eight to sixteen dollars, is such as to show the neces¬ 
sity of growing fine specimens. A poor Duehesse is 
a poor thing, and the New Yorkers seem to be aware 
of the fact. 
Gkai’es.— The highest price paid for grapes is ten 
cents a pound, but there were only Catawbas arid 
Isabellas in market, Foreign grapes never before, | 
we think, sold as low as during the 
the past season, 
kill the blossom. Mr. M. left exposed twenty hilh 
last fall, and they produced but a very few indifferen 
berries, not enough to pay for cultivation. 
The land is kept plowed out with a one-horsoplow, 
so that it is at all times mellow and clear of weeds, 
and in the early part of June each hill is given (i 
wheel harrow full of coarse manure. The hllte K hr,i.i,i 
POISONS AND ANTIDOTES, 
The season continues wet—very unfavorable for 
ripening seeds of many nice things that rot when 
exposed to an unusual amount of moisture. A good 
plan is to place a hot-bed frame, with sash, over 
choice plants, the seeds of which it is particularly 
desirable to preserve. In some cases, they may be 
taken up, potted, and removed to the house. Where 
the seeds have passed the milky state, it is better to 
take up the plants, and hang them in a dry room, 
than to leave them exposed to the fall rains. But, in 
general, it is better to depend upon foreign growers 
who understand their business, and have every 
convenience for ripening, than npou seeds of our 
own growing. The time will come doubtless when 
we shall not only grow most of what we use, but 
export to Europe. This will, however, take time, 
and foreigners have a great advantage over us in the 
price of labor. 
For several nights past we have had slight frosts, 
just enough to kill tomato plants and other things 
equally tender. The first injury from this cause was 
on the night of the 25th nit. 
But little time now remains for completing fall 
work. After this time everything that will suffer 
from heavy frost is in danger until secured. We may 
have some weekB of mild weather, but, of this there 
is no certainty. Even celery it is better to make 
safe at once, for we would not give much for the crop 
after it has endured a hard frost. Our experience is 
in favor of taking up early, even if not blanched. 
This can be done in the cellar, or in trenches pre¬ 
pared for the purpose. All beds of bulbous roots, 
asparagus beds, Ac., should receive their winter 
covering, and all tender plants should he covered. 
If this work is left undone until the weather is cold 
and unpleasant, it will be neglected altogether, or be 
done poorly. 
It not unfrequently happens that serious and dis¬ 
tressing results are occasioned by the accidental 
employment of poison, and it occurred to us that we 
might possibly do a service lo some of our readers 
by presenting them with a brief and compendious 
list of the more common poisons and the remedies 
for them most likely to be close at hand. 
Acids. These cituse great heat, and sensations of 
burning pain, from the mouth down to the stomach. 
Remedies — Magnesia, soda, pcarlasli or soap, dis¬ 
solved In water; then use stomach pump or emetics. 
Alkalibs*— Boftt remedy is vine#fu\ 
Ammonia. — Remedy — Lemon juice or vinegar, 
afterwards milk and water, or flax-seed tea. 
Alcohol.— First cleanse out the stomach by an 
emetic, then dash cold water on the head, and give 
ammonia, (spirits of hartshorn.) 
Arsenic.— Remedies —In the first place evacuate 
the stomach, then give the white of eggs, lime water, 
or chalk and water, charcoal and the preparations of 
iron, particularly hydrate. 
Lead.— White lead and sugar of lead. Remedies— 
Alum, cathartic, such as castor oil and cpsom salts, 
especially. 
Oitarooal. — In poisons by carbonic gas, remove 
the patient to the open air, dash cold water on the 
Twenty cents a . 
pound was the ruling rate most of 
the summer, though iu some cases 
twenty-five cents were obtained. Iu fej 
some cases more than this may 
have been obtained, but twenty ; 
cents was the highest sum offered 
for several lots iu ibis section. 
In a few years, and perhaps next f ] 
year, we shall see Delawares rogu- f if H * ; v '\\V | 
larly quoted in the reports of the ' . 
fruit market, and then we think J"fim\ 
the growing of grapes in cold Jli fjrflj 
houses will scarcely pay. Most / W 'j 
persona prefer a Delaware to a 
Black Hamburgh; and when the 
lormci are sold at twelve or fifteen cents a pound, 
the day of cold houses for market purposes will be 
passed. The only way to make them remunerative 
will be to give heat and bring the crop into the 
market early, before out-door grapes are ripe. And 
even then, with other fruits ripening during the 
season, it will be somewhat difficult to ohtain pay- 
ing prices, except, perhaps, in one or two of our 
large cities, and even there the demand will be quite 
limited. 
