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FRUITS FOR LOUISIANA. 
Tiie Fruit Growers' Association of Louisi¬ 
ana have adopted and recommend the fol¬ 
lowing list of fruits for general cultivation 
in that State: 
Apple *.—Early Harvest, lied Astrachan, 
(Carolina), Yellow June, Levan, Red June, 
Early Strawberry, Julian, Mercer, Horse, 
Bachelor Taunton, Rome Beauty, Carter, 
Shockley, Vales, Roxbury Russet. For 
further trial—Wat kin's Sweet June, Ha¬ 
gan’s Seedling, Pride ofthc Month 
Pen rs. —Madeleine, Doyenne d’Ete, B. 
Giffard, B. Goubull, Doyenne Boussac, 
Howell, Bartlett, B. Stiperfin, Onondaga, 
St. Michael Archangel, Duchess d Angou- 
lenie, B. Clairgeau, Lawrence, Winter Nelis. 
Pc<tchc *.—Yellow St. John, Early Tillot- 
son, Stafford’s Rareripe, Chinese Cling, 
Crawford's Early, Oldtnixon Free, Oldmix- 
oii Cling, Susquehanna, Columbia, Heath 
Cling, Baldwin's October, Lady l’urham., 
Apricot.*. Moorpark, Early Purple. 
Plums.— Wild Goose, Brill. For further 
trial—Columbia, Lombard. 
Grapcs. —Delaware, Concord, Warren, 
Scuppernong. Promising—Eumelan, Ives, 
Israella. 
St ru whirry.— Long worth's, Wilson, Mary 
Stewart, Imperial, Triompho de (laud. 
Qu i nccs. A pple, (Jhinese, 
Fly*. —Smyrna, While Genoa, Celeste, 
Brown Turkey, Brunswick, Green, Ischia. 
Pomegranates. —Sub-acid, Sweet, Sour. 
Raspberries Mammoth Cluster, David¬ 
son’s Thornless. For further trial—Phila¬ 
delphia, Clark, Seneca Black Cap. 
Oranye .—Croolo Sweet Seedlings, Large 
China, Mandarin. 
.Inpan Plums.— At New Orleans and 
South. 
Pecan. —Large soft shell. 
POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP. 
Morgan <<>., 111., Seedling Apple.— 
The Prairie Farmer ligurcs and describes 
an apple, with the above name, which was 
born on a tree lifty years old, and is vigor¬ 
ous and healthy. With no more than ordi¬ 
nary care the fruit keeps until July. Its 
good qualities are Indorsed by the Jackson¬ 
ville Horticultural Society. It is thus de¬ 
scribed by the paper above named: 
Orit/in —Farm of II aim’ II. Massey, four 
miles west of Jacksonville, Morgan Co., 111. 
I kite of parent tree about 1820. 
Form - Roundish conical, flatish, the 
specimen sent being '.1% inches high by 3% 
in breadth. 
Calyx -Ratheropen, with pretty strongly 
marked sepals. 
Stern Medium length, somewhat slender. 
Skin —Rather thin, but not easily broken; 
color dull red upon a greenish ground, (sug¬ 
gesting a highly-colored Kawlcs’ Janet, of 
which t his may be a seedling), with small, 
scattered, blackish-brown dots. 
Capsule —Not very open. Seeds dark, 
plump and di versified in form. 
Calyx tube Somewhat open. 
Flesh —Yellowish white, rather coarse 
grained, sub-aoid and rather negative in 
flavor at this time; not juicy at this late 
season, but quite us much so as could be ex¬ 
pected. Quality good to very good. 
We have no description of t he tree, lint, 
judge from its ago that it is vigorous. 
This apple wo think, is worthy of trial in 
other localities. If an old variety we do not 
recognize it. It has some points of resem¬ 
blance to the Rawles’ Janet and the Willow 
Twig. 
