1851. 



THE GENESEE FARMER. 



147 



Premiums. — We have been a little delicate about sending 

 bound Books by mail, on account of the high rates of postage, 

 and from the fact, too, that it was forbidden by the old !n.w. 

 Tho paper bound books, which it is lawful to forward, com- 

 ing under the head of pamphlets, are not durable, and in no 

 way suited to a farmer's library. By the good sense of our 

 rulers, this evil is to be remedied on tho 1st of July. We 

 never could see why ihe Post Office Department should re- 

 fuse to carry bound books, if fairly paid for the work. 



Below we give the award of Prizes for subscribers obtained 

 for the Farmer up to the 16th of April. In addition to the 

 names here given, a large number of persons have procured 

 very handsome lists — to whom we are greatly indebted — and 

 in most cases have forwarded the books which we offered 

 every agent who procured sixteen, or more, subscribers. 

 We feel a great pleasure in being thus able to scatter useful 

 books on agriculture, over the land. We have already sent 

 nearly two thousand books, and have some more yet to for- 

 ward to agents to make good oar promise of premiums. 



1st, Ontario County, N. Y., Fifty Dollars in Agricultural 

 Books, for the greatest number of copies of the Genesee 

 Farmer taken in any county, being 765. This Library, ac- 

 cording to the offer, is "to be kept as a County Agricultural 

 Library, under the care of the Agricultural Society." 



2d, Calhoun Coui\ty, Mich., Fifty Dollars, as above, for 

 the greatest number of copies taken in any county out of 

 the State of New York, (448.) 



3d, To the Town sending the greatest number of subscri- 

 bers, we offered a Library worth Thirty Dollars, which, we 

 think, is taken by the Town of Marshall. Mich., in which 

 246 copies are taken, but from the difficulty we have found 

 in ascertaining the towns in which the different post offices 

 are situated, we cannot announce this as certain. If more 

 copies than this are taken in any town, we hope some of our 

 friends will inform us of the fact at once. 



1st, Jacob Frantz, Paradise, Pa., for the greatest num- 

 ber of subscribers sent by one individual., (414) Twenty Dol- 

 lars in Agricultural Books. 



2d, To Charles P. Dibble, Marshall, Mich., Fifteen 

 Dollars, for the next greatest number, (323.) 



3d, Wm. B. Stafford, WaterviJle, Oneida Co., N. Y., 

 Ten Dollars, for the third greatest number, (165.) 



Selections of Books can be made by those entitled to them, 

 or the choice left to us. Every agent can ascertain, by ref 

 erence to the premium list in the January number, the 

 amount to which he is entiled, and is requested to order, sta- 

 ting the mode of conveyance, &c. 



Sales of Improved Stock.— L. G. Morris' Great sale of Improved 

 Domestic Animals takes place on the 24th inst. For further in- 

 formation see his advertisement in this paper. Catalogues oan be 

 obtained at this oflSce, or from Mr. Morris ; if required to be 

 sent by mail, the postage will be pre-paid. 



Mr. Georoe Vail's sale is on tht 26th of June, at his farm, 2}i 

 miles from Troy. 



Advertisements, to secure insertion in the Farmer, must be re- 

 ceived as early as the 10th of the previous month, and be of such a 

 character as to be of interest to the farmers. We publish no other. 

 Terms— $2,00 for every hundred words, each insertion, paid in 

 advance. 



Messrs, Editors ■ — Being a constant reader of the Genesee 

 Farmer, and knowing that you take a great interest in pro- 

 moting Agriculture in its various ways, and that you like- 

 wise haye analyzed many soils and vegetables, I therefore 

 take the liberty to ask you a question tibout the virtue of 

 old Hops as a fertilizer of poor soils. There can any amount 

 of two and three year old hops be bought at from one to two 

 cents per pound. Would they, in your opinion, be worth 

 that price for manure ; and, if they would pay at that price, 

 what would be the proper way to prepare them, and how 

 should tiiey be applied ? My land is generally sandy, with 

 a clay sub-soil. Jacob Frantz. — Mount Hope, Pa., Oct., 

 1850. 



It will not pay to purchase hops at even " one cent a 

 pound," for manure. 



A New Work on Fruit. 



CHARLF:S SCRIBNER (late Baker & Scribner) has just pub 

 lished 



"THE FRUIT GARDEN," 



A Treatise intended to illustrate and explain the structure and 

 character of the different parts of fruit trees — the theory and 

 pi'actice of the various operations connected with the propagation, 

 transpliinting- pruning and training of orchard and garden trees 

 — the laying out ar>a arrangment of various kinds oi orchards and 

 gardens, selection of vai-i«ities, treatment of diseases and insects, 

 gatheringand preserving fruits, Kic, Sua.— illustrated witk upwards 

 of One Hundred and Fifty Figures. By P. Barrv^ of the Mount 

 Hope Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. 1 vol. 12 mo. 



