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THE WESTERN POMOLOGIST. 



1871 



Origin op the Haas. — Charles Watirs, of 

 Springville, Wis., stated at the late Minnesota 

 State Horticultural Meeting, that the Haas apple 

 was originated, or at least was first brought to 

 notice in 1804 on the present site of St. Louis. 

 Forty years afterwards the tree was living and 

 bore 30 barrels of fruit in ouo season, which 

 would prove it a long liver, and its productiveness. 

 Trees are very thrifty. Have always proved hardy 

 in Wisconsin. Have had trees bear in four years 

 from the graft. 



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Small Fbtjits for Illihois.— At the recent 

 meeting of the Illinois Horticultural Society, Wil- 

 son's Albany was almost unanimously retained for 

 general cultivation. Downer's Prolific was adopted. 

 The Doolittle and Mammoth Cluster raspberries 

 were recommended. The Kittatinny blackberry 

 was adopted, the experience of members being that 

 it excelled all others in flavor, productiveness and 

 hardiness. Houghton's Seedling goosebery was 

 adopted unanimously^ as well as the Reb Dutch 

 currant. 



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Mystery of Pear Blight. — The causes of this 

 malady have probably baffled the skill of the horti- 

 culturist more than the diseases of all other fruit 

 trees together. We readily see how a tree can be 

 killed by a hard winter or a summer's drouth, or by 

 the attacks of the borer ; but to see a tree in mid- 

 summer that has made a vigorous growth, and is 

 perhaps loaded with truit, suddenly wither up and 

 die, is to witness a ftict not easily accounted for. 



FIVE MILLION RED CEDARS 



FROM SIX INCHES TO 3 FEET HIGH. 



Tliis is coiwUlered. 1)V all acquaihic-d with it, to be the most 

 valuable of all the Evergreen family. It is adapted to all 

 kinds of soil aud climate; it will stand ause. indifferent cul- 

 ture and shearinc better than anv other evergreen ; it will 

 thicken np and form hedges and wind-breaks better and 

 o nicker rhan any other, and can he cnt to any shape or form 

 to 'uit the fancy, while for posts it has no equal. There 

 are standin" in ffood condition posts of this wood that were 

 set over lOil years ago. The wood is very valuable for Furni- 

 ture and all kinds of ornamental wor .. For our Western 

 prairies it is valuable, in fact it is indispensible for screens 

 for ornament, and for use. beint; one of the hardiest, and » 

 most vigorous growers of all. Price of trees where ten dol- 

 lar's worth are ordered will bo as follows: 

 6 inches, ?1 per thousand. 



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10 " 



1.5 " 



20 " 



..-..-- 25 " 



Twenty per cent must be added to the above rates on all 

 orders under $10. 



WonUl like to excnange the above for Dwarf and Standard 

 Pear Trees, Apple and Pear Stocks, and A^pje and_Pe^rSeed!. 

 Address all orders to 



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New Work on Timber.— We learn from tlie Ga- 

 lena Commercial Advertiser that Arthur Bryant 

 Sen., President of the Illinois State Horticultural 

 Society, is tlie author of a work soon to be published, 

 on Timber Culture in the West. Mr. Bryant is 

 acknowled to be one of the best botanists in the 

 country, and is a thoroughly practical man in what- 

 ever he undertakes. His book is looked for with 

 much interest, and will meet with an extensive sale 



Gerakiums. a member of the Montgomery (O.) 



Horticultural Society, says : 



" Next to a bed of Bourbon and Tea Roses we 

 want a bed of Horshoe and Rose Geraniums, not 

 only because the former gives a constant supply of 

 brilliant flowers where the right varieties are plant- 

 ed, but because they all give us such an abundance 

 of beautiful, deep green, healthy leaves, which look 

 very refreshing in summer, when other plants 

 alongside of them look stunted and witliered from 

 the effects of drouth ; but the poor Horseshoe Ge- 

 ranium is not esteemed by many because it is not 

 "rare," and is considered vulgar because our grand- 

 mother has cultivated it ; yet there is no tlower 

 more grateful to its cultivator than the Geranium." 



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SI. J. STEARNS. 

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EVERGREENS. 



navin" a fine lot of European Evergreens grown in the 

 Pine rcnous of Wisconsin, which I offer at the following very 

 low prices. Healthy and well rooted, will transplant safely. 

 Larcli should be planed earlv to tucceed best 



Forest evergreens latter part of 5th and trst half of 6th 

 month. Shade well is best. ,,■ , . 



From my experience of over twenty years m handling forest 

 evergreens, a small portion only need be last, in an ordinary 

 season. „ o ,, 



Send for Trade List of nursery grown Evergreen.'*, Small 



Fruit, Plants, &c. ^_^ 10,000 50.00U 100,000 



Norway Spruce seedlings, 2 years, 3 



to5 inches $5.00 $1.00 $3.00 «2.50 



Norway Spruce seedlings, 2 years, 



smaller size 4.00 3.00 2.00 l.iW 



Scotch Ptne seedlings, 2 years, 6 to 



i)inches 12.00 10.00 S.OO 



Ditto, smaller size 8.00 7.00 6.00 



Austrian Pine seedlings, 2 years, 3 



to li in 10.00 8.00 7.00 



European Larch seedlings, 2 3'ears. 8 



toliin 900 S.OO 7.00 



Ditto, smaller size 600 6.00 4.00 



FOREST TREE SEEDLINGS. 

 Am. Arborvita', Hemlock & White 



Pine.6tol2in 4.00 3.00 2.00 1.50 



Ditto.StoBin 3.00 2.00 1.50 l.OB 



Calsam Fir, 6 to 12 in 5.00 3.o0 2.50 2.00 



StoOin 3.00 2.00 1.75 180 



Am. Spruce, mostly white, 5 to 12 in .5.00 4.00 



Red Pino, scarce, 4 to 12 in fi.OO 5.00 



Am. Larch. Beach. Birch. 5 to 12 in .3.00 2.00 1.50 1.00 



Sugar Maple, i; to 12 in 3 00 2.00 1.50 1.00 



SuSar Maple, 4 to 8 in 2.00 1..M 1.00 ,75 



Larce and early orders solciited. Address- me at Manon, 

 Grantrco,, lud. W, B. 1,IPSEY. 



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1,000,000 two year old Grape Vines for sale on long 

 credit or excliance for Western lands. Varieties principally 

 of Concord, Hartford. Ives' Seedling, and other leading vari- 

 eties Will be sold verv low for cash, or on long credit, wltli 

 interest and security; or exchange foruuincumbcredW estorn 

 lands. Correspondence solicited, ^^^^g ^ STEARNS, 



South Pass, III. 



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Verbenas & Bedding Plants. 



Warranted first (juality. Sent by mail or express, at re- 



"l^ SendVor Catalogue to HUBBAED & DAVIS, 

 noSm Detroit, Mich. 



