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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[ April, 1877. 



HORTICULTURAL. 



Florida and Its Oranges. 



A correspondent of the Tribune thus writes to 

 that paper in regard to Florida : 



About half of the orange crop this year has been 

 destroyed by the lonarest spell of cold weather ever 

 known in Florida. The history of the orange culture 

 shows that at long intervals the crop is cutoff or 

 injured by frost something below oO°. What other 

 crop is not injured at shorter intervals ? The trees 

 have never been killed but ouce (183.5.) They are 

 not injured this year, except the young ones in ex- 

 posed localities. So this cold snap need not deter 

 those who are wishing to make an orange grove in 

 Florida. There are places on Lake George, for 

 instance, and other very \vide openinirs of the river 

 where nel'her orange buds, nor pineapples, nor early 

 vegetables have tjcen hurt. 



One word more. When an orange is frozen it does 

 not rot or show any external signs of decay, or does 

 not, for a long time drop from the tree. It is, there- 

 fore, difficult to tell a bad one from a good one. It 

 is likely, then, that perfectly honest p.ackers will 

 send a good many bad oranges to the North, or 

 rather have done so. But money is so scarce that 

 others will not be so honest, and will purchase bad 

 fruit at low prices and ship them, and they will get 

 into the hands of street venders, and all this will 

 damage the reputation of the Florida orange, which 

 last year won such high favor as to command about 

 double the price of any other orange. 



Transplanting Large Trees. 



The London Oarden gives the details of some ex- 

 periments in the removal of trees of the Cedar of 

 Lebanon upwards of twenty feet high, which had 

 been prepared by root pruning the previous year. A 

 timlier wagon was backed up with a wheel on each 

 side of thetree,the pole (tongue) placed upright, with 

 a bundle of straw on the axle to prevent barking ; 

 ropps were passed under the ball of earth and se- 

 cured it to the axle, and the stem of the tree was 

 lashed to the upright pole, a rope at the top of which 

 pulled the tree down in a horizontal position. The 

 tree was then carried to its destination. A heavy 

 mulching of leaves kept the ground moist during the 

 heat of the summer, and it succeeded well. A better 

 mode for removal is figured and and described on 

 page 210 of the third volume of Rural Affairs. The 

 removal of trees of such size is not to be recom- 

 rnended in this country of hot and dry summers; but 

 if previously prepared by transplanting or cutting 

 the roots, the tree may lie made to succeed if not too 

 large. Jn the cooler and more moist climate of 

 Britain, the operation does better, but even there 

 some of the best cultivators have learned to prefer 

 smaller size. Sir Henry Stewart's famous park, 

 made at ouce by the removal of large trees, never 

 became luxuriant and satisfactory in growth. Lou- 

 don said he would uuilcrtake lo give larger and better 

 trees from small ones in five years, by deep trench- 

 ing and good cultivation, than could be obtained in 

 the same time by transplanting large ones. 



Shipments of Apples. 



About 250,000 barrels of apples raised in this coun- 

 try last year, were shipped to Europe. More than 

 half went to England ; 11,000 were taken to St. Pe- 

 tersburg. The trade will doubtless increase largely, 

 if shippers are careful to send only the best selected 

 specimens, which will at the same time afford the 

 best profits. Semling goor apples there will be the 

 very worst thing that could happen to the business, 

 and be as bad as shipping poison to taint the whole. 

 Those who are interested in the success of the trade 

 should devise some way to protect themselves from 

 such injury and imposition. 



LITERARY AND PERSONAL. 



To THE LiBEKAL AND PATRIOTIC CITIZENS OF 



THE Unitki) States op A.mehica : — The under- 

 signed have procured a charter, granted December 

 22, ISTO, by the Court of Common Pleas of Lancas- 

 ter county, Pennsylvania, authorizing them to 

 organize " The Robert Fulton Monumental Park 

 Associalion of Lancaster County," having for its 

 object the acquiring of a piece of ground, not less 

 than ten acres, to improve and emtjcllish the same, 

 and to erect thereon a coUosal st.atuc of Robert 

 Fulton, not only to perpetuate the world-wide fame 

 of a distin2uished American citizen in the county 

 that gave him birth, but also as a Centennial me- 

 mento of one of the world's most ingenious and 

 beneficent inventors. 



