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GENESEE FARMER. 



Nov. 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



CONDUCTED BY P. BAKRY 



November. 



This month, though usually cold, bleak, and 

 by no means tempting to garden or orchard labor, 

 is nevertheless of great importance in the gar- 

 dening year. Its great business is to secure 

 well the crop just gathered, and next, to make 

 all timely preparation for the coming Spring. 



Bulbous roots, such as Tulips, Hyacinths, Cro 

 cus, Nar^ssus, &c., may yet be planted ; (see 

 remarks in last number.) Trees may be trans- 

 planted most of the month, in dry soils. To 

 prevent the frost drawing them out, or mice 

 girdling them, the earth should be banked up a 

 foot and a half around the base ; it can be level- 

 ed off in the spring. For small trees this is bet- 

 ter than staking for a support. 



Dahlia roots will require to be taken up, if 

 not already done, and placed where they will be 

 free from frost, and neither too damp nor too di^. 



Tree seeds of many kinds may be sown now 

 — such as plum, cherry and peach stones, apple 

 and pear seeds — but only in dry, light, mellow 

 ground. 



Tender roses and other shrubs and plants must 

 be pjotected in due season ; the early hard frosts 

 are the most injurious. Tea, Bourbon, and 

 Chinese Roses may be taken up and. placed under 

 a common hot-bed frame, covered with boards 

 and mats. They will winter better in this way 

 than in a house. Hardy herbaceous perennial 

 plants may now be taken up, divided and re- 

 planted. A little manure may be thrown over 

 them to protect the crown. 



The latter end of the month, when the hurry 

 of fall work subsides, is a good time to dig, 

 trench or subsoil and manure land for next spring 

 planting. Turf may be laid now ; it should 

 never be deferred till Spring, as dry hot weather 

 comes too quickly on it. The fallen leaves 

 should be gathered from lawns, and they should 

 be swept and rolled to keep them in fine order. 



There are multitudes of other things that will 

 suggest themselves to every one whose mind 

 and heart are really impressed with the care of 

 a garden, and what pertains to it. 



The Autumn Strawberry Apple. 



This is a beautiful and excellent autumn fruit 

 — rather above medium size, somewhat oblong, 

 and slightly angular. Skin greenish yellow, 

 striped and mottled with light red, and usually 

 covered with a delicate bloom. Flesh white, a 

 little coarse, but very juicy and crisp, with a 

 pleasant, sprightly, sub-acid flavor. The tree is l 

 remarkably vigorous and erect in habit, ranking | 



in this respect with such as the Gravenstein and 

 Northern Spy. 



We have a couple of trees budded in 1844, 

 that are now as large as ordinary 7 year planted 

 trees, and each of them bore the past season 

 over a peck of splendid fruit. We do not con- 

 sider it a great bearer, but it bears fine moderate 

 crops every year ; and on the whole it can be 

 recommended as worthy a place among the best 

 orchard varieties. We have not been able to 

 trace its origin or history. We obtained it from 

 the Macedon Nurseries of Smith & Thomas. 



The American Congress of Fruit Growers. 



This body assembled pursuant to notice, in 

 the city of N'^w York, in the Lecture Room of 

 the Mercantile Library, on the 10th day of 

 October, at 11 o'clock, A. M. The Hon. Jas. 

 P. Tallmadge called the meeting to orderv, 

 and stated its objects as set forth in the Circular 

 issued by the several Associations with which 

 the matter had originated. On motion of M. P. 

 Wilder, Esq., of Mass., the Hon. Jamks P. 

 Tallmadge, was appointed President, and S. 

 B. Parsons, Secretary pro tern. The following 

 gentlemen were then, on motion, appointed by 

 the chair a committee to report to the Conven- 

 tion a list of oflicers for its government — Samuel 

 Walker, of Massachusetts ; Thos. Hancock, N. 

 J. ; S. B. Parsons, L. L ; J. W. Hayes, N. J. ; 

 and Thomas Allen, Missouri. 



It was moved and carried that a Vice President 

 be chosen from each state represented in the 

 Convention. 



On motion the chair appointed a business com- 

 mittee — J. J. Thomas and A. J. Downing, of 

 New York, and R. S. Field, of N. Jerseys 



On motion, the chair also appointed the fol- 

 lowing gentlemen a committe to receive and 



