Vol. 1.— No. 38. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



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Archduke— fruit of fine size and red color; 

 flesh rich and of pleasant flavor; ripens between 

 the two preceding varieties. 



Prince's Duke — fruit of the very largest size, 

 shaped like the carnation cherry, but of a fine red 

 color; flesh very luscious when at full maturity, 

 with a degree of honied sweetness; the original 

 seedling tree is not a great bearer; those may 

 perhaps do better which are budded on other 

 stocks ; it is one of the later sorts in point of ma- 

 turity. 



Amber — fruit of very large size, second only 

 to the preceding ; of a straw color on the shaded 

 side and in some cases where the leaves conceal it 

 from the sun it is wholly of that color; but where 

 exposed, the sunny side becomes finely mottled 

 with red; the flesh is sweet, luscious and of a 

 beautiful appearance; the tree is quite productive ; 

 the fruit ripens intermediate between the early and 

 !at c varieties. 



Belle de Choky — fruit of good size, and of 

 roundish form ; skin transparent, red and some- 

 what mottled with amber color, more particular- 

 ly on the shaded side ; flesh amber color, sweet, 

 and delicate ; the tree bears well and much re- 

 sembles tne Mayduke in its growth. The Cerise 

 d'Ostheims is a fine variety of the same class. 



Richmond or Early Kentish — fruit of fine size, 

 of a pleasant acid for tarts, and more esteemed for 

 this purpose than any other of the early varieties ; 

 when ripe, if the fingers in pulling it press upon 

 the flesh alone, the pulp will often come off, leav- 

 ing the peduncle and stone attached to the tree ; 

 the crops are abundant, — the tree being particu- 

 larly productive. 



Carnation — fruit of fine size, the skin yellow- 

 ish white, mottled or variegated with red; the 

 flesh is of pleasant taste ; it is one of the latest 

 varieties ; the tree bears tolerably well, but not a- 

 bundantly. 



FOR THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Mr. Goodsell — You have travelled in Europe, 

 through the principal regions where the vine is 

 cultivated, and has been, for hundreds of years; 

 and as I know your attention was fixed upon this 

 culture, it is a fair presumption to suppose you 

 well instructed in it, and a competent judge of 

 the probability of sucsess in this country. Your 

 opinion, therefore, is certainly entitled to great de- 

 ference, in which I now speak from personal 

 knowledge, and certainly with no desire to pay 

 unmerited compliments, which every man of sense 

 should regard as insults and injuries. 



A great question, in my humble opinion, as re- 

 lates to the immediate prospect of success in the 

 Grape Culture, is likely now to come into discus- 

 sion, as to the relative value of vines of foreign or 

 domestic origin. In settling this matter, all sorts 

 of feeling will be enlisted, as may well be conceiv- 

 ed, and it is not, I think, at all probable, that it 

 will ever be settled, only by public opinion in- 

 structed by experience. The dealers in the article, 

 will always be, from the operation of natural cau- 

 ses, most likely to recommend such varieties as 

 afford them the most profit by sales. This is a 

 natural conclusion, and the public may as well 

 rake it into seasonable consideration. The ques- 

 tion then is, as to those persons, will they make 

 more, or less profit, by the sale of the vines of 

 foreign countries, or by the sale of those that are 

 indigenous, natives of the regions about them? 



This is the point on which their opinions will nat- 

 urally turn. If there are exceptions, the instan- 

 ces will be even the more creditable, and honora- 

 able, for being rare. I have seen, already, enough 

 to convince me of allthis,andthatit is high time to 

 direct the public attention to the consideration of 

 all the circumstances of the case. 



It is worthy of remark, that native vines, by 

 being perfectly naturalized to the climate where 

 they grow, are therefore hardy, and, for the same 

 reason, likely to be healthy. All men, unbiassed 

 by foolish prejudices, will admit this, because 

 obvious to reason, the common sense of every 

 common-sense man. But tiie objection that will 

 be started, is, that though our native vines may 

 be hardy, capable of being cultivated without cov- 

 ing, and therefore with much less trouble than 

 such as are not hardy, they will only afford fruit 

 of an inferior quality, fit only for the hedge-rows 

 of slovens, and your coarse-grained sort of folks. 

