Hrbarkttlture 
height, measures fifty-two inches in circum¬ 
ference, three feet above the ground. Some 
of the leaves measure forty-seven inches in 
circumference. 
It. commenced blooming the third year 
after planting; and this season it was one 
mass of splendid (lowers. The (lowers grow 
in large clusters, each flower being about one 
and three quarter inches in length by two 
inches in circumference, of a rich purple and 
white. I have counted as many as one 
hundred and twenty-one flowers on one dus¬ 
ter, all opened at the same time, the cluster 
being nearly large enough to till a half 
bushel measure — a perfect bouquet in itself, 
and about as fragrant as the white lily. No 
bisects trouble the tree, accept honey bees 
when the tree is in bloom. The bloom re¬ 
mains on the tree Horn two to three weeks. 
Its easy culture, rapid growth, splendid 
flowers and large foliage, will, I think, com¬ 
mend it to all lovers of beautiful trees. It 
never sprouts, hut can be raised from seeds 
as easily as a peach tree or hill of corn. I 
have no trees for sale. 
Adams Co., Ohio. C. C. Concur. 
bark was not decayed from it, and the wood 
did not seem to be in the least seasoned, or 
show signs of rotting. A stump, upwards 
of live feet across, was pointed out on the. 
same ground, which an old gentleman de¬ 
clared, to his knowledge, had been cut sixty 
yearn. Several old residents about, testified 
to its always having been a sound stump 
within their knowledge. It did not seem to 
be the feast decayed, and the credibility of 
strangers was strained to the utmost to be¬ 
lieve what was said. There seemed to he no 
sap to these specimens, and all was heart- 
wood to l In* very bark. 
The black walnut, butternut, or white 
walnut, (another excellent sugar-making 
free,) the chestnut and the hickories, in all 
their varieties, ought to be sown where they 
an* to remain, for a very large main tap-root 
which runs very deep in the earth renders it. 
difficult, if not impossible, to transplant them 
with safety. I have dug five feet down, and 
found the tap-root of a hickory tree, a few 
years old, quite as large as it was on the 
surface. Black walnut wood is now more 
highly prized by furniture makers than even 
mahogany, and a good sized tree, which 
forks low down, and thus forms “crotches," 
or curly, knotty wood, is worth hundreds of 
dollars for making veneers. 
Brother tree growers everywhere! Plant 
trees, plant trees ! Set one for each of your 
children, ami yourself and wife. Then set 
one out for each recurring birth-day in the 
family, and better yet, plant two, instead of 
one, for fear one may fail. Illinois, Iowa, 
and Northern Missouri amt Southern Min¬ 
nesota now have many more trees in them 
than when they were first settled. May the 
good work go on ! There can be no monu¬ 
ment lo the memory of a man, or a woman, 
or even a. child, equal to a stately, noble, 
bcautful tree. Backwoodsman. 
F iiesh and genuine garden 
AND FLOWER SEEDS. 
FERRE, BATCHELDER & CO., 
£231 MAIW STREET, 
Springfield, - - - Mass., 
Importers and Growers of 
SIGNS OF THE TIMES, 
Concerning Plnutinsr Timber ami Forests, 
One year ago an assemblage of more than 
one hundred and fifty horticulturists met at 
the city of Frecporr, III., to discuss the nu¬ 
merous questions of interest in this depart¬ 
ment of industry 
And Dealers In 
Au'ricHlturitl ami Horticultural l'ni- 
plomcutH, Fertilizers, «fce., &c. 
J lu ‘ dwL'I lo In Invited to our large 
wUio?lT4 (Vur " ,1Un, ° r 11,0 abuv ‘-’for list of 
Illustrated Catalogue and Vegetable 
and Flower Garden manual, 
which contains about, 100 pages, with NtfMEnotrs 
Ll “ & 
FLOW Kit AND VEGETA UI.K SEEDS OF AM E R 
IOAN GROWTH. 
together with runny varieties anil novelties obtained 
from the most, reliable English And Continental 
Dkalkuh ANniiitmvKits. with spaetnl directions for 
tludr cultivation. Also u list of many 
Summer Flowering Du lbs, Small 
Fruit*, Etc., 
with many oilier valuable hints for cultivators. A 
eopy will bo mailed to all applicant* Inclosing Ten 
Vents, which Is not one-half the cost. 
Essays were prepared on 
the various topics which legitimately per¬ 
tained to the deliberations and discussions of 
this Congress of Fruit and Tree Growers. 
Six essays on the Cultivation of Timber and 
Forests were received, approved and em¬ 
bodied in the published transactions of the 
Convention. 
