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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



attacked by fungus— so much so as to be bitter, and when 

 barrelled liable to damage. 



Mr. lloAO agreed with Mr. Hookee. It is liable to be 

 attacked bv fuiious. If the tree is kept open and well 

 cultivated it is a pretty fair apple. 



L. B. Langwoetay thought it the finest apple we have 

 in flavor. But it has faults which are fatal to it. The 

 fruit is liable lo fungus. No family should be without it, 

 on account of its quality. 



Vote— 7 for, 4 against. 



It was moved to reconsider the vote, when 9 votes were 

 cast for it and 13 against it. 



Wagener.—llv. Moody thought the Wagener an excel- 

 lent apple in Jiavor. It has some drawbacks, but thinks 

 it better than the Fameuse. 



Mr. Olmsted thought the Wagener an excellent apple. 

 Bears well ; has to be thinned out; the tree is healthy ; 

 will keep till March. 



Mr. Maxwell thought it excellent. Will over-bear and 

 produce some poor specimens unless thinned. 



Mr. Smith thought it just the apple for family use. 

 Comes into bearing very early. 



Vote (15) unanimous. 



Pomm£ GrMe—Was highly commended by some of the 

 members as an apple of higVi flavor, and in great demand 

 for export to Canada. It would not sell in the Eastern 

 markets. 



Vote— 9 for, 4 against. 



The members began to get a little impatient, and the 

 remainder of the discussions are hardly worth reporting. 

 They seem to have forgotten that the reports of these 

 discussions are extensively read, and that the public look 

 with some interest to the discussions of the Society in 

 regard to the diflerent kinds of fruit. 



Fall Pippin received 6 votes for and 8 against it. 



Mubbardston Kotuuch received 4 for and 4 against it. 



Ydlow BeUfiower received 2 for and 8 against it. 



Gre^n Sweet in ff received 10 for and 1 against it. 



The Society then adjourned. 



THE DEWBERRY. 



The Journal of Horticulture has an account of 

 the visit of one of its editors to a Mr. Bird's es- 

 tablishment, wliere flowers are grown for the Lon- 

 don market. Madame Bird put in ten tlioosand 

 calceolaria cuttings in a rapid way of her own, 

 which Mr. Beatos describes: "First of all, she 

 made a row of holes for the cuttings across the 

 breadth of one light as quickly as a spinning ma- 

 chine, and as regularly as print; in depth and dis- 

 tance about an inch both ways ; then took up as 

 many cuttings, by guess, I take it, as would fill the 

 one row of holes, dropped one in each faster than 

 Baying so, and so left them loose. In this way one 

 thousand cuttings were put in one thousand holes, 

 each an inch deep, and each cutting as loose in the 

 hole as the ramrod in a gimbarrel. Then a dash 

 with a rose-waterpot filled, fixed and settlea one 

 whole light in one minute, and the next minute she 

 was on to the next light," 



In the November number of the Genesee Farmer 

 of last year, page 351, we gave a cut and descrip- 

 tion of a seedling Dewberry, originated by Dr. 

 Miner. Tlie London Gardeners^ Chronicle alludes 

 to the mutter as follows: 



•' It has often been remarked, as a strange cir- 

 cumstance, that all the researches which have been 

 made, not merely in warmtr regions, but in those 

 more resembling our own country in temperature, 

 have not yielded a single new and generjiUy useful 

 fruit. The Ugni and Psidium Cattleyanum, when 

 well-grown, are pretty additions to the dessert, and 

 nut despicable in point of flavor, but they are not 

 calculated for ordinary cultivation ; and of more 

 hardy plants, such as Berberis diilcis, there is not 

 one which will bear comparison with those fruit 

 bearers which have been tenents of our gardens 

 for centuries. 



" Little attention moreover of late years has been 

 paid toward improving the wildiings of our woods 

 and hedges, or those of similar climates, with the 

 exception perhaps of the native American vines, 

 whicli in their cultivated forms are now yielding 

 excellent fruit, and wine which is rising in import- 

 ance every day, the supply of which is not likely 

 to fail frt)m tlie ravages of the grape mildew, which 

 has hitherto in great measure if not entirely 

 spared the vines of American origin, some of which 

 are now extensively cultivated in Europe. 



"Our own blackberry plants, though producing 

 fruit which is agreeable to many palates, and in 

 good seasons afibrding a large quantity of useful 

 food to the poor, supplying moreover a preserve 

 whicli, from the largt quantity of citrate of potash 

 which it contains, is really useful in kidney afl'ec- 

 tions, have been generally neglected ; and though 

 the fruit of many is too vapid to be generally plea.s- 

 ing, the Dewberry (Rubus ciBsius) from the large 

 size of its grains, and its sharp agreeable flavor, is 

 not unpromising; on the contrary, when the Eng- 

 lish troops were at Eupatoria in the Ciiinea, its 

 seeds were sent home as those of a delicious fruit ; 

 but though recommended for experiment some 

 years ago, dres not seem to have met with much 

 attention. Some of the American species, how- 

 ever, though neglected here, are cultivated in the 

 United Slates, especially the varieties known un- 

 der the name of the Dorchester and New Rochelle, 

 but even these, though surpassing our own species 

 in size and quality, admit of much improvement. 

 Exi)eriments have accordingly been made in the 

 United States, and we have just had the jileasure 

 of receiving the number of tiie Genesee Farmer for 

 November, a monthly journal published in New 

 York, which contains some interesting information 

 on the point, together with an illustration of tlie 

 improved Rahus canadensis.^ which, it not exag- 

 gerated, promises- something really valuable among 

 our hardy fruits. Rubus villosus and cuneifolius 

 both ripen their fruit at a later peri<Kl, though both 

 have considerable merit, at least in their own coun- 

 try. The other allied forms seem to be as worth- 

 less as our own more inferior varieties. 



" It is cheering to see that the deplorable war 

 in America, though it has apparently put a stop to 

 all botanical works of importance, especially such 

 as had the support of Government, lias not entirely 

 put a stop to those of a more practical nature," 



