316 Pomological Gossip. 



" Having exchanged scions with Jesse Storrs of Marathon ; 

 N. Y. for the purpose of testing the matter, by fruiting both 

 on the same tree, I observe that they are entirely distinct 

 in the character of the bark and young wood, — quite as much 

 so as the Baldwin and Porter, [two sorts as distinct as any 

 other two apples. — Ed.'\ J. Storrs says that the Munson 

 Sweeting is a month later, — and, in his opinion, unlike in 

 several particulars. The question, however, is now in a fair 

 way to be settled, definitively — as I now have the Munson 

 Sweeting growing on the top of a bearing tree of the North- 

 ern Sweet, and he (J. Storrs) has the Northern Sweet under a 

 similar trial. The result will be communicated to the pub- 

 lic, as soon as the grafts shall have borne fruit. — Respectfully 

 yours, J. Battey." 



The Early Purple Guigne Cherry. This valuable 

 early cherry has been quite overlooked among the multitude 

 of kinds which have been introduced into our collections. 

 Full as early as the May Bigarreau, larger in size, and equal 

 in flavor, it deserves to be very extensively cultivated, and 

 must claim the rank of being the best early cherry yet known. 

 We have long been acquainted with it through the Tj'ansac- 

 tions of the London Horticultural Society, where it is beau- 

 tifully figured, and fully described by Mr. R. Thompson ; 

 and we have had a tree of it in bearing in our collection, 

 these three years ; but owing to the destructive and gor- 

 mandizing robins, we have never succeeded in getting a 

 ripe cherry till this year, when we were astonished to find 

 it such a superior fruit. Two or three branches which we 

 " bagged up" with muslin, have been loaded with cherries, 

 and we are glad to have the opportunity of presenting it to 

 our amateur cultivators in our Fruits of America, where it 

 will be figured in the twelfth and closing No. of the First 

 volume. Another equally fine variety, and full as little 

 known, the true Arch Duke, will be figured in the first 

 number of the Second volume. 



Owing to the depredations of the birds, we have hitherto 

 been deprived the opportunity of describing several kinds of 

 cherries, which, though long in cultivation, are but little 



