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THE POMOLOGIST AND GARDENER. 



1871 



Kansas and Iowa vs. Virginia. — The Richmond 

 Enquirer, referring to the earnest efforts now being 

 made to attract immigrationt o Virginia, proceeds to 

 illustate the backwardness of that State thus; 

 "Kansas, yet an infant State, and Iowa, not yet in 

 long dresses, send their State fruits to the east to 

 let the people know what they can grow there, and 

 yet Virginia sits to-day with her hands folded wait- 

 ing for another John Smith to explore her do- 

 mains." 



Not quite so fast, Mr. Enquirer. Had the several 

 individual collections of Virginia grown fruits on 

 exhibition at the late meeting of the American Po- 

 mological Society been massed, as were the fruits 

 from Kansas and Iowa — Virginia's display would 

 not have suffered with that of any other State rep- 

 resented. 



"The Htjb."— The Waukon Standard, under- 

 takes to prove that its locality is the "Hub" of this 

 little kingdom, if not of all creation. We give it up. 

 Hear it argue the case : 



" Iowa took the First Premium on apples 

 at the late National Pomological Exhibition 

 at Richmond, Va. Allamakee county carries off 

 the First Premium on apples at the Iowa State 

 Fair, and Waukon is the town from which they 

 came ; hence 



Waukon, Iowa, is the Banner Apple Growing 

 Town of the United States." 



Boston Fruit Market. — Tlie Boston Ctdtivator 

 of a late date says: "Cranberries of the new crop, 

 are coming in plentifully from the Cape and New 

 Jersey. The price is about $10 per bbl. The 

 quality is good, and the crop will be much larger 

 than the average of former years. Apples are 

 coming in freely from the West, especially from 

 Michigan, and are selling for about $4 a bbl. Poor 

 fruit sells for about $3.50a$3, and the best qualities 

 range from $3.50 to $4. The New England crop 

 is almost an entire failure." 



Rose Cuttings. — One of the best methods of 

 securing the success of these, says a recent writer 

 is to stick the cutting about an inch deep into clean 

 river sand with properly prepared soil about an 

 inch below to receive the roots as soon as they 

 strike. The clean sand prevents the roots from 

 rotting. A correspondent of the Horticulturist 

 succeeded with this when every other mode failed 

 — and says he does not lose one in twenty. 



Puritans' Flowers. — The old-fashioned flowers 

 in the gardens of New England — blue-bells, cro- 

 cuses, primroses, foxgloves and many others, are 

 wild flowers on English soil. There is something 

 very touching and pretty in this fact, that tlie Puri- 

 tans should have carried their field and hedge flow- 

 ers, and nurtured them in their gardens, until, to 

 U.S, they seem entirely the product of cultivation. 



Cooking Fruits. 



Cranberry Tarts. — Stir the cranberries with 

 plenty of sugar, but no water, as the beiries be- 

 come heated they will burst, and furnish plenty 

 of moisture. Have ready a fine pufl" paste, and 

 when the cranberries are quite tender, put them 

 between a top and bottom crust, and bake till a 

 light brown. 



Baked Apples. — Sour — Put them into a deep 

 baking-pan, sprinkle sugar over and around them; 

 fill the pan half full of water and bake quickly. 

 Sweet — These require a slow fire. A little water 

 in the pan is an improvement, and a little sugar, 

 also, though they are very good without either. 



Apple Cream. — Boil a dozen apples of pleasant 

 flavor in water until soft ; take off the peel and 

 press the pulp through a hair seive upon half a 

 pound of powdered sugar ; whip the white of two 

 eggs, add them to the apples, beat all together till 

 it become very stiff and looks quite white. 



Peach Trees in California. — A San Francis- 

 co paper says that there are 800,000 peach trees in 

 California — enough to furnish one hundred 

 pounds annually to each inhabitant. Peaches 

 sell at about five cents a pound at wholesale — an 

 acre yielding about $600. 



Large Apples. — The Oskaloosa Htrakl says : 

 "J. F, Norris, of White Oak township, Mahaska 

 county, had on exhibition at the county fair, three 

 apples that weighed in the aggregate 5 lbs. How 

 high is that ?" [High enough.] 



Mammoth Apple. — The Qaie City acknowledges 

 the receipt of an apple grown by Mr. Robert 

 Fabres, near Keosauqua, the weight of which was 

 thirty-one ounces. 



A Large Pear. — The Mobile Tribvne tells of a 

 large Pear grown in that city by Mr. Joseph Cane. 

 It weighed twenty ounces, and was, probably, a 



Dvcliess d'Aiu/mileme. 



Walter Wine. — Wine made from the Walter 

 grape at Hanimondsport, is represented as being 

 very flue. 



Thirty bushels of pears were gathered from one 

 tree near Ashland, Kentucky. 



EYERGPvEENS. 



No firm in the United Slates can furnish so larg:e an araonnt 

 or PO larofe a variety of Evergreens and Forest Tree Seed- 

 lings as FINNEY & CO., Sturtreon Bay, Wis. Their jtrices 

 are always below any others. Send ten cents for their des- 

 criptive catalogue, containing 5U pages. 