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Apples in Minnesota.— Mark T. Ber¬ 
ry, Minneapolis, Minn., writes to the West¬ 
ern Pomologist as follows:—“ 1 have a few 
of the following kinds of standard apples 
that 1 have had from two to four years, and 
they have come through the wintors all 
right:—Red Astrachan, Fnmeuse, Ben Da¬ 
vis, Haas, Colvert, Perry Russett, Red June, 
Red Romanite, Tallman Sweet, Wagner, 
Yellow Bellflower, (large red apple, name 
unknown,) Duchess, and six of the Minne¬ 
sota Seedlings that have proven good; also 
Hyslops and Transcendants that are bear¬ 
ing; also Montreal Beauty, Houlard, and t he 
smaller kinds of the Crabs. ()f t he above 
kinds Red Astrachan, Bon Davis, Fameuse, 
Perry Russett, Haas and Duchess have 
blossomed. I think the following have 
proved the hardiest thus far here:—Haas, 
Colvert, Ben Davis, Fameuse, Red Astra¬ 
chan, and Duchess. 
Varieties of Pears Attacked by 
Blight.—Pres. Oumer of the Montgomery 
ITort. Soc., 0„ recently stated that Ills ex¬ 
perience hud taught him that the most, 
thrifty trees were the lirst attacked, such 
as the Vicar of Wlnklleld and the Law¬ 
rence. The Meckel and Tyson seemed to es¬ 
cape alt get her. and the Bartlett stands 
well. Hit) remedy was, after live or six 
years’cultivation, to sow clover in the or¬ 
chard—grass was too thick and prevented 
the air from getting to the roots. .1. H. 
Pierce said his Meckel and Lawrence had 
not been affected. 1 le has trees which have 
been six or seven years in grass, and were 
but little troubled with blight. Fred. 
Bovek has pear trees seventeen years old 
in clay soil that have never been affected 
with blight. During that time he has 
known two orchards on a rich soil dest royed 
by it. _ 
The Matilda Strawberry.—The 
Home, Farm and (Irchard, Newburgh, N. Y. 
says:—“With us the ‘Matilda’ does not 
grow so strongly na the ‘ Metli Boyden,’al¬ 
though the fruit of the former on this yea r’s 
planting is all that could be expected. We 
must wait another year for the fruiting 
qualities of those varieties. The largest 
single berry wo raised this year was on the 
Matilda vines which had been planted only 
six weeks." 
The Wagner Apple is making a good rep¬ 
utation as an early fruiting variety, hand¬ 
some marketable fruit., upon hardy, compact 
trees. We read of large orchards in Michi¬ 
gan eighteen years old which have borne 
every year since planted, good crops of fruit. 
She dianteit. 
“DR. HOGG" FEA. 
Mu. La xton of England, by skillful cross¬ 
breeding continues to produce new varie- 
I ies of peas which’! lie < ’ottage < lardener says 
have the great merit of opposing qualities 
far superior to old ones with every stage of 
earl 1 ness. The Gardener says of the pea wo 
herewith illustrate: 
One of the best of these new varieties 
bears the name of “ Dr. Hogg.” It may be 
described as a dwarf and early No Plus Ul¬ 
tra. No higher recommendation could be 
given to it than to introduce it as a compet¬ 
itor of Ne Pin8 Ultra. The plant grows 
about 4 feet high. In dry seasons jt will 
not, perhaps, be taller than .1 feet, and in 
wet ones, such as the present, it, will reach 
5 feet. The stem is simple, and well covered 
wit h pods, which number from nine to ten. 
These are 4 inches long and over three,quar- 
ters of an inch wide, of a dark blue green, 
like those of the early Green Marrows and 
Ne Plus Ultra, much curved like Auvergne, 
and containing nine very large Peas, which 
are of a deep green color. The ripe seed is 
green and wrinkled. 
The seod was sown the 23rd of February, 
and the plants were in full bloom on the 24th 
of May. The pods were fit for use the 16th 
of June. Or. to sum up the whole, it is a 
tine Ne Plus Ultra coming in one week after 
Dillistone’a, the, earliest of all Peas, and 
thirteen days earlier than the. old No Plus 
Ultra. This is a valuable acquisition. 
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GARDENERS’ NOTES. 
