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MILDEW ON GOOSEBERRIES — EASTER BEURRE PEAR. 



kind of intruder in this town, and they not only work 

 on our fruit trees, but on the locust trees; and as an 

 iiiducenieut for others to try the plan, I will relate a 

 little experiment I made on one of my locust trees. 

 Last spring one of my trees, I discovered, did not 

 leave out when the rest did, and on examination I 

 found it was dead; and another one, a beautiful little 

 tree, about four inches through at the ground, I found 

 was full of bunches running around the tree. I took 

 ofil' the bark with a knife from a number of these 

 bunches, and found creases cut in the wood round 

 the tree, some two inches long, some three and four; 

 but none that went entirely around it — some on one 

 side and some on another — perhaps a dozen such 

 places in three or four feet in length from the ground. 

 The tree leaved out, but some of the limbs leaved 

 three or four days before others, and all looked sickly. 

 I expected the tree would die, of course, and I 

 thought there would be no harm in trying an experi- 

 ment on it So I bored a hole with a half inch au- 

 ger, as near the ground as I could, at least two-thirds 

 through the tree, and filled it full of pulverized brim- 

 stone, and plugged it up with a pine plug, as tight as 

 I could drive it in with a hammer without splitting 

 the tree. This was done about the middle of May, 

 and the tree appeared to be doing well until the 10th 

 of June, when the leaves all wilted and dried entirely 

 up, and I, with all ray neighbors that knew anything 

 about it, supposed the tree was certainly dead ; but, 

 behold! about the 10th of July it began to show 

 signs of leaving out again; and sure enough, it did, 

 and gi-ew and looked as flourishing through the rest 

 part of the season as any of the other trees. Now, 

 whether the brimstone saved it, or what was the 

 cause of its losing its foliage and regaining it again, 

 I cannot say, but my own and my neighbors' opinions 

 are, that the brimstone saved the tree. 



The facts above stated can all be substantiated by 

 more than a dozen persons; and if it should induce 

 others to try the experiment, it will have the desired 

 effect. John Reynolds. 



Belleville, Jefferson Co., N. T. 



[For the Geneaee F.^rmer.] 



KILDEW OS GOOSBEBBIES. 



Mr. Editoe: — I have been a reader of the Gene- 

 bee Farmers, and have found much valuable informal 

 Hon in them. I am always glad to hear the experience 

 of others upon various subjects, so I will venture to 

 tell about some experiments which I have tried and 

 found soiccessful, hoping that if some of the readers 



of the Genesee Farmer have been similarly afflic 

 they may take the hint and do likewise. 



My father had some nice gooseberry bushes; e' 

 year they would blow and shew a fair prospec 

 fruit, until they would be about half grown, w 

 they would all mildew, and not one be fit to ea 

 This state of things continued for several years, w 

 we happened to hear that to pour strong soap s 

 over the bushes, once or twice a week, when the 1 

 was setting, would prevent the mildew. Last sum 

 we tried it, and the bushes fairly bent with f] 

 which would fairly make one's mouth water, inst 

 of then- eyes as before. A neighbor of ours 

 gooseberries which mildewed in the same way. ] 

 spring, while cleaning out his stove pipe, the idea 

 suggested of putting the soot upon the goosebi 

 bushea It was accordingly done, and the result 

 he had gooseberries without mildew. H. B. t 



RocKPORT, Pike co., 111. 



[H. B. S. will accept our thanks for the infer 

 tion contained in the communication. Facts 

 what must be known, for without them there car 

 no correct practice. We hope he will contintie 

 favor us with the results of his observations. — 1 



EASIER EEUBSE PEAB. 



Synonym ; Doyenne dhiver, the popular French naine. 



The culture of winter pears has hitherto h 

 much neglected. We are surprised that some en 

 prising cultivators do not plant extensively. ' 

 large cities would consume immense quantities, : 

 they would command greater prices than any ot 

 fruit. One reason why they are not more cultiva 

 is, we presume, that they require more care and la 

 to prepare them for market. The autumn pears, s 

 as the Virgalieu, (fVhite Doyenne), can be pic 

 from the trees and carried directly to market, w', 

 the winter varieties would require to be stored av 

 for a length of time, and house-ripened. And tl 

 the supply of autumn pears is still small, and pri 

 as high as cultivators can reasonably desire. 

 suppo.se that we shall not witness any extensive ( 

 ture of the winter sorts until pear culture in gem 

 has become much more extensive and better un( 

 stood. There are intelligent amateur cultivators, 

 a few, who even at this day express a disbelief in 

 existence of really fine, melting, winter dessert pe; 

 Not one in five hundred, or, we may safely say, f 

 thousand, of those even who have gardens, has 

 tasted a fine Winter JVelis, a 'Lawrence, a Beu 

 d'Aremberg, a Glout Morceaii, or an Easier Beur 

 yet these are all delicious, melting pears, that ■» 

 ripen in a good dry cellar without any extra care 

 attention whatever. 



The Easter Beurre is a noble fruit — ^by far 1 

 finest, as we think, of all long-keeping variet: 

 That it has attracted so little attention among at 

 teur cultivators is really surprising; for it succet 