Quinces always sell high, East and West, and 
everywhere. From five to seven dollars a barrel is a 
price sufficient to induce the more general cultiva¬ 
tion of this fruit, which is so much neglected. TVe 
have before urged our readers to plant quinces. The 
demand is always creater than the RlYnnItr arwl will 
stalks^in a hill. This gives plenty of room to work 
among them. 
Mr. M. has n young peach orchard of one thousand 
trees that should have borne fruit the two past years, 
but failed. This fall he intends to protect them, so 
as to secure a crop another season, in the following 
mannei. Early in the season, when the leaves were 
on, he cut oak brush, and is laying the peach trees 
down so far as to be able to cover them with this 
brush, and he thinks the leaves and snow will afford 
sufficient protection to save the buds from injury. I 
will inform you of the result of the experiment. 
Mr. Merritt thinks the Lawton will do well on 
any soil or locality where the wild blackberry 
flourishes. James Bull. 
Detroit, Oct. 11, 1861. 
Ilortifultuval 
FOREIGN GRAPES IN MISSOURI. 
1 here exists in St. Louis an Association called the 
Rt. Louis Vine and Fruit (i'rowers' Association, estab¬ 
lished for the purpose of testing the adaptation of 
various fruits for that locality. The land of the 
Society is well adapted for the purpose, and is under 
the best of management. The following report recently 
made to the President by a Committee appointed to 
inspect the vines, Ac., growing upon the Society’s 
lands, we know will be interesting to all of owr horti¬ 
cultural readers: 
ViSBLAJlua, St. Lotus Coc.nty. Mn , J 
September 18, 1S61 j 
Sir: — The undersigned Committee, appointed by 
yon In behalf of the St. Louis Vine and Fruit. Grow¬ 
ers Association, to inspect the vines and fruits grown 
upon their lands at this place, and particularly the 
new white grapes of European origin, first grown 
here in the open air by the Secretary, Mr. Charles H. 
Haven, (and which they believe are the first grapes of 
the land grown in the Western States,) beg leave to 
report, that they found the various A met man scenes 
bearing their complement of fruit 
PRESERVING CELERY FOR WINTER, 
TREE TOMATO. 
loliage. They grow from eighteen inches to two feet 
in height, and hear from ten to fifteen specimens of 
fruit of good size. 
The appearance of the plant is well shown in the 
engraving, and the one from which the drawing was 
taken had on at the time nine well ripened specimens, 
of good medium size and tolerably smooth. The 
fruit is scarlet, scenm to lie of good quality, solid, 
flesh thick, and seeds not very abundant. 
This tomato is not entirely self-supporting; for the 
weight ol Iruit is too great for the main stein, which 
will bend until the head rests upon the ground, unless 
supported by a pretty strong stake well driven into 
the soil. It bears transplanting remarkably well, as 
the roots are all in a small space, and fibrous; and 
plants covered with green fruit taken up early in 
October, and put In the. house to save them from frost, 
do not seem to suffer in the least by the removal. 
Wo judge this will prove a valuable variety for 
forcing. It is certainly worthy of trial. 
auil the brunches barely out of sight. I tried this mode last 
tall, aud the trees came out iu the very host order In spring. 
.My own orchard Is so full ol - apples, on so young an orchard 
— only seven, this Is the eighth summer — that I am greatly 
encouraged-not only my apple trees, hut strawberry, grape, 
aud pear, full of fruit,.” 
Dr. Krnnicott, who lives near Chicago, lit., says:—“ Most 
of you are afraid of autumn planting. A mistake, I thiuk, in 
many eases, especially South, and In dry soil that, is seldom 
moved by frost. • • • Thn ami is oftener too wet than in 
autumn—and the spring 1 m almost always the busiest, season of 
the two; and when planted early in autumn, the roots of trees 
get well embedded, their wounds well healed before winter, 
and if properly protected, the tree or plant grows right off, 
and makes a larger growth against a very shall one in late 
spring planting. Still, in thoughtless hands, we must admit 
the spring to he the safest season for moBt trees, and especially 
evergreens.” 
