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will be covered with vineyards. It seems to be 
the opinion of many experienced cultivators 
that the soil here is better adaptel to grape cul¬ 
ture than the famous Kellt's Island, for a long 
time regarded as the paradise of Grape Growers. 
I am quite sure it is much more easily worked. 
We examined the spacious cellars of the Wine 
Company here, and tasted some fine samples of 
wine 03 a finale to our visit, which was a brief, 
but very pleasant and instructive one. 
In the evening at nine o'clock we joined the 
Grape Growers’ Association on hoard the fine 
Lake Superior steamer, “Lac la Belle,” and 
were cordially welcomed by the officers of the 
Society and the commander of the steamer, 
Capt. Spaulding, who is a member oftbeGrape 
Growers’ Association and has a line young vine¬ 
yard near Cleveland. 
Kellej'a Island. 
At two o’clock in the morning we were landed 
on Kelley's Island. The hotel accommodations 
here were nothing to boast of, but we passed the 
time as well as we could until breakfast was an¬ 
nounced. This being over, the company scat¬ 
tered in squads over the island among the vine¬ 
yards. Our party was politely conveyed in a 
carriage by Messrs. Chas. 
TWO NEW RASPBERRIES, 
cussion by associations and by the Press, still 
uniformity of judgment in regard to them has 
not been attained, nor is itjikely it ever will be; 
yet associations have done some good, and it is 
to be hoped they will do much more by their 
examinations and labors in the future. 
Nine years ago, in introducing the Improved 
American Blackberry (afterwards named the 
Doolittle by the American Poinologieal Society,) 
to the public, I promised that the masses in 
town and country should have this fru$ to their 
hearts’ content, All ha? been fulfilled, and more 
too — for the commendations of its worth from 
other growers, Horticultural editors, ifcc., far 
exceed all that I had promised for it. Why? 
Because, during my experiments and study 
of its habits I used no manure or stimulants, 
nor did I give them any cultivation or treatment 
but what was necessary to permit the plant to 
develop its natural capacities. Hence, when the 
plants that I sent, out were put upon their mer¬ 
its by high cultivation and rich soil, the univer¬ 
sal decision was that “the hall' had not been 
told." 
But, after all, two objections, or wants, that 
this berry did not supply, were urged. For 
some it was too dry and seedy—a juicy (Red) 
Raspberry was wanted, that would stand in,per¬ 
manent bills and not fill the garden with suckers. 
Another objection was, its season of fruiting 
was too short —there was an abundance while 
they lasted, but they did not last long enough. 
Both these objections I am now able to fully 
meet by two new seedlings. The first I name 
Doolittle’s Jivdjbivorcd Mock Ita&pberry. It 
originated thus: — Having thrown a quantity of 
seeds and refuse (after making wine) from my 
Black Raspberry upon the manure heap, young 
plants came up wherever the manure was scat¬ 
tered. Wherever they could be permitted to 
stand I left them; others I transplanted, and 
when they fruited, unless they seemed superior 
or different from the original, I tore them up. 
This is the only plant that I finally saved. Its 
whole growth seems a cross with the Red Rasp¬ 
berry* The canes are not so rank and thorny as 
the Black, but are metre numerous. The berries 
are as large and the yield is as good as the Black. 
The time of ripening is nearly the same or only 
two or three days earlier. 
The color of the bearies 13 a dark red or 
brown, as if red and black were mixed —with a 
deliciously rich Red-Raspberry flavor. I tkiuk 
they make the best berry pie that ever was eaten. 
Being very juicy they will not probably hear 
distant transportation, but for a home market 
and family U6e they will supply a long felt want 
—a garden berry , rich, juicy, productive, of good 
size, hardy as the oak, and being propagated 
from the tips, will not fill the ground with 
suckers. 
The other seedling I have named the Seneca 
Black Cup, llie fruit of which was noticed in the 
Rural of August 4th, as sent to the editor by 
W. Wight of Waterloo, 
UNFRUITFUL YOUNG ORCHARDS 
It is a frequent complaint of the anxious own¬ 
ers of youDg and thrifty apple orchards that 
they do not bear.;:.The trees are old enough, 
they are healthy, and they grow very fact, but 
they yield little or no fruit. As a general rule 
these^orchards are pretty well cared for—they 
are well cultivated, pruned, 6eraped, washed and 
manured, and the trees do grow splendidly, but 
that_is^about the only reward, if it may be called 
one, which the owner gets for his trouble and 
expense. 
