have seen combs of such stocks that were 
literally besmeared with this offensive- 
smelling excrement of the bees. Our ad¬ 
vice to all would be, ventilate your hives 
properly and thoroughly, and you will have 
little or no trouble from this source. 
Herbert A. Burch. 
set with a fleshy, abrupt depression; calyx 
with short, irregular segments, in a deep, 
abrupt basin, slightly furrowed; flesh whit¬ 
ish, coarse, granular, half melting, juicy, 
half vinous, sweet and pleasant. 
SlrkriatJturaJ 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS 
ARBORICULTURAL NOTES, 
Hives.—We have had very many inquir¬ 
ies, asking us if we have ever used this or 
that patent hive; and if so, how we like 
them, etc. We have neither tested the mer¬ 
its of the hives our correspondents have 
named, or have seen them in u.se by other 
bee keepers, and we had rather have the 
one we described in the Rural New- 
Yorker of Deo. 16th, 1871, than all of them 
combined. It possesses more advantages, 
with fewer objections, than any patent hive 
we have ever seen, in our opinion. Re¬ 
member, we always mean the latter, if we 
do happen to forget- to sav so. There is no 
arrangement of a hive that can compensate 
for the lack of movable frames, and the 
more simple in construction the hotter. 
The Lanobtroth hive is patented, and any 
agent or owner of territory can charge any 
sum he pleases for an individual right . Re¬ 
garding the validity of this patent, wo will 
only say that it is yet an open question, but 
will soon be settled by the U. 8. Courts. 
We believe that the law requires that any 
patented article must be stamped as such ; 
especially all articles that, are sold as such. 
We prefer a two-story hive where the 
honey extractor is employed to obtain sur¬ 
plus honey. Hut if the one-story hive be 
preferred, make the Lives large enough to 
contain two or three extra frames upon 
each side. Honey cau be extracted from 
the brood combs; but great care must be 
used, or the unsealed brood will be thrown 
out of the cells. We deem the 
Honey Extractor to be of great value, 
and every apiarian should have one of his 
own. Oftentimes the hive will contain too 
much honey, not giving the queen a chance 
to lay sufficiently to keep up the strength 
of the colony. Hence the reason why we so 
often hear the complaint in the fall of the 
year, “too few bees and too much honey.’’ 
The reason why so many bee keepers find, 
in the spring, that their bees have died 
POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP 
It is Good to be Let Down Easy.—When 
one has to fall, it is kind in those who are 
the cause thereof to knock away the prop 
of support gradually, and let one drop easi¬ 
ly. I therefore have tothanlc “Ruralist” 
for the easy way in which he has let me 
down from my supposed knowledge of the 
difference between the Angers and Orange 
Quince. I had supposed that a half cen¬ 
tury of yearly observation of the Quince 
in its varieties, and 
jfjpl i that after importing 
thousands on tbous- 
auds of Angers from 
LeRoy and others— 
jtgr after a practice of 
■Hfe budding the Pear 
'&•. aud Orange Quince 
on them day after 
day, and after fruit- 
'iliUf' Mi, ing them in various 
localities year after 
year, that I had 
'f wiil, learned the differ- 
ence between An- 
'lli gers and Orange ; 
•• but your kind cor- 
i respondent has qui- 
i lue down 
from my stilts so ea- 
sy that I don’t feel 
WBMB " u,oh ,mrt -- F - R- 
• IMIM Kiaiott. 
NEW PEARS 
BY F. R. ELLIOTT, 
Among the new varieties of pears brought 
to notice during the past season, the Messrs. 
Clapp of Massachu¬ 
setts have perhaps 
presented a larger 
number of sorts 
bearing.iu their own 
fruit character, ac- 
cording to the rep- 
resentations of po- mBUfm 
Biologists ns to char- Ummm 
actor and habit of 
tree, more of valu- 
able promise than MHmflm 1 ' 
' any other man or ^ mf/ljli : 
men. They (the 
Messrs. (.’LAPP) prob I/''" 1 
ably stand to-day at 
the bend in the way -jfy-' .. 
of giving to the pub- • Uni. 
lie new native pears ijffj , 
of promise to super- . 
sede foreign sorts. HKmrijjUjl £ A 
The results are, of •"’> 
course, only to fo mm",' i 7 ll 
known after years P|l!|jJ , ( ; 'r l '.<( 
of extensive cultiva- I;, ; 
tlon. If then, out [ 1 1 • * 
of a half hundred or .‘■('j . 
more, t hey, 1 ike 
LANii, havp given to ^ 
the public one vari- Nj||||iP^ 
ety superior in any 
respect to any pre- 
viously known, then 
have they made 
their mark in this 
life, longer to be re- * lapp s A. 
inetnbered and favorably acknowledged 
than would the erection in every state of 
an elaborate monument of stone, with its 
duly wrought inscriptions. 
