EXCELSIOR 
II Park Row, IV«*w York 
M2 IIulTalo St., Rot-heater. 
@3.00 PER YEAR. 
Single IVo., Eight Cents, 
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH f>, 1863 
T. Moouk, in the Clerk’s Olliee of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.] 
Act of Congress, in'the year 1S01), by D. P 
[Entered according to 
borne fruit twelve years.) He names the 
following, which lie says can be grown suc¬ 
cessfully with proper caro:—Fall Orange, 
Saxton, Ben Davis, St. Lawrence, and Haas. 
Who can tell us about the last named? 
It is now to us. 
Georgia Red—A Southern Wilder Apple — 
Wc notice in the proceedings of the meeting 
of the Southwestern Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, held at Terry, Alisa,.Tan. ID,as pub¬ 
lished in the Southern Ruralist, Mr, J. B. 
Stumiam of Hinds Co., Alins., says he bus a. 
few trees of what is sailed Georgia Red—“ a 
late variety, ripening the last, of November 
and first of December; a good winter apple, 
keeping very well in this climate, till the first 
of June.” Is the “ Gladney Red ” of “ Ameri¬ 
can Pomolotrv" meant? Who will tell us 
THE SALEM GRAPE. 
We have heretofore illustrated several of 
the more valuable numbers ot that remark¬ 
able series of grapes—Rogers’ Hybrids. 
The Salem was, we believe, originally num¬ 
bered 23 in the list, and is the only one on 
which a specific name has been bestowed. 
It was thus honored by Air. Rogers because, 
after testing them all for a series of years, he 
deemed it the. roost promising of his hybrids. 
In 1807 AH. R> described it as “ not only su¬ 
perior to any of the former well known j 
numbers, but also to any hardy grape at 
present (then) before the public, combining 
as nearly as possible every quality desired in 
an out door grape, being one of the hardiest, 
healthiest, and most vigorous of vitics, and 
producing enormous crops ot beautiful, high 
flavored fruit. Like other well known num¬ 
bers— such as Nos. 4, 15 and 44 this is a 
hybrid between a native and the Black Ham¬ 
burg. The bunch is large and compact; 
berry large as Hamburg and of a light chest¬ 
nut or Catawba color; skin thin; flesh 
perfectly free from hard pulp, very sweet and 
sprightly, with a most exquisite aromatic 
flavor. It is as early us the Delaware or 
Hartford Prolific, ripening its fruit in the 
most unfavorable seasons. 
The testimony of prominent fruit growers 
who have fruited it, is to the effect that it is 
a hardy vine, a vigorous grower, with strong 
leaf; that the fruit ripens early, is very large 
and showy, if not the very best in quality, 
possesses merit enough to make it very val¬ 
uable for market purposes. At the Annual 
Fair of the Lake Shore Grape Growers’ 
Association last tall, the Salem received 
the first nremium for the “best six clusters 
DOCTOR REEDER PEAR, 
This exceedingly valuable new pear orig¬ 
inated with Dr." Henry Reeder, Variek, 
Seneca county, N. Y., from scud of a Winter 
Nclis pear, tile tree of which grew near a 
Seckel. The fruit in form resembles the 
Seckcl, while, with the rich, honied sweet¬ 
ness of that variety, it Juts also the juicy, 
sprightly vivacity of the Winter Nelis. The 
original tree is about twelve years old, and 
as yet has been but little disseminated. We 
are indebted to Messrs* Ellwander & 
Barry of Rochester, N. Y., for specimens 
from which we have made the accompany¬ 
ing drawing and description. The variety 
is generally known under the name ot Dr. 
Reeder’s Seedling, by which it was noticed 
first in American Pomological Society’s 
to a pre-eminence which will warrant its ox 
tended culture. 
its favor. There are hardy straw 1 jerries, I 
vigorous in growth, productive, valuable for 
market, which have flavor to commend them; 
and we do not see, exactly, the place this 
fruit is to take in the pomological field where 
its qualities in any particular will entitle it 
THE COLFAX STRAWBERRY. 
AVe have received the accompanying illus¬ 
tration of this strawberry, with a somewhat 
florid description of its qualities. We give 
the illustration, and the substance of the 
history and description, without endorsing 
what is said of it—for we know nothing 
of the fruit personally — as a matter of 
pomological news. The matter comes to us 
from a gentleman who would not be apt to 
peril his good name — for lie has one — as a 
fruit propagator, for what he could make out 
ol the fruit thus introduced. But we must 
remind our readers, (what their own expe¬ 
rience has doubtless taught them,) that the 
same fruit does not do equally well on all 
soils, in all localities. And we caution them 
against indulging in too great expectations 
concerning this. The following is substan¬ 
tially what is said of it. 
This strawberry was introduced into South 
Bend, Ind., some fifteen years ago, by 
Schuyler Colfax, with a number of seed¬ 
ling strawberries, which had been presented 
to him by a friend. This one came to be 
regarded highly by good fruit judges in that 
£ section. The plant is perfectly hardy, won- 
derfully vigorous, responding promptly to 
k good care and culture, and yielding good 
b crops (when neglected,) where most other 
k, sorts would die out. It produces larger 
/ stools than the Green Prolific or the Agricul- 
i turist, and has a dark green, luxuriant 
r/ foliage, which does not burn in summer. It 
is very, and regularly productive, “ surpass- 
uniform, hanging in clusters; color dark 
crimson; flavor sub-acid; bas a large per 
centage of juice; is not sufficiently firm for 
a distant market; season, medium to very 
late. 
We have omit- 
ted many adject- 
ives given in the 
description from 
which w e con¬ 
dense the above; 
and now that our 
readers may not 
he misled, we ***"-:■ 
state, what we 
gather from the 
above description 
to be ks negative ^* 3^4 P 
qualities. It is soft VrV 
and is not a mar- 
ket berry, and no & >&fk 
one should at- MBg p g*' 
tempt to cultivate 
flavor and other 
qualities desirable 
to commend it to 
the amateur. Its 
hardiness, vigor of 
growth, and pro¬ 
ductiveness are 
all that is urged in < 
A Faribault corre¬ 
spondent of the 
Northern Farmer 
names the follow¬ 
ing apples, con¬ 
sidered as hardy 
there, that have 
been fruited : — 
Duchess of Oldcn- 
burgh, Talman 
Sweet, (which he 
says has not done 
so well on the 
black prairie soils 
as among the 
bluffs, and on soils 
having a strong 
admixture of clay) 
Red Astraehan, 
Famcusc, Perry 
Russet, English 
Golden Russet, 
and Kirkbridge 
White. (This last 
named variety is 
not much known 
in the State, but 
lie knows of it in 
orchards where it 
has done remark¬ 
ably well, having 
Minnesota. 
Fruit small in size, globular, obtuse pyri¬ 
form, pale yellow ground, mostly overspread 
with a smooth, warm, cinnamon russet- 
stem slender, nearly three-fourths of an fetch 
long, set in a broad, open, moderately deep 
cavity, having occasionally a slight lip on 
one side; calyx open, large for size ot fruit, 
with erect,divided,rounded segments; basin 
shallow, broad, smooth and Open; tlesli yel¬ 
lowish white, line grained, juicy, melting,al¬ 
most buttery, sprightly, sweet, and slightly 
aromatic; best in quality; core medium; 
seeds blackish; season early November. 
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