URAL MEW-YORKER 
quite dry, an in often done in Winter, but 
moiBt, and when growing and budding was 
watered freely, Tlio owner said she had 
tried the drying-off process, but her plant, 
did not bloom. In Winter it is kept quite 
warm in a sort of pit greenhouse. The 
earth is made very rich aud somewhat 
sandy. 
COLLETIA BICTONENSIS 
FRUITS FOR MISSISSIPPI 
FROM BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS, 
NORTH CAROLINA. 
Tars plant is highly oo ram ended in En¬ 
gland as a hedge plant. It is said to have 
originated in the arboretum of the Baron¬ 
ess Rolle. Sir William Hooker named 
it and considered it a distinct species of a 
very useful and interesting or¬ 
der of plant. It is easily pro¬ 
pagated by cuttings. It is 
proper to say, however, that 
the Editor of the Cottage 
Oar doner doubts if it can bo 
used for hedge making, if the 
statement of Sir William 
Hooker that it is not a hardy 
plant, be a true one. It is as¬ 
serted that its leaves are very 
fleeting, and only to be Been 
on the very young branches 
and spires. The branches are m 
Of a poa-groen color, arranged 
in the peculiar decussate man¬ 
ner shown in the engraving, , 
and having sharp, hard,brown¬ 
ish-red spines at their ends; 
the potalold floral oovering is / 
waxy-white, with a greenish, 
substantial looking base form- Vv 
ed by the fleshy ring found at f \ 
the bottom of tube, and which / 
is peculiar to the Coilctias. 
James Parker, Summit, Miss., under 
date Nov. .10, 1872, sends the following to 
Our Home JournalThe following varie¬ 
ties I cun recommend to bo reliable and 
free from spotting: 
Early — Red Astrachan, Garretaou’a, 
Early Primate, Rhodes, Orange. 
.1 atwmn— Belle do Haver, Carter’s Blue, 
Alaska, Elgin Pippin. 
Winter —I locket’s Sweet. This 
I am residing among the Blue Ridge 
Mountains of North Carolina; am a New 
Yorker; have been here only half a year. 
It is a line grazing aud stock raising ooun- 
I ry, abounding with the finest spring water. 
The climate in Summer perfectly charming; 
the nights so Cool that a fire is agreeable 
nights and mornings up to the middle of 
July, commencing with them again as early 
as the middle of September. There was no 
night during the past Summer, not one, 
that wo did not sleep with the doors aud 
windows of our room closed, there being a 
fire-place in the room sufficient for ventila¬ 
tion; always one, sometimes two blankets 
on the bed. I have been in many parte of 
this country as well as various foreign 
lauds, but never passed a Summer where 
the climate was so agreeable in ull particu¬ 
lars. 
The whole mountains are tilled with the 
most beautiful wild flowers I ever saw in 
any country, surpassing, by far, anything I 
saw in the so-called "flowery land” of 
China. Among the most beautiful are the 
Honeysuckle, Ivy, and Laurel. The finest 
of the first mentioned is a deep orange and 
red, of many shades, in large masses, nearly 
covering the entire bush, wbioh grows from 
twelve to fifty feet in bight; several other 
varieties are pink and white. 
The Laurel is still more beautiful, the 
leaf a thick, deep, glossy green -an ever¬ 
green resembling the Magnolia. The flow¬ 
ers in large clusters, of a dollcato pink and 
white, as line us wax. Another variety, 
purple. In fact wo have a great profusion 
of wild flowers, commencing to bloom early 
in April, continuing until nearly the middle 
of August. From that time WO aro desti¬ 
tute of flowers, as mine are cultivated. The 
ladies( 1) hero devote their leisure time, 
and the larger portion of their gardens to 
the raising of cabbage and snap beaus, in 
which refined occupation they are very suc¬ 
cessful. Many of the above named flowers 
would lie a great acquisition, aud grace any 
conservatory. 
1 am sorry I cannot say as much for the 
inhabitants of these mountains. With few 
exceptions they are uncouth and unedu¬ 
cated, there being no towns and the rail¬ 
road fifty miles away, they have mingled 
but little with t he outside world, and know 
less of its great financial and social status. 