This remarkable coincidence of fact, that 
six men, for the most part strangers to each 
other, residing respectively in several States, 
and without any known concert of action, 
yet writing in concert on the same subject, 
each adducing facts and arguments on the 
subject of timber and forest culture, agreeing 
with and sustaining each other, and together 
forming the most stirring and conclusive ar¬ 
guments in favor of immediately adopting a 
grand system of forest planting in the United 
State-, and timberless territories, by individ¬ 
ual enterprise and Governmental patronage 
I repeat, this coincidence should not pass 
unheeded by an intelligent public. 
The great central idea Contained in these 
documents was: Fimt —That the welfare, 
the wealth, the health and oven the very ex¬ 
istence of a 
I igs. 1 and 2 arc neat and picturesque in 
appearance, cheap, and easily constructed. 
First insert in the earth, one foot from the 
tree, a piece of board one and a half inches 
wide, and from seven to nine feet in length; 
these are connected together by pieces nailed 
horizontally or inclined, as shown; if danger 
be apprehended fVom sheep and swine, the 
lattice work may extend the whole length of 
the structure; the uprights in the whole of 
i he designs shown should be well driven into 
the earth, thereby allowing the tree to he 
secured to t he protector by tying with bands 
of cloth or leather, thus preventing girdling 
by the action of heavy winds. 
go-ahead man. When lie tells them what 
to plant, l must put in an energetic protest 
from this section of your bailiwick. The 
black locust here is the most wort hless tree 
that grows, whatever it may be at Chappa- 
qua and elsewhere eastward, Unfortunately 
fur us, we planted of it very largely thirty 
years ago, and pretty much lost our labor 
altogether, and what is more valuable,many 
years of precious time. Before it gets half 
grown, it is attacked everywhere by the 
borer, and soon blows flown. Beautiful and 
graceful when young, at maturity it is the 
shabbiest tree that can he grown, its limbs 
becoming brittle and breaking short off, 
everywhere, giving it a particularly forlorn 
and loaferisli look. Growing rapidly in our 
rich soils, the timber is also totally and 
utterly worthless for any purpose except 
very poor and mean firewood. By all means 
caution your inexperienced readers in the 
States ot Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, 
Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin against 
having anything to do with the common 
black locust. 
Wbut Tri'c* to XMrtut. 
For a small tree, answering admirably for 
shade, wind-breaks,grape slakes, small fence 
posts, &c., there is nothing better than the 
osagc orange, Everybodv knows lmw 
great people depended, in an 
important sense, on an abundant, supply of 
vtUnable forests. Second —That the present 
n'air^ forest*, especially pint-, were, in the 
present ratio of consumption, soon to be 
used up. Third —That it. became a wise Gov¬ 
ernment and a prudent people to enact, and 
prosecute such measures ns would ultimately 
clothe our country with an adequate supply, 
not only for the present hut ftituro genera¬ 
tions. Fourth, — It was demonstrated in 
evidence that in twelve or fifteen years v alu¬ 
able forests could be produced from seed, 
trees of sufficient size for fence posts, of one 
fool in diameter and thirty feet in height, 
worth not less than one thousand five hun¬ 
dred dollars per acre. 
The above named ideas have been scat¬ 
tered broadcast over the land; they have 
been published by nearly every important 
periodical in the country, from Maine to 
Nebraska. An enlightened and wise nation 
is stirred, and the work has begun. Kansas 
has already enacted Timber Laws, and other 
Stales are taking measures for the same end. 
Let the work move on! v, c. s. 
(Ono-fourth Natural SI*oj 
66 General Grant. 99 
We take pleasure In mniomiuluit In the public that, 
JVC llavi' n'liurral thn emtiru stock .if tin* jusllv cele- 
blilti'll I'minitn. We believe It Min neiirosl, approach 
to perteet.bin of anything of thn 1,1ml yet ottered, 
combining more superior qualities. 
Sl/.e. above the medium, three to four tnches In 
Oinuiolci’, growing 111 el nut ova; form round, slightly 
lint loiied. very regular, sy inmetrieal, anil rarely rib¬ 
bed or wrinkled ; color Inillbiiiigldssy crimson: He-.ii 
unusually firm, HOtld anil tree irom water, weighing 
from Hi to ‘.'ll poiimli moru per hindiol than other 
varieties ; skin remarkably tine,smooth and shining, 
Coloring well up to tins stem a duality verv desirable 
to (nose procuring them lor the table; very product 
Ivou-nd of llie finest, ilnvor; bears carriage well and 
keepH in |*oo!I r.onilli ion a long time after Indus slith¬ 
ered. retaining Its goodness, and free front ivi lung. 
