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PUBLISHED BY J. B. RUSSELL, AT NO. 32 NORTH MARKET STREET, (at the Agkicultural^j^ 



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G FESSENDEN, EDITOR. 



^'OL, IX. 



BOSTOIV, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, I830. 



NO. 6. 



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Al'OLEON AND PASSJE COLMAR PEARS. 



3Ir Fessenden — Will you please to iiolice an 



rralLiin either of the pies?, or pen, in niy 



xtraot iVoni MrW. R. Prince's note in your last 



ppr. The word ' not' before the word ' identi 



1' was omitted — it should have read ' which are not 



eniical.' The error is a material one, though 



sily corrected by looking back to the next pre- 



cding paper. 



I presume that Mr Prince never read your pa- 



r giving an account of the exhibitions of our 



wly imported pear. Please to insert the follow- 



cxtract from the Mass. Horticultural Society's 

 port of the pear exhibited on Saturday, the 24th 

 October, 1829. ' By John Prince, Esq. speci- 

 ens of the Napoleon pearfrom Mr Knight's scions, 

 beautiful, high flavored pear, iufne order, melt- 

 ', sprightly, and full of delicious juice.' 

 It will be seen, then, that the Boston cultivators 

 re not so very ignorant, as to mistake a winter 

 ir for an autumnal one — a yellow pear, with a 

 ish, with deep yellow Jlesh, for a gi-een pear, 

 euish yellow when ripe, with white flesh, nor a 

 ir, the most extravagant and profiise bearer ever 



seen here, for one, which is but a common one 

 that respect. The Napoleon of Mr Knight is 

 erfect model of the drawing of the Napoleon 

 the Pomological Magazine — ripens at the same 

 e, and has the same qualities. Our Napoleon 

 ! hope therefore) is not spurious, although Mi 

 nee claims his own ' cw the genuine.' Mr 



ht told us, that the Passe Colinar was so 

 at a bearer that he was obliged to take ofi" uine 

 ths of the fruit, — aiul so is ours. 



A FARMER. 

 ^oxbury, August 2Ut, 1830. 



has one or two varictie 

 ed troni that pest. 



Yours truly, 

 Salem, Aug. 17, 



which have never sutler- 

 J. M. I. 



GOOSEBERRIES. 

 Ir Rcssell — As we have within these few 

 received great additions to our stock of 

 iseberrics from Scotland, and as the diflerent 

 led varieties are so dissimilar in size, produc- 

 less, and flavor, it seems important that those 

 3h are really worth cultivation should be 

 wn. Jly means of ascertaining those which 

 lesirable, are so limited, that I have known 

 a kw choice kinds, among which are the fol- 

 ig, — labelled, ' Jolly Gardener,' 'Whitesmith' 

 Jolly Angler ;' this last is a particularly fine 

 of good size, and amber color when ripe, 

 here is one variety with us (the name lost) 

 h is very prolific, three pints having been ta- 

 from a two years old bush ; it is an acid fruit, 

 ble only for cooking. The largest fj-uited j 

 in our neighborhood is not worth cultiva- 

 it is very large, very acid, and very astringent, 

 nbliiig in this last quality the Dwarf Choke 

 ry [Prunus obovata,) it was received from Glas- 

 by the high sounding name of 'Emperor.' 

 would confer a favor on the conmiunity if 

 of your correspondents would send in to 

 oflice a list of those kinds, which they woidd 



* UNPRODUCTIVE PEAR TREES. 

 Mr Fessenden — I would crave the indulgence 

 through the medium of your useful paper, of in- 

 qniriiig what is the probable cause of the unfriiit- 

 fulness and decay of the St Michael pear trees. I 

 have on my farm a considerable number of these 

 trees of diflfereiit ages, and of almost every size. 

 They arc an<l have been for a number of years 

 cumberers of the ground ; and I am determined 

 to have them hewn down, unless something can 

 be done to make them more profitable than they 

 are at present. If you or any of your correspond- 

 ents will please to give any information on this 

 subject you will perhaps oblige more than one 

 SUBSCRIBER. 

 Ranarks by the Editor — ' A Treatise on Garden- 

 ing, by Joti>- Armstrong of Duchess,' published 

 in Memoirs of the N. Y. Board of Agriculture, vol. 

 iii. page 27, gives the following directions relative 

 to the management of Pear Trees. 



