1882.] 



THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



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learn, nor is tliere any rational source from 

 wliicli wp cannot learn sonvthliig, anil those 

 wlu) think thus, wc fed cunlijciit, nia}- glean 

 thai ".something" from the following li.st : 



Since the last publication of our fruit list, 

 wc liavi' for Patisfaetory reasons .-hansjed our 

 opinion with rcs]iecl to a few nl' the fruits 

 whirh it contaiiu'il. But in regard lo the list 

 as a whdle we ean see no just '^riiuiuls for dis- 

 tui'biuji it. Indeed, we do not see how it can 

 be iui))roved for this -ectiou of the country, 

 or as a general list for all the Middle Slates. 

 .Some of each of Ihc sei)arate sdeetious may 

 not do well upon one premises that will suc- 

 ceed admirably uu amither. Each ijrower 

 must liiidout for himself the particular apples, 

 pears, &c., especially adapted to his soil and 

 location. This can be easily done by iucpiirii's 

 (if those who are successfid fruit-growers, 

 whose soil is somewhat similar to their own. 



Accordiiij; to our present preference, we 

 should select the fullowiui: for our own plant- 

 ing, and nearly all (if which We are now sxrow- 

 iug UKU'e or less successfully : Standard 

 Pears— 1. Gillard; 2. Doyenne D'Ete; :i. 

 Early Catharine; 4. Kirtlaud; 5. Bloedi,'o(id; 

 6. Summer Julienne; 7. Tyson; 8. Brandy- 

 wine; ». Barll.tt; 10. Belle Lucrativ(>; I'l. 

 Manning's Elizabeth; 12. Seekel; fi. Howell; 

 14. Anjou; 1.5. Shelden; 1(>. St. Ghislan; 17. 

 Lawience; 18. Reading; 19. Kielfer. 



For those who may desire a smaller number 

 we should select: 1. Gilfard: 2. Earlv Catha- 

 rine; :i. BlgiHla;o(Kl; 4. Tyson; 5. Bartlett; 6. 

 Belle Lucrative; 7. Seekel; 8. Lawrence; !). 

 Readiiit;; 10. Kielfer. They ripen in about 

 the order they are arranged, except as to the 

 three latter. The Lawrence, which begins to 

 ripen, or can be made lo ripen, early in No- 

 vember, will keep until March, it being the 

 only pear of our entire slock still in our fruit 

 vault. 



In tlie above list, from No. 1 to 8, are suin- 

 mer varieties; from 9 to IG autumn (early and 

 late), and 17, 18 and 1!) winter, thus afford- 

 ing a sufficient numb(U' for each of the periods 

 of the best known sorts for Ibis region. 



Dwart Pears. — 1. St. Michael d'Arohange; 

 2. Birllett; 3. Cornice; 4. Rosliezer: .5. Diel; 



6. Tyson; 7. Belle Lucrative; 8. Lawrence; 9. 

 Ott;"lO Louise Bonne; 11. Bosc; 12. Bous- 

 sock; 13. Glout M irceau. 



Apple-s.— 1. Maiden's Blush; 2. Baldwin; 3. 

 Smokeliouse; 4. N(u-thein Spy; o. Smitli's 

 Cider; 6. Fallawater; 7. Cornell's Faiu'y; 8. 

 Red Astrachan; '.). Wagoner; 10. P(n-ter; 11. 

 Graveiisteiu; 12. Tompkins King; 13. Hox- 

 bury lius.set. We add to the foregoing lisL 

 Tompkins King and lloxbury* Russet, both 

 most excelUnt varieties ; indeed the King is 

 regarded by some as uusurpassed. Northern 

 Spy is als() restored. 



Peaches— 1. Crawford's Early; 2. Hale's 

 Early; 3. Troth's Early; 4. Old Mixon; 5. 

 Crawford's Late; 6. Ward's Late; 7. Smock's 

 Late; 8. Admirable, late. 



We have substituted in the peach list 

 Troth's Early for York' Early, and Admira- 

 ble for Susiptehanna. The former seems to 

 h.ive seen its best days, and the latter is too 

 shy a tiearer for profit. 



