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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
THE HORTICULTURIST FOR OCTOBER. 
This excellent monthly reached us in good 
season, with a table of contents rich and 
varied, as ever. There is a fine engraving 
of the Easter Beurre Pear, with remarks, by 
the editor, upon the cultivation of Winter 
pears. He deprecates the general neglect of 
these pears, even among amateurs. Not one 
in thousands, of those who have gardens, 
has tasted a fine Winter Nelis, a Lawrence, 
a Beurre d’Aremberg, a Glout Morceau, or 
an Easter Beurre; yet these are all delicious, 
melting pears, that will ripen in a good, dry 
cellar without any extra care or attention 
whatever. This is good news to young cul¬ 
tivators, who have not yet had the opportu¬ 
nity to test these varieties. We were aware 
of the excellent keeping qualities of the Be- 
urree d’Aremberg, but had supposed the 
others needed a fruit-room to preserve them. 
The Easter Beurre is pronounced the finest 
of all the long-keeping varieties. It suc¬ 
ceeds as well here as in France or Belgium, 
and it is surprising that it is no more gen¬ 
erally cultivated. We noticed that it was 
up for discussion at the meeting of the Pom- 
ological Society of Boston, and while many 
had succeeded well with it, others found 
some difficulty in ripening it. It sells in the 
Boston market for from $3 to $6 per dozen. 
It is much better on quince than on pear 
stocks, the latter not furnishing nutriment 
enough to bring them up to the most perfect 
state. The tree is a good grower, moderate 
at first, but improving every year, and final¬ 
ly makes a large, vigorous tree on the quince, 
and, if kept under high culture, will produce 
annually very heavy crops. 
The editor has another seasonable article, 
“On pruning trees at the time of transplant¬ 
ing.” The objects are said to be three-fold : 
1. The removal of bruised and broken roots 
and branches. 2. To mold the tree to the 
desired form. 3. To restore the balance be¬ 
tween roots and branches disturbed by re¬ 
moval. The great object in pruning to pro¬ 
mote growth is, to direct the sap into a 
smaller number of channels, and thus in¬ 
crease its force. If a tree, for example, has 
500 leaf-buds to draw upon its sap, and we 
cut away 400 of them, the remaining 100 will, 
of course, receive a far greater proportion 
than they would have done, and will conse¬ 
quently be enabled to make new wood ; and 
experience teaches us that the young shoots, 
with their large cells, luxuriant leaves, and 
great vital activity, act far more powerfully 
on the roots than the small, lean foliage of 
trees merely living but not growing. There 
is a philosophy in pruning, and the man who 
wields the pruning-knife upon the young 
trees he plants this Fall, should be able to 
give a reason for the faith that is in him. 
THE NEW-ROCHELLE BLACKBERRY 
Is judiciously recommended. One caution 
dropped in this article is Avorth remembering. 
“ No one need expect such wondrous large 
fruit, however, as people have seen at New- 
llochelle and Norwalk, in ordinary soil, and 
with ordinary culture. Manure must be ap¬ 
plied unsparingly, and the ground must be 
kept clean and friable as work can make it.” 
CRAPE CULTURE UNDER GLASS. 
This article is by a gardener, of Baltimore, 
and, we think, his objection to borders inside 
the glass, is not applicable to our northern 
States. In all the graperies we have visited, 
the inside border was present, and we have 
never observed the shriveling of which he 
speaks,in any wellkeptvinery. An article on 
GRAPES AND ROSES 
Recommends the Clinton grape for latitudes 
where the Isabella is uncertain. It is a mod¬ 
erately good grape, and hardy. It recom¬ 
mends growing Catawbas on walls facing the 
South, which will hasten their ripening two 
weeks. It speaks of chip manure as the best 
fertilizer for the rose. 
THE HOLLY TREE 
Is declared the most beautiful of our native 
evergreens, taking shape, color, form of 
leaves and berries into consideration. It 
may not be generally known that there is a 
locality of these evergreens, near Absecom, 
in New-Jersey. Some of them are undoubt¬ 
edly more than a century old, and growing 
close to the sea-shore, exposed to all the 
fury of the north-east winds, they have been 
blown into fantastic shapes at the tops, but 
have firmly resisted the awful storms which 
make that coast the dread of the mariner. 
In the Editor’s Table there is an interest¬ 
ing notice of the American Pomological So. 
ciety at Boston, the proceedings of which 
have already been reported in our columns. 
