1851. 



THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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STRAWBERRIES. 



THE AMERICAN SUMMER PEARMAIW 



To our taste, this has no superior among the app es 

 of its season. It is extensively cultivared In New 

 Jersey, and some Jerseymen in Western New York 

 have it under the name of "Strawberry." The tree 

 is a slow grower, with dark, slender, erect shoots. 

 It comes early into bearing, and bears abundantly. 

 Fruit medium size, sometimes large, oblong. Color 

 greenish yellow, nearly covered with broken stripes 

 and spots of red. Stalk three-quurters of an inch 

 long. Calyx in a smooth, even, pretty deep cavity. 

 Flesh yellowish, juicy, very tender and rich ; mild 

 acid ; usually cracks in falling from the tree. In 

 eating five or six vi^eeks. Few summer apples re- 

 main in use through so long a period, and so fine 

 throughout, as this ; and we find it equally as desira- 

 ble for the kitchen as for the table. This and the 

 Pomme Royal, or Dyer, ripening at the same time, 

 or immediately after, are, in our estmiation, the two 

 best late summer and early fall apples we have. 



THE OHAUMOWTEL PEAR. 



Wk find by experience that this famous fruit cannot 

 be produced in any degree of perfection, except on 

 warm, dry, and rich soils. This season we had sev- 

 eral bearing trees, as it happened, all oh low ground, 

 rather heavy, and quite damp, and the season, too, 

 was moist. We did not get any fruit worth gather- 

 ing, although some four or five trees were loaded. 



Those who have this variety in their collection will 

 therefore do well to see that it is supplied with a soil 

 possessing these essential qualities. If they do not, 

 we can only assure them of a miserable harvest. 

 For an early winter variety it has probably no supe- 

 rior. The tree is vigorous and fruitful ; bears quite 

 young, and the fruit ripens with as little care as Fall 

 Pippins. It is certainly worthy of a little special 

 pains in its culture. 



Thosk who have Lima beans not sufficiently ripened 

 for seed, will find them excellent for the table. 



Mr. Editor : — In the spring of 1849, I pro- 

 cured plants enough to set four rows, of twenty- 

 six feet in length, the rows a little over a foot 

 apart, and the plants nearly a foot apart in the 

 rows. They were of two difierent kinds — one 

 a large red berry, supposed to be Hovey's Seed- 

 ling, originally from Col. Young's nursery; the 

 other a small white berry,* cultivated by the 

 late Mr. Strachan, of Half Moon, and we need 

 no better authority that the article is good. — 

 They were planted on the back part of a large 

 garden which had been planted alternately to 

 corn and potatoes during the ten years I have 

 owned it. The manure that has been used, 

 was common barn-yard manure : the soil a clay 

 loam. No manure was used at the time of 

 planting the bed, nor since. They were de- 

 signed to be kept in rows, but the runners soon 

 getting the mastery, I let them take their own 

 course, merely pulling out the weeds by hand. 

 This spring the edges of the bed were trimmed 

 to six feet in width, by twenty-eight feet long, 

 fi-om which was picked twenty-four quarts that 

 •were taken to the house and measured, to say 

 nothing of those that were eaten from the vines 

 by birds and bipeds. Beat this who can. — 

 Isaac Clement. — Half Moon, 1860. 



♦Probably the White Ji' ■pine— ^i\ 



SMALL EXPERIMENTS. 



I TAKE particular pleasure in making experiments in 

 my garden, and you are at liberty to use the follo'wing' 

 results if it will interest your readers : 



1st. My experiments with ten selected kinds of 

 peas, resulted in favor of the Early Emperor as the 

 best very early pea ; and in Hair's J\'ew Mamrr Ih 

 Dwarf Marroiu Pea as the largest, most product!- e 

 and richest pea of all. I obtained the seed from 

 Thouburn, New York. 



2d. My experiments with eight kinds of early 

 potatoes, resulted, all things considered, in favor of 

 the Mercers. Some kinds were a few days earlier, 

 but not so good quality or so great bearers. 



3d. My earliest corn is a white corn, a hybrid 

 from the Early Canada and Early Sweet Corn. It 

 originated in this county. My earliest sweet corn is 

 the Early Burlington. But I think decidedly the 

 best sweet corn I have ever raised or seen, has a dark 

 purple, smooth berry, (I do not know the name,) 

 brought from New England. 



4th. Our "Celery Lettuce" is by far the best I 

 have ever seen. The choicest imported kinds will 

 not compare with it. 



5th. Out of the twelve kinds of strawberries, the 

 greatest uniform bearer, and highest flavor of the 

 pistillate plants, is Burr's New Pine ; of the stami- 

 nate, a strawberry recently imported from Lord Spen- 

 cer's garden, in England, which is thought to be the 

 London Imperial Scarlet. This will suffice for the 

 present ; but more anon. R. G. F.— Palmyra, 1850. 



Celery is a luxury that too few enjoy. Placed in 

 a box of earth in the cellar, it will keep well till spring, 

 and rather improve by the keeping. Caulijiower, too, 

 that have not headed in the garden, if the roots are 

 placed in mould in one corner of the cellar, will head, 

 and furnish a real luxury during the winter months. 



