1871 



THE POMOLOGIST AND GARDENER. 



249 



Tbe " Herstlne " Raspberry* 



On another page will be found an engraving of 

 this new raspberry. The " Herstine " is claimed by 

 its originator, Mr. D. W. Herstine, of Germantown, 

 Pa., to be a seedling from seed of the Allen, fertil- 

 ized by the Philadelphia. Mr. Herstine has for 

 many years made the production of seedling rasp- 

 berries a specialty. Some years ago he commenced 

 growing the Philadelphia and Allen alongside of 

 each other for the purpose of crossing these hardy 

 varieties. He then sowed the seed of the Allen, the 

 result of which was some few promising seedlings, 

 among which he claims special merit for the " Her- 

 stine," and " Saunders." The " Herstine " is highly 

 recommended by good authority. A committee of 

 the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society selected to 

 visit Mr. H.'s grounds in the raspberry season, and 

 report upon his seedlings, say ; 



"The "Herstine" is a strong grower, more so 

 than the Philadelphia, a fine berty, quite as light 

 colored, and equal in quality to the Hudson River 

 Antwerp. Fruit large, roundish conical, light 

 crimson ; moderately firm ; parts freely from the 

 core; sweet, rich, and highly perfumed. Canes 

 strong, erect, with a slight tinge of red where ful- 

 ly exposed to the sun ; spine large and strong, very 

 scattering ; nearly white, the ends slightly tinged 

 with brown. Leaves large, broad, and flat, on 

 young canes, but on bearing shoots slightly wrink- 

 led. Apparently a very productive variety." 



We made the acquaintance of Mr. Herstine at the 

 late pomological meeting at Richmond. He spoke 

 to us in positive terms of the hardiness of this new 

 seedling, reckoning it even more hardy than the 

 Philadelphia. If such be a fact, with quality equal 

 to the Antwerp, it vrill proe a most valuable acqui- 

 sition to the raspberry family. 



Anotber way to nae Grapes.- 

 missonrl. 



■Grapes In 



Bt S. Miller, Bluppton, Mo. 



Ed. Pomologist and Gardener : — The crop of 

 grapes has been so abundant here that the question 

 will no longer be, " what shall we plant y," but what 

 shall we do with the grapes that we already have ? 

 Will not some one invent some new use for them ? 

 We cannot eat them all, nor is wine making very 

 profitable, when wine sells at 40 cents per gallon. 

 For ourselves, we are quite in a fix. Having been 

 sick for a month, and not able to look around for 

 vessels to put the must into, we now find the grapes 

 ripe, and no casks available, for love or money. 



This is mortifying to see. Tuns of tbe finest Con- 

 cers that we do not as yet know how to dispose of. 

 To sell them at |2 per hundred pounds, would be 

 something, but there are no purchasers even at that 



low figure. I tried one experiment that will no 

 doubt be new to some of your readers. 



The juice of the grape fresh from the press was 

 used the same as cider when ajiple butter is made ; 

 boiled down to about one-fourth, then good peach- 

 es cut in, instead of apples. We used about two 

 barrels of must in this way, and a better thing to 

 " spread upon buttered bread " I have not yet come 

 across. That it should be sweet is not at all sur- 

 prising, when we consider that forty gallons of our 

 Concord must, this season, contains over eighty lbs 

 of sugar. 



If the proper apparatus were at hand, I would 

 undertake to make grape sugar. One half of my 

 Ives' are drying on the vines. No rain for weeks ; 

 quite warm with the exception of a few days and 

 nights. 



My experiments in drying grapes this season, 

 have not been satisfactory. 



Remarks. Use apples in place of peaches, where 

 they are plenty, and the latter scarce. It strikes us 

 that a Jonathan, Wagoner, or some other of the fine 

 flavored apples with juice of the vine, would make 

 apple butter fit for the gods. 



Tbe Iionibard and tbe Ourcnllo. 



By II. Qreqq, Downey, Iowa. 



Ed. Pomolgist and Gardener : I will give 

 you a bit of my experience with the Lombard plum 

 and the curculio. Some four or five years ago I 

 took a feather and put some kerosene on all the 

 plums on one small limb ; those were all the 

 plums saved on the tree that year ; the rest were all 

 stung as usual and dropped off. Last season (1870) 

 I rolled up woolen cloths and saturated them with 

 kerosene and liung them in the tops of the trees, 

 and my plums were all pefect — ripening up a 

 very full crop last season. This season I have tried 

 a diflerent method with equal succe.st. I took strips 

 of cotton cloth and wrapped around the trunks of 

 the trees some 18 or 30 inches from the ground, and 

 then satuarated the cloth with kerosene, and re- 

 peated the application once in ten or fifteen days 

 during the curculio season. I neglected to put the 

 cloths on the trees until after the curculio had com- 

 menced opperations this season, consequently some 

 few plums were stung and fell off"; but I do not 

 think one plum was injured after the kero.sene was 

 applied. The trees are so loaded with plums (Au- 

 gust 12) that I have had to prop and tie up almost 

 every limb. They are just beginning to ripen and 

 look splendid. 



Now, others may not have the success with ker- 

 osene that I have. If that has saved my plums, and 

 I think it has, it is worth a trial by every one who 

 would save their plums at a trifling outlay. 



I profess little or no knowledge of the habits of 

 the different insects, but I manage to rai.se almost 

 every variety of fruit in a small way that is adapted 

 to Iowa climate. 



