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THE GE^^SEE FARMER. 



head was put upon a poor seedling with the buds 

 of all of these). Those that were budded the llth 

 of June, 1859, were from twelve inches to two feet 

 long; some were .budded in the same tree in June, 



1858, and were three or four inches in circumfer- 

 ence, and these, with all the others, put out leaves 

 finely ; the old buds and the Statiwick nectarine 

 budded last June were full of bloom, (this last I 

 would not state if the bloom had not been seen 

 and examined by numbers of our Horticultural So- 

 ciety, as such a thing is so unheard of with any- 

 thing else,) and stood the frost and were not hurt; 

 but after a line rain, we had a freeze which killed 

 not only the peaches, but 15 of the buds of June, 



1859, and the buds of 1858 down to the old tree, 

 while the Stanwick Nectarine wood was entirely 

 unliurt, and they stood as monuments of their 

 hardiness. And I am well satisfied that in this 

 latitude they can be grown out of doors wherever 

 any other nectarine or peach can be." 



PiiYGEi.ius Capensis. — Tliis plant, of which wo 

 gave an engraving and description in our February 

 number of last year, has proved itself the past winter 

 to be quite hardy in the open ground, without any 

 protection ; and we bespeak for it a general intro- 

 duction among hardy herbaceous flowering plants. 

 It flowers very freely in August and September, 

 and its full expanded panicle of gracefully nodding 

 flowers, is an ornament which will entitle it to be 

 considered a most valuable addition to this class 

 of plants. 



CAEKYING STRAWBEEEIES TO A DISTANT MAEKET. 



0. S. DoD, of Jackson, Tennessee, states, in the 

 Horticulburixt^ that last year he sent strawberries 

 from Jackson to Chicago, a distance of 47-i miles, 

 by raih'oad, and the result was " entirely satisfac- 

 tory ; the fruit arriving in perfect condition ; time, 

 thirty hours." They were sent in the following 

 manner : 



" The fruit was picked very carefully into pint 

 tin cups, the depth of which was equal to the di- 

 ameter. The cups were placed, not on the bottom 

 of the chest, but on a false bottom, which played 

 freely in the chest, and rested on four or six spiral 

 wire springs, such as are used for making spring 

 matrasses, and costing a dollar per dozen. The 

 number of springs was varied according to the 

 weight of fruit packed in. The chests were made 

 of such dimensions as to receive just so many cups 

 each way, so as to allow barely a free ])lay, with 

 no extra room for jostling : on the top of the first 

 tier of cups, narrow and thin strips of wood were 

 laid, and another tier piled thereon, so in succession 

 for four or five tiers. On top of the whole rests a 

 vessel or box for holding ice, four inches deep, and 



of the same length and width as the false bottom. 

 This is made of wood, excei^t the bottom, which is 

 of common stove-pipe iron, nailed to the wood and 

 secured against leaking by white lead. In tlie top 

 is a hide for introducing the ice, with a close-fitting 

 cover. This box, with its charge of ice, rests on 

 the topmost tier of cups, and rides with them on 

 tiie springs. A lid, witii hasp and padlock, shuts 

 down over the whole. To prevent rude handling, 

 stout trunk-handles are placed on the ends of the 

 chest. A better arrangement than tliis could not 

 be desired. The whole load danced to every touch, 

 and the fruit was relieved of ail jolting. No air- 

 iioles were found necessary, but appeared rather t« 

 be injurious on trial. If the cups would bear cc.v- 

 ering with a tin cap, like a mustard box, or a black- 

 ing box, it would better guard against any acci 

 dental overturning of the chest. Mr. Peabodt 

 »iays tlie truit will speedily spoil, if thus confined. 

 With ice I do not believe it will ; but this remains 

 to be tried. The liability to loss by careless hand- 

 ling, tilting, and upsetting the chests, was the only 

 ditficulty experienced." 



An Improved Watering-Pot. — AVe annex a' cut 

 of an improved wateriDg-])ot, the invention of Mr. 

 Glenny, a well-known English 

 horticulturist. The improve- 

 ment consists in the peculiai 

 construction of the handle, caus- 

 ^ ing the weight to be more eas- 

 ily balanced in the hand, anc 

 enabling the holder to empty the pot with less mus- 

 cular exertion. The cut renders a further descrip- 

 tion unnecessary. 



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WOOD-PECKER -BALDWIN APPLE. 



I SAW what LoRENz*) DouD says in the February 

 number of the Farmer about sap-suckers. Whei 

 I was a boy, I used to think, like Doud's boys, tha' 

 they hurt the trees; but now I think they did no 

 hurt tlie trees half as much as I did by shooting 

 at them. 



I once knew a man by the name of Lammi BalD' 

 WIN, of Woburn, Middlesex Co., Mass., that, repor^ 

 said, found an apple tree in the woods on his farm 

 that was very much jiecked by these birds. H( 

 gave it the name of the Wood pecker tree. It weni 

 by that name until the kind got spread, and I be- 

 came acquainted with them 70 miles distant; but 

 it appeared, as if by general consent, it took th< 

 name of tlie Baldwin ai)jile, which is the kind now 

 so generally known by that name. It may be seer 

 now, that trees of that kind, it grafted at th'. 

 groutul — as most trees are of late years— are morf 

 pecked than most other trees in the same orchard;! 

 but I do not think I ever knew one, even of that 

 kind, killed by the sap-suckers. N. wright. 



Ilornellnnlle^ If. T. 



Downing, in his Fruits and Fruit Trees of Amer- 

 ica^ gives the "Wood-pecker" and "Pecker" a«i 

 synonyms of the Baldwin, but the reason assigned 

 by our correspondent is new to us. It is doubtlcsf 

 the correct one. -Kss 



