CHRONICLE 
AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
| FEBRUARY 4, 1860, 
98 HE GARDENERS’ 
“frozen sap blight,” “ ‘age blight” (vide pome g) 
would so alarm English guro that they 
cease to cultivate the trees ears 
stg al | th 
grown in Ey 
eet Pear from the States, the Seck rae ; its flavour, | 
a Scarlet | Strawberry, ‘not large, with a very long | Peaches break strongly, and the ag can afterwards pa 
used for growing Mushrooms. 
whe n the fruit a ir to ripen h ‘clear all the e beds of 
ek a a most unfrui tful habit—in lauia Bai Peps 
only precaution jg 
| 
Byala kinds pos are very popul 
n 
size but rather more conical than our Reps. Bi ackberry ; 
batt 
The la 
m to si the favourite; kae Asied the shutter: 
ft 
or Septe inibe" 
and the Black 
or shrivelling 
usky, 
aa ere are between 100 an na 300 * “American” | which is sweet and dull, quite calctlatod to please | Tillery 
Pi e., sorts that have been raised from seed in hilaren who in this country are our principal Black- The M 
America now offered for sale by the ursery- | berry eaters. ur r colum mns 
pean and 
improved. A few new inde "offered last atin at 
Boston are highly chis S hav ve been raised 
e It w 
American 
think, 
l fruit growing, that, although w 
about our spring frosts and cloud Enas, we are 
able to grow the finest fruit i in the world with few rer 
yo 
be seen from this rica os oe x 
ot 
Now I hav 
, Welbeck. 
anetti Rose Stock.—IY observe an arti 
TÀ vi 
I cain clear the bed here dete 
Damasc with 
at the cod “of Nevombaet p 
r losely 
on this stock. The wires 
from seed by * Amer ica,” 
Bees country, 
Ae a rr would our 
| water meet na 
erago % Hovey 7 :? their p price would lead one to think | 
rans Aer ear if not good, as they are 5 d 
gardeners say if they w were prevented AY the defects of 
La 
tk is most remarkable to find how ill- suited 
Meh anlè ERY 
ctarine, the Apricot, and he Plum į ? 
ng 
E have eaten oe “i oe — all of which have a 
character in and h ave found 
Thames (not c lay), I 
With regard to Piar p do a think they toa 
made to os e on it above To 
st year i had at t Of new Roses of A of ou 
English nurserymen, a 
via 
o found it it perfe actly: wei 
ear or two, ew 
all on the Manetti; 
g Rose. 
ne 
e Nec 
| sun with a the hindrances hiel 
n fruit growers experience, the 
g 
all raa and, in rane instances w 
—Bu Si um, 
Osbun 
remarkable that although 
In 
the clim 
mot nearly aa oe as that of — ape France, it | i 
s known. 
should ht chest. Pear: 
specimens are occasionally | 
han kras a kinds i in England, yet they 
| be ar =n 
d 
enl] y good varieties, among w 
mik 
ot perhaps 
to20° b fre 
the sath a doa as to heave up = Sa estroy ox 
not well established, with me mote g het and 
ihe erymen 
yee in flavour. 
a! Great = ee is sist believe are 
‘unmatched in Europe o viz » Gan sel’s 
and gardeners to their wits’ = aa ought = Bs us 
« ‘ Br prey weil contented with our comparative! wad br 
e, Pyrus, 
the Diega grown in gan mh ain 
a = vated as a wall Pear. 
