36 Domestic jYotices. 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 



Cultivation of the Pine-AppU. — It is with great pleasure tliat we inform 

 our readers, and more particularly those who have long wished to see 

 the cultivation of the pine-apple commenced in good earnest in this 

 country, that there is to be erected, in the course of the next year, at the 

 residence of the Hon. T. H. Perkins, at Brookline, a pit, a succession 

 and a fruiting house, to be entirely devoted to the growth of the pine- 

 apple. We have long been desirous that their cultivation should be 

 begun, as we are certain that no individual, who has the means, when 

 once convinced that they can be produced almost as easily as any other 

 fruit, will think that his forcing department is complete, until he raises 

 this greatest of all luxuries. At Belmont Place and Broomley Vale, there 

 are several pine plants in the stoves; but at neither are houses for their 

 cultivation alone. At another opportunity, we hope to give more infor- 

 mation on this subject. — Co:%ds. 



The ruinous effect of the fall influence of the Sun, upon several grape 

 vines, and the more prosperous state of others on which its influence was 

 less powerful. [At p. 383, are a few notes on the garden of Wm. Oliver, 

 Esq., Dorchester, We particularly mentioned several grape vines, part of 

 which were touched with mildew, while others immediately by their 

 side, were wholly uninjured. These remarks were hastily made, and 

 do not, in any respect, correspond with the views below respecting the 

 influence of the sun. It is, therefore, with pleasure, that we are per- 

 mitted to ofler the following facts. — Conds.]. 



" Until the 11th Auijust, the vines, consisting of Sweetwater, Golden 

 Chasselas, and a few Blnck Hambnrghs, were, both wood and fruit, in a 

 good state. At that period, the mildew appeared on the three northerly 

 ranges, consisting of twenry-iive vines, on which there are still* over a 

 thousand bunches, although they were thinned in the earlier part of the 

 season of superfluous ones. Linie water had been used, and the usual 

 attention given; but the disease rapidly increased, so that now, on the 

 Sfl of October, there is on this lot hardly a single cluster worth gathering. 

 The others are black and shrivelled, the wood also imperfect. 



" On what I would distinguish here as the southerly ranges, which are 

 in fact, but a continuation of the northerly ones, at a little less elevation, 

 there are twenty-nine vines, the fruit of which is entirely clear, and 

 mostly well ripened, and the wood perfect. This parcel, shaded by a 

 thick growth of fruit trees, was neglected in other respects, and potatoes 

 were raised immediately about them. It has, however, produced as 

 good grapes as I have seen elsewhere this season, although the quantity 

 is much less than on the north ranges. 



" You will also probably recollect an Isabella vine, from one half of 

 which the foliage had been removed on the 15th August. The fruit of 

 the whole is abundant and fine ; but no benefit is perceived to result 

 from such a practice. All the vines have a south-west aspect." — Yours, 

 W. O., October 4th. 



Singular anomaly in the Cherry Tree. — We have growing at this es- 

 tablishment a Mayduke cherry, grafted about three feet from the ground, 

 which presents the singular anomaly of bearing, without separate inocu- 

 lation, upon diiferent branches, the same kind of fruit ripening at totally 

 different periods. The Mayduke, it is well known, is one of the earliest 

 cherries, and the majority of the tree produces its fruit at the usual season. 

 A considerable number of the branches, however, bear fruit of the same 

 flavor and quality, but nearly two weeks later. The tree is now more 



* October 3d. 



