Pnlolislieci Quarterly 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
OR Tl LLS A PLANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 25 CENTS PER YEAR. 
Advertising Rates, 25 Cents Per Agate Line. 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
LA PLUME, LACK 1 A CO., PA., OCTOBER, 1881. 
“Ahl soon on field and hill 
The wind shall whistle chill, 
And patriarch swallows call their flocks together, 
To fly from frost and snow, 
And seek the lands where blow 
The fairer blossoms of a balmier weather. 
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Yet though a sense of grief 
Comes with the falling leaf. 
And memory makes the summer doubly pleasant, 
In all my autumn dreams 
A future summer gleams, 
Passing the fairest glories of the present!” 
Need we apologize for the great amount 
of space given to the subject of Fruits in the 
present issue of Seed-Time and Harvest ? 
We think not, as we believe it to be impossi¬ 
ble to create too great an interest in fruit 
culture. If there is a more healthy, pleas¬ 
ant or agreeable, or more profitable occupa¬ 
tion to be sought than growing fruit we do 
not know it. American countrymen will 
have a hobby. It is right that they should 
have a hobby, and if there is a safer hobby, 
mentally, morally, physically, intellectu¬ 
ally or financially than the fruit hobby, 
please lead it up—we want to invest. Is it 
not as near an Eden as can be found m 
this life to have a good fruit garden at your 
command? Of course you want a few 
flowers and vegetables interspersed and we 
will try and say more of these in succeed¬ 
ing numbers, but this is the season of fruits. 
Let us eat while they are here, and learn 
wliat we can about them, and while we re¬ 
cline in the cool shade of their branches, 
give thanks to the Beneficent Creator for 
an abundant supply of luscious golden 
fruits; 
The Editor of the American Rural Home 
reports a trial on the 8th of August of 
the following new early Peaches from 
the grounds of Ellwanger & Barry: Alexan¬ 
der. a high colored attractive fruit, but of 
decidedly inferior quality as to flavor. 
Harper’s Early, inferior in nearly every at¬ 
tribute. Briggs’s lied May, although small 
is a decidedly good spicy peach. Musser, 
is of medium size and better in quality, 
sweeter than any we have yet 'described. 
Waterloo: as we had recently heard some 
adverse criticism of this new variety, sent 
forth by Ellwanger & Barry, we gave par¬ 
ticular attention to its various qualities. It 
is a round peach, highly colored, and about 
as large as the largest Alexander. It was a. 
little over-ripe, evidently past its best period 
but we all agreed that it excelled in sweet, 
positive, excellent flavor, all the others test¬ 
ed, and we know no reason why it should 
not rank first among our early market 
peaches.” 
While a complete remedy for checking 
or preventing Pear Blight may not yet have 
been discovered, it has been pretty definite¬ 
ly settled that the cause of the disease is 
now well understood. Prof. J. T. Burrill 
says in the American Microscopical Jour¬ 
nal, “the immediate cause of this disease 
is a living organism, which produces a fer¬ 
mentation of the material stored in the 
cells especially those of the liber.” Other 
scientists have discovered this same organ¬ 
ism, which is always present with trees af¬ 
fected with the blight, and is termed bac¬ 
terium. It belongs to the same class as the 
yeast which is commonly used in making 
bread, and will propagate itself under the 
right conditions of heat and moisture, 
very rapidly. If has been found that if a. 
piece of bark from an affected tree be graft¬ 
ed into a healthy tree, it will surely take 
the disease, aud it is liable to spread to> 
neighboring trees through atmospheric in¬ 
fluences. Many tests of cutting away dis¬ 
eased parts entirely below where they are 
affected have resulted in checking its 
spread and saving the remainder of the 
tree, but it has been found necessary to 
burn the affected branches at once. If left 
lying under the trees or near them its 
spread may be expected. 
