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THE GENESEE PARMER 



August 13, 183U 



and pi anting them when the ground is ready. As 

 lor particular days or hours, when those things 

 should be done we have not yet learned them ; 

 b"t suppose time and circumstances are to be con- 

 sulted, and would say, that to be " well done" it 

 should be " done well, and that quickly." 



CARRYING COALS TO NEW-CASTLE 

 During the week past there has been brough' 

 to this village, from New- York, and sold, large 

 quantities of watermelons, pears, and some oth- 

 er kinds of fruit. What a comment upon the 

 progress of gardening and horticulture in old 

 Genesee, " We must blame the culture! not the 

 Soil." Pears and melons brought from New- York 

 to Rochester! — Nearly four hundred miles in- 

 land ! The price of transportation alone for 

 that distance ought to be sufficient inducement 

 for raising those articles in this district. — 

 Those who have pear trees in this neigh- 

 borhood have the satisfaction of seeing them 

 loaded with fruit, almost to breaking this sea- 

 son, and several kinds have ripened previ- 

 ous to the arrivals from New- York. As to wa- 

 termelons, some of the finest crops we have ever 

 seen have been raised upon the sandy oak lands 

 on the south side of lake Ontario, where we have 

 seen at least one thousand upon an acre. A good 

 sized melon will weigh about twelve and a half 

 pounds, and the transportation from New-York at 

 one dollar per hundred pounds, would be twelve 

 and a half cents each. Lands suitable for raising 

 melons in the vicinity of Ruiicster can be bought 

 for five dollars per acre ; being lightly limbered, 

 they can be cleared and fenced for five dollars per 

 acre, making the cost, when ready for a crop, ten 

 dollars an acre. Allowing an acre to produce 

 one thousand, and those sold at the cost of trans- 

 porting the same number from New- York, the 

 produce would be one hundred and twenty-five 

 dollars. All will agree that this sum is too much, 

 and is only a paper calculation; but stop, we 

 have only been calculating the :ost of transpor- 

 tation — the melons brought frojn New-York ac- 

 ■ tuaily sold for from thirty-seven and a half to fifty 

 cents each. By altering the calculation on the 

 .produce of an acre from twelve and a half to thir- 

 ty-seven and a half cents each, we have the sum 

 of S'375 as the produce of one acre of land cost- 

 ing ten dollars for one year. Now we think we 

 shall not be accused of exceedingprobabihty when 

 we say that an acre of melons might be cultiva- 

 ted for seventy-five dollars, in that manner that 

 they may be brought to this market as early as we 

 "•et them from New- York, and every one knows 

 the difference in favor of a fresh melon from the 

 vines, over one which has been ten days picked 

 and which has been lying in a shaded situation, 

 so that unless those brougnt from New-Yorii 

 could be recommended as a later fashion they 

 would not compete with home raised ones, in our 

 market. It is well knownthat pears are a kind ofj 

 fruit, which during the warm season do not re- 

 main long in perfection, and of Bourse not well; 

 calculated for long voyages. If the farmers and! 

 horticulturists in the neighborhood of New- York, 

 can afford to raise pears for this market on their 

 lands which cost them one hundred dollars an 

 acre, we should think that those of old Genesee, 

 who have lands which are equally good for rais- 

 ing fruit as those about New- York, which can 

 be bought for one quarter of the money, might 



do well to raise them at least for Kingston and 

 Montreal markets, where those articles are gen- 

 erally double in price to what they are here. — 

 In Europe they have an old adage, " the more 

 productive the country the more indolent the peo- 

 ple." Let our good farmers be careful, lest during 

 the rage for importing every thing, this old adage 

 should be imported also. 



SILK. 



We had anticipated commencing upon this sub- 

 ject which we consider of national importance, 

 as soon as we had given our readers what infor- 

 mation we deemed necessary respecting flax 

 but we perceive by our last New-England Far- 

 mer, that Massachusetts is on the alert, and that 

 a forth coming work on this subject is announ- 

 ced in compliance with a resolution of their le- 

 gislature, and we may defer the subject until we 

 are favored with a perusal of the work. So we 

 go — Massachusetts stands god father for the Uni- 

 ted States ; or rather she seems doing what the 

 United States should have done — encouraging 

 the produce of silk. 



We are happy that the inquiry of D. C. has 

 drawn forth from a correspondent who signs him- 

 self B. such a valuable article on the subject of 

 petrifactions. We think we recognize the dicta- 

 tion, though not the hand writing, but are wil- 

 ling to subscribe to his explanation of the defi- 

 nition. From the article, it is plain the WTiter 

 was master of his subject ; and although the style 

 is easy and concise, it is a very scientific ex- 

 planation of the term which we are aware 

 has not been so generally understood as was de- 

 sirable. We tender our thanks to B. hoping that 

 we may, as time serves him, be favored with oth- 

 er like valuable productions from his pen. 