the o Secon | ro 
of the South. The severe wi en only, f 
in ahed ma continuing till the end o a ad grew ina Sie 
n | therm elow zero, and | I find t 
the wala & a pi one. mE the pe og a the, “wile the Dog Roses had nothing but naked 
| Sane as t mited States, with the exception | roots 
record a 
can be grown hi 
Koden oitenta on the top ,o of a hill, c of 
good a be oper ee m chalk, last fiae 
orm a um, and th 
of pots a 
and having been prepared 
by a celebrated Ros 
cans might-excel in Peach culture if more Home peg ota eye manure and burnt earth, it with 
An si given to the trees, which are too often reference to the article | standards on the Dog Rose and partly with The 
neglected, and or re y Ha gnl ara Eire | hy |in} your cin of the alt rae ans Taig he say that thi oy he te = kisra finely, the one 
ach stones i 5, 2 aric ppeared on a of leaves, under | grew but did not flower a ere; 
pa sag fit for age nee gjar Some ee vi Ey iyi early | g wah tly watered with a vahi > z aF sy the gardener, “look how well the ‘Ma 
mong pa: nd i land in t one, and alth th not flowered, they ha 
which = rue Mors Tarl "Tillotson, und “the Ite foreign mould ane st Ho ay 35 fallen o a ap Ei made so muc! 2 . they note “Ie dow 
Peaches, such as Crawford’s Late a Ward’s an Ere ered the Pras worthy of being recorded, and | next year.” Observing that they looked much alike in 
thy. of oan Our mid-season Peaches, s on str ge it to your Paper at the time. From its growth I examined them, and found they were worked © 
sanray Noblesse, Galande, and Royal George afinity to. A. procerus, I aiena tha! tana is — N on the Manetti, which had in every es! o 
are not ex eaei a, aas yei as oF 100 alled, by tae mall sc Tt proved | forth from two to five strong shoots which had quite 
> yeta upwa ted, and starved the “gentle scion” that had, as the poet says, 
of Peaches of dct at ori ee each diets E OA ‘Abbey defects. G. $ 1859.— | been married to this “wil stock,” so that I dot 
patty A bg be Bid meng with BR cine ham n = = ink a dozen good buds could have™ procured 
Serene, The =] se bie ites bettors ays. nches. from the whole lot of them. In a words, the 
girdles i kills the tree. The disease called the Felony RM di of Re mie Scie. or B proved si 
* yellows” also destroys an f trees. | March 7. Se het BR L95 cessal 5 “ik it tong =e "Manetti ended 
ith e the baa turn yellow, the young April. Nace oe Be 2.12 nien s, With respect to 2 the article abore 
sare Bs feeble, d the tree dies in a year o TE ats : 3 a ro alluded to, the 2 y be in 
peA <i rs te nent on By by kap i the July, nS ; 8 2.95 : a few words, ste ly, ¢ that eis" Manetti is a ret 
itself in yy mony a on Peach trees budied vee seed] me September . 16 3.00 Fa eae gree 
5 October 5 of “a stratum of gravel laid bare, with stones in 
mot only in trees from America but also i n trees from Novi 8 a i b i rich 
ce Wes tee Fane Ta se it an aarnaast Dog esau 
‘lum stock it is never attac wi th is be 3 f y Pike weer catia tr eee 
a Be ok x m | ao of all.” Of the fi r position I can sa; 
g y, for which there seems no the latter will” 
severe winters of America, when = puis ter goes T. B. ‘As t £ hether S a Paar fe ‘M 
down to 20° below zero, often destroy the "hos Mushroom Growing—The artificial you geome of Sna rend othi ; "hat T thi k the bins 
buds of ach t rees (this occurred i Ai 1838.9 9), Mushrooms is now so well understood an ctised | arguments on this he pe S ical; : 
and the spring frosts the > blossoms ope, so that | that perhaps little piein od be aed g> e Me. Rivers has lon Pde abe iis d his first position 
osc ge not a for the ‘Peach pace as some ne In my own case erely state a mode of| with ri to t a in Tard, by eal 
i 7x Ea los 
growing them in the spring aud summer months, which | ¿.e. the Manetti, should be double worked, A 
"The Plam Plum cannot be cultivated i a RS United donisal I É have er Bes ners? better than any way I have yet | ensure fal cultivation it requires to 
. Ina Vinery ha t 
the trees and p is lost. ret dines the roots of the ovine ait to mak: 
3 t 
: Nectarines suffer in the same w ay from | am phere for the buds breaking. Abont the 
or which no cure has yet been found th so beginning of Ap ril when the bed is longer ted 
erat belated he Sa onthe E | ace : ert 
«can d in t ont of doors, as tliey the bed and spawn 
are liable to the mildew, which wttacks Some turfy soi or a l e is then | 
very young state and destro + it, Vineries are now, put on the surface, and w as hard as 
eee and fine Grapes are grown in them. | possible a wooden mallet. ibotters or 
their nativ Fox Grape (Vitis labrusca). In| is a 
a catalogue recently issued by an Ai shone SS 
well known in Europe up ards of 100 — Boss beds in 
- pag ie sag panna A aana attributed t s - rere and June and July. t 
rapes are genera is- are not like th -starv i 
tasteful to Europeans from their P foxy sm y and | regular M s rio “9 button grown in| = 
en? pu iey Paes the centre of a fellows fi l eter, and as fall of 
tr tries are grown enormous xtent in | juice as field Mushroo: At he 
the “States,” and ing of t the grr mts (“their | shows at wick, I a “horing aee go 
ighly praised. A best and 
h 
er eaten in perfection 
one American Stra 
amusing an 
ye 
| Source 
“continued den 
pitched 
ral | resu 
i correspondent 
&c., in April las 
end also a 
is does; a 
sells a pon Bir I should think ‘the ox 
iation ” 
as mine, 
no 
"D when deser ae 
I have to thank he 4 
we used 
would a 
simple i in 
d m to its efi 
ainena = thorough en TA 
“Tet me nips 
estow most labour 
my testimony 
gel 
me quote Mr. S parys 
I prefer a polying tl the @ salt ro 
costing here s n 
