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Where to get Trees and Plants. — We frequently have inquiries from 

 our readers where to get trees, plants, seeds, etc. Now we cannot undertake to 

 recommend one nurseryman or seedsman over another, and our readers cannot 

 do better than to consult the " List of Nurserymen, Seedsmen, and Florists," 

 in the advertising pages of the present number, where they will find not only the 

 general business of each one, but the branch to which he has given special at- 

 tention. New fruits, flowers, etc., will usually be found particularly mentioned 

 in our advertising pages. 



Dendrobium nobilE. — At the monthly meeting of the Pennsylvania Horti- 

 cultural Society, February 21, Mr. Alexander Newett, gardener to H. Pratt 

 McKean, one of the most successful orchid growers in the country, exhibited 

 a magnificent specimen of Dendrobium nobile in full bloom. The plant measured 

 about four feet high, and about four feet in diameter, and contained seven hundred 

 and sixty flowers. In the words of a distinguished florist present, it was worth 

 going a hundred miles to see. The committee awarded it a special premium 

 of twenty dollars, as the most gorgeous specimen ever grown in the United 

 States. National Fanner. 



The Bearing Year in Apples. — I planted a small orchard of apple trees 

 about twenty years since, and amongst them were about a dozen of the Porter 

 apple, which has paid better than any other variety. In 1865 I sold one hun- 

 dred and thirty-two dollars' worth from eight trees — all that was left of the 

 dozen trees. In 1867 I sold from seven trees (one tree being destroyed by the 

 caving of a clay bank), one hundred and two dollars' worth, and in 1869 I sold one 

 hundred dollars' worth, not counting those that were for the use of the house, 

 and those taken by boys. There is one tree of the seven, which, ever since it 

 began to bear, would, on the bearing year, have on two thirds of the tree, or two 

 large limbs, a full crop, while the other limb would not have any fruit on. The 

 following year there would be a full crop on the limb that had none on the year 

 previous, and there would be no fruit on the rest of the tree, or on the other six 

 Porter trees in the same row. Now I would like to know the opinion of po- 

 mologists, whether scions taken from the sport would bear the same year as the 

 parent, or would they return to the natural state. I grafted those trees myself, 

 and put but one graft into each stock. If we could get fruit of the Porter apple 

 every year, it would be a great achievement. J. C. 



Troy, N. Y., Feb. i, 1871. 



[We think it probable that grafts taken from the sport would bear the same 

 year with it. We have known the grafts taken from a Baldwin tree, which bore the 

 odd year, for the purpose of testing this point, but do not know the result. If 

 any of our readers can inform us, we hope they will do so. — Ed.] 



Trees for Timber. — To cause forest trees to run up straight and tall, and 

 free from limbs, so as to be of the highest value for timber, they must be planted 

 and grown thickly while young, and gradually thinned out, thus imitating Na- 

 ture's method. 