Grapes— 1. Telegraph; 2. Concord; 3. Hart- 

 ford; 4. Clinton;. 5. Salem; 0. Rogers' No. 32; 



7. Brighton; 8. Ir'rentiss. 



We have added t > the list Rogers' No. 32, 

 which, should it mauitain its present charac- 

 ter will be ttie very best out-door variety 

 cultivated. It is a beautiful pink, or rather 

 maroon colored grape, and at times is trans- 

 parent. It Ijears regular crop? yearly with us. 

 Clinton, in the foregoing list, is only for wine, 

 and hi probably the very best for that purpose. 

 We add the JirUjIilon. a maroon color, as 

 promising well. It is, however, a small berry 

 and rather straggling hunches, but almost 

 pulpless, and of excellent quality. Tlie Pn-n- 

 tiss is also added. It is a new white grape, 

 somewhat larger than the Delaware, of goo(l 

 quality and scarcely a perceptible pulp. It 

 promises to take the lead of all the white va- 

 rieties. The bunches are compact and of 

 large size. 



Cherries.— 1. May Bigarreau; 2. Belle de 

 Choisy; 3. Black Tartarian; 4. Black Eagle; 

 ."). Black Hawk; (i. Elton; 7. Downer's Late;! 

 8 Early Richmond; 9. KavU' I'lU'iile Guigne; 

 10. Delaware Bleeding Heart. 



The ripening of the list will range from the 

 earliest to the latest, thus carrying one 

 through thi^ wliole (du'riy sea.son. No one can 

 go amiss in adopting this list. 



Haspberries. -1. Hornet; 2. Herstine; 3. 

 Philadelphia; 4. Brandywine. 



Slrawh(U-ries. — 1. Captain Jack; 2. Seth 

 Boyden; 3. Sharpless; 4. Triom|)he de Gand. 



New kinds of strawberries are constantly 

 appearing, but thus far wc know of no im- 

 provements on the foregoing. 



Ciu-rants. — 1. Black Naples; 2. Red Dutch; 

 .3. White (irape. These three varieties are 

 the best among the dilferent colors. The Red 

 Dutch is a regular bearer and is of l)etter 

 f|ualily than any other. There are others 

 larger, but they arc more acid. The white 

 grape is transparent, of gO(jd ((uality, and 

 (uight to be more generally grown, but it is 

 not a great bearer, and it is not prolitable for 

 market. 



Gooseberies. — 1. Houghton ; 2. Downing. 



These are two best goo.sel)erries grown in 

 this country. They bear every year heavy 

 crops, are free from mildew, and are of ex- 

 cellent (piality. They are large enough for all 

 jiractical piu'i)oses. We cannot recommend 

 the giants and their giant prices, aird especial- 

 ly those of foreign orijiu. 



Blackberries. — 1. New Rochelle; 2. Mis- 

 souri C'luster; 3. Wil.son's Early; 4. Snyder. 



The Snyder, a new Western Blackberry, is 

 highly spoken of at distant points, and from 

 the very respectable endorsers whicli it has 

 we have no doubt of its value, at least in the 

 West. Wc shall probably fruit it this year, 

 having failed to do so last year. 



It is better that those who intend to culti- 

 vate fruit and have to make purchases, to take 

 this list with them to the nursery, and adhere 

 to it as far as possible. 



In .selecting fruit trees or any otiier, be 

 careful to choose those with smooth, healtliy- 

 looking bark, have entirely shed their leaves, 

 and have plenty of small (ibrous roots. Trees 

 on which the leaves remain after frost sets in, 

 and stick to the branches in the spring, may 

 be regarded as not healthy, and in some way 

 lacking stamina. 



EATING BEFORE SLEEPING. 



