400 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



60,000 clierry currants if I had had them, or could get them anywhere in 

 this country or Europe. There is a great demand for all sorts of small 

 fruits in the west. But there is also a great deal of ignorance in planting 

 and handling trees, I saw piles upon piles of trees on the quay at Cincin- 

 nati, with the roots all exposed to the sun and wind. At Alton, I found 

 men planting acres of small fruits, grapes in particular. They are willing 

 to pay $5 apiece for good Deleware vines. In Missouri, the culture of 

 grapes is increasing beyond all calculation. At Cincinnati, the grape 

 growers are trenching the land five feet deep, turning the soil down to the 

 bottom, where the roots find it. If the soil is very rich on the surface, the 

 roots run upon the surface, and in hot weather the vine and fruit suffer. 

 The Isabella at the west, has lost favor with all wine makers ; and the 

 Catawba is certranly dcj^tined to give place to a better grape. At a late 

 meeting of the wine makers association, at Cincinnati, there were 27 bot- 

 tles numbered and not named. That pronounced best was afterward found 

 to be the Delaware, and Herbemont the second best. The German style 

 of pruning and training is in the highest favoB at Cincinnati. 



Wm. S. Carpenter. — The fruit crop in this country is largely on the in- 

 crease ; not only small fruits, but tree fruits of all sorts, and particularly 

 pears. A good crop may be had from dwarf pears in three or four years 

 from planting. A few years ago, William Ileid had a little spot on Murray 

 Hill, in this city, then called a large nursery, but it soon became too small, 

 and he removed to New Jersey, and now has fifty acres, and his orders are 

 so great that he cannot supply them. His stock is principally dwarf pears. 



At Rochester, there is a nursery of 600 acres. Still there is no danger of 

 overstocking the market for trees or fruit. A few years ago, a man could 

 not sell three barrels of Bartlett pears by the bushel in this city, but had 

 to divide and sell them by the basket. 



Mr. Fuller. — A man at New-Haven has proved that he can afford to ex- 

 pend a thousand dollars an acre upon poor, sandy land, for the cultivation 

 of small fruits. He digs three feet deep, and mixes manure all through. 

 He grows pears and strawberries together. 



VARIETIES OP PEARS. 



Wm. S. Carpenter, recommends the following named pears for cultivation 

 in this vicinity. His place is 27 miles north-east of this city, and all of 

 the sorts named grow perfectly with him : 



Pears on Pear Stock — Summer. 



Select list op Fruits. — Doyenne d'Ete, Beurrc Gifi"ard, Dearborn's 

 Seedling. Autumn — Bartlett, Doyenne Bossock, Flemish Beaut}', Seckel, 

 Beurre d'Anjou, Sheldon. Winter — Beurre Diel, Laurence, Glou Mor- 

 ceau. For Cooking — Vicar of Wakefield. Pears on Quince Stock — 

 (For twelve varieties) — Doyenne d'Ete, Glou Merceau, Flemish Beauty, 

 Vicar of Wakefield, Buflfum, Beurre Langelier. (Six varieties on quince) 

 — Tyson, Louise Beurrc de Jersey, Duchess d'Angouleme, Urbanist, Belle 

 Lucrative, Beurre Did. 