Growing Mummer Lettuce.—A corre¬ 
spondent of the Massachusetts Ploughman 
talks of his lett uce thus:—“ I thinned it out, 
then carefully slipped a cot ton twine under 
t he lowest*leaves of each plant, and gently 
raised them a few inches from the ground 
and tied them loosely: then I placed a 
shingle upon each plant and a small stone 
to keep it firm. Every evening I removed 
the coverings, watered each head, and 
placed the protective covers in the morning, 
as I found the sun’s rays had a tendency to 
cause the lettuce to run up to seed, and re¬ 
moving tin? cover at night allowed it a suf- 
llciency of fresh air, so that neither mold 
nor decay made their appearance. 1 was 
rewarded by large, solid heads of superior 
quality, ami the hearts were, white, sweet 
and crisp. Not a single plant, failed of 
heading, and none decayed or bore seed.” 
To Get Early Rhubarb,—We are asked 
by a country correspondent whether the 
rhubarb found so early in market is grown 
under glass; if not, how. In some cases it, 
is grown under glass; in others it comes 
from the Southern truck gardens. But we 
know a gardener who has early rhubarb ob¬ 
tained in this way: In the fall, late, he sets 
a barrel over the crown of his plant, and 
covers it and the earth about t he roots with 
manure, so that neither ground nor plant 
can freeze. Ho keeps this on till Spring, 
when he removes the manure from the 
barrel, lots in the light and air, keeping the 
manure about the roots; and he speedily 
has early and excellent Rhubarb, and great 
quantities of it from few plants. 
Keeping Melons ’(ill Winter.—I have 
the Persian watermelon, for {which it is 
claimed it can be taken off the vines to ri¬ 
pen, and will keep ’till winter. Will any 
one who has tried to keep that or any other 
kind, report their success through the Itir- 
RAi, New-Yorker, and how they kept 
them ?—L. 
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Wild Orange Lily.—Will you please 
name the enclosed lily? It grows wild in 
this vicinity, going about one foot high. 
R. B., Jr., Marblehead. Essex Co., Mass. 
Tins is not a very common lily in the 
Eastern States, but abundant in t he Nort h¬ 
western States. Its botanical name is 
Liliurn PhtUldelphteum. It is a variable 
species, like all of our native lilies, and sev¬ 
eral varieties have been from time to time 
introduced. The leaves are. lanceolate in 
shape and produced in wlmrls, the flowers 
erect, bell-shaped and of a reddish-orange 
color, spotted on the inside with dark pur¬ 
ple. This is a very pretty lily for garden 
culture, succeeding in any good soil. 
Wild Turk’s Cap Lily.- If not ton 
much trouble could you name the plant of 
which I Hend you inclosed a loaf and flower. 
For a wild plant it is quite ornamental. 
The bight of the plant is about live feet. 
H. I... Shuld(»p N. Y. 
It is a yery common plant in low mead¬ 
ows, and is known as the American Turk's 
Cap lily, or Superb Lily, Lillurnsuperbum. 
We have cultivated this and other species 
of our native lilies, and find that they suc¬ 
ceed as well as any of the. foreign kinds, 
and are improved by oulture. 
Carnation Bloom#.— A correspondent of 
the Garden says :—“In order to preserve 
the bloom of pinks, plootees, and carnations 
for exhibition purposes, a fine, plump bud 
just on the point of opening is selected, and 
drawn through an inverted six-inch pot so 
as to leave the bud resting above the hole. 
In order to ward off heavy rains and strong 
sunshine, another smaller pot is inverted 
over the bud so as to keep all secure. 1 n 
this way the blooming period is considera¬ 
bly lengthened, and the quality of the 
blooms preserved. 
Poppy Culture in France is steadily 
increasing, occupying, now, 54»,(NM> acres of 
the value of 1.500,000 francs and yielding 
opium to the value of 2,000,000 francs annu¬ 
ally. This is one indication of the increas¬ 
ing extent of opium consumption, and of 
the profits derived from its production. 
A)ini'!) of it Ifurnlwt. 
DAILY RURAL LIFE. 
FROM THE DIARY OF A GENTLEMAN NEAR NEW YORK CITY. 
A Succession of Gladioli.—July 22.— 
Almost every one who cultivates the Gladi¬ 
oli, plant their entire stock at one time, 
Consequently they all come into bloom to¬ 
gether and last but two or three weeks. 
