1871 



THE WESTERN POMOLOGIST. 



Ill 



well ; but the weather is so very warm and every- 

 thing advancing so fast, that there is danger of a 

 late frost cutting some of our early blooming trees 

 of their crops. Apricots in bloom, violets out, 

 grass growing, bees and flies on the wing, etc. As 

 the season comes on, I may give you notes on the 

 various fruits in their seasons. 



I have a seedling Strawberry which I would like 

 to have tried in different localities. Will you ac- 

 cept a few, plant carefally, not let run, and report 

 to me in 1872? I can trust you and a few others 

 It may not amount to much, but from its first crop, 

 last season, certainly very promising. I named it 

 after our youngest daughter, (Maud Miller.) 



, Samuel Milleb. 



Bluffton, Mo., March 10. 



Remabkb. Shall be pleased to try the "Maud 

 Mnicr." 



Out Among the Trees. — I have just returned 

 from a week's ramble among the orchards and gar- 

 dens in Mitchell County, and find the trees in fine 

 condition, the late growth of last fall all finely 

 ripened, and the terminal buds of our half hardy 

 varieties appear as full of life as those of the Te- 

 tofski or Duchess of Oldenburg. We had a very 

 fine autumn and a very remarkably fine winter, for 

 Northern Iowa. The mercury has been at 23 deg. 

 on three different mornings only, during the months 

 of January and February. The average has been 

 from 5 deg. to 20 deg. above zero, and has given us 

 BO little winter that some of our veriest croakers 

 begin to think that Pomona ma)' yet be auspicious, 

 and have concluded to plant a few more apple trees 

 the coming spring. Indeed, farmers around here 

 begin to see that planting good trees pays well, and 

 are determined to raise their own fruit. 



Thomas Wardall, StacyvxUU, Iowa. 



Fruit Prospects. — Grapes to Plant. Friend 

 MiUer : Weather mild, frost all out of ground, 

 buds and wood of fruit all full and sound. What 

 we may have in the way of too long continued 

 warm soft weather early, or of late frosts no man 

 can tell, but now the prospect of fruit, grass, grain 

 etc., never was better. 



In advising of varieties of grapes to plant this 

 coming spring, permit me to say, that I have lost 

 all confidence In the Rogers Seedlings, for which 

 occasionally a report of them comes in favorable 

 for a year or so. In our locality ninety nine others 

 are against them, and the test of them side by side 

 with others five to s'even years in succession has in- 

 variably thrown them in the shade. Let me say 

 Concord — Catawba where It suits for the general 

 crop, and for promise take Walter and Croton. 



F. R. E. 

 CU«ia7id, Ohio, March 7. 



The Walbribgb Apple. Ed. PomolngUt: I have 

 ascertained at the East from F. R. Elliott and Chas. 

 Downing that the "Walbridge" and "Cogswell" are 

 identical. The trees were planted here about six- 

 teen years since from Ohio. Have proved hardy, 

 even on the open prairie. We cut our first scions 

 from a neiglibor's trees, and gave them his name, 

 for the want of a better one, viz: Walbridge. Is the 

 variety that has been looked for in the Northwest 

 for the past twenty years, as It is a good grower, 

 regular and profuse bearer, perfectly hardy, and 

 keeps through June in ordinary seasons; little above 

 medium. For description, see Downing's New 

 Work. 



A. C. TUTTLE. 



Baraboo, Wis. 



Fruit and the Season. — The fruit buds are in 

 a healthy condition in this section of the State, and 

 fruit prospect never better. Our winter has been 

 unusually mild, and a lack of snow has been the 

 only drawback to winter protection to orchards and 

 work in general, and more particularly to the Log- 

 gers. The crop of pine logs is far in the rear of 

 former winters. The frost is all out, and wheat 

 would have been sown at this date, only for the 

 recent rains. 



I. Guild, Beaver Dam, Wis., March 15. 



California Oranges. — If we may believe the 

 reports that come from California, the cultivation 

 of the orange there must soon become a very im- 

 portant interest in that state. It is said that during 

 last year 2,466,000 California grown oranges were 

 received at San Francisco. Of the last crop, 55,000 

 were recently received from Los Angeles and sold 

 readily for $30 to |50 per 1,000. 



Perhaps the orange may be grown in California 

 to any extent, but we are told by those who have 

 seen and eaten cf the fruit, that in quality it is very 

 much inferior to the Florida and Cuba grown 



oranges. 



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Everlasting Floivers. 



When the garden is gay with masses of Flora's 

 choicest treasures in summer time, the Eternal flow- 

 ers, as the Everlastings are sometimes called, are 

 almost unnoticed and unthought of; but when dec- 

 orations are wanted in winter time, for the home, 

 or church, or school — for festivities or mourning — 

 the)- are invaluable. They remind us of the pleas- 

 ant time which will come again, when we can walk 

 in the garden and enjoy the richer growth of sum- 

 mer. If the blossoms are picked as soon as they 

 expand, or a little before, and hung up In small 

 bundles so they will dry without mildew, they will 

 retain their form and color for years, and make fine 

 boquets, wreaths and other desirable winter orna- 

 ments.— ViCK, 



