THE GENESEE FAEMEE. 



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jieek, interspersed with small yellow dots. Stem 



inch and a quarter in length, rather stout and 

 shy at the base. Basin shallow, and slightly 

 bbed. Calyx small. This is a most beautiful 

 .tie fruit; flesh melting, juicy, sweet, not quite so 

 gh flavored as the Madeleine. Tree bears quite 

 )ung. The beauty of this variety, with its other 

 duable qualities, will render it a general favorite 

 )th with orchardists and amateur cultivators. 

 Beurre Giffard ripens a few days after the pre- 

 ding. Size medium. Skin greenish, with a slight 

 ush. Flesh tender, melting, juicy, with a very 

 reeable excellent flavor. The tree is rather a 

 )W and straggling grower. A very valuable early 

 ar. 



Osband'' 8 Summer — Small; oval or obovate; clear 

 ight yellow ; well colored in the sun. Stem one 



h long. Calyx large and open. Basin quite 

 allow and smooth, or very slightly plaited. Flesh 

 jlting, juicy, sugary, with a mild but agreeable 

 vor. Eipened this season from the fifth to the 

 teenth of August. 



Blooagood — Size medium ; yellow, blotched and 

 otted with russet. Stalks an inch and a half 

 ng. Basin very shallow. Flesh yellowish — white, 

 elting, with a rich aromatic flavor. 

 In addition to the above, we would mention as 

 duable summer sorts, but which have not yet 

 3ened, the Bartlett, of world-wide reputation; 

 e Brandywine and Tyson, both natives of Penn- 

 Ivania ; the Rostiezer, Summer Francreal., Dear- 

 ni's Seedling, a native of Eoxbury, Massachu- 

 tts, and the Ott. In this list of varieties, the 

 Uowing do well on the pear or as dwarfs on the 

 lince stocks: Madeleine, Doyenne d''Ete, Osband''s 

 •immer, Bloodgood, Brandyioine, Tyson, Eostiezer, 

 iimmer Francreal. Bartlett, Beurre Giffard, and 

 tt, should always be worked on the pear stock, 



double-worked, if on the quince. The Bartlett 

 ipecially has the fault of forming so imperfect a 

 lion with the quince stock as to render it liable 



being blown oflf after it has become a good sized 

 ee, and is heavily laden with fruit. 



Deainage for Oechards. — D. A. Lillier, of 

 eneva, Illinois, makes the following statement to 

 le Prairie Farmer: "I am acquainted with an 

 .•cliard of grafted fruit, fifteen or twenty years 

 id, situated upon a dry, rolling prairie, with a clay 

 ibsoil, that a railroad passes through making a 

 at ten or fifteen feet deep. Now, mark the sig- 

 ificant fact. The trees upon each side of the road, 

 ithin ten or twelve feet of the bank, bore fully 

 ist season, while the rest of the orchard had only 

 ow and then an apple. The rows of ditterent 

 inds cross the railroad instead of running parallel 

 dth it, so several kinds bore." 



GIVE AWAY YOUE FRUIT. 



The editor of the Homestead thus discourses, in 

 a genial way, on the advantages of giving away 

 fine fruit, than which few things one can do give 

 more exquisite pleasure both to giver and receiver: 



" One of the best uses you can put a fine dish of 

 fruit to, is to give it away to some friend who will 

 appreciate it, and your skill in growing it. It is- 

 due to the art of horticulture, as well as to your- 

 self, to make these offerings. In no way can the 

 taste for fine fruits, and the desire to cultivate 

 them, be so rapidly disseminated. The rich old 

 hunker over the way, who has all his life-time beea 

 too intent upon dollars to think of a fruit yard, or 

 a vinery, will perhaps fall into a fit of self-reproach, 

 at the sight of a four pound bunch of Black Ham- 

 burgs, presented to his wife. She of course praises 

 the grapes, admires the half-transparent skin reveal- 

 ing the rich juices beneath, but does not venture 

 to make any suggestions, though her looks insinu- 

 ate volumes. The daughter Julia is in raptures 

 with them, as girlhood is wont to be with every- 

 thing beautiful. She wonders that papa does not 

 build a glass house to grow grapes in, and can not 

 keep the wonder to herself. The daughter is the 

 old gentleman's special weakness, as the mother 

 well knows, and she can safely be left to do the 

 talking. He never said no to her, and doubts his 

 ability to, when her heart is I'eally set upon an 

 object. What is five hundred or a thousand dollars 

 to a man of fortune, where the reasonable gratifi- 

 cation of his family is concerned? The architect 

 will be called in, and the glass house will be built, 

 in due time. We trust our good friends with the 

 large vineries will comprehend at a glance this 

 philosophy, and fulfill their mission." 



^^ Strawberries on Gravel Beds. — A corre«pond- 

 ent of the New England Farmer says he was in- 

 duced to try the growing of strawberries on coavss 

 gravel and stones, from the productiveness of some 

 which had accidentally thrown runners on a gravel 

 walk. He says: " I am satisfied that if any gard- 

 ener has such an amount of pebble stones that he 

 hardly knows how to dispose of them, he may, by 

 a moderate intermixture of rich earth, form them 

 into productive strawberry beds." The plants will 

 propagate by runners, whose roots will get into the 

 earth among obstacles that impede the growth of 

 grass and weeds, and the berries will ripen a week 

 earlier than usual. 



Strawberries in Hawaiian Islands. — The Pa- 

 cific Commercial Advertiser, of May 12th, says: 

 "During the past week this delicious fruit has been 

 quite plenty about town, though mostly secured in 

 advance by private families. Mr. Holestein, of 

 the Agricultural Society's Garden, has about an 

 acre of plants in full bearing. The fruit is large 

 and well flavored, and brings readily seventy-tivQ 

 cents per auart." 



