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THE ILLIKOIS FARMER. 



Mae. 



Keiidrick'3 Heath, or White Heath Free. — Had- 

 ley — A good white peach. A little tender like all 

 white flesh peaches, but not so tender as Morris's 

 White. A good peach for canning. 



Delaware White. — Hadley — Succeeds the last, 

 and is a better poach. Nearly as good as the Mor- 

 ris' White, and firmer. 



La Grange. — E. B. Colman, St. Louis. — Ripens 

 about with Hcatli Cling. Lasts later. 



Booth — Don't think it worth cultivating. It 

 cracks and rots. Am digging up 150 trees five 

 vears old. 



Snedeckcr — My trees did the same way. Now 

 they are older, do better. Good, but not first rate 

 for profit. 



Quinettc — Neither this nor AV'ard's Late Free 

 should go on a list. 



Bergen's Yellow, Old Mixon Free, President, 

 Crawford's Late, Washington Cling, Heath Cling 

 and Smock were adopted without discussion. 



PEARS. 



An cssav on this subject was road by Wm. Muir, 

 which paper will bo published at length in the 

 forthcoming transactions of the Society, and will 

 repay a careful perusal. 



The following list of pears was reported by a 

 committee : 



Doyenne d'FAc ; d. 



Madoloinc ; s. 



Tyson ; d. 



Dearborn Seedling ; d. 



Bartlctt ; s. only. 



Louise Bonne de Jersey ; d. 



Des Nonncs : d. 



White Doyenne ; s. or d. 



Duchesse D'Angouleme ; d. 



Belle Lucrative ; d. 

 • Scckel, s. 



Beurre d'Anjou ; d. 



Flemish Beauty ; s. 



Beurre Bosc ; s only. 



Glout Morceau ; d. 



Winter Nelis ; s. 



Easter Beurre ; s or d. 

 Pear blight was discussed. Mr. Muir said he had 

 seen a mechanical disturbance of the sap produce 

 symptoms of the blight. Browsing by a calf in one 

 instance and by a horse in another, produced such 

 svmptoras. 



' Dr- Long believes in not cultivating too much. 

 Would dig'a hole just large enough to put the tree 

 in in ground that has never been broken. A vig- 

 orous growth insures blight. The Seckel with him 

 has not blighted, with the exception, perhaps, of a 

 limb. The Howell is, as yet, free. He mulches 

 pear trees with hazel brush and corn-stalks. Has 

 tried lime around his trees, but does not find it do 

 much good, except to the Newtown Pippin. Finds 

 ; clover o-oods for fruit trees ; it keeps the ground 

 open. °The Dr. said the Winter Nelis ripened pre- 

 maturely with him. Dr. Warder said he packed 

 his in a barrel and put it in a cool place, and they 

 kept till now. Pettingill said last summer he had 

 been more troubled with the blight than at any 

 previous time. On the 25th of June there was a 

 severe storm with thunder and lightning, and the 

 next day the ends of many quince branches died, 

 and the pear blight began; thought electricity 

 might be the cause. With him the Buffum alone 

 was entirely exempt from blight. 



Better for canning. 



N. J. Colman has 400 trees in rich soil, trenched 

 three spades deep, and has lost only three or four 

 in six years. Would plant on rich rather than on 

 thin soil, so as to supply more immediate nourish- 

 ment to the quince stocks. 



CHERRIES. 



Early Richmond. — Hopper — Had it in bearing 

 four years — early and sure. Blooms for some time; 

 part will be killed and part saved in case of a late 

 frost. Ripens from the 25th of May to the 1st of 

 June with me. My trees are root-grafted on Maz- 

 zard seedlings. 



Pettingill — Am fruiting the same variety Think 

 it too soft for shipping. It was the size of the com- 

 mon Morello or a little larger. 



E. B. Colman — A very sure bearer ; never fails. 

 The only one I ever knew to succeed well in the 

 West. 



Snedeckcr — One of the most productive and 

 profitable trees with me. No failures in 15 years. 

 Ripens last of May. 



Huggins — Am much in favor of it. Birds and 

 children like it. 



Common Morello. — Warder — A richer cherry 

 tlian the one just adopted. 

 Like it stoned with a little sugar for tea. 



Belle de Choisey. — Warder — Almost a Morello. 

 Hardy as the last. 



May Duke. — Siiedecker — One of the best of the 

 sweet cherries. 



Elton. — Snedeckcr — Like it very well. 



Warder — Hardier than others of its class. 



E. B. Colman — Does well in my neighborhood. 



White Tartarian. — Pettingill — Have had it on 

 Morello stock five years. 



Mr. Heaver was surprised to find so few varie- 

 ties known here. Said there were fifty varieties in 

 cultivation near Cincinnati. Being requested to 

 name some of those which had proved most suc- 

 cessful, he gave the Early Richmond, May Duke, 

 Elton, Reine Hortense, Gov. Wood, Yellow Span- 

 ish, Osceola, Black Hawk. He had protected cher- 

 ry trees from the sun very effectually by letting all 

 the laterals grow. A friend of his bound the trunks 

 of his trees with straw to protect them from the 

 winter's sun, and says it will pay. 



Morse, St. Louis county — Had seen Black Tar- 

 tarian doing well on the poor soil of the Meramec 

 hills. 



Muir — Black Tartarian, Elton and others do w^ell 

 witii Mr. Harens, near me Of thirteen A'arieties 

 which he had himself planted in low grounds, only 

 two remained. 



The result of this brief discussion was the re- 

 commendation of the following list : 

 May Duke. 

 Early Richmond. 

 Common Morello. 



The cherries recommended above by Mr. Heaver, 

 who resides nearly in our latitude, will probably 

 succeed well in the region of St. Louis. 

 [To be eonti7iued.^ 



Plant an Orchard. 



When apples are $3 a barrel and upward, there 

 is not adequate supply in the country. They can 

 be grown at a dollar a barrel with profit. The 

 crop in a single small county in the State of New- 

 York, was worth half a million of dollars last year. 

 Other counties in the Eastern States were under. 



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