Editors Letter- Box. 255 



Aroostook. — Most desirable apples and pears for a Northern climate : — 

 Apples, — Red Astrachan, Famcuse, Pomme Grise, Ribston Pippin, Bourassa, 

 Ducliess of Oldenburg, Early Harvest, Keswick Codlin, Large Yellow Bougli, 

 Northern Spy, Red Canada, Rhode-Island Greening. 



Pears, — Bartlett, Beurre d'Anjou, Buffum, Flemish Beauty, Fulton, Louise 

 Bonne de Jersey, Onondaga, Seckel, Tyson, Vicar of Winkfield, Urbaniste. 

 Many of the English, Russian, and other European apples succeed much better 

 in the northern part of ^L1ine and Canada than farther south. Probably some 

 of the English pears, such as Monarch, March Bergamot, and others which are 

 so highly esteemed there, would be found well adapted to Northern climates. 



We take the liberty to publish the following extract from a note received 

 froni our friend Dr. I. P. Trimble of Newark, N.J., well known as one of the 

 most valiant and untiring enemies of our insect foes. We hope the doctor will 

 now pound away at the fruit-cultivators until they do just what he tells them to do, 



" I have been pounding away at the fruit-enemies for more than twenty years, 

 telling the people exactly what to do, and that it is useless to do any thing else ; 

 and still, who eats an apricot or nectarine ? Or who, except J. J. Thomas or 

 Ellwanger & Barry, eats a plum ? Do any in Massachusetts ? No : you are all 

 cowards. 



" I have had the Vineland settlement under my charge (as to bugs) for some 

 years : the people there are converts, and this year the great battle is to be 

 fought under my immediate instructions. If they do credit to the commanding 

 officer, the victory will be complete, and the question hereafter no longer an 

 open one." 



A correspondent in San Francisco, Cal., writes under date of Jan. 30, 1869, 

 " I have just seen a cluster of cherries from Otis V. Sawyer, grown in his gar- 

 den in the open air this winter, and wholly unprotected. It is very common for 

 our apple-trees to bear four crops of apples between April and the following 

 winter. Mr. Littlefield at Sacramento has an apple-tree that bore six sets of 

 blossoms and fruit in the year 1866 or 1867. The last two crops were smaller 

 than the first in a majority of the fruit ; the last crop was stinted by the frost, 

 and did not mature larger than English walnuts. Four crops of apples are often 

 gathered from the same tree in one season in and about Sacramento Valley. 

 Mr. M. Smith has just informed me that they have two cherry-trees in full leaf, 

 now filled with cherries ; two crops this year." 



D. C. Richmond, President of the Erie-County Agricultural Society, San- 

 dusky, O., writes us in regard to the injury of raspberries by bees, as suggested 

 in our February number, that he has been engaged for the last twenty years in 

 the cultivation of the raspberry, having several acres, among which the bees 

 have worked much while in bloom ; but he has never known or suspected any 

 injury from them. He has had for the last five years one acre within a few rods 

 of fifteen or twenty swarms of bees ; and these plants have never failed of a 

 good crop. 