Andrew S. Fuller, authored Small Fruit vaUnrist. 
Wo have had an oimortunlty of testing thin Tomato 
the past season, ami believe i! will prove lo be one of 
thn very best varieties in cultivation. 
<’. N. Ilrncltclt, OVainnan at Vtg. ''am, Mass. [fort. Sne. 
I have given the new Tomtit,o, lion Grant, a fair 
trial of two season-., in connection with a dozen or 
morn of thn new varieties recently Introduced, such 
ns r.lio t’ouk’s Favorite, Tthlen, Valencia, fluster, 
Keyes, BUroka, Mitupuy. Foard, Coder l lill, Ac., and 
lino it surpasses them all In tHirllness.productiveness 
ami all the qualities which I consider requisite in a 
tlrst-eluss market, variety, mid eun heartily recom¬ 
mend It. No person. I think, Who nuiltnH nnv of the 
nbove-niimed varieties Ills atnndiml of excellence, 
will, after giving l-lils variety one season's trial, prow 
any other. Its extraordinary beauty amt singular 
rlchneHsor color command tbo attention of the most 
careless observer. 
f. Dales aj Kingston, oHginallir of Dales’ Karin. 
Thn Gen. Grant Tomato I have tried with several 
other varieties, Viz., Cedar Hill, Foard. Keyes, Til- 
ih-n, Hates’ Early. Thn Gnn. Grant beat all in earli- 
nesH uxocol Hates' Early: with that it was about 
' neck-and-mu 1 It." lint I'm- beauty nf torm, color 
and uomuiiet tlesh, it stands head and shoulders 
above all the rest, Flan ted May 10th, fruit ripe 
August, llth. 
I'rico per packet 20 cents; 6 packets $1. Prices to 
the trade on application. WASHBURN A CO., 
US)5-!itOO Horticultural Halt, Boston. 
A Valuable Tree. Mr. John Hogg, in a paper 
before tho British Associa tion for the Advance- 
nienl, of Science, estimates one of tho mammoth 
Sequoias he saw in California, at out* oent, it 
(■tibie foot, to be worth $5,000. He thought it 
I,<300 years old. 
^1’ItINC, I8G9. 
Kocliester Commercial Nurseries, 
(Established, IH:iO,| 
WM. S. LITTLE .Proprietor. 
I offer for Spuing SALES a i.aime and UN¬ 
BROKEN i.esrtiiieiit of Nursery Products of excel¬ 
lent. quality. 
Descriptive Catalogues,80 pages, 10 cunts. The Cir¬ 
cular of Prices, per dozen, per 100, per 1,000, seutHo 
all applicants. 
Nurserymen, Dealers and Planters, large and small, 
address WM, S. LITTLE, 
W-SMto Rochester, N. Y. 
ADDI” IN THE EAST, 
Our new Strawberry, NIC A NOR, has proved in all 
parts of the country to be one of the most hardy, 
productive ami valuable In cultivation. 
Wo now offer strong plants us follows : 
#1.00 tier dnz., free by mull. 
*5.00 per UKl, delivered at Express Office here. 
Our ColleeMon >d' STRAWBERRIES embraces all 
the American and Foreign sorts worthy of cultiva- 
t ion. Descriptive Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental 
Trees sent, pro-paid, for III cunts each. 
KULWANGER & BARRY, 
Mount Hope Nurseries, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
“ America is the worst fruit growing 
country in the world.” Something like a 
year or more since the substance of the 
above was written and published by it writer 
of some little notoriety; and from a look 
over his trees, and allowing that there he 
made his stand-point, I don’t blame him for 
the remark. 
I am a Western man, and have lately 
been rambling among some of the celebrated 
places and gardens on the Hudson River, 
where I expected to see the perfection of 
culture, but where I have been grievously 
disappointed. Cockney gardening has cer¬ 
tainly the nde there ; and Instead of clean- 
barked, thrifty trees in the orchard and gar¬ 
den—as we have them West—why, I find 
them scrubby, covered with moss and scab, 
and pieces of old dead bark, with rotten 
ends of limbs produced from bad pruning. 
In two or three places the trees wi re also 
full of water sprouts, ancl puny shoots sent 
out from the pruning of a small twig and 
neglecting to cut it close to the limb. The 
head gardener, I suppose, being impressed 
with the idea that trees required to have 
“hopen ’eacls to let in the sun and hair,” 
had, last season, (1807,) cut without mercy, 
and then this season, (1868,) permitted all to 
grow at will. 
