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Fruit  Trees  True  to  Name 
The  remarks  of  Prof.  Sears  on  page 
1479  are  unite  interesting.  This  point  of 
mixing  in  the  nursery  row  is  the  one 
thing  that  caused  us  to  start  growing 
our  trees.  We  avoid  it  by  using  scions 
from  bearing  trees,  except  in  one  or  two 
cases  where  trees  which  failed  to  take 
the  first  year  are  budded  from  others  in 
the  same  row. 
We  are  a  little  in  doubt  as  to  the  pos¬ 
sibility  of  any  man  learning  to  know 
varieties  in  the  nursery  row  in  all  cases. 
We  have  two  nurseries,  one  on  a  rather 
heavy  clayey  loam,  the  other  on  a  very 
loose  sand.  There  is  a  much  greater  dif¬ 
ference  between  Wealthy  and  Northern 
Spy  grown  in  adjoining  rows  on  the 
heavier  soil.  At  least,  that  is  as  it  ap¬ 
pears  to  ns.  To  he  sure,  we  have  seen 
in  the  Teats  orchard  in  WMiamson  some 
things  that  can  be  done  in  the  way  of 
recognizing  peach  trees  even  when  dor¬ 
mant,  but  it  is  doubtful  if  every  case 
of  mixing  in  the  nursery  row  could  be 
detected  by  even  the  most  expert. 
About  a  year  ago  an  article  appeared 
in  one  of  the  fruit,  papers  in  which  the 
author  tried  to  show  how  apple  varie¬ 
ties  could  bo  distinguished  by  the  shape, 
size,  notching  and  general  appearance  of 
the  leaf.  This  has  some  value,  but  pi±r- 
haps  not  as  much  as  the  author  of  that 
paper  tried  to  prove.  The  one  great  dif¬ 
ficulty  in  getting  redress  for  trees  not 
true  to  name  is  the  difficulty  of  proving 
that  the  nurseryman  was  at  fault.  In 
the  usual  practice  a  man  buys  some  trees 
and  plants  an  orchard.  The  next  year 
he  finds  some  trees  missed  out,  and  buys 
some  more  to  take  their  place.  For  one 
reason  or  another  he  is  ns  likely  to  buy 
from  another  as  from  the  original  nur¬ 
sery.  The  next,  year  he  may  buy  from 
a  third  nursery,  and  perhaps  the  next 
year  from  a  fourth.  Also,  some  of  the 
trees  are  likely  to  have  died  back  to  the 
bud  or  graft  and  sent  up  a  shoot  from 
the  stock.  Unless  he  keeps  a  careful, 
tree-to-tree  record  of  the  block,  by  the 
time,  five  to  seven  years  after  planting, 
when  all  the  trees  have  borne,  it  will 
be  very  hard  for  him  to  be  sure,  which 
nursery  furnished  nny  particular  tree. 
The  nursery  firms  mentioned  by  Prof. 
Sears  ns  adopting  a  more  liberal  guar¬ 
antee  of  their  trees  are  likely  to  find  it 
disappointing  unless  they  charge  enough 
to  protect  themselves  in  ease  trees  bought 
from  other  firms  to  fill  in  are  charged  to 
them,  or  else  demand  that  trees  used  to 
fill  in  he  bought  from  them.  I  think  I 
have  seen  the  catalogue  of  one  firm  which 
assumes  responsibility  for  full  damage 
for  trees  not  true  to  name,  if  none  but 
their  trees  are  plan  toil  in  that  block.  In 
this  case  they  can  charge  a  little  higher 
price  for  their  trees  and  be  protected. 
WAYNE  C.  WEED. 
Wayne  County,  N.  Y. 
Grapes  for  Northern  New  York 
What  variety  of  purple  grape,  in  your 
opinion  would  prosper  in  Lewis  Co.,  N. 
Y.?  I  want  an  early  variety. 
Lowville,  N.  Y.  n.  e.  k. 
The  principal  difficulty  in  growing 
grapes  in  Northern  New  York  is  in  the 
short  growing  season.  It  matters  not 
what  variety  is  planted  so  far  as  Winter  i 
protection  is  concerned,  for  in  that  lo¬ 
cality  all  should  be  covered  in  some  ! 
manner  during  the  Winter.  It  used  to  I 
be  done  by  the  writer  early  in  the  Fall,  j 
after  the  vines  had  been  pruned  some¬ 
what  in  order  to  facilitate  covering,  by 
bending  down  the  stem  and  canes  and 
covering  them  to  a  depth  of  several  inch¬ 
es  with  earth.  At  the  same  time  a  thick 
mulch  was  spread  about  the  base  of  the 
vine,  so  that  a  large  part  of  the  root 
system  was  covered.  In  the  Spring  after 
the  danger  of  severe  freezes  was  past, 
the  vines  were  uncovered  and  the  prun¬ 
ing  completed,  lly  this  method  we  were 
able  to  grow  many  of  the  more  tender 
varieties  that  would  have  been  impossible 
without  the  protection. 
With  Winter  covering  and  mulching 
Early  Moore,  Hartford,  Early  Daisy, 
Champion  or  Early  Victor  ought  to  suc¬ 
ceed.  Early  Moore  and  Daisy  surpass 
the  others  in  quality.  While  Champion 
is  the  most  prolific  it  is  also  very  poor 
in  quality.  It  is  grown  in  some  local¬ 
ities  quite  largely  as  a  commercial  va¬ 
riety.  F.  E.  liLAUWIN. 
The  Carolina  Poplar 
[There  has  been  quite  a  little  discus¬ 
sion  about  the  value  of  the  Carolina  pop¬ 
lar  as  a  shade  tree.  The  tree  has  been 
praised  by  some  of  our  readers  and  sev¬ 
erely  condemned  by  others.  The  latest 
report  which  came  to  us  was  that  the 
cilv  of  Lancaster,  Pa.,  had  passed  an 
ordinance  prohibiting  the  planting  of  the 
Carolina  poplar  in  that  city.  The  fol¬ 
lowing  note  shows  that  this  report  is  not 
correct,  but  without  question  the  tree  is 
\ory  unpopular  and  will  not  be  planted 
in  that  locality.  The  tree  is  certainly  a 
hustler,  when  it  can  send  its  roots 
through  an  alley  to  the  rear  of  houses 
and  clog  up  sewers.  Tt  is  a  good  thing 
to  know  the  had  qualities  of  these  shade 
trees  as  well  as  the  good  ones.] 
I  have  spoken  to  a  councilman  of  Lan¬ 
caster,  and  he  says  the  city  has  no  or¬ 
dinance  prohibiting  the  planting  of  the 
Carolina  poplar,  but  from  past  experi¬ 
ence  be  will  never  plant  another  tree  of 
that  species.  He  says  they  have  cracked 
his  concrete  pavements,  rooted  through 
an  alley  to  rear  of  houses,  and  filled 
sewers  with  roots,  and  in  one  instance 
burst  a  terra  cotta  sewer,  by  filling  it 
with  roots.  Our  experience  has  been 
that  the  leaves  begin  falling  end  of  .Tuly, 
and  the  lawn  is  cluttered  with  leaves  till 
frost.  We  are  planting  maple,  etc.,  and 
want  to  cut  the  poplar  out  as  soon  as 
other  trees  attain  a  fair  size. 
Pennsylvania.  ELMER  ,T.  weaver. 
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