in a* firm a cnndl- 
... -the West have 
this year exhibited in any locality, as fnr as they have 
seen or heard; they found ftliio growing vigorously 
the. young vines of last year’s planting; this may also 
very large number of pear, onerry, 
New Use roR Applkh. — It appears from the following 
statement, which we And In several or the English journals, 
that the people of that country are threatened with a cider 
famine, not from the failure of the apples, although a partial 
crop, but because they nre likely to he applied to a more 
profitable purpose (so far as the growers are concerned,) 
tlmn in making a household heverago. “It seems that the 
Manchester calico dyers and printers have discovered that 
apple juices supply a desideratum long wanted in making fast 
colors for tlnnr printed cottons, and numbers of them have 
beeu into Devonshire and the lower parts of Somersetshire 
buying up all tho apples they ran get, and giving such a 
price lor them as in the dearest years hitherto known has 
not been offered. We know nf one farmer In Devonshire 
who has a large orchard, for the produce of which he never 
before received more than £250, and yet he has sold it this 
year to a Maohoster man for Jtfffio. There can be no doubt 
that the discovery will create mute a revolution in 
PERFECTED TOMATO 
* „ i c mi : " ""'mu* "im iuh-y uibu 
he said ol the very large number of pear, cherry, 
and apple trees seen by them in the 
avenues iuto which the grounds 
surprise and pleasure the sue- 
l foreign grapes in the 
‘ ' ' ...I - ...J- 
118 , up to this 
various orchards ami 
nre subdivided. 
They witnessed with surprise and pleasure the suc¬ 
cessful growth of the choicest f ' 
open air, without any aid from artificlallieat. or siml 
ter, either from glsss or any other tiiciil-, . ;.. 
time. One kind was the Burgundy, bearing hand¬ 
some bunches of sweet arid pulplnas black grapes on 
strong vines; but. the really valuable discovery made 
in this connection by the Becretary. and now mani¬ 
fest to them, v- .. * 
the targe white hot house grape, kiltmil either ns the true 
Hungmum Tokay or the C/lar/eswOrth Tokay, both of 
Which kinds aro specially noticed for their superior 
excel lento among foreign grapes by Mr. Downing, 
in his work on fruits, und by a horticultural Journal 
ol high standing, the Philadelphia Cnrdm.r's Monthly 
re f fi anUai7 ’ l881 ’ Pag<> S0, t0 wbiob y° u w!!l please 
This white grape, transparent almost as crystal, and 
ol hue size was hanging in large bunches on tho vine 
which had been exposed, with the many thousand 
others ol tho company, to all tho vicissitudes of win 
ter and Slimmer, in a posit,on faring the north, and 
some bunches /if sweet, arid pulpleps black 
strong vincH; but the really valuable dj 
and find the little pretty plum-almped varieties, both 
red and yellow, the best for pickling aud preserving. 
I lie old large red is very good, especially fur cook- 
ing, but I think should never be served raw while wo 
have sorts so much better for the purpose. By a 
little care in selecting seeds, this old kind can be 
grown tolerably smooth and much better tlmn where 
seeds are saved promiscuously. But, for serving in 
an uncooked state, with vinegar, or vinegar and a 
little sngar, according to the tuste, there is nothing 
that, 1 have grown equal to the Perfected Tomato. 
It is tolerably even, and soliJ, with very few seeds, 
and in my opinion surpassing all other sorts in flavor. 
The old rCd is pretty much made up of a pasty 
mass abounding in seeds, with very little llesh, and 
the outside covering little more than skin. The Per¬ 
fected has thick flesh, with few seeds, and tho flesh is 
soft and pleasant. The Fejee and some other sorts 
have a hurd center that is almost or quite unlit to eat 
in a raw state; but not so with the Perfected, unless 
it is used before becoming ripe. My family will use 
no other variety; and it is only by looking out sharp 
that T am able to save specimens for seed. They will 
sell, too, in market, for more than any other variety, 
and some familioi refuse to purchase any other. 
Monroe County, Oct., 1861, w j 
was the feasibility of open air culture of 
-■ “ irr.fi, known either as the true 
I run gar,an Tokay or the Cliarletwortl, Tokau. both of 
HOP YEAST, COLORING BLUE, &c 
Uural Nkw-Yorkkk;— Being a constant 
reader of your excellent paper, and noticing an 
inquiry for a recipe for hop yeast, 1 send you mine, 
which T know to be good, and l think all my neigh¬ 
bors can testify to the same, for since I have com¬ 
menced using it, I have distributed both recipe aud 
t.lio yeast among my friends for miles around, and 
all think no yeast is quite equal to it. 
