1850. 



THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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THE SEASOTf. 



We Iiave had in this rej;rion an autumn of remarhable 

 mil;!ncss and beauty. It is fine at this writing, the 

 12th of November, and we have scarcely had frost 

 enong-li to injure autumn flowers. On high ground, 

 dahlias are yet, in many places, in blossom ; monthly 

 roses-, stocks, phioxes, pansios, scarlet geraniums, 

 salvias, valerians, and many other bediling- plants, are 

 as fine as on the 1st of Septrmber ; and lophosper- 

 mums and cobeas, on the south wall of our ofiice, are 

 quite as gay as at any time this season. The ground 

 and the roads are quite dry. In a month or more we 

 have had but one rainy day that interrupted out-door 

 work. Lawns, where the dry fallen leases have been 

 rnke.I oft^ have a spring verdure, and the foliage of 

 many deciduous trees and shrubs is as fresh, fully, as 

 iu midsummer. Really, there is not in our memory 

 such a mild, clear, dry, and beautiful an autumn sea- 

 son. Everybody is delighted with it ; but those only 

 who have had a great deal of farm, garden, ornursery 

 work to perform, can fully appreciate it. Winter 

 may come now at any moment, without causing a 

 regret or grumble. 



The Diana Grape. — Mr. Longworth of Cincin- 

 nati, sent to Boston for some branches of the Diana 

 Grape, and presented it for comparison with the Ca- 

 tawba, to the fruit committee and other horticulturists, 

 and they all decided the Diana to be quite inferior — 

 "skin thicker, pulp harder and more acid, and more 

 of the flavor and aroma of the Fox." 



Mr. DowNi.^c, remarks in reply to this and very 

 properly too, that the comparison is not a fair one, 

 owing to the diflvrence between the climate of Boston 

 and Cincinnati, and that the Diana can only be judged 

 fairly at Cincinnati when it has ripened there ; and 

 adds, that having had the best possible opportunity of 

 judging of the comparative merits of the two grapes, 

 in the garden of Mr. Sargent, where six year oW 

 vines of both are growing side by side, that the Diana 

 is earlier, handsomer, and of superior quality for the 

 table. 



A Peach Tree that is a Peach Tree. — Mr. 

 Downing, in noticing Chatsworth, the magnificent 

 residence of the Duke of Devonshire, mentions a 

 Royal George peach tree occupying a glass house, 

 and extending over a trellis one hundred feet long. 

 It bore, the«past season, (1850,) 8729 peaches — 7801 

 of which were thinned out at various times before 

 maturity, and 926 left to ripen. 



ANSWERS TO COHRESPONDENTS. 



JIr. Barry : — 1 have two pear Ircen, procured from your 

 cily last spring, that liave made numerous fruit spurs the 

 past summer, and I am aifxious to preserve them from a very 

 hard freezing. Will it do to enclose them with boards in the 

 shape of a small house, made tight. A. F. Per Lj-.e.. — 

 North Nonoirh, TV. 1'.. Nov., 1850. 



There is no neces.'ity for protecting your pear trees, unless 

 perhaps when the blossoms have opened. They will take 

 no harm in winter. 



J. H., Darien, N. Y., seven specimens of apples. Num- 

 ber 1, Black Detroit ; 2, Esopus Spitzenburg : 3, Baldwin ; 

 7, Talman Sweeting. Nos. 4, 5, and 6, don't know — num- 

 ber 6 is a fine sweet apple, in season now. 



D. A. B,\ukkr, North Bergeii, eight specimens of apples. 

 No. 1, Golden Russet ; 2, Esopus Spitzenburg ; 4, Twenty 

 Ounce ; 5, V::'A Pippin ; B, Winter Peaimain ; !>, probably 

 Baldv\in. Tile others had lust the numbers. 



J. I!. OsnoKN, Henrietta, two specimens of apples. One 

 is the Baldwin, the other we don't know. 



THE BEZT DE MONTIGNY PEAR. 



SoMB five or six years ago we imported this variety 

 from France, under the name Doyenne cC Kte, which 

 is a smaller and earlier fruit. For five years we have 

 had it bear regularly and it baa never been otherwise 

 than first rate. We think it strange that it has not 

 acquired greater celebrity. It resembles very much 

 the H'hite Doyenne in appearance. It is equally 

 buttery, melting, and fine, with a muskiness of flavor 

 like the Bartlcit, which the Doyenne has not, and 

 we consider thi« the principal point of difference be- 

 tween the two fruits. Noisette, in Le Jardin 

 Fruitier, says they are so much alike that to distin- 

 guish one from the other it is necessary to have tliem 

 together. He says : "The flesh of this is more 

 melting, and of a quality incontestibly superior to the 

 Doyenne." In French nurseries it is grown vari- 

 ously under the names of Doyenne d' Ete, Doyenne 

 .Musque, Doyenne d^ Ore, Countess de Lxiniiy, ij-c. 

 The tree is a vigorous and erect grower, both on 

 pear and quince stock, equaling in this respect the 

 Louise Bonne de Jersey, and it is productive to a 

 fault. On the quince stock you can reckon on a 

 certain and abundant crop from the tliird or fourth 

 year. We can recommend it as a pear of great 

 excellence, and one that can hardly fail to give satis- 

 faction. 



Autumn Foliage. — Some one has suggested that 

 a collection of the foliage of American trees, in their 

 beautiful autumn tints, be woven together and pre- 

 sented at the great exibition in 1851, in London. 



Grapes. — It is said that Dr. Underhill has real- 

 ized seven thousand dollars, this season, by the sale 

 of grapes from his celebrated Croton Point Vineyard, 

 on the Hudson. 



