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General Notices, 



New York 

 Canada 



> Esopi 



New 

 • Rhod 



> Esopus 



New England 

 Rhode Island 



Oct. to Feb. 



Oct. to May 



Oct. to Feb. 

 Aug. to Oct. 



Sept. to Jan. 



Nov. to May 

 Nov. to June. 



September 



wet moss ; so that the lid of the box presses against the moss, and thus pre- 

 vents the roots from being shaken. I, however, consider the plan of lapping 

 the roots in a mat superior to that of filling in with wet moss, because a damp- 

 ness proceeds from the moss, which produces a mildew on the branches 

 of the trees so packed. This has been the case with trees that I have 

 received packed in this way ; but, after they had been unpacked for a short 

 time, the mildew disappeared. The trees which I received this season, from 

 Messrs. Buel and Wilson, are : — 



Names'. Native country. When in use. Price. 



Beauty of the West A. - Caynga - Dec. to March - 25 cents. 



Caynga Redstreak A. - Caynga - Dec. to March - 25 



Fameuse A. - - Canada - Nov. to Feb. - 25 



Jonathan A. - Esopus - - Dec. to April. 



Vermont Nonpareil A. - Vermont - Winter 



Ortley A. (see Vol. III. 



p. 347.) 

 Pomone Gris A. 

 Shaw, a favourite winter 



apple 

 Seek no further A. 

 Sapson A. 

 Straat, a favourite autumn 



apple 

 Newton Pippin A., green - Long Island 

 Yellow ditto - - Long Island 



Amour, fine winter apple Albany 

 Pound Peach - - — 



Washington Plum - — 



Stephen's Genessee Pear, 



a fine autumn variety - 

 Washington Pear 

 —M. Saul. Sidyard Street, Lancaster, Feb. 15. 1830. 



Fruit Trees (Pears andApjrfes) were taken out to Madras, in 1793, by Mr. 

 Main, in a box of damp moss ; the moss was damp when the trees were 

 packed, not touched by the way, and, after a voyage of three months, was 

 found dry, but the trees alive. Some gooseberries and currants, which 

 were packed with them, were dead. - The vessel sailed from London on 

 Jan. 1 ., and arrived the beginning of April- The trees came from Messrs. 

 Loddiges. — Cond. 



Garden Operations fit for Ladies. — We have seen some very handsome 

 pruning instruments of the sliding-shears description, manufactured by Steers 

 and Wilkinson of Sheffield, (fig. 72.) The largest size, resembling common 

 hedge-shears (a), cost about 15s. a pair; and with them a man may cut 

 through a branch as thick as his arm with ease. The smaller sizes, at from 

 4s. upwards, are particularly adapted for gardening ladies, as, with them, 

 the most delicate hand and arm may cut off branches from prickly or thorny 

 plants, or from trees and shrubs of any kind, half an inch in diameter. By 

 using both hands, the most delicate person may cut through a branch of an 

 inch in diameter. The great advantage of these instruments, as we have 

 stated in our Encyc. of Gard., is, that they amputate by a draw-cut like a 

 knife, instead of by a crushing cut like common scissors or hedge shears. 

 This is effected by the spring levers (b and <?), and the oblong opening (c), 

 by which a compound motion is produced in the cutting blades (d and/.) 

 Neither these instruments, nor the very excellent grape and flower 

 gatherer (g), manufactured by the same party, are of recent invention, 

 but they have been improved on by Messrs. Wilkinson in various ways ; and 

 are so admirably adapted for lady-gardeners, that, considering the views 

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