JUNE. 283 



The Rhode Island Greening Apple. — Can any of your readers aid 

 us in some experiments, the object of which is to make the old-fashioned 

 Rhode Island Greening apple tree bear as it did thirty years since. 



Of late years, the fruit does not come to maturity, but drops off before it 

 ia half grown ; the bloom is quite enough, and a great many small apples 

 are found to succeed the bloom — but, by harvest time, they have all dropped 

 off; they seem withered, blighted. 



With some of these trees, for two years past, I have tried a weekly ap- 

 plication of a weak solution of guano — about a pound of guano to a barrel 

 of water — using the best Peruvian guano. 



With other trees, I am in like manner, and for the same two years, using 

 frequent application of wood ashes. 



With others of these Greening trees I carted off as much of the earth 

 around their roots as I could, and put in place of it fresh earth, thinking 

 that something might have been drawn from the soil, which a fresh soil 

 would supply. 



I trust that if any of your readers have any experience in this matter, 

 they will give us the benefit of it. — Truly, A Subscriber, Gloucester, 

 Mass., March 3\, 1856. 



[The reason why the R. I. Greening does not bear as well now as thirty 

 years ago, is in consequence of the increase of insects — the apple moth — 

 which have now become so numerous and destructive, that it is difficult to 

 procure half a crop of sound fruit. Applying guano, removing the soil and 

 replacing it with fresh, will invigorate the tree, and be of great service to 

 its health and vigor — but the only way to stop the dropping of the fruit, is 

 to get rid of the apple moth, which is a difficult task. Picking up every 

 apple the moment it falls from the tree, and feeding them to the hogs, will 

 in a short time lessen their number, though not wholly eradicate them. — 

 Ed.] 



Pentland's New Seedling Roses. — Mr. James Pentland, of Baltimore, 

 offers for sale two new seedling roses which are stated to be exceedingly 

 beautiful, and very hardy. A colored plate has been forwarded to us, 

 judging from which we should think them decided acquisitions. Messrs. 

 W. C. Wilson and Edward Kurtz of Baltimore, both extensive amateur cul- 

 tivators, and good judges of flowers, pronounce them "very fine, and quite 

 distinct," and that the " colored plate does not do them justice." Mr. Feast, 

 the well-known raiser of the Queen of the Prairies, also pronounces them 

 " fine and distinct." The Woodland Margaret stood out the past winter in 

 Baltimore, which was an unusually cold one for that climate. If not en- 

 tirely hardy in our latitude, it would live with a slight protection. The 

 latter variety has bloomed in our collection, and the color is exceedingly 

 brilliant and fine. — Ed. 



