best peach ever 

 introduced for market. The Sweetwaters (George IV, 

 Kensington, Ac.) have all run out. Cooledge's Favorite 

 had supplied their place. Late Crawford has nearly dis- 

 appeard in this section. 



E. Moody raised excellent Late Crawfords. "Would 

 cultivate the trees low and thin out the fruit. The trees 

 bear too much. Two-thirds of the fruit should be removed. 

 The remainder will be large and of much better quality. 

 He had sold peaches from trees so thinned for $1.25 per 

 basket, while those from unthinned trees brought only 50 

 cents. The yield of fruit is about the same in both 

 cases. The thinned fruit is much larger, and can be 

 picked with far less labor. One man had picked eighty 

 baskets in a day. After the trees have borne three crops 

 he would remove them and plant again. In regard to 

 marketing he said boxes are preferred to baskets, because 

 they can be piled one upon another. If the car is pro- 

 vided with shelves, as in his own case they were this 



year, baskets are best, as the peaches do not bruise so 

 much as in boxes. 



Some remarks were made in regard to the cause of the 

 pear blight. Mr. Barry proposed as a cure to "plant 

 two trees for every one that blighted." 



THE RED MAPLE. 



The Atlantic Monthly for October conta 

 interesting article on "Autumnal Tints," \ 

 by Mr. Thokeajt. Europeans coming to A: 

 are surprised at the brilliance of our aul 

 foliage. There is nothing equal to it in t< 

 World. The leaves of nearly all our trees, 

 they ripen and are ready to fall, assume m 

 less of a scarlet tinge. The Red Maple is 

 the earliest. By the 1st of October ever 

 from lowest limb to topmost spire, is all 

 Some redden earlier than others, and appear 

 more striking from the fresh green foliage o 

 neighbors. A large Red Maple swamp, w 

 the height of its change, is the most ob 1 

 brilliant of all tangible things. Mr. TnoREi 

 cants thus pleasantly on the subject : 



"A small Red Maple has grown, perchar 

 away at the head of some retired valley, 

 from any road, unobserved. It has faith fu 

 charged the duties of a Maple there, all \vini 

 summer, neglected none of its economic 

 added to its stature in the virtue which belc 

 a Maple, by a steady growth for so many n 

 never ha\ing gone gadding abroad, ami is 

 heaven than it was in the spring. It has fai 

 husbanded its sap, and afforded a shelter 

 wandering bird, has long since ripened it; 

 and committed them to the winds, and has t 

 isfaction of knowing, perhaps, that a th 

 little well-behaved Maples are already sett 

 life somewhere. It deserves well of Map 

 Its leaves have been asking it from time t 

 in a whisper, 'When shall we redden? 1 An 

 in the month of September, this month of 

 ing, when men are hastening to the sea-side, 

 mountain, or the lakes, this modest Map. 

 without budging an inch, travels in its reputi 

 runs up its scarlet flag on that hill-side, 

 shows that it lias finished its summer's work 

 all other trees, and withdraws from the c 

 At the eleventh hour of the year, the tree 

 no scrutiny could have detected here when 

 most industrious is thus, by the tint of its mi 

 by its very blushes, revealed at last to the ( 

 and distant traveler, and leads his thoughts 

 from the dusty road into those brave sc 

 which it inhabits. It flashes out conspicuoi 

 all the virtues and beauty of a Maple 

 rubrwm. We may now read its title, or 

 clear. Its virtues, and not its sins, are as s< 



A new honey-suckle, with golden-veined 

 was exhibited by Mr. Standish at Regent 

 and South Kensington, where it received a 

 cate of merit of the first-class. It was ser 

 Japan by Mr. Fortune. The stems, when m 

 are of a deep red color, and the midrib of 1 

 is quite crimson when naturally grown, bu 

 that color when forced. It was shown unc 

 name of Lonicera reticulata. 



