No. 7. 



Canada Thistle. 



207 



Summer Pearmain. 



Maiden's Blush. 



Siberian Crab, (for preserving.) 

 Ripe from \Olh to \i>l mo. — {Oct. to Jan.) 



Rambo, or Seck-no-ftirlher. 



Blockley Pippin. 



Fall, or Holland Pippin. 



Cathead. 



White Doctor. 



Yellow Belltlower. 



Red Doctor, or Dewitt. 



Ilays, English Redstreak,or Wine Apple. 



Morgan. 



Roman Stem. 

 Ripe from 1st to 5th mo.— {Jan. to Mav) 



Newtown Pippin. 



lATge 6weet Pippin. 



Michael Henry Pippin. 



VVinesap. 



Solebury Cider. 



Carthonso, or Gilpin. 



Spitzemberg, or Jiiglcij. 



Pen nock. 



Lady, or Pomme D^Apis. 



Golden Russett, Bullock's Pippin or Ycl- 



loio Sheepnose, 

 Winter Pearmain. 

 Long Island Russett. 

 Smokehouse, or Gihbon''s Vandevere. 

 Crockson, or Red Sheepnose. 

 Tookesbury Winter Blush. 

 Republican Pippin. 



PM'MS. 



Apricot Plntn, large, yellow, with red 

 side — August. 



BinL'ham, large, long, yellow — September. 



Coe's Golden Drop, very large, yellow, 

 -^-September. 



LaDeliceu.e, or Cooper's, very large, dark 

 purple. 



Goliath, or Wilmol's late Orleans, ripe 

 September, very large, red and purple. 



Huling's superb, remarkably large, green. 



Huling's Green Gage, best of green gages. 



Imperial Diadem, large, pale red, — Septem- 

 ber. 



Red Magorum Bonum, large, — September. 



White do. do. or Egg Plum, large, 

 — September. 



Red Perdrigon, middle size, excellent. 



Smith's Orleans, large, purple, good. 



Bol mar's Washington, very large, green 

 and yellow, — September. 



Misa, fine red. 



Prune, German Prune, or Quetsche, pur- 

 ple, — September. 



Early Blue Imperial. 



Red Gage. 



CHRRRIE8. 



Mayduke, led, earliest. 



Bleeding Heart, or Gascoigne's, deep red, 



excellent. 

 Carnation, pale red. 

 Ox Heart, led and white, large. 

 Black Eagle, goo<i bearer, hardy. 

 Black Tartarean, or Ronald's Black Heart, 



larjre and fine. 



Early York. Morris' Red. 



Morris' W^hite. Freestone Heath. 



Malacotan. 



Old Mixon — clingstone. 



Late Heath — do. 



Cowperthwaite's late yellow preserving. 



Communicated for the Farmers' Cabinet by the Pliila- 

 (lelphia Agricultural Society. 



Canada Tliii^tle. 



The Committee in the ca.=:e of Canada 

 Thistle, have not been unmindful of their ap- 

 pointment, ailliougli ihey have been thus 

 tardy in making their report. They are now 

 gratified in being able to say that in their 

 opinion it is entirely within the control of 

 the farmer to eradicate and prevent this per- 

 nicious pest from spreading. In the first 

 place we shall recommend good cultivation ; 

 and secondly, the application of salt, which 

 we think entirely sufficient to banish this per- 

 nicious plant from our borders— bat it will 

 require the very particular attention of fiirm- 

 ers generall}', as it not only is propagated 

 by the root, but the seed is wafted to distant 

 parts by the wind. 



" Dr. Silaa Holbrook, of New York, de- 

 stroyed a quarter of an acre of these pests,, 

 tlirashing and burning them to the ground 

 when in blossonv and sprinkling^ salt on 

 them. — New Jingiand Farmer, vol. 6, p. 2L 



All remedies failed until salt was tried. — 

 Vol. 4, p. 4.3. 



Cut oflTeach thistle half an inch below the 

 surface of the ground, and put on each, one 

 gill of salt — brine may be used. — Vol. 4, p. 43. 



John Wilkins, jr. farmer, adjoining the 

 Gloucester county poor house farm, stated to 

 Doctor Stokes, of Aloorestown, that he had 

 sown salt on Canada Thistle, supposed about 

 five bushels to the acre, which entirely de- 

 stroyed it. 



David Comfort says he destroyed a quarter 

 of an acre of Canada Thistle, that stood very 

 thick on the ground, by ploughing deep ia 

 the spring, and sowing with oats; after the 

 oats came off", limed and sowed wheat and 

 clover seed thick, and mowed three years, 

 which so entirely killed the thistle, that thero 

 is not one stilk to be found on the spot. 



John Vansant the last season has entirely 

 killed the Canada Thistle by the application 

 of salt — perhaps about a gill to a plant. 