Take a handful of hops, pour in water and boil 
them ten or fifteen minutes; then strain it off, take a 
hall pint of t hinly sliced potatoes to a quart of the 
f lowers auk not Triples,— Flowers bloom in beauty, not 
only in the gardens or tho wealthy, but in the field, on the 
sido of the highway, aud on the mountain slopes. They are 
almost everywhere, and yet they are not trifles. Goo has 
made them bountiful. There are no unfinished flown™. No 
pencil could make them mere perfect. In the green-house, 
in the garden, by the wayside, and iu the gullies, they are 
charming. Their life is short but beautiful. Thn guilty da 
not love these sweet emblems of innoconce, aud thieves do 
not want them In their button boles. In the early spring, in 
atmimer heat and autumn frost, they greet us. The child 
runs to the meadow and woods to gather them, and the 
young girl braids them in her hair. The old touch them 
tenderly, knowing that such sweetness aud beauty will not 
lost. — Fitoit. 
PRICES OF FRUITS. 
&c., IN NEW YORK. 
As navigation will soon close, for the benefit of 
those who design to ship to New York the present 
autumn we give present prices iu the commercial 
metropolis of our State, and of the country. 
POTAlphS Price* Hre Ufiohimircii nincf* nrir IhkI T).,, 
Nor*tJf 1 '!r ,m y owi a dollar t.j bbl from 
NortU'iwiMteru (lino i which will mm|j fn, Ua* 
K «.. = .„, rrcf'c S; 
fSaa*Rd55vR5ttr. ■■■•ms 
Huckoy* i,bi . ■$}'■% 
Mercer*, choice, f) bbl. . 
Mercers, Rochester, \i bbl., in bbis 51 
Mercer*. Trov. fJ bbl . i i in 
Rough and Keadv. Trov.il hh. " 
Jackson Whites, V bbU * I/; . 
Sweet. Potatoes, in bbls . 
bweet Potatoes, \.l bbl, in bulk .... i wflM 
FRESH FltCIT. 
nimfi ,LE r™a l, . rK M 9 v *-* r, »toclee<l ; prices tend downward We 
IhCARS - We qu 0 t?.' C< ‘ m ' ° t8 ' ^ 
Seckel, (sir to choice, V bbl. R 
cK-iy r p A < ;i!X ,,,me ' Bood to ch6iee - * bw::: 4i« 
Double Fcchsias.—T he double Fuchsia* have been greatly 
Improved, both in habit, vigor of the plant, and size of the 
flowers. Somo of the new French and Belgian kinds are 
very remarkable, especially Sol ferine, which is uearlyaslarge 
as a moderate-sized rose; truly astonishing In its dimensions. 
A new English variety, called Mammoth, has also monstrous 
flowers, Other new and line French sorts are Duehesse de 
Brabant, Victor des Frames, Colibrl, and Madame Cornclis- 
sen, which Is a double white enrol lied variety, of vigorous 
habit, free blooming, and «xeeediugly line. They are alL 
valuable additions to this handsome tribe nf summer blooming 
green house plants.- Uovety'.t Magazine. 
LAWTON BLACKBERRY IN MICHIGAN. 
Eds. Rural Nkw-Youker:—As promised, I send 
you Mr. (.’baulks Merritt’s method of cultivating 
the Lawtou Blackberry in Buttle Creek, Michigan. 
Three years ago last spring he procured one thousand 
plants from Baltimore, which ho set r!x feet apart, 
each way, on about an aero of clean sod, a gravelly 
loam, well pulverized and clear of weeds. The first 
year he got no berries, the second year about thirty 
bushels, and this year about sixty biiBhels, which 
brought him on an average four dollars and seventy 
five cents per bushel in Chicago, one hundred and 
sixty-four miles from Battle Creek, by Railroad. The 
cost of picking aud express charges to Chicago was 
seventy-live cents per bushel. Mr. M, thinks there 
will he no difficulty in doubling the crop next year. 
He sold last spring three thousand plants at forty 
dollars per thousand, and will have eight thousand 
plants next spring, which he will sell at twenty-live 
dollars per thousand. 
After he had commenced cultivating the Lawton, 
Mr. M. looked around among his neighbors who ob¬ 
tained their plants before he did, ami found it a great 
multiplier, but that very little fruit was obtained, and 
that of an indifferent character. Jn endeavoring to 
ascertain the cause he came to the conclusion that 
the extreme cold weather of the winter and the late 
spring frosts injured the wood of the plants materi¬ 
ally. This induced him to adept the following 
method, which has proved eminently successful. 
