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818 THE GENESEE FAEMER. 



of the green-house; they require plenty of light — all that can be given them; plenty of 

 water, and an occasional dose of liquid manure. 



A great error in the management of most green-houses i?, crowding the plants too closely, 

 so that they grow up tall and lean, losing all their lower branches and leaves. Far better 

 to throw away all surplus stock, and give ample room to what is reserved. One good 

 healthy, well-grown plant is really worth twenty poor ones that every one feels ashamed 

 of. All houses, and frames, and pits should be well ventilated in fair weather, and decay- 

 ing wood or leaves removed promptly. Hardy lulbous roots should be planted immediately ; 

 yet it can bo done any time before the ground freezes. There are certain things that 

 vegetate early in spring, and should therefore always, if possible, be planted in the fall — • 

 such as gooseberries, currants, rhubarb, and all hardy spring-tiowering shrubs, and hardy 

 herbaceous plants. A good bloom next' spring maybe secured by planting now, but will 

 be lost if the planting be deferred till spring. 



Tub Feuit Chop in Western' IsTew York. — Apples, generally, are neither so abundant 

 nor so fine as usual ; a single orchard, or a few trees, here and there, are exceptions. The 

 crop of pe;u"s is much below that of last year. Peaches hava surprised people by their 

 abundance and fine quality. We have been through I^ew Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, 

 &c., in the midst of the peach season, and saw no finer fruit than has been sold here in 

 large quantities since the 10th of September. The worst feature in our peach business 

 is, that it opens late. Early Yorh did not appear in market till the first week in Septem- 

 ber, and now (Sept. 13) Grairford's Early ^ Large Early Yorl\ and others of the same 

 season, are coming in freely. Moms' Whites and Old Mijcons will not be ripe for a week 

 or ten days, and Cramford''s Late Melocoton and Red Cheelc Melocoton^ will not be ripe 

 short of two weeks. It is interesting to observe that some orchards in which there was 

 a fall crop last year, are entirely fruitless this, and others that bore none last, are laden this 

 season. Within a few Kiiles we see some orchards bearing well, and others a total failure. 

 Our heaviest crops are in warm, sheltered situations, within a short distance of the shores 

 of Lake Ontario. 



A Handsome Peach Orchard. — James M. Whitney, Esq., of Rochester, has a peach 



orchard of upward of one thousaud trees about half way between this city and Lftke 



Ontario, which we visited on the 13th September. The trees generally are in a vigorous 



and healthy condition, and the crop very heavy. This orchard occupies a warm, sheltered 



situation, and seems to have escaped the severe weather last spring, so ruinous to the peach 



generally in this section. Among those particularly fine we noted Large Early Torh 



Crawford^s Early Melocoton, Yellow AUerge, Jacques' Rare Ripe, Morris^ }Y7tite, Old 



Mixon Free^ and CraicforxVs Late Melocoton. Early Tillotson is an utter failure — thirty or 



forty trees stand without a single fruit and nearly dead, in the midst of luxuriant and 



heavily laden trees of other varieties. The Red Cheeh Melocoton does not succeed avcII 



here. Mr. Whitney has also a fine young peach orchard of some seven hundred trees 



just beginning to bear. 



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Transportation of Trees. — The transportation of trees from one place to another has 

 now grown into importance, and the rush of other freight on the railroads in the autnnm 

 and spring renders it almost impossible to have them forwarded without serious delay. 

 There is a universal complaint about this matter, and we would once more . suggest the pro- 

 priety of founding a nurserymen'' s express, or making an arrangement with the existing 

 companies to send special messengers with trees along all the leading thoroughfares, leaving 

 the princi])al points where this trade is extensively carried on two or three times a Week. 

 We think that raih-oad comitanies should issno orders to tbeir agents at all the stations to 

 give preference to trees in all cases where there was more freight than could be sent at 

 once. If this were done, there would be no difficulty ; but as it is now, trees fare worse 

 tlian any other goods wliatever. 