Now, a succession of blooms from early in 
MammAr until late in Autumn is very de¬ 
sirable, especially with choice kinds of 
flowers; and It Is easy enough to secure this 
by planting at different times; beginning 
with n few bulbs foroed ill pots, then put¬ 
ting out a few bulbs as soon as the weather 
will permit, and ot hers later in t he season. 
My first Gladiolus flowers appeared more 
than a month ago, and now the second 
planting are in bloom, while the third, or 
last, will not show flowers until late in 
August. When one has a number of bulbs 
of each variety, It is much the best way to 
divide them into two or three lots, plant¬ 
ing at different times, and thereby secure a 
succession of blooms. 
The Oak Primer,— July 23.— During 
the past, two or three weeks small withered 
branches have been falling from the black 
and pin oaks about my office. Upmi exam¬ 
ining these branches to-day, l find they con¬ 
tain grubs (larval) of the Oak l’runer. (St< 
nocarus viMoms, Fa hr.) The parent of 
those grubs is a beautiful, slender, long- 
homed beetle, about an inch long, of a dull 
brown color, sprinkled with gray dots. 11. 
appears here in Juno, the females laying 
their eggs upon the small twigs of the vari¬ 
ous species of the i >ak and occasionally upon 
the Chestnut, where they soon hatch, the 
grubs penetrating to the pith, burrowing 
lengthwise of the stem, and in the smaller 
twigs it consumes the entire wood, leaving 
only the bark as a covering for themselves. 
The destruction of the woody portion of 
the twigs would of course cause deat h, and 
the leaves to wither; but to mako sure of 
this, the little grub, before it boros any con¬ 
siderable distance in the twig girdles it 
from the center outward, thereby cutting off 
the supply of sap from below which hastens 
the death of the wood, and insures the fall¬ 
ing of the branch before winter. At this 
time these withered branches, with leaves 
still adhering, can be found in abundance 
under oak trees wherever this insect 
abounds. 1 have gathered a quantity of 
these infested twigs and shall put them in 
boxes covered with a wire netting in order 
to secure the beetles when they appear next, 
spring. To prevent an Increase of this oak- 
pruner we have only to gat her the branches 
containing the grubs and bum them. 
Cutting Out Raspberry Canea .—July 
24.—Just as soon as the raspberry Crop is 
gathered the old bearing canes should be 
out out. and burned, and the young canes 
intended for next, season’s Prop neatly tied 
to stakes. I do not suppose that t he old 
bearing canes draw any great amount of 
sustenance from tho roots after the fruit is 
gathered; but. they certainly do no good. 
Tito young canes are also crowded by the 
old, their full development impeded there¬ 
by, to say nothing of the loss which fre¬ 
quently occurs by not having the tender 
shoots carefully tied to stakes before the 
heavy Autumn rains begin. Sometimes 
there arc more young canes produced than 
it is advisable to leave for fruit; and these 
should bo cut out at. tho time of removing 
the old canes. The earlier t his cun be done 
In the season the better; and I usually en¬ 
deavor to do this as soon as possible after 
the last picking of fruit, and think 1 gain 
something by the operation. 1 know that 
many small fruit growers pul off this work 
until late in fall or early winter, but I am 
certain that they lose more than is gained 
by the delay. 
Top.Dressing Strawberry Beds.— 
July 23.— There are very few strawberry 
plantations in our old soils of the East that, 
are not benefited by a top-dressing of ma¬ 
nure, ashes, or some similar fertilizing sub¬ 
stance, after they are done fruiting in sum¬ 
mer. My men have just finished cleaning 
up the Old beds to-day, preparatory to giv¬ 
ing the remaining plants a dressing"of ashes 
and well decomposed mannre. The greater 
part or the two-year-old plants have been 
hoed out and only t,he most vigorous loft for 
producing runners and fruit another sea¬ 
son. When the plants are cultivated in 
rows it is very easy to go over the planta¬ 
tion and cut out the weak plants and save 
the strong ones, the latter soon producing 
runners that will till up all vacant, places. 
By adopting some such renewal system beds 
may be retained for several years on the 
same ground ami still produce a good crop 
of fruit, provided, of course, that the soil 
is rich enough or the bods top-dressed every 
season. 
