1 86 Notes a7id Gleanins^s. 



extent. As to varieties, of course we have many, according to the fancy of the 

 grower ; but the Baldwin is yet the standard, and it is the only winter and mar- 

 ket variety grown extensively. There has not its superior been found as yet. 



What would, then, seem to be the requirements for successlul apple-culture r 

 We will venture to answer. Good stocks and good cultivation. Can any one 

 prove otherwise ? If so, please do so : we are open to conviction. The borer 

 can easily be headed off; the caterpillars can be subdued, though it requires 

 care and labor ; a good exposure and shelter can be obtained ; and with home- 

 raised trees, properly planted, fed, and cultivated, why may we not again pro- 

 duce apples, if not so abundantly, yet as profitably, as of yore .'' 



At this writing (June lo), the trees are just in blossom. There is not a pros- 

 pect of a full crop. Baldwins are blooming sparsely, many uncultivated orchards 

 being almost without blossoms. The number of caterpillars is very small com- 

 pared with last year. ' George E. Brackett. - 



Belfast, Me. 



Treatment of Czar Violet after Flowering. — Presuming it to be in 

 a pot in a cool house or frame, remove the plant, after flowering, to a shady 

 border, and plant it out in a compost of rich turfy loam with a little leaf-mould. 

 If the plant is large, and capable of increase, the runners may be slipped off, 

 placed in small pots filled with a compost of sandy loam and a little mould, and 

 set in a cold frame. Keep the plants rather close and shaded until they are estab- 

 lished ; then remove them to a shady but open situation, and plunge the pots to 

 the rims. When the pots are full of roots, shift into larger pots, say four inches 

 and a half in diameter, using the same compost as before ; and in July shift 

 into six-inch pots, using a compost of turfy loam two-thirds, and one-third leaf- 

 mould, with a free admixture of sharp sand. The plants should be well watered 

 overhead and at the root, especially during dry weather ; and this treatment 

 should be continued throughout the summer, avoiding any thing approaching to 

 a saturated or sour soil, of which they are very impatient. They may remain 

 out of doors, the pots being plunged to the rim in coal-ashes, in a sheltered 

 situation, or, better, in a cold pit or frame, protection being afforded from severe 

 frost. You may turn out the plants, as already mentioned, in a sheltered, shady 

 situation ; previously dividing them, and planting the divisions six inches apart 

 every way, and keeping them shaded until established. They ought to be kept 

 moist, and be frequently watered overhead. Towards the end of September, 

 you may take the plants up with balls of earth, and place them in well-drained 

 six-inch pots, or any size large enough to hold them well. Place them in a frame, 

 and remove l'^£'.v., as required, to an airy shelf in the greenhouse. 



Ludwig's Bigarreau Cherry. — This cherry was introduced by Mr. 

 Rivers of Sawbridgeworth, and was fruited in one of his orchard-houses in 

 1865. This variety is remarkable on account of its shape, which is long heart- 

 shaped, being much more so than any other cherry with which we are acquainted. 

 It is a fine early Bigarreau, ripening just after the Early Red Bigarreau, in the 

 end of June, and beginning of July. The flesh is pale yellow, very melting and 

 juicy, and mucli more tender than Bigarreaus usually are. 



