282 Dressing Fruit -Trees with G is hurst Coinpoiind. 



what Flemish^ on account of its tendency to put on a rough russety surface, 

 which obscures its proper lovely hue, as occasionally seen in its more 

 favored localities, which are unfortunately rare. 



Besides these leading kinds, Mr. Fahnestock could not do otherwise than 

 plant a goodly number of other varieties. Under the general tide of " sorts," 

 he has most of the good pears represented by one and two trees : among 

 these arc Easter Buerre, Buerre Diel, Onondaga, Doyenne Boussock, Ros- 

 tiezer, Oswego, Lawrence, Beurre Bosc, Bloodgood, Stevens, Howell, Belle 

 Lucrative, Winter Nelis, and others. Some persons will probably ask why 

 the Beurr^ Diel, the Onondaga, the Lawrence, and the Howell were not 

 more largely planted. Simply because Mr. Fahnestock preferred to risk 

 those with the market properties of which he was more familiar, and such 

 as he believed to be really profitable. 



Such as they are, these trees and their management are worthy of this 

 brief mention, in the belief that it will encourage other planters to do like- 

 wise, as the crop in the sixth year from planting has proved remunerating, 

 and the prospect for future -years is such that the owner holds the orchard 

 at a thousand dollars per acre. 



No symptoms of blight or other disease have yet made their appearance 

 on these grounds : this may be only accidental, or owing to the isolated 

 situation of the trees, which are quite distant from any other old planta- 

 tions from which the spores of fungi might be transported. At best, the 

 absence of blight, for six or even twelve years from planting an orchard, is 

 but negative testimony upon this obscure point of pyriculture. Mr. Fahnes- 

 tock thinks he has escaped because he scores the outer bark of the stems 

 in the spring, whenever he observes it hardening as though it were too 

 tight. He inserts a knife-point into a block of wood, so gauged that it 

 shall sever only the outer layers. * * * 



DRESSING FRUIT-TREES WITH GISHURST COMPOUND. 



As the season approaches when gardeners begin to think of winter-dress- 

 ing their fruit-trees, and as I am a stanch advocate of Mr. Gishurst (for I 

 find the best remedy to be to destroy all kinds of insects to which our 