The groat masses have never heard of a 
Henry YVauij Beecher even—never heard 
of the Duke Alexes; have just heard of 
the reat Are in Chicago, and know that 
Grant and Greeley do exist. This state 
of society exists to a great extent through 
thu entire range of mountains in thid State 
and for many miles along the borders. 
They should not be blamed, however, hav¬ 
ing never seen anything, are not expected 
to be very well posted. They are generally 
honest and make good neighbors as far as 
they know, being entirely ignorant of the 
conventional rules of society. 
For stock raising and dairying, this sec¬ 
tion, extending into Virginia, has not its 
superior in the whole country. Mettled 
with enterprising men, and, to a certain 
extent, educated agriculturally, it would 
become a profitable and veiy interesting 
aud pleasant section of the United States. 
With the railroad that is expected to pass 
near here some future time, that class of 
men will, no doubt, follow. Farms can be 
purchased here now from £2 to ?8 per acre, 
improved. 
1 forgot to mention that the small fruits, 
including apples and peaches, abound in 
great profusion from June till Fall. North 
Carolina is the banner State, l believe, for 
dried fruits; single families drying from 
1,000 to 1,500 pounds of blackberries, re¬ 
quiring from 100 to 1 JO bushels of the green 
berries. One merchant, a few miles from 
us, purchased nearly one hundred and 
twenty-live thousand pounds the past 
season, and other fruits in proportion. 
I kuow io is not generally supposed at the 
North, that cool weather can bo found in 
the South in Summer, but wo have the oli- 
mateof Maine here in Summer, without the 
ould Winter, of course this climate is con¬ 
fined to the mountain range—thirty or 
ftirty milesin any direction the Falls, Wiu- 
ter, and Springs are delightful. We do not 
usually commence feeding cattle in the 
mountains till near Christmas; aud it is not 
absolutely necessary to shelter cattle or 
sheep In Winter. North Carolina. 
A now Calycantlius.— A writer in the 
Farmer and Gardener states that he has a 
I have 
seen fruited the past season, and in every 
way both tree and fruit uro’perfect and 
reliable; although ripening in this locality 
before its time, it is one of the best late 
apples in the whole list. Carter or Man- 
gum, Stevenson’s Winter. Yates’—This is 
a medium-sized rod apple, juicy, firm and 
of a line aromatic flavor. The tree is a line 
grower, and bears enormously. 
/test Twelve rears for Market or Family 
Use.— This list embraces all that would bo 
wanted In the Pear line. Early Doyenne 
d'Eto the best aud most reliable of all 
early Pears. Bloodgood. Beurre Giffard— 
its only fault is that it is a very slow grower, 
but bears young on Quince. Osband’s 
Summer—a flue Pear and well adapted to 
various parts of the South. Tyson, Medium 
Bartlett, Ducbosse d'Angouleme, Buffan, 
St. Michael, Beurre d’Aujou, Beurre Su- 
porllu. For late—Lawrouco. The varie¬ 
ties above named hold their foliage through¬ 
out, the Summer, and perfect their fruit. 
Best Six Freest one Peaches for Family 
Use .—Early TiHutson, Large Early York, 
Crawford’s Early, Craw Bird’s Late, Stump 
the World, Baldwin's October. 
Best Six CUnystono Peaches for Family 
Use.— Chinese Cling. Old Mixon Cling, 
Newington, Lemon Cling, Bennett’s, Mam¬ 
moth—larger than the Chinese Cling, yel¬ 
low, with a dark rod cheek. 
drapes, for Table or Wine. Delaware, 
Concord, Ives’ Seedling. 
Strawberries.— Wilson’s Albany, Presi¬ 
dent Wilder, Trimnphe do Gaud. 
raspberries. — Doolittle’s Black Cap, 
Mammoth Cluster. 
Quince .—Orange best for family use. 
WALKING FERN 
(Camptosorus ryzophyllun.) 
