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THE GENESEE FARMER 



September 3, 183! 



purpose the strongest and best-rooted runners 

 from the old rejected plants. If at this sea-| 

 son the weather should be paiticularly hot, 

 and the surface of the ground much parch- 

 ed, I defer the operation of preparing my 

 beds and planting them till the ground is I 

 moistened by rain. Such is the simple mode 

 of treatment which I have adopted for three 

 successive years, and I have invariably ob- 1 

 ained upon the same spot, a great produce of 

 beautiful fruit, superior to that of every oth- 

 er garden in the neighborhood. Depth of 

 soil I have found absolutely necessary for the 

 growth and production of fine strawberries, 

 and when this is not to be obtained, it is use- 

 less, in my opinion, to plant many of the 

 best varieties. It is not generally known, 

 but I have ascertained the fact, that most 

 strawberries generate roots, and strike them 

 into the ground, nearly two feet deep in the 

 course of one season. The pine and rose- 

 berry succeed better than any other in stiff 

 and shallow soils, but they should always be 

 planted in an open situation, and not, as is 

 too commonly the practice, in shady and 

 neglected parts of the garden." (Horf. 

 Trans, iv. 430.) 



Young justly blames gardeners for cutting 

 over the leaves of strawberries after they 

 have borne a crop, thereby preventing prop- 

 er buds being formed for next year, and also 

 depriving the roots of the plants of their nat- 

 ural protection from the frost. He is also 

 adverse to the practice of digging between 

 the rows in winter, which, he says, cuts off 

 the fibrous roots, and prevents the plants 

 from setting out in spring with that vigor 

 which they otherwise would do. Instead of 

 supplying manure in this way, he recom- 

 mends the appropriation of liquid manure ; 

 or what is better, never letting a crop remain 

 above three years on the same piece of 

 ground. (Caled. Hort, Soc. Mem. iii. 291) 



(To hi' Continued .) 

 From the Vew-Kugland Farmer. 



NEW FRUITS. 



T. G. Fessenoen, Esq. — The introduc- 

 tion of the most valuable vegetable produc- 

 tions of other countries being an object of 

 such great interest to Horticulture, it has 

 been a primary object with us to obtain every 

 species and variety calculated to enrich the 

 gardens of our country; in doing which, we 

 have taken the utmost precaution to receive 

 only such as were from undoubted sources. The 

 acquisitions during Uie past spring alone, are 

 so very numerous that they would form an 

 extensive catalogue. The acquisition of 

 new fruits is of the most particular interest, 

 and to it the most pointed attention has been 

 paid, and the course we have adopted of ob- 

 taining the same variety from three or four 

 sources, so as to prove it by comparison, must 

 insure a degree of accuracy not to be other- 

 wise attained. The new Pears originated 

 in Belgium during the last fifteen years have 

 become as famed in the catalogues of choice 

 fruits, as the name of Professor Van Bfons 

 lias become celebrated among the distin- 

 guished pomologists of our day. It is with 

 great pleasure therefore that we have to men- 

 him among the liberal contributors to our 

 establishment. In February last he trans- 

 mitted to us above 70 varieties of pear trees 

 which he states in his letter are 'Desplus nou- 

 velles varittes, du premier rang,' the newest 

 yarieties of the first rank. These he accom- 

 panied by engravings and descriptions of a 

 cumber of the kinds, from the latter of which 



we intend ere long to make translations, as 

 well as from his copious letters which abound 

 with interesting matter. In one of the pe- 

 riodicals received from him, there is a de- 

 tailed statement of three cases of hydropho- 

 bia where the patients were successfully trea- 

 ted and perfectly cured, which we propose 

 also to translate for publication. There is 

 another subject besides horticulture on which 

 the learned Professor dwells with particular 

 enthusiasm, and in which he appears to hive 

 taken an active part; that will also be highly 

 pleasing to our American feelings: it is the 

 Revolution and Independence of his Coun- 

 try. On this subject he expiates with equal- 

 ly as much warmth as on horticultural ob- 

 jects; and with justice anticipates by the suc- 

 cess of :he former, more extensive and wide 

 spread benefits from the latter. 



As the list of fruits received will be inter- 

 esting to many, we annex it hereto. It will 

 be perceived that some of the varieties had 

 previously reached us, but the renewal of 

 them trom so undoubted a source is a matter 

 of high interest. 



Very respectfully, 



Wat. PiiNCE &. Sons. 



List of new varieties of Pears transmitted 

 by Prof. Van Mons to the Messrs. Prince. 



Arenberg, 

 Beurre bronze, 



Curtedt, 



— — — d'hyver, 

 — — — rancp, 

 Diel, 



Bonnet beurre. 



Belle alliance, 



Bakpeer, 



Bosc, 



Bosc d'ete, 



Brandes, 



Bis Marie Louise, 



Bezi de Louvain, 



Bonchretien d'Espag- 



ne fondante, 

 Capucine Van Mons, 

 Clara, 



Crominen boom, 

 Delbec, 

 Des veterans. 