About the tenth of November he digs or forks 
around the roots of the plants, so as to loosen the 
soil and prevent breaking the roots and branches, 
and then presses the plants over so as to get the 
branches as near the gronnd as possible, and throws 
on earth or any other material at hand, so as to 
keep them down. The snow will protect them in 
is not neces- 
or any other 
'.lli'. vViT i fin: 
e very plants, drives stakes and ties each bill to a stake, 
•gicen 1 his puts them back so that the late fmHf« will 
in view of these important facts to os as Mis¬ 
sourians, made so on account of the now ascertained 
acclimation of this noble grape, as well as the Uur- 
gundy among us, and the consequent rapid spread of 
l c.r'1, CU *i tl ♦ w K 0n likH - v t0 ,in8UO i your Committee 
believe that they are destined to give the strongest 
inducement to the people of this country and of 
Europe to select for settlement the highland regions 
south and west of St. Louis, which equal in extent 
and adaptability for grape culture the whole vine dis¬ 
tricts of J- ranee or of Hungary. Nor can they per¬ 
ceive any reason why the two finest wines of these 
countries—the Burgundy and Tokay—may not soon 
become those of Missouri, since it is now shown that 
the grapes from which they are made can be grown 
here with the same ease and luxuriance as they are 
a umad. In concluding their report your Committee 
can but express their gratification that to the efforts of 
the bt. Louis Vine and Fruit ( 
Fire Blksht or the Pear — Remedy.—J. J. Thomas says: 
“There are two remedies for the fire blight; both taken 
together will maintain aoy pear orchard undiminished. The 
first Is tho well known one of cutting away the diseased parts 
doiug it promptly and continually, and two or three feet 
below the blackened portions. This will save many trees. 
When the tree dies in spite of this treatment, adopt the 
other remedy, namely: Whenever one tree dies, plant oat 
me oi. i-o ii is vine and Fruit Growers’ Associate 
and to their Secretary as their active agent, v 
justly belong the honor of having led the wav 
these important results. J 
All which is respectfully submitted. 
J. II. Liuiitnkr, \ 
i 0 ^*/ 000 , /Committee 
R. W, Ol.IPUANT, M. 1). ) 
To the I resident of the St. Louis Vine and Fr 
Growers’ Association, Hon. Bernard Pratte. 
Bkht Twelve Apples for Western New York. -An old 
and experienced orchard 1st, who has grown and nold apples 
extensively for the last Torty years, handed us tho following 
list, as the best for the farmer who desires to grow both for 
market and family use 
Summer — Early Harvest, Early Joe, Red Astruchan, and 
Sweet Bough. 
Autumn —Fall Pippin, Fameuse, and Hawley. 
Winter— Baldwin, R. I. Greening, Tomp. Co. King, No. Spy 
Red Canada, Green Sweeting. 
THE TREE TOMATO 
I'lteiTS Received.— From John Park, of Gates, N. Y., 
magnificent specimens of Baldwin apples, weighing about a 
pound ea<’h. 
— From M. Stu'Tov, Irondequoit, a Cucumber eighteen 
inches long and weighing five pounds. 
— From 0. Mallory, Henrietta, a large Rose Winter 
Radish, excellent quality for its great size. 
uenis nor anyiumg of the kind for its support, but 
growing like a small tree, with a stout stalk and 
branches, and entirely self-supporting. We imme¬ 
diately ordered a few seeds, which reached ns through 
the mail rather late in the season, but we succeeded 
in growing about a dozen plants, most of which 
ripened their fruit. 
They are very singular in their habit, the Btem 
being about as thick as a lead pencil when the plants I material 
gtiquirirs ami Answers 
Plant for Name.—W ill yon please give the botanical 
and common name of the iaclo.ed plant? It i* a labiate plant, 
with calyx equally live toothed; corolla a pniplUh-rose color 
in a spike of crowded whorls; stem square; leaves elliptical’ 
and the whole plant tomentn»«; about one and a half feet 
high.—L. W., Johnson s Creek, zV. r., 1801. 
Stixi.hys lanata is the name. We have never known it by 
any other. 
[special notice.) 
Indispensable —ir yon want healthy, light, bread, biscuit, 
and pastry of all kinds, use only D. B. De Land k Co.’s 
Chemical Saleratns. It is truly the “ homewife’s favorite,” 
and is indispensable in producing the above results. You 
can get it of all respectable dealers everywhere. 