If the owners of such unfruitful orchards un¬ 
derstood and practiced the simplest principles 
of the art of pruning, they would, if prevented 
by no local causes, soon be brought into fruitful 
condition. The owners do, indeed, partly under¬ 
stand the cause of their not. bearing, for one 
will often hear the remark “They grow too fast 
to bear well,” but they seldom understand, or 
at least practice, the means of changing this 
state. It should he borne in mind that a tree 
which grows a great deal of wood will produce 
little if any fruit. A large growth of wood and 
a great yield of fruit are not conditions that will 
take place in a tree at the same time. During 
the first years of the life of a tree the treatment 
should be 6ueh as will produce a vigorous 
and healthy growth of wood. In orchards of 
standard trees fruit is not expected, nor desira¬ 
ble in view of ultimate profit, until the trees 
are of proper size. The aim of the cultivator is 
to make his trees grow fast and to make them 
healthy. Ho prunes early in the spring before 
the sap starts—prunes closely — and throws the 
juices of the tree into a diminished head and 
large and thrifty branches are the result. He 
also manures and cultivates. 
But when he wants fruit a different course 
must be resorted to. Whatever diminishes the 
vitality of a tree — threatens its life—induces 
fruitfulness. Instinctively the tree puts forth 
an effort to perfect its Eeed. The wood-buds 
change to fruit-buds, and the strong branches in 
the glorious autumn bend down with promise. 
Sometimes this result is brought about unwit¬ 
tingly—a sod forms around the tree—it receives 
a wound or becomes sickly—and the unfortunate 
specimen that falls behind its fellows in growth 
is loaded with a burden of frnit. 
The orehardist, desirous of inducing fruitful¬ 
ness in his young and over-thrifty trees, should 
check their growth. He should prune In the 
summer, the season of growth — instead of in 
winter, the season of rest. Summer pruning 
diminishes the vitality of the tree. Pinching 
should be resorted to; all of the strong shoots, 
TRANSPLANTING EVERGREENS. 
Next to the proper time in the spring there 
is no season when it is safer to plant evergreens 
than during the latter part 0 f August and the 
first, halt ot September. We do not say that It 
will answer to box them and transport a long 
distance, exposing them for several days, per¬ 
haps, to the air, and some hours, it may be, to 
the sunshine. But if they are taken from a 
near plantation; if a cloudy or drizzling jay is 
selected—and at no Eeaaon should the sun be 
permitted to shine on evergreen roots in trans¬ 
planting—they may be transplanted now with 
large success. The season’s growth is mainly 
over, the new wood is hardened, and as the soil 
will remain warm lor some time to come it gives 
the trees a good chance to establish themselves 
before winter. If a severe fall drouth should 
occur the newly-planted trees should receive a 
thorough watering—putting on enough to drench 
all the roots. 
cried Cakes. —One cup of sugar, one of 
cream, three eggs, a teaspoonful ®f saleratus, 
cinnamon or nutmeg to the taste. 
To Preserve Cider.— Let It stand nntil it 
commences to fernent, then draw off and strain 
through flannel cloth into another barrel; then 
take three-fourths of an ounce of the oil of sas¬ 
safras and the eiune of the oil of wintergreen 
and put it into a pint of alcohol, then shake it 
well and put into the cider. 4’his is extra; the 
only trouble is it is so good we can’t keep it 
long enough. 
Pickled Peaches.—' Take a gallon of good 
vinegar; add to it four pounds of sugar; boil 
for a few minutes and remove any scum that 
may arise; then take cllng-stone peaches that 
are fully ripe, rub them to get off the down and 
stick three or four cloves Into each one; put 
them into a stone jur and pour the liquor boiling 
hot over them; cover the jar closely and set in 
a dry place for a week or two, then pour off the 
liquor and boil as before, then return to them 
boiling hot, which should be carefully covered 
and stored away for future use.— Mrs. A. L. B., 
Quincy , Michigan. 
To Bleach White Flannel.—W ill some one 
please Inform me how to bleach white flannel 
with sulphur and oblige ?—Annie B. 
Kelly and Chas. 
Carpenter, well known pioneers on the island. 
Wc traversed a considerable part of the island 
and were shown the most important vineyards. 
The crop here too is very light, varying from 
one-fourth to half a crop. We passed through 
one vineyard of 125 acres, owned, however, by 
several parties. Some of the vineyards looked 
very well; others, on low, dark-colored soil, or 
where the rock came too near the surface, badly. 
The best vineyards appeared to be on the light¬ 
est-colored, deep, heavy, well-drained soils. 
Nearly all the vineyards struck us at first sight 
a3 being somewhat neglected, both in the cul¬ 
ture of the soil and the pruning and trainlug. 
We were told, however, that clean culture and 
summer pruning were believed to indnee or 
rather to favor mildew and rot, and some strong 
cases were cited in favor of this theory. My 
opinion is, and it may be taken for what it is 
worth, that if good, clean culture of the soil and 
judicious summer pruning indnee disease, grape 
culture must fail. The vines here are pretty 
much all planted in rows eight feet apart and 
six feet distant in the rows and trained on wire 
trellises. These are made of strong posts 3L, ft, 
in the ground and four feet above, 24 feet apart, 
and three wires 14 inches apart. 
