THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE- 



OCTOBER, 1850. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. The Fruit Crop in Illinois ; Beautiful Prairie 

 Floivers ; Fine Forest Trees ; Insects ; Pear and Apple 

 Blight. In a Letter to Dr. E. Wight, Cor. Sec. Mass. 

 Hort. Soc. By Dr. J. A. Kinnicott, Northfield, Illinois. 



Dear Sir, — As in duty bound, I should like to give you 

 a brief sketch of a month's tour through Central Suckerdom, 

 and into the Southern " Hawk-Eye" border. But I have 

 too many calls upon my time, as well as " draughts at sight" 

 upon my slender powers of composition. 



I will now attempt nothing, but merely state that the 

 fruit crop throughout " the northwest" will be, upon the 

 whole, a very large one. There are no peaches seen, until 

 you get about one degree south of Chicago, and not many 

 until you approach the latitude of Peoria ; there they become 

 very abundant. 



The apple crop is a fair one, everywhere, and the Pear, 

 in proportion to age of trees, is the greatest, because the 

 rarest, show we have. 



Grapes are abundant where the Rose Bug has not destroyed' 

 them, and in the middle and southern parts of the state there 

 were oceans of the sour worthless Morello Cherry. There 

 were few of any other sorts. Even the Dukes are not 

 hardy with us. 



I saw many beautiful, and some to me, new plants. An 

 herbaceous SpiRiEA, with purplish pink flower stem, white 

 petals and dark anthers ; tall, graceful and very showy ; 



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