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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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MONMOUTH PIPPIN. 

 Red Cheek Pippin. 



This apple is grown in a few orchards in this neigh- 

 borhood, and every season in the month of April, it 

 appears in onr market, and never fails to attract at- 

 tention by its fair appearance and fresh, fine flavor. 

 It was originally brought here from New Jersey, 

 where it originated. Size large to medium, roundish 

 similar in form to a Rhode Island greening, stalk 

 short, deeply sunk, calyx open, deeply sunk, sk>i 

 thick, greenish yellow, with a dull red cheek. Flesh 

 yellowish white, crisp, juicy and perfumed, keeps 

 well and retains it flavor and freshness admirably. 

 Tree a very fine upright grower and good bea.ier. 

 November to Nay. Well worthy of attention as an 

 orchard fruit, always commanding the highest price 

 in its season. 



Spfximkn Pear Trees. — A short time ago, when 

 in Boston, we made a hasty visit to the nurseries of 

 Messrs. Hovey & Co., of Boston. We found their 

 green-houses and conservatories greatly extended 

 and improved ; but the most interesting feature about 

 the establishment, to ns, was their extensive collec- 

 tions of pears and their well managed trees. In 

 number they comprise thousands. They are planted 

 in borders along the walks, at six feet apart, and are 

 conducted in pyramids, or low standards. Few of 

 them exceed seven or eight years of age, and yet 

 they are generally in a fruitful state. They are the 

 most creditable examples, without any exception, 

 to be fouml in any American nursery, and form a 

 school in which valuable lessons noay be taken in the 

 art and science of tree culture. Among new pears 

 recently tested, Mr. IIovEr speaks very highly of 

 tiie Duchcsse d' Orleans, Bnurre Lan^etier, St. 

 Dorolhe and Triomph de Jodoigne. The Swan's 

 Orange sustains its character well ; Mr. IIovky has 

 many tine young trees of it, showing a profusion of 

 fruit bu Is, and some of them have already borne fine 

 specimens. 



AcKsowLEDCMF.STS. — Wc nre indebted to IJ. P. Johnson, 

 Esfj., of Albany, for the April iiiini!>or of the Journal of the 

 Agricultural Society. We learn from it that Guverner 

 Hunt has appointed Mr. John^ox delegate on the part of the 

 Slate, to ilio Worlds Fujr in London. Letters to Mr Joh.n- 

 so.s may be adilressed to care of i'. Tiiomi'SoN. Esq., No. 5 

 Bank Chamhirs, l.othlxrry, London, (post-paid.) 



— To Jamls M. M'atts, Esq., fur fine specimens of 

 Northern ."5py aud other apples. 



A SEEDLESS APPLE. 



Mr. Editor: — 'Permit me, through the 

 columns of the Farmer, to give a short 

 account of one of nature's freaks, as a 

 matter of curiosity ; and to ask of some of 

 your thinking readers an explanation of it. 

 In an old orchard, my father has a large 

 and thrifty apple tree, bearing a fine fla- 

 vored and finely formed apple, having a 

 dark yellow skin. Now, the peculiarity 

 of this fruit is, that as long as we have 

 been acquainted with it, it has been found 

 wanting in seeds, except in a, very few in- 

 stances, where it contained one or two. 

 The core of this apple, (if it may be said 

 to have any,) is very small, and it is no 

 preventive or objection to its being sliced 

 through, for all culinary purposes. This 

 apple has a rather thick skin. It keeps 

 well till late in the spring, and on the 

 whole is a very good fruit. Specimens of it have been 

 shown to a number of people, some of them eminent 

 nurserymen, but none of them have been able to give 

 a satisfactory solution of the enigma. Perhaps some 

 of your readers may be acquainted with similar in- 

 stances, and with the process by which this great 

 curiosity was produced ; if so, I should be glad to hear 

 from them. F. D, — Ballston Center, JV. Y., 1850. 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Hedges — (J. P. Serviss, Hillsdale Co., Mich.) The 

 apples of the thorn, when gathered, should be placed in a 

 rot-heap mixed with earth, to remain there during the next 

 season. They should then be sowed in drills, and nt the 

 end of the first or second year's growth, will be fit for the 

 planting in hedge rows. Dtrarf trees are produced both by 

 budding or grafting on certain stocks, and by certain modes 

 of pruning. 



(A. E. W., Genesee, Mich.) We have not observed such 

 an insect as you describe. The principal insects that attack 

 young shoots of fru-it trees, are the aphides, and they do not 

 sling, but suck the juices. Catalogue has been forwarded. 

 (U. Webb, King's Ferry, N. Y.) Cherries are dwarfed 

 on mahaleb stocks, raised from seed ; pears on quince, raised 

 from layers or cullings ; and apples on Paradise, or Doucain, 

 from layers. You can usually purchase these stocks in any 

 of the leading nurseries. You will find such a book as you 

 speak of advertised. Scions can be sent by mail in a letter, 

 with safety. 



(.S. H. Wheeler, Girard, Pa.) Buckthorn will suit you 

 best. Honey Locust will also make you a good hedge. — 

 Seeds of eitiier can probably be obtained at the principal 

 agricultural seed stores. We have written you. 



(I). S., Shireinanlown, Pa.) The Great Hij,'arreau cherry 

 can be had of Charles Dow.ni.ng, or .A. S.»ul &, Co., of 

 Newburgh. We are much obliged for the information con- 

 cerning the Gen. Hand plum. 



(Jami-S Edgehton, JJarnesviile, Ohio.) The great re- 

 qui>iti.)n in a quince stock, is vigorous growth. In this par- 

 ticular the romuion apple or Orange variety is deficient, com- 

 piirod with "thors, and pears are stinted on it, and do not 

 form a perfect union. 



(IL T. Woodward, Beloit, Wis.) You can probably 

 obtain a copy of the proceedings of the New York Pomulog- 

 ical convention by ap,)lyin.T to A. J. Downing, Esq., of 

 Newburgti. or S. H. I'ai<<<ons, of Flushing, L. L Those of 

 the Cincmnati convention, of 15. Hodge, of Buffalo, or F. 

 11. Elliot, of Cleveland, Ohio. The Tartarian Honeysuckle 

 is easily propagated both by layers made in summer, and cut- 

 tings taken ofl' in winter. They root as freely as the currant. 

 A'amf.f of Fruits — " Tnrt Bough." for aught we know to 

 the contrary, is a synonym of the Early Harvest. Royal, 

 Hertfor.^shirc, and Winter Pearmain, all mean the same thing. 

 " Steele's Red Winter"' is u synonym of the Baldwin. '• Ort- 

 ley Pippin'" is a synonym of Detroit of the west, or White 

 Bellilower. Early Red Margaret is the true name, and so is 

 Early Sweet Bough - Large Yellow Bough of Downing. 