The extension of grape culture on this island 
has been wonderful; for several yrars back it 
has averaged over 100 acres per year. Nearly 
one-half of the suitable soil of the island is now 
in grapes, and the price of land has advanced to 
?500 and ?S00 per acre for the best sites. The 
partial failure of last year and this is somewhat 
discouraging, but I can see no good reason to 
doubt the ultimate success of grape culture 
here. There are years of failure in every de¬ 
partment of cultivation. Those who expect to 
CURIOUS AFRICAN TREE, 
Paste for Cleaning Knives.— Make a mix¬ 
ture, 1 part emery and three parts crocus martis, 
in very fine powder. Mix them to a thick paste, 
with a little lard or sweet oil. Have your knife- 
board covered with a thick bnlf-leathcr. 8pread 
this paste on your leather, to about the thick¬ 
ness of a quurter-dollar. Rub your knives in it, 
and it will make them much sharper and bright¬ 
er, and will wear them out less than the common, 
method of Cleaning them with brickdust on, a, 
bare board. 
This was raised by 
the late Mr. Dell, seven years ago, from seed of 
the Doolittle. It has the same general hab¬ 
it as the Doolittle, but with rather ranker 
growth of canes—a little larger berry, firmer 
fleshed, fully equal in productiveness and hardi- 
nee?, and from 8 to 10 days later in fruiting. As 
the Doolittle begins to wane this begins to ripen 
and extends the crop, with full size, freshness 
and firmness to three or four weeks. Both of 
these plants have received, thus far, nothing 
but neglect. Hence, when given rich soil and 
high cultivation, the results will exceed the des¬ 
criptions given above. II. II. Doolittle. 
IVcav Advertisements 
fCOO nAAimWWEY PLANTS, anti 
M Mf Gru[.(i vine.* lor salu by A. W.POT- 
1 Kit, Medina, Orleans UO., N. Y. 
/2J.IANT A,sp in A (JUS, 10,000Crowns, l year 0 I 1 I. 
VA Will t>r; 8CIU alter Ont. 1 by mall, postage paid, fa 
F100; by Express., #1,50 w !Qu. 
H. II, DOOLITTLE. Oaks' Corners, X. Y. 
spade in a circle round the tree. If the summer 
pruning and pinching has been done the end of 
that season Is the proper time to root-prune. 
Many unfruitful orchards, we believe, might be 
brought, by skillful pruning, into a cendition of 
profitable bearing. 
rjItAPK VINK*. 1VE OFFER THIS FALL 
V* the. 11 uw violence, well eiowu. ImWiil, Concord 
an dot tiers, grown from cutting*, lu iinuntltfes. Send 
lor Price List. FERRIS & CA V WOOD. 
Wl-St _ Poughkeepsie, N. V. 
G iRAPE VINKS. WE OFFKU,~FOIt FALL 
I and Spring delivery, 1 .COn.uflo one year old vines 
i gioraelm: ton l»»L varieties, nil grown hy ourselves. 1 m 
open culture, open around. s, from tingle cuts. Send for 
Circular anil price list. 
sw-^t wm. Griffith & nrco., North East, p a 
A TRIP, TO SOME OF THE VINEYARDS ON 
THE SHORES OF LAKE ERIE. 
SEEDLING FRUITS, 
[IVe are indebted to P. Barry, Esq., of the 
Mt. Hope Nurseries, for the subjoined interest¬ 
ing notes of a trip to the Vineyards of North 
East, Kelley’s Island, &c,—E d.] 
Haying heard much for several years past of 
the successful cultivation of the Grape on the 
shores of Lake Erie, I recently availed myself of 
the polite invitation of the “Lake Shore Grape 
Growers 1 Association” to join their Summer 
Meeting and Excursion, which was held on the 
loth and 16th inst. As Grape Culture at the 
present time occupies a large share of attention 
in almost every part of the country, a few notes 
on what I saw may not be devoid of interest to 
the readers of the Rural New-Yorker. 