 Doyenne de Mons, 



gris, 



Dingier, 



D'Amandes double, 

 Dillen, 

 Diimortier, 

 Delice d'Ardempont, 

 De briivn, 

 Du parrain, 

 Fleur de neige, 

 Fondante des buis, 

 Gros bruyn. 



Henri IV. 



Henri Van Mons, 



Henkel, 



Innomine, 



Jubin, 



Leon Le Clerc, 



Louis ed Prusse, 



Marie Lousa, 



Marie Louise nova, 



Maree, 



Mabille, 



Napoleon, 



Navez, 



Niel. 



Nouvelle cire, ' 



O'Ken d'hyver, 



Pastorale, 



Paileau, 



Poir Duval, 



Passe Colmar, 



Rameau, 



Rousselette Sutin, 



de Mi 



Van Muns, 



Spoelberg, 



Spence, 



Sabine, 



Sentelet, 



Semitic!. 



Spreeun, 



i i kmiste, 



Willium, 



Wurtemberg. 



Also— No. 511, COS, C09, 757, 837, 890, 

 1001, 1125, 1175, 1152, of bis catalogue 

 being choice, unnamed varieties. 

 From tin- American Farmer. 



NEW CHINESE MULBERRY. 

 (Morus Multicaulis.) 

 This newly introducted variety of Mul- 

 berry for feeding silk worms is undoubtedly 

 an important acquisition, and more particu- 

 larly so to this country where silk is on the 

 eve oi becoming a staple article of produc- 

 tion. The Editor of the American Farmer 

 has had this variety under cultivation for two 

 years, and has made himself acquainted with 

 its peculiarities both as to quality and the 

 manner of cultivating it. Not having a suf- 



ficient quantity for a full trial of feeding silk 

 worms with it. he has been obliged to confine 

 his experiments to occasional feedings,. at 

 whi h times the worms promptly left the 

 Italian white mulberry leaf and devoured the 

 new Chinese with avidity. The leaves of 

 the new mulberry frequently measure a foot 

 in length and ten inches in width. Indeed 

 Mr3. Parmentier of the Brooklyn nursery and 

 garden, who has 1600 of the trees for sale, 

 in a letter to the Editor says, that some of 

 the leaves on the trees in that establishment 

 measure 13 inches in length, and that the 

 wornjs left six differenl kinds of mulberry to 

 feed on them. Although the number of 

 leaves on the tree is not so gieat as that of 

 those of the white, we should judge that the 

 weight of the leaf was much greater — it is so 

 great in fact during a rain or after a heavy 

 dew, the young trees are bent almost to the 

 ground by the weight of their foliage. This 

 mulberry bears no Iriut, or rather it is so mi- 

 nute and so small in quantity that the prop- 

 agation of it from seed is never practised. 

 But like all other vegetables of difficult prop- 

 agation by seed, it is remarkably easy of re- 

 production by other means. By laying 

 down the young trees, covering them with 

 earth, and leaving the ends of the branches 

 out, every branch will take root and In- 

 come a young tree in two or three weeks — 

 so that every tree one year old will by pro- 

 per management pioduce from ten to twen- 

 ty in one summer. We laid down a tree on 

 Friday 29th July, and a part of the stock 

 near the root containing no branches, was 

 left out of ground. On the Friday follow- 

 ing two buds were seen shooting irom the 

 naked stock, and eanh was then covered 

 over the stock and around the buds. The 

 young trees from these buds now measures 

 feet (i inches high. This fact will serve to 

 illustrate the great facility of propagating 

 the morus multicaulis by layers. As this 

 mulberry does not grow high, the leaves can 

 always be gathered by hand from the ground 

 without the aid of ladders or the danger at- 

 tending the climbing of large trees. They 

 can be planted pretty close together, and we 

 should judge that an acre of ground would 

 produce more foliage with this than with the 

 white mulberry. The morus multicaulis be- 

 ing as yet quite scarce in this country, they 

 sell high; but every one who contemplates 

 cultivating silk should obtain a few, and by 

 laying them down in July, multiply them. — 

 By this means ten trees obtained this fall, 

 would, in five years, produce one million of 

 trees, allowing each one to pronuce ten eve- 

 ry year, which we are convinced they will 

 certainly do ; that is in the fall of 1832 then- 

 would be 100; in 1833, 1000: in 1831, In. 

 000; in 1835, 100,000; in 1836, 1,000,000 

 — and these we have no hesitation in su in 

 would produce ten times as much folia 

 could be produced with the same expense 

 and labor in the same time, of the white 

 mulberry or any other kind. We hope ed- 

 itors in the country will give free circula- 

 tion to these facts, that the cultivators of silk, 

 and those who contemplate entering upon 

 that business, may avail of the advantages of 

 this mulberrry in commencing their orchard? 

 The morus multicaulis can be obtained ol 

 Wm. Prince ^ Sons, at the Linntsan Bo 

 tanic garden at Flusing, New-York, of Mrs. 

 Parmentier, at the Horticultural Botanic 

 garden at Brooklyn, N. Y. and of the Edit- 

 or of the American Farmer. They are gen- 

 erally sold at one dollar each- 