As 1 said, I don’t blame the writer of my 
text, if he took his stand-point here. Thanks 
to the intelligence, industry and care of cul¬ 
tivators West, we have no such scrubs among 
our orchards; and it might do some of these 
Eastern savans (!) good to visit us and see; 
and so perchance they might leam! Addi. 
Fia. 3. Fig. 4. 
The one shown in Fig. 3 is designed to 
protect large trees, from eight inches to two 
feet in diameter. It consists of two or more 
bands of iron, considerably larger than the 
diameter of the tree, perforated with holes 
four inches distant; on the inside of these 
bands are secured, by small bolts or by nails, 
strips seven feet in length and two inches 
wide; bottoms of a number of the strips 
may be nailed to small stakes driven in the 
ground near the protector. 
A MATE IK UULTIVATOtt’K GUIDE 
lx. To TOW 
Kit4-Ii<‘ii sjsill Flower GanJem. 
Tlio 25(1 edittpn Of tali' popular mid un,ful work, 
which bus met with ho grunt tavor In the past, much 
enlarged and Improved, containing descriptive lists 
of all Flower ami Garden Sent!* worthy of cultivation, 
embracing over SLMW varieties; to winch n added ail 
the novelties III Flow,,ciand Vogel a hie- for lai'.i• also 
200 varieties of the choicest I'Tonob Hybrid Gladi¬ 
olus. 
(J Ifublilnn, M. IK, Madison, 117... Pres. Slate Hart. 
Sue., and Par. Mem. of the flltyal ITort.Soe.of Kua. I 
" Please accept itiy thunks for your ' Guide.’ I think 
yon might to Call It ' The Garden Companion.' ll is 
lit. once very usefullyilUit conveniently urrsngofl; a 
Sort of ready reference book, verv ornamentally cot 
■ li,. idol i,l I lo. a., lout I ■ i ... I ft i i to * . , 
957-2tm 
[ ESTABLISHED 1840.] 
O r R A 41 ATETI US’ (HI I DE TO THE 
Kitchen t.union. Calendar for Will, and Farmer's 
and Gardeners’ Price List, mailed to all applicants 
inclosing stump. WADE A ARMSTRONG, 
„ lA Seed Growers and Importer!!, 
!lf>7-10t 1120 Market Street, Philadelphia. 
f fOU PLANTERS’ PRICE LIST-Ot 
FIRST-1 'LASS Nil KSKRY STOCK, offered at low 
rates send stump. Just published, a New Jjescrtvtive 
Catalogue, of 
(irefiii-Honse anil Bedding Plants, 
with beautiful colored plate, which will ho sent on 
receipt of 10 cents. Address 
C. W. SEELYK 4 CO.. 
., Rochester Central Nurseries, 
1 Rochester, N. V. 
'-fGiuii OHM i ' ppid'p* » IIP Rium'i iirnu. II 
25 sorts Garden nnd Flower Seeds *1. 
gratis. Early Rose Potato V5 cts. per Ih. 
Seeds on commission Agents wanted. 
SON, Plymouth, Mass. 
W'.f'anj Sia.iis: I ail \I»VV It EG El V- 
n I UK my usual supply of SEEDS of all kinds. Mv 
Garden S<!<'ds have been selected with especial refer¬ 
ence to the wants of Market Gardeners and the Re¬ 
tail Trade. My Annual Cutnlokne is now ready, ami 
will he forwarded to all applicants, 
_ **• 8. MESEUOl.E, Seedsman. 
iKfT-.lt 20-4 Liike St., Chicago, 111. 
EAV AND RARE VEGETABLES 
Fig. 5. Fig. 0. 
A side view of an ornamental protector is 
shown in Fig. 4. It consists in boring a 
number of holes in the board composing the 
side ; Figs. 5 and 6 arc simply modifications 
of the one previously noticed. Exceedingly 
beautiful designs can be planned b 3 r any car¬ 
penter. The sizes of tho board in the last 
figures are sixteen inches at top and twenty 
inches wide at the bottom, and any length 
desired. A thorough application of sawdust 
or spent tan bark round and about the trees 
will be found beneficial to them in giving a 
stronger and more rapid growth, and a pro¬ 
tection to the roots during a drouth. 
Yates Co., N. Y. ' L. D. Snook. 
Tho original introducer of the Htmnxan Squash 
and Mahulkiikaji Mammoth Cabbage, / make tlie 
seed of new and rare vegetables a Smeialtu. I raise on 
my three seed farms over one hundred varieties of 
seed, both new nnd -tiuidnrd sort , and Import many 
choice kinds rrom England and France. 