The Vineyards Qt North Ensr, Ptu 
Our party, before joining the Society at Cleve¬ 
land, halted at North East, Erie Co., Pa,, 16 
miles east of Erie, on the Lake Shore Railroad, 
to visit the extensive grounds of Wm. Griffith, 
Esq., and the South Shore Wine Company with 
which he is connected. We werq fortunate in 
finding Mr. Griffith at home, and were kindly 
The Magazine of Horticulture, for August, 
has a leading article on seedliDg Fruits, suggest¬ 
ed by the proceedings of the Frnit Growers’ So¬ 
ciety of Western New York, held In this city in 
June last. The discussion had, at that meeting, 
is copied at length, and made the text of the 
comments to which we refer. 
aeuil lor THOMAS WIGHT'S Wholesale Lot Tree 
Fries Lmt—containing nu Imiucir-o amount collected 
irorn I’luriT-t.BOWJt*», Nui.-keibh, ami reliable -ources 
generally,—No. S3 Arcade, Kuehmur, N. Y, 
PHILADELPHIA RASP HERR V 
I 1 lunt*, obtained ot .Mr, Pakhv orcinuiumnon have 
(rutted near Waterloo, aiul fully sustain his clainV 
SSSfg "• 1 ” “»» 
or Doolictlb a Wiout, Waterloo, X. Y. s ’ 
f r 11 A v£?. v V1 * ES , A NB WOOD.-Miss J. 
VA ,h. Wakjno Otters lor bull and Sprincc sales ut 
wholesale and retail, her stock of Vlr.es, gro wn In riot ; 
W th creutcare. lheyi.ro m Jnclpully of the best new 
L ‘. .7 n 'f' Hrue.l u, Auiroiidac, anil lingers' Hy- 
bnda ; ulgp, Delawuro, concord, Diana, Rebecca, Allen'* 
Hybrid, Hanford Prolific, Ac. The stock Is nowonan 
tortile Inspection oi buyers. For price list, or further 
M,s ” *"“w- 
In these the So¬ 
ciety Is mildly censured for not coming squarely 
up to the work supposed to pertain legitimately 
to its missiou, by pronouncing In favor of or 
against such seedling fruits as were submitted to 
its scrutiny. This censure is, perhaps, in part 
merited, though the proceedings show that the 
Society deemed it more politic, if not more just, 
to defer this judgment to a future meeting, that 
a Report might be submitted by a committee ap¬ 
pointed to examine the claims of new varieties, 
upon the attention of fruit growers, professional 
and amateur. This committee will, most likely, 
give the results of their examinations and re¬ 
searches at the next meeting of the Society, 
thereby enabling it to pronounce, with suitable 
emphasis, upon the several new varieties ot 
fruits now competing for public favor. 
In reference to decisions, of this character, the 
edilor says:—“The trouble is committees, who 
have to examine and report upon seedlings, 
often have two things to contend with, fear and 
self-interest, either of which are fatal to a 
reliable opinion. They are afraid they shall of- 
ney to see. It is the glanca budded on the acu¬ 
minata, about a foot in diameter where budded 
and with a head as large as a good sized apple 
tree. The Doctor has promised to furnish an 
article for the press on Magnolias and we antic¬ 
ipate a most interesting one. 
We made a visit to N yse’s Fruit Preserving 
House here, and the Professor very kindly con 
ducted us through and explained the principles 
on which it is constructed. We were shown and 
permitted to taste of grapes and apples in an 
excellent state of preservation from last year. 
Prof. Ntse considers this house, which is now 
in his own hands, as the most perfect in the 
now nearly 
| H 1* O It TED D L' T € II 
L BULBOUS ROOTS 1 
\Ve have the plfiiMirolo announce that ourDEscan'- 
Tiva Annual Catalogue of 
FLOWJbjnilVG- nunss, 
Wlthdlrectlona for their cultivation, will be ready lor 
rnaulDg to nil Applicant* on tlte flm ot , S«*ntembf'r. 
■I M. T Ho KB URN * CO., IS John So, x“ w York. 
• ** 1 rune Libia lor IiUlb» lor I)G&lor£ only, ready at 
the same time* 8tJT-2teo 
FOR FAIili OF 18CG 
ELIAVAXGKR & KARRI 
country. As one of these houses is r 
completed at Rochester, the public in this vicin- 
invention 
CLIPPING TOMATO VINES, 
ity will soon have the utility of this 
put to a practical test. 
In conclusion, Mr. Editor, I must ei. 
self highly gratified with my trip and thank the 
Grape Growers’ Association and the Proprietors 
on Kelley’s Island for their polite attention, 
and I hope to meet them all again when the 
vineyards are in a more fruitful condition. 
P. 8. I ought to have mentioned that the 
party, when all mustered on the island, num¬ 
bered about one hundred. Among the invited 
guests were the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder 
President of the American Pomological Society, 
and Charles Downing, E?q., of Newburg. Mr! 
Wilder was in the best of health and Spirits, 
and I am sure he was never greeted with a more 
cordial welcome than on this occasion. He ex¬ 
pressed himself highly pleased,—delighted with 
Ordinary roofing slates set perpendicularly 
in the ground so as to overlap about three- 
fourths of an inch, are quite effectual in fencing 
out roots from a bed in a garden or yard. 
Some experiments made at the Experimental 
Grounds, Washington, seem to show that slight 
covering, a mere board, over grape vines pre¬ 
vents mildew. 
