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POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP. 
A Michigan Jilark Sweet Cherry. — A. 0. 
Winchester of St. Joseph, Mich., sends 
samples of u seedling Black Sweet Cherry, 
that, lie says appears quite hardy in the tree 
and a good hearer. The fruit is of medium 
size, roundish oblate, without suture, of a 
dark, purplish black color; half tender, with 
flesh of a dark liver color, juicy, pleasant, 
sweet sub-acid, a few removes from the Muz- 
zard only, which probably accounts for the 
hardihood of the tree. 
An Ohio Cherry. —Cha rleb Pease, Sen'r, 
hold on a few years ere introducing, as there 
are already too many of that class and color 
to really warrant the introduction of a new 
one, without its having had a long and wide¬ 
spread test in the hands of amateurs. He 
writes of one named “ Katie,” a new seed¬ 
ling, the tree of which is of the Maz- 
zard or Sweet class, while the fruit 
resembles a May Duke fully ripe. It 
has fruited three years, and, so far, 
shows productiveness. It matures its 
fruit quite late, or about with Down¬ 
er’s Late, and promises to be highly 
valuable. 
Mexican Overbearing. — P. R. El- 
uott writes us that while be, from 
the published descriptions of the ad¬ 
vertisers, doubted this being anything 
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fight in search of truth. If the truth is that ORANGE-COLORED BLACKBERRY 
the “Mexican Everbearing” is not the Red FUNGUS 
Alpine, then there are people hereaway who _ 
would be glad to he si 1 own the difference Tms disease, which threatens to make 
between the plants sent out as such and the blackberry and raspberry growing as uncer- 
Red Alpine so long grown here. 
of Cleveland, ()., has a Black Cherry of the but the old Red Alpine, he was un- 
Sweet class, the tree of which is of upright, willing to say so, until he knew the 
spreading habit; the fruit large, heart-shape, f )1( d; that he sent to the proprietors 
slightly obtuse, dark liver color, almost black; f° r 11 leaf; they sent him plants. Four 
surface smooth; suture indistinct ; a slight weeks from planting out the plants 
raised knob line on opposite side; stem received had fruit, and sent out run- 
medium length and size, set in an open, hots upon which also fruit blossoms 
round, pretty deep cavity • flesh purplish, Showed. Satisfied, therefore, that 
juicy, rich and sweet; almost firm. It ripens there was something to learn about 
a few days later than Black Tartarian, and ,Il(! plant, he on the 14th of July paid 
for some five or six years has shown no rot. !l visit to Detroit, examined the plants 
Mr. Elliott writes us that lie thinks it one *'i Mr. Whiting's grounds, where 
that should be grown and distributed; but they were evidently all newly planted 
as Mr. Pease does not propagate, it only re- this season. The soil a good, although 
mains to see if any fruit grower or nursery- not rich, sandy loam; the plants were 
man will take hold of it. clean, frill of fruit, ripe and green, 
Louis Philiipe. —Mr. F. It. Elliott writes an< * blossoms, and as in his 
us that he again has witnessed t he trees liter¬ 
ally loaded, in ropes ns it were, with fruit, 
and holding it perfect until Ifith of July. 
He counts it, one of, if not the, most valuable 
of all I ho class of sour cherries. The fruit is 
large, rich sour, almost fit for the dessert, 
and nothing of the cherry kind equals it for 
canning. 
The Light colored Sweet Cherries at the West, 
where the grower depended on sales for ship¬ 
ment, have as heretofore proved more or less 
a failure. Although they have been less 
stung by the curculio than usual for many 
years past, yet the warm and wet weather 
caused nearly all of the earlier rija-ning vari¬ 
eties to show such indications of decay at 
period of maturity as to make shippers liosi- 
t.ate to buy ; and at Cleveland, ()., probably 
the greatest cherry point, the price ruled as 
low as two dollars to two fifty a bushel. 