 I have heard such insinuations, already, and from 

 people that are trying to cut very much of a fig- 

 ure in the very patriotic business of selling for- 

 eign vines. Should it be satisfactorily ascertain- 

 ed that we have native vines, now in cultivation, 

 which produce as good fruit as those foreign 

 ones, or that it is likely we may have by-and-by ; 

 by proper attention, much would have been done 

 towards the success of the experiment upon 

 which the people are now entering. The quality 

 of the fruit of the vine, constantly improves with 

 age, till it attains maturity ,a period of many years, 

 in healthy and vigorous growths. We are not 

 to expect therefore, from vines of a few years old, 

 fruit of such flavor, size, and richness, as the same 

 vine would produce at 10, 20, 50, 80, or 100 years 

 old. Let us bear in mind these facts, and pre- 

 severe in selecting the most promising wild vines, 

 having large and beautiful leaves, and plant and 

 cultivate them, in our gardens, trainingon frames 

 and on arbors, well spread to the sun and weath- 

 er, and we may soon find, each one of us, varie- 

 ties well worth attention. Let us also plant, eve- 

 ry year some ripe grapes, of the most promising 

 appearance, and cultivate the seedlings so pro- 

 duced, about one half of which will be fruit bear- 

 ers, and we may thus get new varieties, some of 

 which will be of superior quality, and all of them 

 will be hardy, at home in the climate and soil 

 where produced. One healthy, hardy plant is 

 worth a dozen of your green, milky and delicate 

 foreigners, and will bear more surely, every 

 year. 



With a view to the course indicated in these 

 remarks, I see with great pleasure the outline of 

 an excellent plan of operations, proposed by the 

 Domestic Horticultural Society, of the Western 

 part of this State, in the Genesee Parmer of Sept. 

 3, 1831. That plan in my opinion, is worthy of 

 high commendation, and deserves the support of 

 every lover of his country. I intend to send, as 

 proposed, specimens of all my fruit of the native 

 vines, some of which I think will vie with the 

 best varieties from the vines of any country, and 

 thus silence some of the objections that have been 

 raised, and will be urged, incessantly. 



Sept. 13, 1831. An American. 



5£JF We fully accord with the writer of the a- 

 bove, in his opinion of American grapes, and al- 

 though the communication was received with the 

 above signature, we reepgnize the hand writing, 



I and assure our readers it is from one to whom the 

 public are much indebted for useful information, 

 A friend of ours informed us that he lately vis- 

 ited a vineyard which was planted in part with 

 grapes from the garden of this American, that in 

 point of quantity and quality of fruit it exceeded 

 any thing of the kind he had ever seen, and con- 

 vinced him of the superiority of American over 

 foreign grapes when well selected. 



FOR THE GENESEE FARMER. 



I returned home late at night, from a journey of 

 many miles, hungry and fatigued. I was unwil- 

 ling to continue fasting, — ate heartily, — soon fell 

 asleep, — and waked up before day with a distres 

 sing head ach 



Our coffee-mill had been used for grinding pep- 

 per ; and the coffee at breakfast was well charged 

 with aroma. In less than an hour I was free from 

 head-ach ; although at other times when I had 

 eaten some indigestible food, that malady had con- 

 tinued for two days. 



I ascribe my sudden recovery to the pepper. — 

 When the head-ache recurred on a similar occa- 

 sion, I directed less than half a teaspoonfull into 

 the cup before the coffee was poured in, and this 

 strongly peppered coffee again restored me to 

 health. 



Are there readers of the Genesee Farmer who 

 have thus suffered for many uncomfortable hours, 

 to the great detriment of their business'? Let 

 them try my remedy. Veritas. 



FOR THE GENESEE FARMER. 



I have lately discovered that the common hairy* 

 caterpillar, which rolls into a circle on being dis- 

 turbed, is a depredator on our grapes and late straw- 

 berries. I have detected several in the act. Some 

 fine bunches of grapes near the ground have been 

 partly eaten by them, and greatly disfigured. 



Our bunch Alpine strawberry plants have been 

 in constant bearing for more than three months ; 

 and to these, th is hairy caterpillar is very par 

 tial. 



It is a favorable circumstance however, that it 



is easily destroyed ; and it will be a matter of 



sound policy to let none escape. X. 



* The middle part of the body is reddish brown, aod 

 black at the extremities. 



From the York Courier. 



Population of the Home District. — By 

 returns which have been transmitted to 

 the office of the clerk of the Peace, up 

 to the 1st April last, it appears there are 

 in the Home District, 



Over 16 years of age— 8960 Males, 

 and 7674 Females. And, under 16 

 years af age— 8318 males, and 7919 Fe- 

 males. Total, 32,871. Increase since 

 last year, 4349. 



Population of the town of York on the 

 same date — exclusive of the suburbs 

 3969. 



It is said that some of the planters in the 

 vicinity of Huntsville, (Alabama) are turn- 

 ing their attention to the cultivation of 

 Hemp, and the manufacture of Cotton 

 Bagging and Bale Rope. So far, their 

 prospects are said to be very encouraging, 

 netting them a muchgreater profit than the 

 growing of Cotton had heretofore done, 



