Notes and Gleanings. Z^i 



The South-western Fruit-Growers' Association met at Terry, Miss., on the 

 13th of January. The president, Dr. M. VV. Phillips, in a brief but spirited and 

 practical speech, explained the objects of the association. The subject of pack- 

 ing and shipping peaches came up; and well-ventilated boxes holding from half 

 a bushel to a bushel were recommended, the fruit to be not fully ripe. For straw- 

 berries and other small fruits the American Fruit-basket for distant markets, 

 and the American Free Fruit-box for markets near by. Mr. J. B. Statham of 

 Hinds County reported his success in fruit-growing. His orchard came in 

 bearing in 1863 ; and he has had good crops every year since, with the exception 

 of 1867. His peach-trees the past season were very profitable. His apple-trees 

 are mostly Red Astrachan and Early Harvest, with a few Georgia Red, a late 

 variety, ripening last of November and first of December ; a good winter apple, 

 keeping well in Mississippi until the first of June. Mr. Redmond produced a 

 jar of pickled figs of home preparation, that would be creditable to the best 

 pickle-manufacturers in Boston. Dr. Swasey, D. Redmond, E. F. Russell, and 

 the president were appointed a committee to prepare an address to the South- 

 ern horticultural public on the profits and prospects of Southern fruit-growing. 

 The association adjourned to meet at Jackson, Miss., on Wednesday, April 14. 

 — Southern Horticulturist. 



The Farmers' Club of Dubuque, lo., March 27, 1869. — Judge King read 

 an interesting paper on fruit-growing in the West, containing an account of two 

 seedling pears raised by Mr. Senis Heugle of Dubuque, from the White Doy- 

 enne, which first produced fruit in 1858, only five years after planting. These 

 trees now measure about a foot in diameter, have large, spreading tops, limbs 

 clean and smooth, are hardy and perfectly healthy ; never having suffered the loss 

 of a twig by disease. The location is unsuited to the pear ; yet these seedlings 

 are probably worth all the pear-trees in the city. The fruit of the two trees is 

 different, and ripens at different periods. The judge's paper induced interesting 

 commendatory and corroborative remarks from the members. Many instances 

 were related of the success of native seedling fruits in Northern Iowa, where 

 the extremes of climate are very great ; and the principle was laid down, that 

 seedling fruits grown in the North-west, including grapes, are much better able 

 to withstand the sudden changes of that climate than those imported, as Nature, 

 with but few exceptions, adapts the seedling to the soil and climate in which it 

 grows. 



[We regard this principle as entirely correct, and deem it a subject for con- 

 gratulation, that cultivators are acting upon it, not only by raising new varieties 

 from the cultivated species, but by improving the natives, such as the plums 

 and crabs lately described in this Journal ; for, if the indigenous varieties are 

 more hardy than the foreign, the argument is much stronger when not only the 

 variety but the species is indigenous.] 



Specimens of Climax and Bresee's Prolific Potatoes were exhibited by W. 

 C. Strong at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society's rooms, April 3. 



A curious sport from the Baldwin Apple, strongly resemblins: the Ross Non- 

 pareil, was also shown. It is permanent when grafted. 