The black cherries brought a trifle more, 
and such varieties as Red Jacket, Downer,' 
Elkhorn, &(%, that matured later, were in 
demand, and the price came up to three and 
a hall dollars a bushel. From all we gather, 
no planter of cherries for market purposes, 
where the. fruit has to he shipped to meet the 
purchaser, should plant any hut black cher¬ 
ries of the Sweet class. 
77/e Don na Maria, Mr. Elliott also writes 
us, lias again proved an abundant, aye, pro¬ 
fuse hearer; and although it may he picked 
and marketed early in July, yet lie lias kept 
it after gathering, by laying it in a box wrap¬ 
ped in paper, ten days; and the drawing 
given herewith is from such specimens. 
own grounds, only more so; the new 
runners nil had flowers and fruit in 
various conditions, from the first germ 
to a perfect fruit. He was then satis¬ 
fied it. was a new variety; but deter¬ 
mined to see and know all. 
He traveled back into Monroe 
county, forty miles, to the lit tle town 
of Dundee, for the purpose of exam¬ 
ining old beds of it, and he writes 
he is “fully satisfied it is a distinct 
variety , and that Mr. Fuller (and 
oilier good pomologists, of course,) 
has put his foot deep in the mire 
when he asserts it to be only the old, 
well-known, Red A Ipine.” “ At Dun¬ 
dee,” says Mr. Elliott, “I saw an 
Acre or more of this berry growing under 
most slovenly, neglect care, on ground not 
drained in any way, cither underneath or 
surface, where evidently the rainy season 
had accumulated water until it could gradu¬ 
ally soak away; the clover and weeds almost 
as thick as the strawberry vines; and yet the 
vines were loaded with fruit, new fruit 
stems and blossoms in all stages and condi¬ 
tions of growth. Even amid the white 
clover, now runners of this year had struck 
and were fruiting. I am satisfied of its dis¬ 
tain as the rot does the grape, I have; noticed, 
more or less, for three years past; but not, 
until last year did T find it on cultivated sorts. 
And now, after examining many plants af¬ 
fected by it, I run inclined to ray first impres¬ 
sion, that it comes from diseased roots, and 
that disease caused by too much water. 
On the wild plants, when I first saw it, all 
were in gross and growing in low places; 
and now I find it rarely except on plants 
growing either in wet clay, or locations 
where, in wet weather, the water comes near 
the surface, although the surface may ap¬ 
pear dry. I think the remedies are, first, 
avoid having a wet season, which, of course, 
every fruit grower can do; or, if he cannot, 
then, second, plant no blackberry or rasp¬ 
berry bushes except on ground that is well, 
thoroughly, and rapidly drained. Third, 
destroy every plant found affected, by dig¬ 
ging up every particle of root and branch. 
Arboriculture. 
WHAT MY NEIGHBORS SAY. 
One of my neighbors is down on some 
nursery dealers who, after advertising hardy 
shrubs at a round price, have the impudence 
to send out green, soft plants from the 
forcing house. Such plants received by the 
person not possessed of a green-house are an 
imposition; and even the practice is an erro¬ 
neous one, and should be discountenanced, 
because the receiver is supposed to desire to 
place the plant in the open ground among 
a group of hardy shrubs, hut cannot do so 
with any safety until some time in June. It 
is fair to suppose the dealer should have 
grown his plant and ripened it ere he send 
it out. 
Another of my neighbors is scolding like 
mad about nurserymen using apple roots on 
which to graft the pear. He says he has 
them both as dwarfs and standards; that 
I do not believe dusting with sulphur or having come, as he supposed,from reputable 
any other powder will be, practically, of any concerns, he never thought of examining the 
avail; for once the disease appears on the ro °b , i n°r did he dream of the imposition 
stem, the value of the crop is lost. Addi. until the evidence came to him by means of 
—- 4 .^- suckers and a complete check in vigor of 
GOOSEBERRY TALK. growth of the tree. He is strongly disposed ■ 
- to give the names of tho dealers. Do you 
Talking of gooseberries with my neigh- think it- best ? I guess not; there is hum- 
bors, W. said he had two varieties of the buggery in everything, tree growing not be- 
foreign gooseberries growing in grass sod, nig an exception. I believe it is better to 
that yearly gave a full crop free from mil- caution purchasers to beware of whom they 
dew. 8. said lie had this year found some huy, rather titan to publish the name of a 
mildew on the Houghton, tint only where rasc al or two. The latter, nine times out of 
the land was new oi* had in it some vegetable ten, will erase some of the paragraph, and 
undocayed matter. E. said the gooseberry the first you know he has you certifying to 
offered a greater chance for money making his honesty,instead of dishonesty. Alger. 