The calls around Boston, at M. P. Wilder’s, 
Mr. Strong’s, Mr. Breck’s, Hovey’s, &c., 
contain much useful information. Mr. Wil¬ 
der gives himself very much to pears, and 
probably has the finest collection in Ameri¬ 
ca. Mr. Strong makes a speciality of the 
grape, and has three vineries, each one more 
than 200 feet in length. He sends 3,000 
pounds to market this season. The early 
crop, from the forcing-house, usually sells 
at $2 a pound, and the autumn crop at 50 to 
75 cents. 
TRANSPLANTING TREES IN AUTUMN. 
The editor approves of this : 
1. When the ground is such that the water 
will not lodge around them in winter. 
2. The trees should be perfectly hardy. 
3. Evergreens should not be planted at all. 
4. All trees should be planted early—as 
soon as the wood is ripe. 
5. Secure all trees from being blown about 
with the winds, and mulch with half-rotten 
manure or leaves, three or four inches deep. 
These hints are timely, and accord with our 
own experience. 
[For the American Agriculturist. 
WINTERING APPLES IN A HAY-MOW. 
About twenty years ago, having cut with 
a scythe and removed the hay to the middle 
of a mow about ten feet in diameter, I placed 
in it a barrel filled with small, hard, late- 
ripening apples, and packed the hay well 
around and above it, in November. When 
the apples were taken out, in April, there 
were not a dozen of them decayed in the 
least degree. They had lost a little of their 
plumpness, but not to injure them, and were 
free from any flavor from the hay. 
This experiment was made in New-Hamp- 
shire, and probably might be successful in 
any latitude. D. D. S. 
Cincinnati, Oct. 23, 1854. 
CURCULIO REMEDIES. 
We are not able to inform our correspond¬ 
ent, at Newman’s Mills, Penn., what Mr. 
Matthews’s remedy for the curculio is. We 
suspect, however, that it will turn out to be 
something not less difficult of application 
than the following, which we clip from the 
Country Gentleman. This thumb and finger 
remedy is the only one that we have any 
confidence in, and this we believe to be 
effectual. Two minutes to a tree, in a sea¬ 
son, is certainly not a very large outlay of 
time, to save a crop of fine plums. If a man 
thinks this is too much, he does not deserve 
any plums. We have never found any other 
way to grow fruit of any kind, but to attend 
to it in season. If Mr. Parsons’s suggestions 
are followed out, we have no doubt that our 
correspondent will save his plums. The 
great trouble with us all is, that we grudge 
the time, patience, and money needed to 
grow the best fruit. We trust he will try 
this remedy and report. 
I furnished myself with a cloth three 
yards by two, of the cheap, white cotton, 
and a stick about three feet long, with a piece 
of an old rubber shoe fastened to one end to 
strike the tree or limbs, if large. Equipped 
with these materials, and a small boy to hold 
two corners of the cloth, I held one in my 
left hand, and the other I fastened around 
my neck with a string. I took the stick, to 
jar the trees, in my right hand. I continued 
to destroy them in this way, from time to time 
for some four or five weeks with a good de¬ 
gree of success, until I had slain more than 
fourteen hundred of these destroyers, on 
about one dozen trees. I likewise caught 
some curculios on a few cherry trees near 
by, for I found they were not very particular 
whether they were plums or cherries. The 
result of this labor was, I had two bushels 
of fine plums from my Washington trees, 
and all my other trees bore profusely. I 
have continued this practice of destroying 
these insects, and have saved my fruit ever 
since, until the present time. But the best 
part of my story is, this plan has worked so 
well that I have comparatively little labor to 
perform, as they have mostly disappeared 
from my garden. 
My plan is to begin to search for the 
insect when the plum is about as large as a 
marrowfat pea, and continue to take them as 
long as they are plenty, which generally 
lasts about, three weeks ; but they do their 
work of destruction mostly in a very few 
days. I have kuown them to destroy more 
fruit in one warm still day than all the rest 
of the season together ; but as we know not 
when they get fully organized to do their 
mischief, we must watch for them. I search 
my trees twice or three times a week at first, 
but as they grow plentier I search the 
oftener, and at the time they are to be found 
in greatest numbers, I go over my trees two 
or three times a day. There is no danger 
of them in windy weather, that is when it 
blows quite fresh; and in cold rainy weather 
they move but little. I have never seen 
them fly far, yet I believe they emigrate 
some, but comparatively do little damage, if 
we are faithful to look after them and destroy 
them. 
I say understandingly, that l'f any man 
will spend two minute’s time, on an average, 
for each tree in a season, he will surely 
save his fruit. In fact, I have faithfully 
jarred two hundred trees, when the insect 
