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THE GENESEE FARMER, 



The Monroe Scarlet, a pistillate variety, is hardy and uncommonly productive. It 

 has been proved in many parts of the country, and is every where well spoken of. 



Walker'' s Hermaphrodite Seedling is a distinct, very dark conical fruit, of medium 

 size, very prolific, and of good quality. 



The Moyamcnsing Pine has not done so well with us as in New Jersey and Penn- 

 sylvania. 



The Blcton Pine is a new English variety, hermaphrodite, bears moderately, large 

 and handsome, white, with a tint of red in the sun. Quality — good, not high flavored. 



Cherries. — The Belle d'' Orleans {?, an early and a very beautiful white variety — 

 ripens with the Early Purj^le, is larger and every way finer than Baumaii's May, and 

 as early. 



The Monstreuse de Mezel is a very large, dark-mahogany colored fruit, of fair quality 

 — probably the largest cherry we grow. Tree — an irregular, strong grower, and appar- 

 ently hardy. 



Gov. Wood continues unsurpassed for beauty and excellence. Size — medium, very 

 productive, and tree hardy. 



Delicate and Mammoth are said to be two new sorts of great merit among Dr. 

 Kirtland's seedlings. 



Having given some attention to horticulture and its kindred subjects for a few years past, I am 

 anxious to learn more of the habits and modes of destruction of those pests, which, under various 

 names, mostly destroy our labors. If some more thorough and effectual method of extermination 

 than has yet been devised shall not be discorered, the attempt to raise fruit or trees in this Ticinity 

 much longer will be almost futile. There is scarcely an apple tree in this region, so far as I have 

 examined, that is not injured or destroyed by the borer, though every means that I have seen 

 recommended have been tried. The fruit, also, shares the same fate^wormy and defective. The 

 curculio, too, has been more busy, if possible, than ever ; hardly a plum or apricot has. been left, 

 and cherries were all punctured and much injured. 



I gave a thorough trial to every method that has been published for their destruction : tying 

 cotton round the trees — jarring them — smoking them with sulphur, chips, feathers, old leather, 

 (fee. — dusting the trees for a long time with earth, ashes, <fec. — but the rascals only seemed to work 

 the faster, evidently regarding them all as " weak devices of the enemy." They strongly reminded 

 me of the old man who thought to drive the boy from his trees by throwing grass, sticks, <fec., but 

 could only bring him down with stones. Something more effectual must be done. Perhaps pigs 

 and poultry would do the work after a while, but they are not admissible in small gardens, and 

 only in separate enclosures. 



The squasli-borer is again making ravages in our vines, and have nearly destroyed them. K 

 Leffixgwell. — Aurora, Auyust 9, 1853. 



Sad tidings these from Aurora, one of the most delightful places in all the Empire 

 State, and one, too, in which horticulture is taking deep root and flourishing amazingly. 

 Have 2Jatience, sir — we must all practice this virtue, for we have all difiiculties to contend 

 with, and it is well that we have, else our energies would grow rusty. Next season 

 your crops may be spared by these pests, and you will be wondering Avhere they are 

 all gone. 



Almost every season we are visited by thousands — yes, millions of aphides and Pear 

 tree slugs, the destruction of which is ex]3ensive and tedious. This year we have none 

 — nowhere can they be found — perhaps they have gone to Aurora. The curculio, too, 

 has left us a more abundant crop of plums and apricots than usual ; our trees are 

 loaded to breaking. But the study of the habits of insects is most important to all 

 who desire to be successful in gardening. Let us recommend to you the new edition of 

 '■^Harris' Treatise on Insects Injurious to Vegetation^ It will furnish you much valua- 

 ble mformation. 



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