They therefore appeal to the patriotic spirit of the 

 country for the pecuniary means to carry a laudable 

 and most praiseworthy enterprise into efl'ect, by 

 gifts, bequests, subscriptions and purchases, in be- 

 half of said Association. 



Robert Fulton, from the best records extant, is 

 said to have been born in that part of Little Britain 

 now called Fulton Township, Lancaster county, 

 Pennsylvania, in the year A. D. 17B.5, where the 

 house in which he was born is still pointed out with 



local pride to the historical wayfarer ; but his genius 

 and his fame are not limited to a district, a county, 

 a state or a nation, for it belongs to universal civili- 

 zation. Although honor is due to other inventors 

 and experimenters, yet wherever inland lake, or 

 ocean navigation is effected by means of steam, the 

 name and genius of Fulton is unequivocally reeog- 

 nized. No event that has occurred in the last half 

 of our first century as a nation has given a greater 

 impulse to progress throughout the civilized world, 

 than the application of steam as a propelling power, 

 and most especially in its relation to river and ocean 

 navigation; and, therefore, the successful adoption 

 of it is entitled to rank the inventor among the 

 world's most useful and greatest benefactors. 



Ofticers : President, Francis Shroder ; Vice Presi- 

 dent, ThOm.as Baumgardner ; Secretary, Charles M. 

 Howell; Treasurer, A. C.Kepler; Solicitor, C. M. 

 Hostetter, esq. 



All communications should be directed to C. M. 

 Hostetter, Lanea.ster, Pa. 



The Poultry Yard and[ Market. — A practical 

 Treatise on Galiinoculture, and description of a new 

 process for hatching eggs and raising poultry, by 

 means of horse manure, by Prof. A. Corbett, inven- 

 tor, ls77. Published by the Orange Judd Company, 

 No. 245 Broadway, New York. Price .50 cents. 



This is a handsome letter 12 mo. volume of 100 

 pp., including paper covers, mechanically executed 

 and on good paper, and embellished by a fine por- 

 trait of tlie author, and illustrations representing 

 the inculcating apparatus. Neither the author, his 

 inventions, nor his book are new things to us, and 

 the significant fact that several gold medals and di- 

 plomas have been awarded to him, is an evidence of 

 the merits of his invention, the perfection it has at- 

 tained, and also, that he has overcome the ditHcuIties 

 which he encountered in the early part of his exper- 

 imental career. 



As an illustration of the magnitude of the poultry 

 trade of France, a country that is content to draw 

 large incomes from small things, we quote the fol- 

 lowing paragraph on page 23 of the work before us. 



" Poultry has always been a source of revenue to 

 the French people, as the following figures will prove; 

 In France there are 40,000,000 hens valued at -520,- 

 000,000. One-fifth are marketed yearly for the 

 table, bringing about $4,000,000; the annual produc- 

 tions of chickens ."-O.OOO.OOO, worth in the city mar- 

 kets §24,000,000, and §2,000,000 are added for the 

 extra value of capons and fatted hens. The pro- 

 duction of eggs is estimated at 40,000,000, making 

 the total value of eggs, capons, chickens and hens 

 annually sold about .?SO,000,000, or $2.22 to every 

 man, wcminn and child in France. The eggs im- 

 ported from France to England in 1874 represented a 

 value of SI, 200,000 and from Belgium $oOO,000." 

 [See p. 50, vol. 7, Lancaster Farmer, April, 1875,] 

 Prof. A. Corbett, Ofliee, No. 7 Warren street. Post- 

 OIHce Box .5470, New York. 



