Sept. 



THE POMOLOGIST. 



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extend the season during tlie winter and 

 spring, a popularity which is not to be blas- 

 ted by a brealh, though blown by a public 

 fnnctionarj, or wafted by a powerful print 

 that will permit no reply. Such questions 

 are settled by the masses, who, in pomology 

 as in politics, acknowledge no masters. The 

 recommendation 'to plant the best common 

 apples at the North has been found too ex- 

 pensive a failure to gain favor with the old 

 settlers. Tree peddlers will reap the princi- 

 pal advantage from such advice by swindling 

 the recent immigrant with'tender fruit trees. 



The hardiness and productiveness of the 

 Siberian apples are facts too well established 

 to require vindication from the puerile 

 attacks of sectional pseudo pomologists whose 

 interests are bounded by those of their own 

 section, and whose advice would rob millions 

 of American citizens of the benefits of grow- 

 ing for themselves a class of fruit adapted 

 to their region, and without which they 

 must remain dependent upon their neighbors 

 for a scanty supply. 



The value of the Siberian apples, their 

 quality and variety of uses, are as yet but 

 slightly known. Those who are best ac- 

 quainted with them believe them to possess 

 qualities superior to any other fruits. 1st. 

 Though small, they are undoubtedly the 

 richest class of culinary fruits in existence. 

 2d They are the most cheaply grown. 3d. 

 They are adapted to a wider range of terri- 

 tory than any known fruits. 



It is the mission of the true horticulturist, 

 instead of disparaging their trial, to redeem 

 from obscurity, ridicule and misrepreseta- 

 tiou a species of fruit which promise to 

 prove so essential an element in the devel- 

 opment of the materialwealth and civilization 

 in all that vast belt of our continent which 

 stretches from Maine to Alaska. 



Cosmo. 

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For the Western Pomologiet. 



Grapes at Blufton, Mo. 



FrienIi M. M. — No donbt yourself and 

 your readers like to know the varying of 

 grapes as to their ripening in ditierent lati- 

 tudes. Here, Mary Ann, Hartford, Miles, 

 Telegraph, Rogers Hybrid No. 3, and Brant 

 are ripe. Rogers No. 4, Concord, Lindley, 

 Rogers No. 36, Marion, Crevelliug, Max- 

 atawny nearly ripe. Brant seems to be 

 about the earliest, and certainly promises 



well. With the exception of a slight scratch, 

 (until quite ripe,) which it retains trom one 

 of its parents, it is about perfection in qual- 

 ity. Of course a larger bunch and berry 

 would be desirable, but then we must take 

 tilings as they are. 



Massasoit Rogers No. 3 is in my opinion 

 one of the best of all his hybrids, and is a 

 most beautiful grape, a rose color. Wilder 

 fio. 4, is the best of the black ones. Rogers 

 hybrid No. 36 has large bunches, very large 

 btrries, and nearly white. 



Cornueopea is nearly ripe, and promises 

 to exceed Brant in quabty. 



Antuehen is beautiful and promises to be 

 of fxecllent quality. S. M. 



Shifft,m,Mo., Aucust 13, 1870. 



Summer Beurre D'Aremberg. 



This is a new pear, raised by TJiomas Riv- 

 ers, a well known fruit grower of Englaud. 

 It was described last year in the London 

 Oardeuer's C7ironic?e as a great acquisition. It 

 has been this year fruited for the lirst time 

 in this country by Mr. James II. Ricketts oi* 



SUMMER BEURRE D'AhEMBERG PEAR. 



Newberg, N. Y. a practical amateur fruit 

 grower, from whose enthusiasm and indus- 

 try we may look forward for records of 

 many new and rare novelties. It is to him, 

 through the courtesy and good fellowship of 

 our friend Charles Downing, that we are 

 indebted for the specimen illustrated in out 

 engraving and the description herewith. 



The tree is of course yet young, but it 

 shows vigor, an upright growth, and has 

 produced several specimens of fruit on a 

 tree two years planted, giving promise to 

 sustain its originator's faying that it is pro- 

 ductive. 



SUMMER BEURRE d'AREMBERO PEAR — 



OUTLINE. 



The fruit is rather below medium size, 



is broad pyriform with an even surface. 

 The color is a dull greenish yellow, much 

 overspread and netted and traced with russet- 

 The stalk is about three-fourth inches long, 

 rather stout and curved, set in a shallow 

 cavity, with a small raised side or tip. The 

 calyx is nearly closed ; basin acute, deep 

 and strongly marked with furrows ; flesh 

 white, melting, slightly granulous, and 

 slightly vinous, but with a rich, sweet aro- 

 matic juice that will class it as pomologically 

 "very good to best." The core is medium ; 

 seed large, obovate oblong, light brown, 

 with a dark line on edge. Season, Septem- 

 ber. — Rural New. Yorker. 



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A Curcuho Trap. 



A correspondent of the Cuunty Oenlleman 

 in his peregrinations among the orchards 

 around Geneva, among other objects of in- 

 terest, found a trap with which the curculio 

 is easily kept in subjection. It is a very 

 simple contrivance as will be seen by the 

 accompanying illustration. From the descrip- 

 tion, and the method of using it, we should 

 suppose it to be the safest and most effectual 

 way of trapping this enemy of the plum 

 yet devised. The following description, 

 with the illustration, will enable the reader 

 to perfectly uuderstaud its construction and 

 management : 



"A large hoop some eight feet, or more 

 less, in diameter, is made of round iron rod> 

 three-eighths of an inch in size, with an 

 opening on one side to receive the tree. It 

 is closed, as soon as placed in position, by 

 overlapping the two ends. A round hopper- 

 shaped cloth is attached to the hoop, so that 

 the lower part may be three feet down, or 

 near the ground. At the bottom is secured 

 a tin cup, and the insects, when jarred into 

 hopper, roll down into the cup. If, in very 

 warm weather any adhere to the cloth, a 

 slight jar or blow loosens them. The cup 

 should hold several quarts, so as to secure all 

 that fall into it, including the dead blossoms, 

 &c., which would soon fill it if too small. 

 The insec's will remain without attempting 

 to escape, so long as it is kept i.i motion by 

 passing from tree to tree. The four iron 

 legs hang on the hoop, by bi ing looped 

 around it. They are sharp b;low, and are 

 easily thrust into the soil to give firmness to 

 the hopper. Two men carry and operate 

 with it ; and when no time is occupied in 

 counting the curculios, the work may be 

 done with great rapidity, or at the rate of 

 fifty trees in ten minutes, a:ul thousands 

 have been caught in an hour. When done 

 with, the legs are folded, the hopper flat- 

 tened, and the machine hung up against the 

 wall." 