 BUDDING PEACH TREES. 

 As the season has arrived for budding peach 

 trees, we would caution those who are wishing to 

 improve their fruit, against using or having used 

 for them any buds, unless they know that they 

 were taken from healthy trees. The disease cal- 

 led the yellows has been introduced amongst us 

 from some of the eastern nurseries, and has al- 

 ready destroyed many of our peach trees, and will, 

 unless care is taken, destroy many more. A sin- 

 gle bud taken from an infected tree and set in a 

 healthy one of any size, is sufficient to kill the 

 tree within a few years, whether the bud lives or 

 not ; and we are persuaded that the disease may 

 be communicated by trimming a tree with a knife 

 that has been used to trim a diseased one, upon 

 winch the least possible quantity of the juice re- 

 mains. It therefore not only requires the great- 

 est care as respects buds, but in pruning one tree 

 after another, with the same instrument As 

 there are a number of men travelling the country 

 offering their services for budding and graftin 

 fruit trees, who, although they are capable of set- 

 ting buds or cions, are at the same time so igno- 

 rant of this disease among peach trees, as to b 

 unable to detect it, they may do an injury to in- 

 dividuals who employ them, which is beyond 

 their power to repair. One of the surest indica- 

 tions of this disease is the premature ripening of 

 the fruit. We have examined a tree the week 

 pa i of the lemon peach, the fruit of which hud 

 the appearance of maturity, and some of them 

 were quite mellow, although the proper season 

 for this fruit to perfect itself is the last of August 



or the fore part of September. Having knowi. 

 the tree mentioned for several years, and having 

 ate the fruit from it in fine perfection, in years 

 past, we are of opinion that the disease has been 

 communicated to it by a saw or other instrument 

 which had previously been used in pruning a dis 

 eased tree. As the peach is a fruit liked by most 

 people and has been of easy cultivation in thi? 

 country we entreat horticulturists to make exer- 

 tions to prevent the spread of this fatal disease 

 which otherwise would soon destroy all the trees 

 in our vicinity. 



HORTICULTURAL. 



There has been exhibited at the Arcade the. 

 week past, several varieties of fruits of the sea 

 son, such as apples, pears, peaches, apricots, 

 gooseberries, fruit from egg plants, &c. Ma 

 ny specimens of fruit were very fine ; but as then 

 were a great number of samples, we omit to men 

 lion names. 



Apples, white and red Juneatings, and an ap 

 pie said to be the river apple, from the neighbor 

 hood of Boston, fine size, rather flat in shape, 

 color green, with red stripes. We would thank 

 the New-England Farmer to inform us if there is 

 such an apple cultivated in the vicinity of Bos 

 ton, and whether the description given will ap- 

 ply to it. 



Fears — green chissel or citron de Carmes, jar 

 gonelle, early and red Bergamot, summer Bon 

 chretien and some other kinds, names unknown. 



A fine ripe fig raised in this village. 



A few watermelons in our market notimpo-r 

 ted. 



Niagara District Agricultur al Society, 



Agreeably to notice, a meeting was held 

 at Mrs. Fish's Tavern, in Niagara, on the 

 13th July, 1831. at which were present — 

 George- Adams, Esq. President. 



Mr". A.!™ 1 ' \ Vkt l ' rtsident '- 

 Mi. J. Lampman, ) n ; rect0T ^ 

 J.Clark, K-q P. M.S e • 

 i\lr John Gibson, Treasurer. 

 Samuel Wood, Esq. Secietary. 

 And a number of members of the Soc; • 



After due deliberation, it was 



Resolved. As a number of persons have 

 been anxious to become members of this so- 

 ciety, particularly in the town of Clinton, 

 and a subsctiplion beina entered into, it i 

 necessary that the amount of such subscrip- 

 tion should be paid tome Treasurer, within 

 one month to enable them to receive the 

 benefit of the society. 



Resolved, Thai the first Quarterly Meet 

 ing shall be held on Monday of the second 

 week in August next, at the house of Mr. 

 Htnry J. Kilborne, in the township of Clin- 

 ton ; the second meeting on Monday of the 

 second week in October next, at Mrs Palm- 

 er's, in YVilloughbv ; the third on the sec- 

 ond Tuesday in January, in 1S32, at Mr. 

 W. Dittrck's, St. Catharines; and the 

 fourth on the first Monday in April, 1832, at 

 Mr. Hopkin's tavern, at the Bcaverdaras, in 

 Thorold. 



Resolved, That the first Semi-annual 

 FAIR, Sic. shall be held at Killborne's ta- 

 vern, in Clinton, on the first Monday in No- 

 vember next ; and the second at W. Dit- 

 trick's Hotel, St. Catharines,-«n the second 

 Monday in May, 1832. 



Resolved, That an extra meeting shall bf 



