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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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The Season. — The fiutumn in Western New York 

 has been line. We had what might be termoJ a wet, 

 coll! season, till about the first of Aujjust ; after that 

 it was warmer and dry, so that trees ripened tlieir 

 wood well. We had no frost to injure vegetation 

 until about the 25th of October. DaJilias, and other 

 autumn flowers, remained in full bloom until that 

 time. On the 26th the leaves were blackened and 

 began to fall, giving to the woods and gardens a real 

 autumn aspect. 



Ctirc of Autumn Planted Trees. — We need hardly 

 remind those who have planted trees this autumn, 

 that they cannot be too careful in having them se- 

 cured by stalk's against being blown around, and 

 mulched with leaves, litter, or rough manure, to the 

 depth of six inches or more. Those that have been 

 taken up, and laid in for spring use, should be in very 

 dry, sandy ground, and laid in an almost horizontal 

 position to avoid the eflects of cold winds. 



Dahlias. — Take up the roots on a dry day, lay 

 them in the sun, or on a dry floor, till perfccthi dry 

 in every part. A week of drying may be necessarj". 

 Then put away on shelves in a very cool cellar. 

 They will require looking to occasinoally during win- 

 ter, and mouldy or decaying parts removed. 



Gladiolus, Tiger Flower, Tuberose, and other ten- 

 der bulbs, must be taken up, dried, and put away in 

 boxes of dry sand, or on dry shelves, in a cellar for 

 the winter. Cut off all flower stems and decaying 

 parts. 



Hyacinths, Tulips, JVarcissus, Crocus, Croivn Im- 

 perials, Hardy Lillies, and all hardy bulbs may be 

 planted as long as the ground remains open. The 

 soil should be deep, dry, rich, and finely pulverized 

 for them all ; and when planting is done, cover with 

 leaves six inches deep. This covering can be raked 

 off early in spring, as soon as frost is out. 



Peach and Plum S/07ies may either be sown this 

 fall before the ground freezes, or laid in thin layers 

 and covered lightly with earth to freeze and thaw 

 during winter. If kept dry they will not germinate 

 next season. 



Seeds of all hardy trees may also be sown before 

 winter sets in, if the ground be quite dry* 



A Challenge to Horticulturists. — Five years 

 ago I began to set an orchard. This fall I took from 

 one Baldwin tree three bushels and a half of apples 

 like the sample I send you ; from a Rhode Island 

 Greening, two and a half bushels ; from a Roxbury 

 Russet, a half bushel — all like the samples sent. 

 The manner of cultivating my trees are set forth in 

 a pamphlet I published this fall. I further challenge 

 the United States to produce so fine samples of peach, 

 cherry, plum, pear, apricot, and nectarine trees, for 

 the time they have been set. The apples, when 

 transplanted in the orchard, were about six or seven 

 feet iiigh : cherries the same ; peaches were maiden 

 plants. The orchard contains 1200 peach, 1500 

 pear, 200 cherry, and 200 apple trees. I sold from 

 five peach trees $25 worth. Lewis Burtis. — Roch- 

 ester, A*. Y., Sept., 1851. 



We can say, from personal knowledge, that there 

 is not, in Western New York, a finer or better culti- 

 vated orchard than that of Mr. Burtis. — Ed. 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



(N. W. Randall, Bristol Center, Ont. Co., N. Y.) 

 Your apples came to hand in good order. No. 1 is 

 a pretty and good autumn sweet apple — have not 

 seen it before. No. 2 is Blue Pearmain. No. 3, 

 don't know. No. 4, Baldwin. 



(J. R. F., Barre.) Honey locust seed sow in the 

 spring and scald before sowing, as you did the other, 

 Osage Orange seed can be procured here in the 

 spring, at the seed stores. Red cedar seeds are 

 never offered for sale here. 



(Aug. a. Fahnestock, Syracuse.) The buds of 

 the Augusta Rose were received in good order. It 

 resembles the Soffatarr, being of a sulphur yellow 

 and very sweet. If hardy and a good climber, like 

 the Chromatella, it will prove an acquisition. We 

 would be glad to be informed on this point, as its 

 great value depends on this. 



(Thos. J. Marks, Bayfield, C. W.) The Horse 

 Chestnut can not be grafted or budded successfully 

 on either the ash, elm, beech, maple, cherry, oalc, 

 butternut, basswood, or any of the common fruit 

 trees. It is easily grown from seed. The red and 

 yellow, and other varieties can be hvddcd on the 

 common sort, or the Buckeye or Ohio Hrtrse Chestnut. 



Grapk Housks. — (B. C. C, Tyrone.) We have 

 been promis?d a description of a cheap vinery by a 

 gentleman who has recently erected one, H. L. 

 SuYDAM, Esq., of Geneva. It will give you the in- 

 formation you want exactly. 



PnOTECTiON OF TENDER GrAPE ViNES. (L. C. 



Crawford.) Prune, lay it on the ground, and cover 

 with earth, or straw, or leaves. Uncover and tie up 

 to a stake or trellis, when the frosts are over in tlie 

 spring. 



Seeds.— (Miss J. P., Engellsville, N. Y.) We 

 would cheerfully comply with your request, but the 

 seeds cannot be obtained here. 



Red Canada Apple. — (H. G., Jefferson Valley.) 

 Wc will comply with your request and give a de- 

 scrption of this fruit as soon as possible. 



Flowers. — (Jane A. Vermilye.) We. are hap- 

 py to hear of your success in floriculture, and have 

 placed your application for another supply of seeds 

 on file. It will receive attention, with others, in due 

 time. Your statement, and others of a similar na- 

 ture, give gratifying evidence that our effojls to awa- 

 ken an interest in the cultiraiion of flowers have not 

 been wholly in vain. 



(James Martin, Taylorsvillo.) Water melons 

 may be grown successfully on the same ground for 

 many years, if it be properly renewed and enriched 

 with suitable composts and manures. But in this, 

 as in all cfops, a rotation is advisable. 



Apple and peach trees may be advantageously mixed 

 in the same orchard, where the soil is suitable for 

 both ; but many good heavy soils adapted to the ap- 

 ple, will not answer for the peach. 



Acknowledgements. — We are indebted to 11. L. 

 Suvdam, Esq., of Geneva, N. Y., for fine samples of 

 Grapes from his vinery. 



— To Lewis Burtis, Esq., of Rochester, for beau- 

 tiful Baldicin and Greening ajjples from his oi'chard. 



— To D. A. Barker, of North Bergen, N. Y., for 

 specimens of Apples, of which we do not know the 

 name. 



— To II. S. Sfragur, of Newark, Ohio, for a spe- 

 cimen of the liawles Janet apple from Indiana. 



