192 Editors Letter^ Box. 



J. W. H., College Hill, O., writes that " the Bartlett Pear is the most profita- 

 ble pear grown in Southern Ohio. The Bartlett, Flemish Beauty, White Doyen- 

 ne, Swan's Orange, Seckel, and Tyson are the most popular varieties grown as 

 standards. Louise Bonne de Jersey, Vicar of Winkfield, White Doyenne, Belle 

 Lucrative, Glout Morceau, and Flemish Beauty, are the most popular varieties 

 grown here for dwarfs. The Early May Cherry is a certain bearer, very hardy, 

 and is popular because profitable for the market. Knight's Early Black is also 

 becoming more popular, being a pretty sure bearer. Wilson's Albany Straw- 

 berry is the most popular sort for field-culture. We gathered ten bushels last 

 season from a piece of land forty by sixty feet, and the crop was much 

 lessened on account of the great mass of plants." 



D. W. G., Peoria, 111. — About my garden are some cherry-trees that have 

 sprung up from time to time ; and I wish to know what I had better do with 

 them to make them profitable. — It would, perhaps, be better to wait until they 

 bear fruit ; and, if the same shall be good, then preserve them : otherwise graft 

 the trees with some variety that you know is hardy and prolific. 



.S. T. M., Northborough, Mass. — I wish to learn through your valuable 

 Journal if any of your readers have had experience in raising strawberries on 

 land newly reclaimed from the forest. I have seen large fruit on the native 

 strawberry-vines growing on such land. — We have no doubt but the crop 

 referred to can be successfully grown on such land if it can be made mellow, so 

 as to allow scope for the roots. The fresh soil, with the ashes that may be left 

 from the waste material burned on the land, would all be favorable to the straw- 

 berry. We hope to hear from those who have had experience on this point. 



C. T. R., Pittsfield. — Neither scions nor trees can be procured of the Presi- 

 dent Pear. The whole stock is in the hands of the originator.* 



J. S. D., Fairview, Ken. — How shall I destroy earth-worms in flower-pots ? — 

 Water the plants with a weak solution of lime (common lime-water), made by 

 slacking quicklime in water : a lump as large as one's fist will be enough for 

 six gallons of water. The worms will come out at the surface of the ground. 

 Also many may be removed by carefully turning the ball of earth from the pot : 

 the worms, generally, are found close to the side of the pot, and may be caught 

 before they draw into the ball again. 



How shall I prepare apple and other fruit seed for sowing t — After they are 

 washed out or separated from the pomace or pulp of the fruit, mix the seed with 

 moist sand, and place them where they will keep tolerably moist through the 

 winter away from the vermin. In the spring, the seed can be sown with the 

 sand. We have for years successfully followed this course. 



* Since the above was in type, we learn that Dr. Shurtleff has been prevailed i:pon to let out what stock 

 he has now ready of the President and Pemberton Pears, which is limited to one hundred scions of each. 

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