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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[September. 
imia), figured by us in November, 1869. That 
is also a most constant bloomer, producing its 
rose-pink flowers all the season through. 
This oriental yellow-flowed species resembles 
our native, not only in continuous bloom, but 
the two are much alike in size and habit, and 
will make excellent companions in the garden. 
The Revival of Peach Culture. 
Most persons of middle age can recollect 
the time when New Jersey was the great 
peach district, and held the place that Dela¬ 
ware and the neighboring counties of Mary¬ 
land and Virginia now do, as the source of 
the market supply of peaches. At that time, 
fine peaches were common, not only in the 
Middle States, but in New 
England. The Yellows, the 
Borer, and the Curculio might 
each have been borne with 
separately, but coming all at 
once, and at a time when 
the means of combating 
them were little understood, 
cultivators gave up, and for 
a long time peach culture 
in these northern localities 
was practically abandoned. 
Within a few years there 
has been a great change in 
this respect. In parts of 
New Jersey, and in some of 
the eastern counties of New 
York, notably Ulster (the 
western counties having 
generally continued the cul¬ 
ture), we hear of recent large 
plantations of peach trees, 
and there are portions of 
Pennsylvania where large 
crops are promised for this 
year. One of the reasons 
for the revival of peach cul¬ 
ture is the great number of 
valuable native varieties that 
have been produced. An¬ 
other reason is that growers 
have learned to regard the 
peach as a short-lived tree, 
and not to expect it to last 
a life-time. A well-known 
grower once told us that he 
did well if he had two crops 
in five years; if his trees 
gave him three crops in five 
he was perfectly satisfied 
with the returns from an 
orchard, and was willing to 
give it up. As a timely contribution to this 
important subject, we here give an article on 
Peacli Culture Along tlie Alleghaney River, 
by John Siggins, Esq., Warren Co., Pa., who 
says: ‘ ‘ The opinion is very general that there 
is no use of trying to raise peaches in this sec¬ 
tion of the country. But I have concluded 
to try and find out why peaches will not do 
well here. In the first place, nearly all the 
peaches heretofore raised in this valley have 
been of the most inferior varieties of very late 
peaches, and the trees are left to take care of 
themselves. I have experimented with a 
great many varieties, and find that the early 
ones are the proper kinds to raise here. I had 
some last year that were ripe before July 
15th, and others ripened in August and Sep¬ 
tember, which were all very fine and sweet. 
If •peaches ripen in October and November, 
cas most of ours do, the weather is so cool that 
the fruit is poor and sour, and covered with 
dark blotches, and it is no wonder that 
people say that “they are not fit to eat.” 
From my experience in this place, I would 
advise the planting of some peach trees every 
year (for peach trees are short-lived) of the 
early kinds that ripen in July and August, 
and not later than September. Prune back 
the trees fully one half the year’s growth for 
the first three or four years, and cut out all 
the surplus wood. In the spring spade in at 
least one wheelbarrow load of manure around 
each tree, which will keep the trees in a 
healthy condition. If this were done, I think 
that the old fogy saying, “ it is of no use try¬ 
ing to raise peaches here,” would be no more 
heard. Last winter was a very hard win¬ 
A NEW RASPBERRY—“ THE MARLBORO’.” 
ter, but I only lost two trees, and I am 
inclined to think that it was more on ac¬ 
count of the borers than of the weather. 
[There are two items of advice here given 
that should be generally followed : the prun¬ 
ing back the trees, and the manuring. If 
left to itself, the tree will make a wide sprawl¬ 
ing head. If the growth of each year be 
shortened one-half, more or less, the result 
will be a rounded, compact head, the branches 
of which will not break down when loaded 
with fruit. As to manuring, an annual crop 
of peaches is something very large ; we would 
not expect the same quantity of tomatoes or 
other vegetables from unmanured ground, 
but a tree is, somehow, expected to give 
heavy returns without a corresponding 
amount of fertilizing. The hints given by 
our correspondent are worthy of considera¬ 
tion by all who have peach trees.] 
Some New Raspberries. 
People in general are very exacting with 
regard to fruits, and expect to find every good 
quality combined in one variety. It is possible 
that we may have in the “ Bidwell,” or some 
other of the new strawberries, a variety that 
shall be the best for both family use and for 
market, but with raspberries the case is dif¬ 
ferent. The very qualities which make the 
raspberry esteemed for the table—large size, 
tenderness, and juciness, are those that unfit 
it for transportation to market. We may as 
well accept the fact that there are raspberries 
and raspberries. That those best suited for 
market are not the most desirable for home 
use, and vice versa. In a market berry we 
seek for hardiness of the plant, prolific bear¬ 
ing, and a fruit so firm that it will reach the 
market in good condition. The “Philadel¬ 
phia ” showed how poor a fruit, if hardy and 
prolific, could be sold. Of late years our 
fruit growers have been on the look-out for 
new varieties suited for marketing, rather 
than for those of the highest excellence for 
home use. Among the newer varieties that 
have been tested to any extent is the “ Cuth- 
bert,” which gives promise of great excellence 
as a market fruit, and also promises well for 
home culture. But one who cultivates rasp¬ 
berries for table use only, cares nothing about 
the question of transportation ; with him the 
point should be, “What is the very best 
raspberry ?” The fact that the finest varieties 
are tender, and that the canes must be laid 
down and covered with a few inches of earth 
has greatly interfered with raspberry culture 
in this country. The operation of covering 
is so simple and easily performed, that it 
should no longer be the bugbear that it has 
been to our cultivators. A single plate of the 
finer, tender kinds, “Brinckle’s Orange,” for 
example, is worth a bushel of the fruit of 
such hardy sorts as the “Philadelphia,” and 
the fact that a variety is tender should not 
stand in the way of its cultivation in private 
gardens. In some of the noted raspberry local¬ 
ities, the “ Hudson River Antwerp ” is cov¬ 
ered in fields where it is cultivated for market, 
showing that the task is not a difficult one. 
Just now more attention is being given to 
the raspberry than formerly ; the success of 
the late Mr. Herstine, and of Mr. Felton, both 
of Philadelphia, in producing new varieties 
is well known to fruit growers. Two new va¬ 
rieties of promise have recently been brought 
to our notice, one of which, 
“The Marlboro’,” 
comes from Messrs. A. J. Caywood & Son, 
Marlboro’, N. Y. This town, in Ulster Co. 
(given as Marlborough in the Post Office Di¬ 
rectory), is well known as one of the great 
sources of the supply of small fruits to New 
York City, and is especially noted for being 
the headquarters of raspberry culture, espe¬ 
cially of the “ Hudson River Antwerp.” The 
Messrs. Caywood & Son, it should be said, 
send us their new raspberry as the ‘ ‘ Marlboro’ 
Seedling.” But as every raspberry is a seed¬ 
ling, we drop that word as superfluous. The 
Messrs. C. send an account of their new berry, 
from which we learn that some 15 years ago 
they crossed a variety known as “ Tlie Globe,” 
with the “Hudson River Antwerp.” A seed¬ 
ling from this cross, having many good quali¬ 
ties, was again crossed with “Highland 
Hardy,” and the result of this was “The 
Marlboro’.” Messrs. Caywood say that the 
plant is perfectly hardy, the canes having 