Twenty-seventh Annual Wholesale Catalogue of 

 Nursery Stock, for Spring of 1877, for sale by 

 Tiios. Jackson, Portland, Maine, (formerly of 

 Vesey street. New York.) This is a demi-octavo 

 pamphlet of a dozen pages devoted exclusively to 

 trees, vines and .shrubbery, including Fruit Trees, 

 Fruit Tree Stocks, Small Fruits, Grape Vines, Forest 

 Trees, Nursery-grown Evergreens, Deciduous Trees, 

 Weeping Trees, Hedge Plants, Shrubs, Climbing 

 Shrubs and Roses. Also, illustrations and price 

 lists of " Beecroft's Wheel Hoe," and bis " Hand 

 Weeder." Of course, we could not attempt to give 

 the contents of this catalogue in detail, nor" the 

 prices of the separate articles, and therefore we would 

 recommend our readers to send a postal card to the 

 above address and obtain one for themselves, for 

 they will find the varieties extensive, the prices 

 moderate, and the terms accommodating. 



The Evening at Home : A Royal 8 vo. monthly 

 devoted to social life, morals, and instruction ; pub- 

 lished by 11. A. .MuMAW, Orrville, Ohio. Terms, 

 $1.00 a year. The March number of this publica- 

 tion is on our table, and in moral and material it is 

 not inferior to the best extant, and seems to fulfill its 

 mission as fully and as clearly as those of a high 

 pretension. There is much in it to induce young 

 people to remain at home, unless they are of that 

 class who cannot be entertained, except by those 

 things in accord with the morbid and sensational, 

 which are deplorably on the increase in this genera- 

 tion. 



The Young Folks Monthly : Good sound food 

 for tlie mind is just as essential to its moral health 

 and vigor as healthy for the stomach and pure air 

 for the lungs arc to the health and vigorof the body. 

 In view of this fact it is the duty of every parent to 

 be careful what kind of mind food his or her childreu 

 are feeding upoli, for impressions made in youth are 

 lasting and can never be entirely elfaced. As the 

 twig is ijcnt so the tree stands. If the mind is allow- 

 ed to feed upon the vile "yellow back" novels and 

 sensational publications which are having such a 

 wide-spread circulation among our youth to-day, 

 just so surely will the mind of the man follow the 

 bent of the impressions acquired therefrom. There 

 is plenty of good healthy reading to be had. We 

 have on our table now a young folks' publication 

 called the Young t'olks' Monthly, published by Mil- 



ton George, Chicago, 111., which, while it is highly 

 interesting and instructive, and is read alike by old 

 and young, yet is of a high moral tone, always avoid- 

 ing the sensational and low. Send ten cents for one 

 month's trial and see for yourselves. The terms are 

 only 81.00 per year, 5 copies for §4.00. Address the 

 Young Folkx' Monthly, Chicago, III. The Farmer 

 and YoHufi Folks, in the county, §1.75 a year, out of 

 the county, S2.00. 



Jersey Cattle. — We learn that Colin Cameron, 

 agent for G. Dawson Coleman, has purchased the 

 prize winning Jersey bull "Commodore Roxbury," 

 Herd Register 1.586. It is intended to use this ani- 

 mal in the herd of Registered Jerseys now owned 

 by Mr. Coleman, which is a large herd, of both im- 

 ported and native bred, and comprises some of the 

 best specimens of Jersey cows in the United States. 

 Commodore Roxbury was owned by Mr. C. B. Moore 

 of "Glen Dale" stock-farm, and, in 1874, won 

 eleven First Prizes, in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland 

 and Virginia. From this cross great results are an- 

 ticipated. The imported horse, favorably known as 

 Jenifer's Arabian, has also been recently purchased 

 by Colin Cameron, and is now kept at Marietta in 

 this county. We have seen Jenifer, and regard him 

 as a specimen of almost matchless beauty, and, we 

 doubt not, his mettle will correspond with his ap- 

 pearance. We expect to publish illustrations and 

 pedigi'CPB of the above two animals, in future num- 

 bers of The Farmer. 