to the originator of new varieties than any -♦♦♦- 
other fruit; that if seeds of foreign sorts HIGH AND LOW HEADS. 
which have generally produced fruit free - 
from mildew were sown and grown, and rrnis paragraph appeared recently in the 
these plants carefully selected, fruited and Journal of Agriculture: 
again sown, in four or five years the grower “ Lot us settle upon a definite standard for a 
would more than probably have obtained a ,ow - to P tree, so all may comprehend the subject 
new variety of great value. At any rate he . I * t ?? < ?! l \ thon ’ • !Vpr > , thing 
i i | ,, . , J uriiiti tlm.i. foot (from tho limba to tho ground) 
would lose nothing, because every seedling of the peach, plum mid cleny.a low-top tree, 
would be of value equal to any now grown. an<1 everything under four feet of the pear and 
It is now lime to look over the bushes and apple *" 
make selection, and it is hoped some dozens ^ )r - & 8. Hull, State Horticulturist of 
or more of enthusiastic fruit men will try it. Ul* no >8, criticises the above in this wise: 
Alger. * ^° w uicc it is hi less than seven short lines 
Further Notes on Strawberries . —F. R. El¬ 
liott furnishes us what follows: — Lady 
Finger, one of the old varieties, is in favor 
with many, while others think it too flavor- 
leas. French Seedling, too soft, and also 
wanting in flavor. Ida, small but prolific; 
one of the enrlfcM and latest 1o ripen, of 
a quality that, when ripe, everybody likes, 
and one that amateurs who have grown it 
declare they cannot dispense with. Michi¬ 
gan, too small and unproductive, but of good 
hne,nVl Vw T , H«‘ccn Prolific is an abundant bearer, 
tmetness, that it will bear profusely- under i„,< ..... ' 
.’ .. „ i *.> but m quality no better than Wilson, am 
the meanest kind of culture, or the arreatnnt .. . . . 
The fruit somewhat resembles Flemish, 
but is not quite as much flattened. Mr. 
Elliott also says that from what had been 
said of the Early May and Early Richmond 
at the West as being identical, he had come 
to think it possible the Donna Maria might 
he Early May, because it more or less retains 
its calyx on the stem, but almost always up 
next the base; while Early Richmond has 
its calyx near to the fruit. This year’s ex¬ 
amination, however, satisfies him that the 
Early May of the West is the old Flemish, 
well described and figured in Downing, while 
the Early Richmond and Donna Maria are 
each distinct varieties. These varieties of 
sour chen’ies have certainly proved the most 
profitable for market purposes over the whole 
country; and our Western fruit growers will 
find their account, profit in selecting their 
plantings from among the Morello, or those 
allied to the Dukes. 
Seedlings. —Mr, Elliott writes us that he 
lies been shown and examined a large num- 
neglect, just as you choose to term it—that 
it will give fruit abundantly—not sparingly, 
as does the old Red Alpine—all the season, 
even to cold weather—that the filliI, is of 
medium size, of rich, pleasant, high, but not 
musky, flavor: sufficiently firm for market 
carriage; and is in every respect a great ac¬ 
quisition for all private gardens, or com¬ 
mercial growers near large cities, where a 
certain amount of choice fruit out of season 
can always be sold at a high price.” 
