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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



•wins ditl nut bt^ar at all the past year; others pro- 

 duced three and four biislieU eacb. But the fun 

 of the tiling is, we have all the ai)ples we wish. 

 They keep very well indeed, considering we have 

 from flight to ten in the family, and all like fruit, 

 Tliey have rotted but very little, and this is tlie 

 first winter for twenty years that I have had what 

 fruit I wished to eat. 



" Now, friends of the plow, which pays hest, to 

 expend thirty dollars on old trees, or twenty on 

 nice young ones ? Thus far the laud has produced 

 about as much as though no trees were on it ; but 

 I think this will not be the case longer. Last 

 spring I set seventy-five sweet apple trees, and 

 hope some time to have plenty of sweet apples to 

 feed stock. My advice is to set young trees, and 

 when they come into bearing cut away the worth- 

 le&s old ones." 



On the other hand, a correspondent of the Gen- 

 esee Farmer, D. Lott, of Lottsville, Pennsylvania, 

 is in favor of grafting the old orchards rather 

 than planting new ones, unless the trees are past 

 bearing and beginning to decay. He had an or- 

 chard of ungrafted apple trees which had been set 

 between thirty and forty years. These he grafted, 

 and in six to eight years the trees had tops suffi- 

 ciently large to bear from eight to twelve bushels 

 of apples each. On the other hand, he set out a 

 new orchard, and when he wrote, six years after, 

 the trees were just beginning to bear, and none of 

 the trees had produced over a bushel of fruit. The 

 grafts and old trees were as healthy and thrifty as 

 the new ones. He thinks in the case of large trees 

 not more than one-third of the top should be 

 grafted in a season, three years being required to 

 complete its process. The reason why so many 

 fail of success in grafting old trees is the neglect to 

 remove tiie sprouts from the original tree. This is 

 but little work if they are rubbed otf soon after 

 they start. If allowed to grow till a knife is 

 required, tlie labor is considerable, and the growth 

 robs the grafts and weakens the tree, 



RA.8PBKBRT PLANTING. — A Correspondent of the 

 London Cottage Gardener says, that he has a 

 method of planting raspberries which he considers 

 superior to any other. The ground is thoroughly 

 prepared by the time the suckers are about a foot 

 or fifteen inches high. He selects the strongest 

 Buckers, that are well rooted, and is particular to 

 have a good fibrous root, with a good collar, al- 

 though the leaves are small. The holes are dug 

 and three plants put in each, in a triangle, about 

 nine inches apart, spreading the root* out nicely, fill 

 in the soil, give a good watering, and the work is 

 done. He says that he has triec various ways 

 of planting, bat none have succeeded as well as 

 this. 



HORTICTJLTUKAL ITElttS. 

 Prepared from Foreign JournaU for the Genesee Farmer. 



ToK editor of the London Gardeners' Chronic 

 says, in an article on the vine, that no poor mortj 

 who has been the victim of all varieties of qaacl 

 hag more right to complain than the grape vin 

 and he mentions one case where a vine bad bet 

 planted two years since on a border filled with d< 

 cayed fern roots. The vine grew at first, but wi 

 soon attacked by mildew, then a chemical dres" 

 ing was applied, and now the shoots are more fe 

 ble than ever, and the poor vine will probably dl 

 It was found, on examining the shoots, that tl 

 tissues were in part discolored, and the ducts filk 

 with a brown, jelly-like substance. 



Cdthill's Treatise on the cucumber and melc 

 is highly commended by the Gardeners' Chronic 

 and one curious paragraph is quoted. Mr. Cuthki 

 says, that "an old lady called upon him and sa 

 that although he was such a good cucumber grow 

 that he did not know everything, and aski 

 him if he had ever cut oflF as much of a cucumb 

 as he wanted and left the rest to grow ? She sa 

 that she had made a practice of it, as hers we 

 constantly stolen. Mr. 0. tried the experimer 

 found that the cucumber did not bleed, but th 

 the remaining half swelled fast.'' 



The Remie Horticole has a notice of the requ€ 

 of the Smithsonian Institute to the amateurs 

 meteorology, "of which," says the JRevue, "the 

 are so ?nany in America," to note the times ' 

 flowering and fruiting of certain trees and plan*' 

 and adds that it will be very difficult to get an 

 thing reliable on this point, although it is a ve 

 interesting one, and that botany and meteorolof 

 will gain by such observations. 



A ooRKESPONDBNT of the Gardeners' Chronic 

 pays that rose-cuttings can be struck from eyes jn 

 like the grape vine. They should be prepared 

 the same way, planted in soil made of loam, le»i 

 soil and sand, plunge the pans in a nice botto 

 heat of about 60°, covering the surface with mosi 

 In three weeks from the time the young shoots b' 

 gin to push throngh the sand, the roses will be 1 

 to transfer to large pots. 



Robert Murray, F. R, H, S., in writing to tl 

 London Florist about the Australian trees, si; 

 that the woods are chiefly composed of Gum tree 

 and that from their leaves oil can be made whic 

 will burn with a clearer and brighter Upht than tli 

 American kerosene, and is equally ^1 adapted t 

 household purposes. 