"He Holds the Fort cf Heaven." We thatik- 

 fully acknowledge the receipt of a complimentary 

 copy of this piece of sheet music, published by F. W. 

 Helmick, No. 50 West Fourth street, Cincinnati, O. 

 It is embellished with a beautiful lithographic title 

 page, and i.s intended as a tribute to the memory of 

 the late Prof. P. P. Bliss, one of the victims of the 

 Ashtabula disaster. The bust of Mr. Bliss is the 

 central and most prominent figure (apparently in 

 the early prime of life) , and two angels are hovering 

 above him bearing a crown, which they are about 

 placing upon his head ; with a number of cherubs, 

 bearing floral wreaths, floating in thedivcrgingrays 

 above. The words are by Mrs. D. M. Jordan, and 

 the music by Charlie Baker. Both the words and 

 the music are very touching, and an appropriate 

 tribute to a most worthy subject ; and it is sad to 

 reflect that so much excellence should have been 

 sacrificed to 



" Man's inhumanity to man." 



Thanks : In addition to the names of the active 

 canvassers of the Farmer, mentioned on the first page 

 of our February number, we take pleasure in men- 

 tioningour worthy friend LeviPownall, of Christiana. 

 Mr. Pownall not only reaps his wheat, but he also 

 rakes and binds, and "brings his sheaves with him," 

 lelieving us of all anxieties in relation to contiiigent 

 delinquencies. There are many districts yet in Lan- 

 caster county in which we desire responsible cau- 

 vassers, on the terms published in our prospectus. 



We are poor yet, but that much we will engage to 

 do at least, and hope that we may be sufliciently 

 sustained before the incoming of 1878 to offer desira- 

 ble premiums for that year, since it seems to be "the 

 fashion." 



Don't all speak at once ; but still, we would like 

 to know who will be the "next customer." 



The Southern Husbandman — An Orga:n of 

 THE Tennessee Grangers to be published in 

 Nashville : We h,ave before us the initial number 

 of the So'Uficni Iluabandinan, published in Nashville, 

 Tennessee, by authority of the Executive Committee 

 of the State Grange, as the organ of the Patrons of 

 Husbandry in Tennessee. It will appear monthly, 

 and oftener, should the subscription and advertising- 

 patronage justify it. Each Grange, through its 

 lecturer, will receive one copy gratuitously, and the 

 paper will contain the reports of the Executive Com- 

 mittee of State Grange officers and of the National 

 Grange, "Suggestions for the good of the Order," 

 and all other official matters of interest to the Pa- 

 trons. 75 cents a year, in advance. 



George Francis Train's Paper is an eight- 

 paged lloyal-Quarto, the use of which is exceedingly 

 doubtful, although it may fill a vacum in the social 

 circle of those who delight in the atmosphere of ex- 

 tremes. We do not think it will be a very efficient 

 help to any cause it may advocate, because of its 

 ultra, or overwrought political seutiments. 



The Real Estate Bkokek, an eight page month- 

 ly, S. H. Peirsol, editor, Parkersburg, West Virginia, 

 at 50 cents a year, circulation 2,500. 



"By the way. West Virginia received the award 

 against the world, at the Centennial, for the finest, 

 heaviest, and best quality of wheat." 



The North American Ayrshire Register, 

 wherein every animal is traced to importation; Vol. 

 H., 1S77, by E. Lewis and Jas. N. Sturtevant, South 

 Farmington, Mass. Historical and critical. 



The Wonders op Blue Glass, as Seen Through 

 a Glass Bluely," a burlesque, by Sam C. Upham, 

 Philadelphia, No. 25 S. Eighth street, 1877. Price 

 10 cents. 15 illustrations. 



The Naturalist's Agency, publishers .and im ■ 

 porters of standard scientific books, S. E. Cassins, 

 Salera, Mass. 