The accompanying illustration we have 
from Mr. Elliott, who says “the ripe fruit 
is represented in most of the illustrations 
having the calyx clasped to the fruit, when 
in fact it is reflexed ; the seeds are abundant 
and prominent; it is generally of size and 
form as here shown in the single mature 
berry, although he found one or two cox¬ 
comb formed berries among thousands, and 
a lew that were long, blunt, ovate. The 
leaf is deeply and coarsely serrated.” As to 
its being a distinct species, and as worthy of 
being changed from vemt to Uilmani, it. is a 
point Mr. Elliott “leaves to botanists 
alone; the fruit growing public care nothing 
about it. It is a variety, and so valuable a 
not near as firm for market purposes. Tri- 
oinphe de Gaud holds its own as a line, large 
and valuable sort, when well cultivated in 
rieli, strong soil. Jucunda follows it as next 
in value of the large and showy foreign sons, 
but the majority favor the Triomphe in pref¬ 
erence. 
La Constant©, Emma and Hooker are all 
fine flavored sorts, but the plants require too 
much care to keep them going. Napoleon 
III has only found favorable record in two 
or three places. Dr. Nienise has hardly been 
heard of this season. Agriculturist bus good 
reports from many; and were it not so soft 
would probably be more grown. Peak’s 
Emperor is said to be so much like Agricul¬ 
turist that even good judges cannot dis¬ 
tinguish them apart. It is, however, claimed 
for Peak's Emperor that it will succeed on 
soils in which the Agriculturist fails. ()rna- 
ment dcs Tables, as heretofore, proves of the 
highest flavor, but unproductive. IJovey yet 
holds, its own as the finest of all Varieties for 
shipping, but it is not sufficiently productive 
to meet the wants of the present age. 
Princess Royal and King Arthur are two 
of the foreign sorts that we have favorable 
COLORING FRUIT. 
A Correspondent of the Dixie Farmer 
writes;—Highly colored fruit is more ad¬ 
mired generally, and I think is more lus¬ 
cious, certainly sells higher and more readily, 
than fruit deficient in color. Then we ought 
to grow fruit highly colored. The locality 
of the orchard has much to do with it, agree¬ 
ably to my observations. When a physician 
is called to a patient, pale, feeble and debili¬ 
tated, he prescribes iron in some form; so in 
highly colored fruits, iron must abound in 
the soil. Very deep red clay underlies one 
ridge in my orchard; under another the clay 
is not so red, (the red in the clay is certainly 
imparted by oxide of iron.) The fruit on 
this red clay is more highly colored than on 
the lighter. 
Some ten years ago I applied anvil-dust, 
cinders, etc., to the soil under certain apple 
trees; the effect for several years was more 
highly colored fruit than formerly, the streaks 
U3 finely drawn as if penciled, with a uniform 
waxen appearance. This was an experiment 
at home, to prove to myself t he effect of iron 
on coloring. The prairies lie near, underlaid 
by a pale, and in many places, a yellow sub¬ 
soil. The apples (for peaches do not succeed 
well on that soil,) will color pretty well for 
one or two crops, but afterwards their color 
is only a dull, rusty red, showing the color¬ 
ing matter lias become mostly exhausted. 
Mow, if these views are correct, (and I believe 
they are,) a deep red clay, heavily charged 
HIGH AND LOW HEADS. 
Tnis paragraph appeared recently in the 
Journal of Agriculture: 
“Lot us settle upon a definite standard fora 
low-top tree, so all may comprehend the subject 
wo ore discussing-. Let us ©ill, then, everything 
Under three foot (from the limbs to tho ground) 
of the peach, plum and cfcerry, a low-top tree, 
and everything under four feet of the pear and 
apple." 
Dr. E. 8. Hull, State Horticulturist of 
Illinois, criticises the above in this wise: 
“ How nice it. is hi less than seven short lines 
to definitely settle the exact height a tree 
must branch to entitle it to belong to the 
high or low-headed class. To 1 letter under¬ 
stand this new definition of what properly 
constitutes lower high-beaded trees, let us 
illustrate a little by supposing an apple orch¬ 
ard to consist of two variet ies, and these Yel 
low Bcllcflcur and Northern Spy. These 
varieties fairly represent two distinct habits 
of growth. The Yellow Bellefieur will send 
mil its branches horizontally, and as growth 
advances these lower or horizontal branches 
will become more pendant, and droop so 
much that the tree will after a few years vir¬ 
tually have a lower top than woultfa North¬ 
ern Spy of the same age, branched to within 
six inches of the ground. 