< When an old tree becomes unproductive, one 

 or tw'» methods should be adopted — either to cut 

 it down within eighteen inches or two feet from 

 the ground, and train up anew some selected graft, 

 whicl may have pushed from the stump, (which 

 is the method of Forsyth ;) or, ' to take off at its 

 :., every Jjranch which does not want at least 

 twenty degrees of being perpendicular, and all 

 spurs from such other branches as by adopting this 

 rule v\[\ be left. Into these, (the retained branch- 

 es) at heir subdivisions, and at diflerent distances 

 from tlieir bases quite to their extremities, grafts 

 must be carefully inserted, which, when they at- 

 tain sifiicient length, (say twelve inches) must be 

 trained downward — the lower ones almost perpen- 

 dicular, and the upper onesjust below a horizontal 

 line ; and so placed as to distance that the leaves 

 of the one will not at all shade the other.' 



We hope some of our correspondents will give 

 the results of practical science on this subject. 



each direction ; but specimens of this latter shape 

 are not very often met with. The position of the 

 eye is even, or nearly so, with the outer surface of 

 the fruit, and the stem is green and 8 or 9 lincg in 

 length. The skin is, even at the period of matur- 

 ity, of an uniform shade of rather dark green, 

 and is also perfectly smooth ; in some cases, how- 

 ever, one may observe a grayish streak running 

 lengthwise of the fruit. The flesh is rather firm, 

 but melting, and of a pleasant flavor, with some 

 sweetness and richness. The seeds are brown 

 and the fruit ripens at the end of September or 

 early in October. The tree is of thrifty growth, 

 with dark green foliage, and it has altogether a. 

 very healthy appearance. 



Ambrette. 

 There having been much discussion also relative 

 to tlie^/Hire»e^(ar, I now scud a descrijition of the 

 onlyivinler pear so called in Europe. It will be 

 seen that it ditfers from that described under this 

 naiiie by Mr Co.\e, an<l particularly so in regarel 

 to its thorns. I also send you a description of an- 

 other fine pear, the ' Angkterre,' of Duhamel — 

 and 1 pen this communication with that most ad- 

 iniiable and correct work lying before me, in order 

 to be enabled to support my comments by the 

 highest authority. 



Very respectfully, 



WM. ROBERT PRINCE. 



FOR THK new ENGLAND FARMER. 



PEARS. 

 Mr Fessenden — As I have heard much dis- 

 cussioi at various times about the Mouthwater, 

 Mouilk-bouehe, or Verte-longue pear, I deem it ap- 

 proprlite to send you a precise description of it 

 for insertion in your paper. Another variety to- 

 tally (iifferent is cultivated in some collections, and 

 erroneously called by the titles appertaining to 

 this. Very respectfully, 



WM. ROBERT PRINCE. 



Linniean Botanic Garden, \ 

 August 12, 1830. j 



Mouthwater — Prince''s Catalogue, J\ro. .32. 



Verte-lungue, ) 



Mouille-bouche, f 



Verte-longue d'automne, of some collections. 



-Duhamel- 



. This pear is most commonly of an exact pyra- 



nmend for general culture, not sacrificing midal form, it» height 33 lines, and its greatest 

 w r to size. It has been suggested to me by diameter 26, tapering very much towards the stem, 

 iservant horticulturalist in Salem, that some Sometimes it assumes a turbinate form of equal 



Ambrette — Duh mel-^Forsyik. Pr. Cat. ATo. 86.. 



• Synonymcs. 



Ambrette d'hiver, } 



Ambrette avec epines, } of various 



Ambrette d'hiver avec epines, ) publications. 

 Ambrette grise, i 



Thorny Ambrette. 



This pear is two inches in diameter, and 25 

 lines in height. Its form is rounded and inclining 

 to oval, diminishing a little towards t>ie stem, 

 which is large, 9 lines in length and inserted in a 

 very small cavity, whose circumference is swollen 

 by some small protuberances. The head is very 

 round and the eye is placed in a slight depression, 

 surrounded by some small projections. The skin 

 is whitish and sometimes grayish, according to the 

 soils. The flesh is greenish white, melting, and 

 of a sweet, rich, and very pleasant flavor. The 

 seeds are black and contained in broad cells, and 

 the fruit begins to ripen in November, but keeps 

 till in February. The branches arc thorny and 

 the tree may be ingrafted on both the pear and 

 the quince. It delights in a dry and warm soil, • 

 with a good exposition, and succeeds better as a 

 standard than as a dwarf; in wet and cold soils 

 the fruit is far inferior to that produced in more 

 favorable situations. 



Angleterre — Duhamel. 

 Synonymes. 

 Poire d'' Angleterre, 



Beurre d'Angleterre, Pr. Cat. No. 119. 



Angleterre or English Beurrie, Coxe. 



The form of this pear is exactly pyramidal. Its 



height 33 to 36 lines, and its breadth 23 to 25, 



but there are occasionally .some of larger and some 



of smaller dimensions. The skin is generally 



are less liable to mUdew than others, as he , breadth as height, being then 28 or 29 lines in i light green, without any other particular shaV 



