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THE ILLINOIS FARMEK. 



Feb. 



snccessful vineyards. Where then, shall we look 

 for an adequate remedy ? By no other means can 

 a remedy be obtained, save by a perfect sub-drain- 

 age. Surface drainage will, however, render much 

 benefit, and perhaps from considerations of ex- 

 pense, this is all that can be done at present. But 

 you must look to a perfect drainage in perfecting, 

 as soon as your people can give their moans to 

 such an all prevaling purpose. 



Yours truly, 



Wm. R. Prince. 



'■ — Mr. Prince is correct as regards the pistillate 

 character of our wild strawberries, though the 

 staminate or the hermaphrodite plants are the most 

 abundant. 



Doubtless, the soil saturated with water has a 

 very decided influence in the destruction of trees 

 by frost, but it has been our observation that se- 

 vere cold has had much to do with it, more espec- 

 ially when the tree is at the same time exposed to 

 a severe current of air, and we have often observed 

 that trees under shelter are much less liable to 

 damage by sudden changes. In the more northern 

 States where the degree of cold is much greater in 

 winter than here, the earth is covered with snow, 

 which to a great extent protects the roots, besides. 

 the chithges are not as sudden as with us ; nor do 

 they have such fierce winds, but on the contrary, 

 during the very cold weather there is a remarkable 

 absence of high winds. There is no question that 

 thorough draining will have a highly beneficial ef- 

 fect on the durability of our trees, but it is not all 

 that it will need. They must be planted on the 

 light colored soils, and have shelter from the se- 

 vere winds. Ed. 



Select Fruits. 



Editor Illinois Farmer, Champaign, Illinois : 



I send you a selection of fruits for an orchard of 

 one thousand trees eacli: 



APPLES. 



Red June 50 



Red Astrochan .50 



Eaily Harvest ,50 



Early Pennock .50 



Keswick's Codlin .50 



Buckingham 100 



Maiden's Blush 25 



Yellow Bellflower 50 



Twenty Anna 25 



American Golden Russet 25 



Rowles Janett 50 



Winter Pearmain 100 



Winesop 25 



Smith's Cedar 25 



Tallman Sweet 25 



Rome Beauty 100 



Little Romanite 100 



Limber Twig 25 



Pryor's Red 25 



New York Pippin 25 



Willow Twig 25 



Total, 1,000 



The above will give market apples the entire 

 year ; the refuse will make cider. All of the 

 above varieties have fruited heavy crops in this 

 section, except the New York Pippin. 



Eighteen miles east of Dongola, in one settle- 

 ment, two thousand bushels of this sort has been 

 grown. 



PEARS. 



Bartlett, (stand.) 300 



L. B. de Jersey, (dwarf) 200 



Duchess de Angoulern 200 



Belle Lucrative 100 



Total, 1,000 



The above varieties have done well here, and 

 given good satisfaction. Others will doubtless 

 prove as good, but of this we must have further 

 experience before we can safely place them on the 

 list. 



PEACHES. 



Coles Early Red 100 



Troth's Early 100 



Large Early'York 100 



Coolage's Favorite 100 



Bergen's Yellow 100 



Crawford's Yellow 100 



Old Mixon Free 100 



Crawford's Late 100 



Heath Cling , . . 100 



Smack Free 100 



Total, 1,000 



The above are all good market sorts, and largely 

 grown at this point, and shipped during July, 

 August and September. .. ' 



Yours truly, ■ : 



Egypt. 

 South Fass, Union Co., III., Jan. 1863. 



— Our correspondent is a pretty close observer, 

 and our readers can therefore place considerable 

 reliance on him. Though we must all bear in 

 mind that we have had but a few years of practi- 

 cal experience in fruit growing at South Pass, 

 (Cobden Station), and of course but a limited num- 

 ber of choice varieties have been sufiSciently tes- 

 ted to make a very full list, but we take it that 

 "Egypt" draws his inspiration from the old settlers 

 in regard to the varieties of apples, though not of 

 the pears and peaches, for all of that class of peo- 

 ple have, at all times, been innocent of the finer 

 varieties of these fruits, with one or two honor- 

 able exceptions. We think he has overestimated 

 the Bartlett and Duchess. The peaches we know 

 are all good. En. 



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