“ It we desire to apply this new rule to tlio 
pear instead of the apple, selecting two va¬ 
rieties, one a Buffam, which is of upright 
growth, producing a few or no horizontal 
branches, we shall at the end of a few years 
find our Buffam pear tree, which at. first 
branched at the desired height of four feet, 
to he a higher-headed tree than would be 
a Beurre d’Amalis with its branches ema¬ 
nating at three, four, or even at eight feet. 
“ Similar examples of differences in habits 
of growth in plum and cherry trees might be 
mentioned, but those we have cited will, I 
think, suffice to show that the natural habits 
of trees should to some extent he understood 
before we venture into them with the prun¬ 
ing knife.” 
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Dwarf Pear Culture.—A Missouri correspond- 
rut it. It is a. variety and so valuable a ." V'^T'.T 10 lu “\ " B u lvl ‘ luvunmiL ‘ Wllh ,ron - ,s indispensable m growing highly ent asks:-" Is the dwarf pear sufficiently tested 
ihnt utoto Ac 1 accouu,s giving promise of value. Tillip's colored fruit, or wo must supply the iron at make it aaffe for one to Invest, largely in its 
iv VJ 7 ma11 <J\ymug a rod of ground Rival Queen is also another of which we considerable cost and trouble, to furnish the culture? Whigh kinds succeed best?” Ourcor- 
fi mt. growing should have it. have good raw* Lucas lias line flavor, coloring matter. j ygHtet ttl to .^ -0.^^,- but 
the Zfr mo Znfnnd to if • Rcd AI P^ And even in the West, all do 
the Lai 1. Richmond and Donna Marla arc not tUink alike. Mr. S. Miller Illuffton 
1,1(1 \ isniut \aueties. I liese varieties of Mo., writes tis under date July 1)Glad to 
sour cherries have certainly proved the most set . tho . Mexican Everbearing > gets its due 
profi able for market purposes over the whole or, rather, the venders of plant*/ The poor’ 
country; and our Western fruit growers will tasteless little thing is not to blame fo • the 
rasl ! rf aCC ° Un P T t Se u Cting thdr tfe pictures of it figured in ihe^papere. I 
£Sir S,h * fclM,ta have il; l.avc,, ICC 
J7 . , r _ . for the past few weeks, and from present 
Set/, mgs. Mr. Elliott writes us that he appearances can do it for months to come. 
ICS been shown and examined a large num- The gratification these afford a bed-fast little 
ier ol seedlings this season, but that most of boy,with a broken leg, makes the three dollars 
t iem were light colored; and alt hough they I spent on the plants a good investment, even 
matured late, and so far had escaped rot, yet though tho same might have been got for 
he has m all cases advised the originator to nothing.” We like to see a good sturdy 
What Mr. Elliott says of this fruit we but too unproductive. ’Belle de Borddaise is - +++ _. 
are bound to give a place to; but the results said to be the best of all the Hautboy’s class. Tin- Prairie Farmer strawberry is the name o 
oi his observations in Michigan are so differ- Julien and Kramer, two new sorts, original- a nc ‘ w lrul L a seedling of the Agrieulturis 
ent from those of men here who have plants u>g at or near Dubuque, Iowa, from what we 0lit ’ r matcd on thr - Klound8 of Wm - D. Neff, ot 
IVom Mr Wnnwo, and wl,o cannot afford, learn, have not proved valuable in any way Jet'Ll, UvTSuo'"Sow 
anil would ot course be very careful not, to this year. Margaret, a new one spoken of fruit very large, oblong compressed or ovate 
make mistakes, that we must believe that in the Ohio Farmer, we learn from an nma- occasionally eoxeombcd irregular, apex trim 
the planks these men have had from the teur near Cleveland, is not worthy of at ten- vertieall y grooved, seeds deeply im 
West are not the “ Everbearing,” or that in tion in comparison with varieties already ^ntorT^uLrid 
oui sods and climate it degenerates into the before the public. good flavor, much like, though a little less nob 
The Prairie Farmer Strawberry is the name of 
a new fruit, a seedling of tho Agriculturist 
originated on the grounds of Wm. D. Neff, Ot¬ 
tawa, Ill. It is described as a strong grower. 