Man is the only animal that can be taught 

 to sleei) "" ^"1 empty stomach. The brute 

 creation resent all elliirtsto coax them to such 

 a violation of the laws of natiu'e. The lion 

 roars in the forest until be has found his prey, 

 and when he has devoured it he sleeps until 

 he needs another meal. The hor.se will p<iw 

 all night in the stable, and the pigs will s(iueal 

 iu the pen, I'efusing to rest or sleep until they 

 are fed. The animals wh'cli chew the cud 

 have their own provisions for a late supper 

 just befor-' dropping off lo their nightly slum- 

 bers. Man can train himself to the habit of 

 sleeping without a preceding meal, but only 

 after long years of practice. As he comes 

 into tlie world nature is too strong for liim, 

 and he must be fed before he will .sleep. A 

 child's stomach is small, and when perfectly 

 tilled and when no sickness disturbs it, sleep 

 follows naturally and inevitably. As diges- 

 tion sioes on the stomach begins to empty. A 

 single fold in it will make the little sleeper 

 restless; two will weaken it, and if hushed 

 again to reiiose the nap will be short, and 

 three folds put au end to the slumber. Para- 

 goric or other narcotic may close its eyes 

 again, for without either food or some stupe- 

 fying drug it will not sleep, no matter how 

 healthy it may be. Not even an angel who 

 learned the art of minstrely in a celestial choir 

 can sing a babe to sUei) on an on)]>ty stomach. 

 We use an oft-quoted illustration, "sleeping 

 as quietly as an infant," because this slumber 

 of a child follows immediately after the 

 stomach is completely tilled with wholesome 

 food. The sleep which comes to adults long 



hours after partaking of food, and when the 

 stomach is cmi)ty, is not after the type of in- 

 fantile rejiose. There is all the difl'ereiice in 

 the world between the sleep of refreshment 

 and the sleep of exiiaustion. To sleep well 

 llie blood that swells the veins in our head 

 during the busy hours must How back, leaving 

 a greatly diminished (piantity liehind the brow 

 tliat lately throhljed with "such vehemence. 

 To digest well, the blood is n('ede(l at the 

 stomach alid nearer the fountains of lifi;. It 

 is a fact established beyond a possibility of 

 contradiction that sleep aids digestion, and 

 that the )pidcesses of digcistion are conducive 

 to refr(!shiiig sleep. It needs no argument to 

 convince us of this mutual relation. The 

 drowsiness which always follows the well- 

 ordered m(>al is itself a testimony of nature to 

 this terindependence. 



The above paragraph has been "going the 

 rounds " of the public press for .some months, 

 and tliose persons who are sulliciently intelli- 

 gent to grasp the argument, will, of course, 

 regard it from their own individual stand- 

 point of ex|)erience, and will, perhaiis, also 

 reach different conclusions on the subject. 

 Practically, we can endorse the whole of the 

 foregoing, whatever the opinion of others 

 may be ; but, in doing so, we by means in- 

 tend to encourage the abuse of eating at any 

 time, whether noon, night or morning. 



When we became addicted to " eating be- 

 fore sleeeping " must have been very long 

 ago, for we can well remember that when a 

 mere boy, working on a farm, we on many 

 occasions ate from three to half a dozen ap- 

 ples after 9 or 10 o'clock at night, while we 

 were abed ; then fell asleep and "slept like a 

 top" until morning, and never even had a 

 dream on them. Two physical conditions 

 liave ever been detrimental to our complete 

 repose at night, and these are hunger and 

 cold feet; hence, for the last quarter of a cen- 

 tury, or more, we have never retired at night 

 without eating somclhing, whether much or 

 little, unless we were unwell and had no appe- 

 tite for fo(jd ; nor have we gone to bed during 

 all that period before 12, and often 1 o'clock 

 at night. Reading and writing at night ab- 

 sorbs our vitality as much as do any of our 

 labors during the day, and hence we natural- 

 ly reipiire food to sustain those labors, as 

 much as a stove requires fuel to impart heat 

 to the. house it occupies. There is nothing 

 irrational or physically hurtful in this when 

 it is confined within rational bounds, and at 

 regular periods. For instance, say we get 

 our breakfast at 8, our dinner at 1 and our 

 supper at G o'clock iu the evening. Here we 

 have three meals within ten hours, and six 

 hours to work yet before 12 o'clock, and then 

 eight more before we get our morning meal, 

 which would be fourteen hours of fasting 

 within the twenty-four. We don't know how 

 we would feel if we were entirely idle, but 

 this we know, that we would have to lie 

 awake for hours if we attempted to retire 

 and fall asleep on an empty stomach. True, 

 our night meal is a light one, and never in- 

 cludes meats of any kind ; but, in lying down 

 from twenty to thirty minutes thereafter, we 

 usually fall asleep within teu minutes, and 

 wake up in the morning refreshed. 



We never, or fit least rarely ever, eat any- 

 thiny between meals— not even an apple, an 

 or.vnge, or a nut; and except the single cup of 

 coffee which we drink every day at our regular 

 meals— four times— we drink very little, if 



