W The Western Pomologist and Gardener. 1872 



Oroton. This has also proven healthy, hardy, vigorous and productive. It has a larger 

 bunch than the Senosqua, berry a little larger, of a translucent white, or amber color, 

 when ripe. In flavor I hardly think it equals the Senosqua, but may be called very good. 

 It has |the same crispness of flesh, and both are, in fact, good foreign grapes on native 

 ylnes. Neither have any foxiness or native aroma whatever. 



Lacon. This, originated by myself, is still placed at the head of the list of pure native 

 grapes in point of flavor, by nearly all who have tasted it. The vine is slender in growth, 

 though healthy and hardy. 



Ives' Seedling. I have found this to be the most profitable early grape, merely on account 

 of its earliness. In quality it is inferior. 



Pears. — Clapp's Favorite. If there is a pear without a fault on my grounds, it is Clapp's 

 Favorite. So far as I can judge from a short experience of three years, it is hardy, heal- 

 thy, foliage good, and an abundant bearer of most delicious, large sized, handsome fruit, 

 I think it will prove a great acquisition to the Northwest. It appears to equal the Flem- 

 ish Beauty in hardiness. 



Doyenne Bousack. An old sort, but I must say a word about it. Though a little tardy 

 in bearing, the tree is so perfect in health, the fruit so large, good, and handsome, that it 

 should be better known and more extensively planted than it is. 



Strawberries. — Charles Downing and Kentucky. The first named has immense berries of 

 beautiful color and extra fine flavor, of medium season, but under very poor culture has 

 not proven productive. The Kentuckj^, with me, was late, of fine size and color, and 

 more productive. 



Apples. There has been no new variety of apple brought to my notice, worthy of men- 

 tion, except Stark and Banta's Autumn. The Stark was fruited widely in my neighbor- 

 hood the past season, and in it, I think, we have one of our most reliable winter apples, 

 for all purposes, especially for market. Banta's Autumn received from Metamora, Illi- 

 nois, appears to be a most excellent fall apple ; the tree is said to be very hardy and a 

 great bearer, and is a native of our prairie soil. 



One Practical aud lutelligent I/ady Hortlcnltarlst. 



Mrs. Mary B. Messcr of Groton, N. H., gives to the Mirror and Farmer some of her 

 doings the past year in the garden and the orchard. She says : 



" I do not wish to boast of my work, but merely want to show that women can do 

 something to benefit the public. Perhaps some of the ladies would think it vulgar and 

 immodest for females to graft trees, but I think it is good, healthy work, and a woman can 

 graft a low tree just as easy as to do any other work. In April and May last I set very 

 near three thousand cions, at home and away from home. Among them were pears, 

 apples, grapes, cherries, plums — the golden-drop and royal-purple. I set the Bartlett 

 pear into the sugar plum tree, one scion in a branch as big as the butt of a whip, and seven 

 in one clump; rut down all the rest. I have measured two scions — one of them has grown 

 eleven feet four inches, the other eight feet eleven inches. All the scions have grown 

 almost as much as these two. I went to one of my neighbors last spring, did some graft- 

 ing, and had one scion left. I found a little tree about an inch through at the butt ; the 

 top looked dead and it was all covered with bark lice I sawed it oflf within eight inches of 

 the ground, and scraped the old, rough bark ofi" and set in my last Baldwin cion ; there 

 were five buds ; they have all grown fifteen feet and nine inches." — She also says she raised 

 thirty and three-quarter pounds of prolific potatoes from eight eyes of a tuber that 

 weighed but five ounces, and she " didn't half try." 



QooA say we for Mrs. B. One such woman is worth more to the world than a legion of 

 fashionable idlers, who live only to consume. 



Xlie Pomegranate—Its Fruit and Beanty. 



The Pomegranate, (Punica granatum,) this plant so celebrated in ancient and scripture 

 history, belongs to the natural order Myrtaceaae, and to the class and order Icosandria 

 Monogynia of Linnaeus. The extreme beauty of the Pomegranate, independent of its rich 