Catalog!to gratia to all. 
JAMES J. II. GUEGOUY. 
Marblehead, Mass. 
; v i N ns. \ a lisicit \ men, 
ml Vineyardluts wanting good stock 
!, can now secure, it at low rules, Iona, 
vtiro, Allen's Hybrid, and most of the 
iown varieties. First-class wood for 
For Price last, address 
It. W. HOLTON, 
Ilaverstraw, Rockland Co., N. Y. 
>I,ANTS FOR THE FLOWER GAR 
DEN AND GRKKN-IIOUSE. 
My Catalogue for 
18*111 Contains descriptions of many NEW, RARE and 
BEAUTIFUL varieties; also a list of the tin os t vari¬ 
eties of 
FRENf If IIVIIRID GLADIOLUS, 
the cultivation of which is made a specialty by me. 
*’ Me. Such exhibited at our o//nv specimen* of Gladi¬ 
olus which for sixe of spike and beauty of flower we 
have never teen equaletl. AmhuiCa v AGhicirj.Tun- 
IST, Sept,., 1868, 
Address GEORGE SUCH, 
!Kf?-2tuo Smith A in tiny, N. J, 
995-Gt 
TREE PROTECTORS. 
Trees, when newly set along streets of 
towns, villages or country roads, need con¬ 
siderable care and protection. 1 propose 
here to only notice how they may be pro¬ 
tected from the ravages of street cattle. The 
law disallowing cattle to he pastured in the 
highway is trampled upon with impunity by 
certain persons in nearly every neighborhood 
and thus are destroyed annually many beau- 
titul shade and ornamental trees that are un¬ 
protected. A number of the plans shown 
are old; they are given to refresh the memory 
of those who tire acquainted with them, and 
_*t, , 
C E N '1' F H E E ! 
kJ M. O'KEEFE, SON & GO'S 
CATAXjOG-UE OF' SEEDS, 
And guide to the Flower and VKOKtabee 
Garden Foil IStiO. Every lover of flowers wishing 
this new work, free of charge, should address im¬ 
mediately M. O'KEEFE, SON & Go., 
Ktlwungor & Harry’s Block. Rochester, N Y. 
THE ATTENTION OF DEALERS 
J nnd Planters Is invited to my large Offerings of 
Small Fruit l 3 laula, 
embracing all the muv and wK.bb-TKIBD aorta of 
Ghapks, RanPhu.uk.ieu, BLACKBaRUlUftllllUS tka\ v- 
hkuuiun, lit lowest -price*. Address 
■JW-tf C. L. VAX OUSEN. Manedoii. N. Y. 
THE PREMIUM SANFORD CORN. 
1 Every farmer should send for my Descriptive 
Circular, giving history of this miportor variety, and 
testimonials fmiu I hose who have grown it the past 
season. East. West. North and South endorse it as 
being the hunt eibj.B Corn, it ripens early and 
yields largely. One quart, by mall, post-paid, 75 cts.; 
one peek, by evpress, $2; one bushel, *6. Also, price 
lists of Koelii llosr, Uaritum, Karltl Goodrich Potatoes 
and Norway Oat.-, all tuy own growing, warranted 
true to name, and at lower rates than they can lm 
purchased H*ow)iere Address 
8. B. FA N XI N'G, Jamcsport, Long Island, N. Y. 
tor fencing purposes. It there is any better, 
it must be very good indeed. Young larches 
may be found in swamps, and they may also 
be bought In the nurseries at very reasonable 
prices. This is a most, desirable tree to plant 
out anywhere, particularly where the ground 
is wet, and unsuited for cultivation. 
The black walnut is one of the. most dura¬ 
ble woods known. A few years ago, the 
writer was shown a log in Western Ohio, 
which several respectable witnesses declared 
bad been cut upwards of forty years. The 
PONO VER’S COLOSSAL A SPAR A- 
V g!JM, CrriRbv’H HWi'i’t Corn. Kidnll s Solid Mam¬ 
moth Tomato, 4c., 40., 4c., urn dcucrlhed in our 
New Dosorlptivw 
T HE ALTON LARGE NUTMEG MELON, 
U\ equaled as a Shipping Vakikiv. De¬ 
scription —Round, six to nine inches in diameter, 
netted, green fleshed, thick, inciting, xugnry, anil 
highly perfumed. Price, per uz., ;«l ct.B.; per lh„ 
8&M). Hcnfl for Circular. Address 
BAKLF.lt 4 CONDON, Upper Alton, III. 
