1869 .] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
59 
vain search for them in New York. Rose-buds 
sell at 4c. to 8c.; Tuberoses, at 5c. to 8c. the 
single flower; Double White Primroses, 50c. 
per hundred flowers; Heliotropes and Bouvar- 
dias, about $1.50 per hundred trusses; Carna¬ 
tions, 2c. to 4c. each. Aside from the flowers, 
large quantities of bouquet green (Lycopodium 
dendroideum ) and other greens are used. We 
have named above only the principal flowers 
used in bouquets. In making up baskets and or¬ 
namental designs, other flowers are worked in. 
More About Quinces. 
In December last we alluded to the scarcity 
of quinces, and mentioned that Augers Quince 
stocks upon which pear buds had failed had 
been used to fill orders. We did not do this with 
the intention of speaking against the Angers, 
but to illustrate the scarcity of those sorts usually 
grown for their fruit. We know of some who 
regard the fruit of the Angers as highly as they 
do that of any other variety. 
Mr. J. L. Galloway, Milford, 
Ohio, writes as follows: “Until 
within the last year quince trees 
could not be sold in large quan¬ 
tities at any price. To illustrate. 
A tree planter called the other 
day for 200 trees; I asked him 
$20 per 100, when he exclaimed, 
‘Why, quince trees must have 
raised. Four years ago, I bought 
them at $5 per 100.’ Now, the 
fact is, the present call for this 
stock is one of those spasmodic 
cases so common to our trade. 
“You also speak of filling orders 
with Angers in rather a dis¬ 
paraging connection. Now, it 
is a fact, that here in Southern 
Ohio the Angers, Fontenay, and 
Portugal, are all becoming quite 
popular, and we often have 
orders for all of them. On my 
sandy and gravelly soil, I find 
the Fontenay better than all 
other varieties, both for fruit 
and stocks, for dwarfing the pear. Its fruit 
is now (Dec. 8th,) keeping in my cellar as 
perfectly as it was the day it was taken from the 
others in color, size, and quality.” It has been 
supposed that the Lawver would become for the 
West what the Baldwin is in the East—the 
favorite winter sort of apple, for all purposes. 
Fruit, large, very handsome, regular, oblate; 
surface, smooth, deep red; dots, numerous, fawn- 
colored. Basin, medium, regular, or slightly 
ribbed; eye, small, closed. Cavity, acute, reg¬ 
ular, brown; stem, short. Core, wide, regular, 
closed, not meeting the eye; seeds, plump, dark 
brown; flesh, yellow, breaking, fine-grained, 
juicy; flavor, acid, aromatic; use, table, 
market, and kitchen; quality, 
best; season, December and all 
winter. It is an early and 
constant bearer and escapes 
injury by the spring frosts. 
Zimmerman. —This beautiful 
fruit has been sent by Mr. 
Lawver, who received it from 
Western Missouri. It is not 
recognized as any known va¬ 
riety, and is therefore described. 
Fruit, large and beautiful, 
oblong, truncated, regular; sur¬ 
face, smooth, light red on yel¬ 
low, splashed bright red ; dots, 
numerous, gray and fawn-color¬ 
ed. Basin, deep, regular; e3 r e, 
small but long, closed. Cavity, 
deep, acute, clean; stem, me¬ 
dium, brown. Core, medium, 
closed, clasping; seeds, few, 
short, plump, wide. The flesh 
is of a light yellowish color, breaking, asd fine¬ 
grained ; the flavor is subacid, mild, rich, but 
not highly flavored; use, table and market; 
quality, good to very good; season, December. 
Fig. 1.— LAWVER. 
New Western Apples. 
BY JOHN A. WARDER. 
[After Doct. Warder’s Report on New Apples 
for the Horticultural Annual was in type, he 
sent drawings and descriptions of some fruits 
that had been lately brought to his notice, two 
of which are given here. The Lawver is briefly 
described in the Annual; we give here a figure 
and a more extended account of it. — Ed.] 
Lawver. —This beautiful fruit was raised by 
Mi - . George S. Park, of Parkville, Mo., who 
named it in honor of Mr. A. M. Lawver, who 
has devoted many years to the development of 
pomology. Mr. L. has planted near South Pass, 
Illinois, probably the largest experimental 
Fig. 2.— ZIMMERMAN. 
orchard in the country, embracing some thou¬ 
sand varieties. The apple is a very handsome 
tribute, since it is considered “to excel all 
tree. This variety this season was fully as large 
and much more handsome with me than the 
Orange variety; and trees C years old had more 
fruit upon them than trees of the Orange variety 
13 years planted had. The fruit of the Fon¬ 
tenay quince is much firmer and heavier than 
other kinds, cooks quicker, and is less astringent. 
I have long been advising those who plant 
the Peach for profit, to substitute the Quince.” 
‘ — — « «—Cgg&ftWi » u»... 
Cold Frames. 
Cold frames iu gardens, if they have been care¬ 
fully attended to during the early part of the sea¬ 
son, and the cabbage and other plants in them 
properly hardened off, may now' be more exposed 
than heretofore. By this time the plants should 
be so tough that hardly any amount of freezing 
will injure them. The most that is necessary is 
to prevent their being covered with snow. On 
this account, and chiefly on this account, it is 
not safe to leave the sashes up or off, even dur¬ 
ing the mildest nights, lest a sudden change of 
weather should do damage; but during all sun¬ 
ny days, no matter how cold, unless the wind is 
blowing violently, it will be of advantage to the 
plants to strip the sashes off entirely. Even yet, 
and until the first of March, they should be kept 
covered in the morning, until after the frost 
is thawed off from the under side of the glass. 
Plants which have been treated as we direct 
may be set out in place in the field as early in 
March as it is possible to prepare the ground 
for them; and although, as during last spring, 
the whole of April and a part of May may be so 
cold and so wet that they will not grow at all, 
they will be in no w’ay injured, and so much of 
the heavy work of the spring will be done and 
out of the way. To use the sashes with the 
greatest economy, there should be another set 
of frames ready to receive them as soon as they 
are removed from over the cabbages. The earth 
in these frames should have been prepared the 
autumn before, and well covered with litter, to 
prevent hard freezing. Lettuce plants taken 
from the cold frames may be rapidly forwarded 
in these as soon as the sashes can be used to 
cover them; and after the lettuce is out, they 
may be used for the early crop of cucumbers. 
-- «n t ' — a 
The Barberry for Hedges. 
Some two years ago we published about all 
that was knowm regarding the use of the Bar¬ 
berry for hedges. Our correspondence shows a 
continued interest in the matter, and we will 
briefly answer the queries proposed. The Bar¬ 
berry makes a beautiful hedge, grows quite 
rapidly, is not disposed to sucker far away from 
the stems, and bears the shears well, though it 
requires but little cutting. Whether it would be 
proof against breachy cattle, we are not yet 
satisfied. We have seen no hedge of it equally 
“ bull proof ” with the Osage Orange or Honey 
Locust. This is a point on which we would 
like reports. The plant is best raised from 
seed; it will grow from cuttings or layers, but 
not so readily as other plants. Seeds are now 
sold by our large dealers. It would be better £ 
to procure the seeds in the fall, and keep them 
mixed with sand during winter. Those that 
have been dried are slow in germinating. We 
never had occasion to sow the seed but once, 
and then it was mixed with damp sand and ex¬ 
posed to the weather. The plants came up in 
great abundance. The young seedlings should 
be carefully thinned, weeded, and watered. 
