2Q4 Notes and Gleanings. 



ciently extensive to require the constant care of a judicious cultivator, would 

 surely be a source of pride and profit to the owner, and, in itself and in its influ- 

 ence, a public benefaction. 



"The apple is mentioned, because so many have been discouraged with this 

 fruit. But it is folly to enumerate the many failures. A hundred failures do not 

 prove so much as one decided success. If the Messrs. Clapp can keep a per- 

 fectly healthy and productive apple-orchard in the very centre of the canker- 

 worm district, so can we all, if we put forth the same energy, and secure the 

 same conditions of success. If Mr. Wellington can this year, and continually, 

 produce, in open air, as superb Isabella Grapes as ever ripened on the banks of 

 the Ohio, the same result is possible to each of us. just as surely as is the axiom 

 sure that like causes produce like effects. 



" The main lesson which we would draw from the adverse influences of the 

 season, from the many failures and the honorable and decided exceptions, is this : 

 that we study with more care the requirements of each kind of fruit, and, wherever 

 extended culture is intended for market-purposes, that the location be selected 

 solely with reference to the adaptedness of the site to the particular fruit deter- 

 mined upon ; that, whenever we are compelled to choose a site not naturally 

 adapted to the various kinds desired, our first aim should be to make as near an 

 approach to the demands of Nature as is possible ; and that, under seriously ad- 

 verse circumstances, we be content if we can secure a sufficiency for home sup- 

 ply, and this of moderate quality, and never allow ourselves to judge by our 

 meagre results that fruit-culture as a business, and under the best conditions, is 

 a failure. 



'• In noting the novelties and the varieties which have come under our observa- 

 tion, we take them in the order of the season. The exhibition of forced fruits was 

 more limited than it should be ; the peaches of Mr. C. S. Holbrook being the 

 only superior specimens : and of these it is sufficient praise to say that they 

 maintained their accustomed standard of excellence. We may safely say they 

 are a pennanent and reliable crop. 



"The strawberry, our most humble, is also one of our most important fruits. 

 As an early acid for the system, its importance cannot be over-estimated, and its 

 ease of management, not requiring twenty or thirty feet of ladder, in order to be 

 reached, like the coy cherry, for example ; also its quick and abundant return of 

 results : these are considerations which place it in the front rank. Hovey's 

 Seedling maintains its position among marketmen. Wilson is steadily gaining 

 upon Boston prejudice, in spite of its poor quality. No other variety is so pro- 

 lific, hardy, and uniform, and sugar does in a measure correct its quality. Jenny 

 Lind is earliest, and yet, for some reason, has fallen into disuse. La Constante 

 and Triomphe de Gand are kept for the prizes ; the latter also being retained by 

 many as a general crop. Jucunda disappointed the expectations of most on its 

 first year of trial. This season it has gained friends, and many good judges 

 regard it favorably. Agriculturist is poor in quality and appearance, is unpro- 

 ductive, and will take its place on the rejected list. A seedling raised by Mr. 

 William Underwood, from La Constante, and of the type of its parent, was 

 more vigorous and more hardy, though smaller, than La Constante, and may 