SUMMARY OF CONTENTS. 



Part I. Describes the different parts of Fruit Trees— Roots, 

 Stems, Branches, Leaves, Blossoms and Fruit ; explains their dif- 

 ferent Characters, Functions, and Practical Classifications. It 

 treats, also, of Soils and Manures, of the best Modes of Propagation, 

 and the General Principles and Practice of Pruning. 



PARr II. Treats of the Propagation and Management of Trees in 

 the Nursery in detail, both Standards and Dwarfs, beginning with 

 the Stocks and ending with taking up the Trees. 



Part III. Treats of the Laying Out and Arrangements of differ- 

 ent kinds of Orchards and Fruit Gardens, the selection of Trees 

 and of varieties. Planting, Pruning, and Training of Standards, 

 Dwarf, Pyramids, &.O., &c. 



Part IV. Contains Abridged Descriptions of all the best Fruits 

 of well-established merit, with selections for various purposes and 

 localities, and lists of new and promising varieties ; also, a Chap- 

 ter en Diseases and Insects ; another on Gathering and Preserv- 

 ing Fruits, and one on the more important Implements used in 

 Fruit Culture. CHARLES SCRIBNER, 



No. 36 Park Row, and 145 Nassau St., New York. 



NOTICES OF THE PRESS. 



" This admirably arranged volume possesses an almost incredi- 

 ble amount of condensed information, given, too, in so earnest 

 and easy a manner, that, despite of the really heavy freight the 

 mind is taking in on its way, the reader is carried on from chapter 

 to chapter, like a smoothly running car, and we suspect few could 

 put it by unfinished without regret, or renew its perusal without 

 a pleasurable certainty of entertainment or profit ; and we would 

 especially call attention to the first chapter, for, remembering our 

 own ignorance, and the no less bungling efforts of our neighbors 

 and friends, in any operation of tree surgery, we feel how thankful 

 we should have been if we could have availed ourselves of Mr. 

 Barry's kindly offered solution of the many mysteries that puz- 

 zled us then." — Home Journal. 



'• A valuable, because simple and practical, work upon fruits and 

 fruit trees in America. The book is illustrated with drawings 

 well calculated to assist the fruit grower, and it should be in the 

 hands of all who have a patch of land, or who love good frviits. — 

 North Jlmerican Mistellany." 



■'A mass of useful information is here collected, which will give 

 the work a value even to those who possess the best works on the 

 cultivation of fruit yet published. "—.ATeu) York Evening Post. 



" This is, in brief, the title of a neat volume of about 400 pages, 

 prepared with evident care and ability by P. Barry, of the firm 

 of Ellwanger & Barry, proprietors of the increasingly celebrated 

 ' Mount Hope Nurseries.' The author is not only well read on 

 the subject on which he treats, but in addition to his theoretical 

 and scientific qualifications, he possesses a practical knowledge of 

 the subject, in all its branches and bearings, that few writers 

 have ever enjoyed. 



' The work before us seems to be a thorough treatise upon the 

 properties, modes of culture and most desirable qualities of fruits 

 in general, with selections and descriptions of tho most approved 

 varieties for especial as well as general use . And the experience of 

 the writer in the selection and rearing of the vast and superior 

 varieties of fruit in Western New York— the great fruit garden of 

 the country— as well as his familiarity with all the most approved 

 varieties of eastern and foreign fruits, invest his book with a de- 

 gree of authenticity and reUability well calculated to secure to it 

 the utmost confidence. 



' Every fruit grower, whether large or small, should procure a 

 copy of this excellent work."— Rochester Daily Advertiztr. 



" Our townsman. Mr. P. Barry, has done great service to the 

 cause of fruit culture and ornamenting of court yards, in this new 

 treatise of his. The work, as the title page explains, is designed to 

 illustrate the physiology of fruit trees, and the theory and practice 

 of all operations connected with the propagation, transplanting, 

 pruning and training of orchard and garden trees. It also gives 

 many and valuable ideas upon the laying out and arranging of or- 

 chards and gardens, and, in short, is a very encyclopedia of all in- 

 formation pertaining to fruit and fruit culture. It is from the 

 pen of one in the highest degree competent for the task he has un- 

 dertaken, and is illustrated by many plates and figures. It is a 

 book that should, as it will, command a ready sale wherever its 

 author is known, and among all who desire a first rate treatise 

 upon the subject, from a practical hand. Mr. Bahry wields his 

 pen in a manner that does credit to him, and well illustrates the 

 the possible union of cultivation of the soil and cultivation of the 

 mind."— iioc/ics(cj- Daily American. 



" It is, externally, a most pleasant appearing volume of nearly 

 400 pages, printed in elegant style. To all who take an amateur's 

 delight in the cultivation of fruit trees and fruit bearing vines, 

 the information embodied will be of great nee."— Rochester Daily 

 Democrat. 



