1848. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



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The Summer Rose Apple. 



• SvvoNiMs, I Wolman-. Early. 



Among summer apples, the Summer Rose 

 must take a high rank, particularly with the 

 amateur cultivator, on account of its beauty and 

 excellence. It ripens just after the Early Har- 

 vest and Red Astracan begin to fall oft", and is, 

 to our taste, superior to any of them — not only 

 in beauty of form and coloring, but in the fine 

 texture and delicate mild flavor of its flesh. 



Fruit medium size, roundish, very regular; 

 looks as if turned by a lathe. Skin smooth and 

 glossy, of a pale waxen yellow in the shade, and 

 Tinged with brownish red in the sun. Stalk 

 short, rather slender, and inserted in a deep, 

 regular cavity. Calyx open usually, in a smooth, 

 i-egular basin. Flesh white, fine grained, ten- 

 .ler and juicy ; mild sub-acid flavor. Ripe 1st 

 to 1.5th of August. 



The tree is a slow grower, and is easily dis- 

 tinguished by its peculiar, low, stout, "bushy 

 habit, as well as by its bark, which is quite dark, 

 thickly sprinkled with gray specks. 



The Fleur Blanche Perpetual Rose. — 



Among the hundreds of Roses we were delighted 

 with during June and July ; and among all the 

 fine Bourbon, Tea, and Hybrid Perpetual Roses 

 now in bloom, not one we think so truly charm- 

 ing as this Fleur Blanche, in bloom to-day, 

 August 16. It is large and double, of a pure 

 and delicate white, with all the delicious frag- 

 rance of the Provence Roses. It blooms or 

 opens better now than in June. The lovers of 

 a lovely pure white and fragrant midsummer 

 rose should by all means get this. It is hardy. 



Noxious and Troublesome Insects. 



Notwithstanding all the efforts made by man for the 

 destruction of insects, 1 slioiild despair of ever seeing 

 them kept within proper Ijounds, were it not for the fact 

 that they appear to be restrained in their increase, if not 

 in their operations, by a kind of Divine decree. " Thus 

 far shalt thou go, but no farther," seems as appropriately 

 true in this case, as in its application to the waves of the 

 sea. I have noticed tliis in several instances. A few 

 years ago I saw an orchard covering two or three acres so 

 completely covered with the apple tree worm that scarce a 

 branch of any considerable size, could be found that did 

 not contain one nest, or more ; and hundreds might be 

 counted on a single tree. As might be expected, the trees 

 were stripped of their foliage, and in mid-summer appeared 

 as naked as in raid-winter. The worms, w hen full grown, 

 spread themselves over the country, far and near. Every 

 one supposed that on the next year the whole country 

 would be overrun with them. When the next year came, 

 however, they were less in number, and less troublesome 

 than they had been for several preceding years. 



A similar fact I have observed within the last two years, 

 in regard to the two kinds of bugs that are so destructive 

 to cucumbers, sqna.shes, &c. In the summer of '4G these 

 were so numerous, that it was with the greatest difiiculty 

 I succeeded in saving my plants. During the following 

 autumn and winter the black bug was found in every crev- 

 ice, nook and corner, in wood-piles, stone-heaps, fences, 

 &e., and it was feared they would be much more trouble- 

 some in '47 ; and yet in '47 they were comparatively few. 

 I have not had opportunity to notice, whether the same is 

 true of insects generally, though I have little doubt that it 

 would be found to be true.* The curculio was very 

 troublesome last year ; tliis year have heard little said 

 about it._ I attribute their destruction, in every ease, either 

 to a proportional increase in the number of that class o i 

 birds, or insects that prey upon them, or to some peculiar 

 adaptation to that purpose, of the vvinier following the 

 season in which they abound, or to both of these causes 

 combined. The last winter was peculiarly adapted to the 

 destruction of all kinds of insects that were exposed to ite 

 influences. 



It must not be inferred from this that it is unnecessary 

 for man to contend against them. His efforts are necessary 

 for present protection. But that these insects if not de- 

 stroyed by man, v.ould go on increasing in a regular ratio 

 from year to year, is very doubtful. 



Fail-port, N. Y., July, 1848. H. 



* I have observed i 

 or meadow mouse. 



similar fact in regard to the common field. 



Keep Clean Garden.s. — It is rather too 

 common for people to allow weeds to grow up 

 toward the close of the season, and particularly 

 on plots where early crops have been gathered. 

 This is decidedly bad economy, to say the least. 

 Weeds are at all times unsightly, besides they 

 exhaust the ground of its riches, and sow it with 

 seeds that Avill require much labor to subdue 

 next season. 



Clean Culture, at all seasons is truly eco- 

 nomical. There are few families who have not 

 children who should be taught industry and neat- 

 ness about the garden, and should be daily en- 

 gaged more or less, in cleaning off weeds, dead 

 flower stems, decaying vegetables, fallen fruit, 

 and every thing unsightly. Weeds thrown in 

 a heap, mixed with manure and earth, make an 

 excellent compost for the production of future 

 crops. 



The worthiest people are generally the most 

 injured by slander — as we usually find that to be 

 the best fruit which the birds have been pecking. 