Of these pears 1 have had hut a part ial 
examination, and am indebted to the cour¬ 
tesy of Hon. Marshall P. Wilder for op¬ 
portunity of measurably ripening and de¬ 
scribing the following two numbers * 
No, 73 is of full medium size, in general 
shape and form resembling Bartlett; green¬ 
ish yellow, with many rough russet, dots, 
and patches of russet, and a common cheek 
when exposed to the sun: stem stout, set 
and gardeners to t ry 
"1 Prvu What varieties may 
be recommended for 
garden culture ?” We do not think farmers 
and gardeners would flod it profitable to at¬ 
tempt to cultivate cranberries on upland for 
market purposes, and compete with those 
grown on marsh lands. But we have seen 
very fair crops grown in a small way in gar¬ 
dens for family use. The ordinary Bell 
cranberry was the one in cultivation in t he 
instances named. The best garden crops 
we have seen were on deeply pulverized 
sandy loam. The plauts were taken from 
the marsh in October, planted in hills, and 
mulched in winter to prevent freezing out. 
The mulch was left on until late iu spring 
Raining Osage Orange.—We wish to 
inquire for the best method of planting 
Osage Orange for hedge, is it best to sow 
the seeds in a nursery and transplant to the 
hedge row, or sow the seed at ouCe where 
the fence is to be, if the last named plan 
will answer, then how much seed is required 
per rod. Also the manner of preparing the 
ground, the seed, and planting the same.— 
Cilas. Brown & .Son’s, 
If you want a good, uniform hedge, sow 
the seed in nursery rows and transplant in¬ 
to the hedge row when one or two years old. 
If the seed are obtained at this time of year 
put them into warm water aud soak for two 
or three days, then mix wit h sand and set 
Out-of-doors where they will freeze, or at 
least remain cold uutil spring. Be careful 
and not place the seed where they will 
sprout before the seed bed is ready for their 
reception. 
In the spring prepare the ground by 
plant ing it deep and thoroughly pulverizing 
with a harrow. A light, friable soil is best, 
as the young plants will come up through it 
more readily than if heavy. When the 
seed-bed is ready, make shallow furrows 
with a hoe, and in the same manner as gar¬ 
deners usually do for peas. The rows 
should be far enough apart to 
admit of cultivating the soil 
between them with a small 
one-horse cultivator. Iu the 
drills, scatter the seeds t hick¬ 
ly but evenly; cover about 
two inches deep with fine 
earth. If the soil is light, it 
is a good plan to roll it after 
sowing. Commence cultiva¬ 
ting as soon as the plants ap- 
\ pear, and keep all weeds down 
as carefully as yon would 
with any garden vegetable. 
If the plants make a vigorous 
growth, they will do to trans¬ 
plant into the hedge row 
when one year old; if not, 
allow them to remain in the 
seed-bed two seasons. 
Tlie Use of Evergreens. 
—No suburban or couutry 
residence can be considered 
complete without its sur¬ 
roundings of beautiful trees. 
Evergreens should be exten¬ 
sively employed, because they 
add greatly to the beauty of 
the surrounding scenery in 
the most gloomy season of the 
year; but the}' should never 
be employed to the exclusion 
of deciduous trees and shrubs. 
Exteusive walks and drives 
are sometimes bordered with 
evergreen trees; but usually this displays 
bad taste, inasmuch as the view within such 
close line& of dense foliage becomes monot¬ 
onous, and the eye experiences satiety in¬ 
stead of a pleasing variety. 'With deciduous 
trees and shrubs the most charming change 
is continually going on; from the bursting 
of the buds in spring there is one contin¬ 
ual progressive advance from day to day. 
Clapp’s No. 72 Pear. 
angular; calyx iu a compressed, furrowed, 
shallow basin; flesh fine, whitish, half but¬ 
tery, moderately juicy, and, as a late varie¬ 
ty. of great promise. 
No. 72.— Size medium to large; form ob¬ 
long, obtuse pyriform; skin rough; surface 
uneven; color deep rich yellow, with many 
small minute grey or russet dots; traces of 
russet arouud the basin; stem short, stocky, 
Clapp’s No. 72 Pear—O utline 
—until after all danger from frost had 
ceased; tbeu removed and the plants culti¬ 
vated like auy other garden crop—the soil 
irrigated iu dry weather, if necessary. We 
do not advise auy one to purchase or send 
for plauts for upland culture with any hope 
of profit. We have never known any profit 
derived from such culture except the pleas¬ 
ure of growing the fruit for ones’ own use. 
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