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THE WESTERN POMOLOGIST. 



1871 



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Catalogues. — The receipt of cataloguete from Nurserymen, 

 Seedsmen. &c., whose names appear upon our sub:?crption 

 boobs will be promptly acknowledged. 



Greely Tribune and Union Colony. — We 

 have received several numbers of the Greely Tribune 

 published at Greely, Colorado. Devoted to the 

 Union Colony, of which the town of Greely is the 

 center, and to show the advantages of colonization, 

 and to call attention to the attractive and wonderful 

 resources of the Rocky Mountain country, of which 

 little as yet is known. To teach that the highest 

 power which man can exhibit, grows out of mental 

 culture and well established habits of industry con- 

 nected either with the cultivation of the soil or 

 mechanical pursuist. 



To enforce the doctrine that the foundation of all 

 prosperity is based on the family relation as main- 

 tained in civilized countries, and the highest am- 

 bition of a family should be to have a cvnifortahle 

 home, siirmirukd hy orchards ami ornamenial grminds 

 on land of its own. The above are the principal 

 objects of the Greely Triburu, and we are very 

 highly impressed with the enterprise. 



We are pleased to see in that new colony, that 

 steps are to be taken to organize a Colorado Insti- 

 tute, the object of which is to advance the interests 

 of Agricultiire, Horticulture, and Mechanic Arts. 

 A branch under the name of Farmer's Club is to 

 hold weekly meetings. We hope they will read the 

 Western Pomologist, devoted to all Ijranches 

 of Horticulture, being a Western paper aJmost bor- 

 dering on Colorado, which partakes more or less of 

 that climate, and having contributors from almost 

 every district of country. 



Peterson's ITIagazlne. 



For December is on our table in advance. It is 

 unusually splendid even for " Peterson, " It has 

 two supurb steel plates, a mammoth colored fash- 

 ion plate, a costly colored Berlin pattern, and more 

 than fifty wood engravings. " Peterson " is unques- 

 tionably the cheapest and best of the lady's books. 

 It will give, in 1871, one thousand pages of reading, 

 14 steel engravings, 13 double-size colored steel 

 fashion plates, 34 pages of music, and about 900 

 wood engravings. We never saw a more beautiful 

 fashion plate than there is in this number ; in fact 

 the fashions in "Peterson" are alioays superior to 

 those to be found elsewhere. Another leading merit 

 of this Magazine is its unequaled stories and nov- 

 elets. Mrs Ann S. Stephens, Frank Lee Benedict, 

 an dothers of the best writers, contribute to it ex- 

 clusively. In 1871 there will be given five copy- 

 right tiovelets, besides about one hundred short stories. 

 The price of " Peterson's" is only two dollars a 

 year to single subscribers, while other magazines of 

 its class are three or four. To clubs the terms are 

 lower still, viz : five copies for .|8, or eight copies for 

 ^12. Every person getting up either of these clubs 

 will receive the magazine for 1871 gratis, and also a 

 splendid copy-right engraving, (14 inches by 20,) 

 " Washington at the Battle of Trenton," of the 

 merits of which we can speak from personal inspec- 

 tion. JYow is the time to get up clubs. Specimens of 

 the magazine sent gratis if •nTitten for. We advise 

 you to subscribe for nothing else until you have 

 seen a specimen. Address Chas. J. Peterson, 

 306 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. 



The grasshoppers did not visit Western Texas^ 

 last year, but the farmers there report ravages from 

 a small, active, striped bug, which literally ate up 

 everything, nearly as thoroughly as the grass- 

 hoppers. 



TJ^BLE OIF COIsTTElsTTS- 



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Pruning— Should Trees be Pruned?.... 1 

 Kansas S. Horticult'l Society— Fourth 



Annual Meeting 2 



Report Adjnterira Committee Kansas 



Horticultui-al Society 2 



Horticulture and Home Culture 6 



Tetofski 8 



Plums— Miner and Wild-goose 9 



Fruit in Central Texas 9 



That Old Early Bine 9 



Fruits and Flowers— Color of 10 



Tuberos.;— Management of 11 



Home— Beautify 12 



Tomato- Growing and Management.. 13 



Pear Culture 13 



Random Tho'ts— Hale's Early Peach. . 14 

 Oregon Horticultural Notes. No. 4 ... H 

 Insects Inimical to the Fruit Grower, 1.5 

 Crab Apples— Three desirable varieties 16 

 Grape Vines on the Stump 19 



Crabs and Apples 18 



Forest Trees— Change in, Spontaneous 



Generation 18 



Flowers and Shade Trees 23 



Sleeping Flowers 23 



Baldwin Apple— Origin of 30 



Grapes— Packing in Russia 30 



Apples in New Hampshire 30 



Primroses-Satisfaction in theirCulture 

 The New Volume— To Our Friends... 21) 

 Trees Girdled by Mice and Rabbits.... 21! 



Pears in Northern Wiscon.sin 2' 



Mulberries for Birds 27 



Grapes— How to Test 27 



California Wines 27 



Cleanliness of House Plants 27 



Grapes— Hybrid 22 



Wire Trellis Stiffener 22 



Rot in Gr.-ipes— Its Cause 22 



Lily of the Valley in Winter 23 



PAOB. 



Flowers— Colors of 23 



Apples Rotting— Cause 23 



Soil and ripening of Small Fruits 29 



Cabbages, Vitriol for 29 



Fruit Juices, Preserving of 29 



Fruit in England .' 29 



Well Said 29 



A Flower Sermon 29 



Cabbages, Hemp for 29 



Wine at Pleasant Valley 28 



Hyacinths, Management of 28 



Lawns, Rose on 28 



Wine, Price of 28 



Northern 111. Horticultural Society... 28 



Garden Slugs, Trapping of 28 



Greenhouse Pests 28 



Frogs Spitted on Thorns 24 



Botany. Study of 24 



Whortleberry 25 



Fruitfulness and Longevity 25 



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