1848. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



185 



Nursery, C. W., where a beautiful specimen of 

 the same may be seen. It is at present about 

 150 feet long. 5 feet high, three feet thick at 

 the base, tapering gradually towards the summit. 

 It was, I am told by the proprietors, planted in 

 the month of May, 1844, in a single row ; the 

 trees were ihen about 18 inches high, and planted 

 one foot apart, and are now, as belbre remarked. 

 5 feet high. 



A great deal more could be said on the beauty 

 and utility of the Hemlock, but as brief as this 

 may appear, I am persuaded that it will prove 

 enough to encourage and convince many propri- 

 etors of neat cottages that an Evergreen Hedge, 

 and particularly one so neat and cheap as this 

 will prove to be, is at all times preferable to the 

 unsightly rails so often seen disfiguring their 

 dwellings. It is in the hopes of the same that I 

 have taken the liberty of offering this to your 

 notice. Yours truly, 



June, 1848. Achilles I. Langelier. 



Note. — The Hemlock Spruce, aUhougb very few seem 

 lo be aware of it, is one of the most beautiful evergreen 

 trees indigenous to this country — found abundantly, too, 

 in almost every section, from the extreme North to the 

 Carolina^. Looking at this tree, as we frequently find it, 

 in dense woods, wiih dead and broken limbs, and even 

 trunks, it is an unsightly object ; and this, in a measure, 

 may account for the neglect with which it is treated ; but 

 wlien we find it standing alone, on dry ground we have a 

 charming tree. LounoN says — " In England the Hemlock 

 Spruce Ibrms one of the most ornamental of the Fir family ; 

 being among needle leaved evergreen trees what the weep- 

 ing willow is among the willow." 



For the formation of a beautiful green hedge it cannot be 

 surpassed. It lias not the power of resistance of the Nor- 

 way spruce, and will not answer the purpose of fencing so 

 well : but where great strength is not required, and orna- 

 ment the chief desideratum, the Hemlock will answer ad- 

 mirably. The specimen our correspondent alludes to, in 

 the Toronto Nursery, has often attracted our admiration. 

 It has been 4 years planted, shorn only twice, and is at this 

 moment a green wall, 5 feet high, without a blemish — one 

 of the most elegant enclosures for a lawn or flower garden 

 imaginable. — Ed. 



Hovey's Fruits of America. — Number five 

 of this beautiful work has appeared. The plates, 

 consisting of Late Duke Cherry, Louise Bonne 

 de Jersey and Belle Lucrative Pears, and Porter 

 Apple, are elegant pictures, and we think' quite 

 as correct representations as Mr. Hovey has yet 

 produced. This number shows a good list of 

 additional subscribers — a fact we are very happy 

 to notice. Number si.x will be on hand soon, 

 and will contain the Early York Peach, and 

 Le Care, Rosteizer and Flemish Beauty Pears. 



Royal octavo numbers, $1 each ; imperial 

 quarto, ^2. 



A new fruit has been introduced at Charles- 

 ton, S. C, from Japan. It is an evergreen, and 

 bears flowers of a delightful almond-like fra- 

 grance, twice a year. Last summer, the fruit 

 in small quantity came to maturity in July. — 

 This year it bore more luxuriantly, and the fruit 

 is now ripe. It is of a rich orange color, about 

 the size and shape of the nectarine, although a 

 little more elongated. 



Strawberry Plantations may be made 

 any time from the present, till the first of Octo- 

 ber. If possible moist, dark weather should be 

 selected, so as to avoid the necessity of watering 

 and shading, so indispensable in dry weather. 

 The ground should be trenched two feet deep, or 

 sub-soil plowed, and thoroughly manured with 

 the best old well rotted manure to be obtained. 



1. Staminate, or perfect, 1 2. Staminate 1 S. ristillate— fruitfu! 

 fruit beariug. | barren. | if near staminates. 



Among staminate varieties, or those having 

 flowers, (see figure,) that produce a good crop 

 without being fertilized by others, are the Large 

 Early Scarlet, Boston Pine, Virginia Scarlet, 

 and the Alpines. Among pistillates, the best 

 we have seen are Burfs New Pine and Hovey^s 

 Seedling. These being deficient in stamens, re- 

 quire a staminate plant to every ten or twelve 

 in planting. 



Strawberries at the present moment, (June 

 27,) are selling here for Is 6d to 2* per quart, 

 when offered for sale at all ; and these are usual- 

 ly Duke of Kent Scarlet, about as large as gar- 

 den peas, being from starved plantations. There 

 is no reason whatever, but people's negligence, 

 why strawberries, large and delicious, should 

 not abound in all parts of the country. Lei 

 every one who is not well supplied see to it 

 now in season. 



Public Parks of Rochester. 



A WRITER in the Rochester American, whom 

 we suppose to be L. Wetherell, Esq., makes 

 the following statement in regard to the public 

 parks of Rochester : 



The following i-s an aggregate of all Elms in all the Parks, 

 and so of the other kinds : 



Elm, (Ulmus Americana.) 51 trees^ 



Maple (Acer rubrum, A. dasycarpum, and A. 



iSaccharinum,) ., 248 " 



Buttonwood, Planianis occidentalis,) 101 '• 



Ash, (Farxinus Americana,) 11 " 



Oak, (Quercus Alba, and Q. tinctoria,) 4 " 



Bass wood. (Linden Americana, ) 17 " 



Willow, (Salix Fragilis,and S. Babylonica,) 4 " 



Ironwood, (Ostrya Virginica, ).. 2 " 



Unknown, 2 " 



Total dead 272 " 



Total showing symptoms of life 440 " 



More than one third of the whole number. 



" What is every body's business is nobody's"^ 

 is a trite saying, and the truth of it is well illus- 

 trated in the condition and management of the 

 public property in Rochester. It is delightful to 

 see our parks embellished with dead trees ! 



Several notices of Horticultural E.xhibitiona 

 are necessarily deferred till next month. 