Leaves large, dark green above, paio below; 
• ~Sf a. - —••• — n * v pule; ueiv n , 
this year. Margaret, a new one spoken of fruit very large, oblong ©impressed or ovate, 
in the Ohio Farmer, we learn from an ama- occasionally eoxeombcd irregular, apex tmn- 
teur near Cleveland, is not worthy of atten- vertiofUlv srooved, seeds deeply im- 
tion in comparison with varieties already 
oetoie the public. good flavor, much like, though a little less acid 
Strawberry Nomenclature. — R. Robinson 
Scott, Rochester, N. Y., writes:—“ We can¬ 
not see any close connection between Fra- 
garia meet, and the AJpinc Strawberry, In 
fact, those who pretend to know say the 
Alpine is from the species Collinu, meaning 
little strawberry. Is this so? Our garden 
varieties are not certainly all originated from 
F. mca; are not a few of them mixed with 
F. Chilemis »” So learned, critical and exact 
a man as Mr. Scott onght to answer such 
conundrums for himself. Perhaps lie is hew- 
thau, the Wilson, The plaut is a very strong 
grower, footstalks large ami tall, and ns thor¬ 
oughly hermaphrodite as the Wilson, according 
to Mr. Neff’s statement. It is represented as 
having a fruit season longer than the Agricul¬ 
turist or Wilson, and ripening some eight or ten 
days later than the latter, 
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The Earth Almond.—A writer in the Journal 
of Horticulture, having commended the Earth 
Almond for cultivation, the Germantown Tele¬ 
graph says:—" We have tried it, and the result 
was that wo couldn’t get rid of it. With us it 
stood the winter and everything else, and spread 
so rapidly that we could scarcely overtake it in 
ing out the underbrush preparatory to open- our to eradicate it. We found it a poor 
ing a straight road to eternal Truth > If he substituto for walnuts, chestnuts, &e„ as this 
is let him an in ad libitum r writer suggests. As a curiosity, it will do no 
18 , Itt mm go in ad libitum ! harnJi if kcpt withm n£UTOW muits.” 
wo suppose he means dwarfs as distinguished 
from standards. There are certain varieties of 
pears which do bettor dwarfed than others; but 
we would recommend a man who is going to 
plant pears largely, to plant standards rather 
than dwarfs, unless he has an extended experi¬ 
ence as a fruit eulturist. Let some of our Mis¬ 
souri correspondents having experience, give a 
list of pears adapted to culture in that State. 
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Tiune Cherries on Wild Stocks. — GeOUOE W. 
WurOHT asks if “tamo cherries will grow on 
wild stocks; the proper time to bud; and it tlio 
application of grafting wax in the process of 
budding is the best way." Wo have never at¬ 
tempted to graft.or hud the “tame" cherries 
upon the black cherry, (<'crams Vlrjinianao but 
know that suoh attempts have failed. The 
“Sand Cherry," ( Ceriums putu'seem,) has been 
used successfully as stocks. Cherries may now 
be budded. It is not necessary to use grafting 
wax in budding. 
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Soft Soap on Trees.— A Missouri correspondent 
asks “if soft soap may he used freely on tipple, 
pear and other fruit trees ■without harm." We 
have so used it. 
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Japan Trees.— If Theodore Curtis will rend 
the advertisements in Rural of March 20,1809, 
he will find t he address he asks for. 