Tuts singular aud interest- 
iug little Fern is found in 
rooky woods. It grows in the 
almost soilless niches of rocks, 
or gets a sufficient foothold on 
their naked inequalities, it is 
quite rare, and during several 
years my searches in the woods 
were unrewarded with a sight 
of its odd litt le leaves, till one 
day, ascending alow mountain 
in this town, in a quiet, mossy 
slope of gray rock, far above 
my head, a company of those little " Walk¬ 
ers ” was discovered, though It was not till 
some time after any leaves were found. 
The frond is simple, reticulate veined in 
the midst, and forked only at the margin. 
It is undivided, laiice-Ahaped, with heart- 
shapod lobes at the base, and the apex at¬ 
tenuated into a long, slender accumulation, 
that often bends over backward and takes 
root, giving rise to a new plant. Thus, the 
foru takes one stop a year. I never have 
seen one that had stepped twice. 
The faint dots are variously shaped, and 
scattered without order on the transverse 
veins, slanting, and at various angles, often 
in pairs and facing each other, looking 
something " like writing ”; hence its Greek 
name A n I iyrammo rhysophylca of Piiehl. 
It can be cultivated in the same manner as 
other wild ferns, always I, ak iug care to give 
it a soil and atmosphere us near like its na¬ 
tive own as possible, remembering it needs 
little light, much water, and to bo let alone. 
Forrisburgh, Vt. r. 
COLLETIA rtieroNENSIH. 
White flowering variety of the Galycan- 
lli iis\ Jlorida, or common Sweet Scented 
Shrub. He says" i have hud these plants 
under cultivation several years. They are 
decidedly more vigorous growers than the 
dark variety. The flowers, which are straw- 
colored, are also larger and more fragrant, 
bloomed through the past dry Summer 
until frost. I do not kuow that ithoy will 
produce the same flowers from the seed, 
but why should they not do so when they 
have preserved their original characteris¬ 
tics, though surrounded by the dark flow¬ 
ering varieties ever since they wore first 
known In re, more than thirty years ago.” 
If the above is true, and we have no reason 
to doubt it, this new variety of an old and 
very popular shrub will certainly be a val¬ 
uable acquisition to our gardens.. 
POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP 
Red Hawthomden Apple, —1 notice 
an article in the Rural New-Yorker, 
Deo. 7, concerning " Red Hawthornden.” 
Why do you call a white apple, with an oc¬ 
casional blush cheek, "Red Hawthornden?” 
I have grown the Hawthornden with great 
satisfaction for many years. It, is a great 
producer of very uniform fruit, and sells 
well in market for culinary use, but is not 
so good fur the table as the Maiden s Blush, 
which it closely resembles, it relieves it¬ 
self of its surplus fruit somewhat prema¬ 
turely, but always perfects a Fall crop. 
But it is in no respect entitled to the pre/ix 
"Red" to its old-fashioned uanio. Better 
continue to call it plain Hawthornden, and 
then we shall understand what, apple we 
are talking about.— I. D. G. Nelson. 
Ir our good friend will road the article to 
which he refers, again, ho will sen that wo 
were quoting from an English journal a de¬ 
scription of a fruit known locally in En¬ 
gland as “Red Hawthornden;” and if he 
oomparos that description with Dowino’s 
description of "Hawthornden,” or the old 
"White Hawthornden,” ho will sots some 
dissimilarity, although the two apples may 
possibly be the same. But in England the 
apple is known as Red Hawthornden, and 
as such we gave it. 
Peake’s Fall Apple is described as an 
October apple from South Carolina, resem¬ 
bling the Rawle’s Janet in tree and fruit. 
The Prairie Farmer thus describes it: 
Shape tlattish-conie. An ordinary speci¬ 
men of the present year measures 2%x2)£ 
inches. Calyx medium, rather open in a 
shallow and small basin. Stem rather long 
and slender in a deep and open cavity. 
Flesh white, brittle, very juicy, of a spright¬ 
ly acid, and good to very good in quality. 
Capsule rather small, closed, with rather 
small brown oblong aud not plump seeds. 
Season here November rather than Octo¬ 
ber, and would probably keep through De¬ 
cember. A little farther North it would 
become a Winter apple. Tree vigorous, 
but not a strong grower thus far. 
A New Bedding Plant.—Wo have re¬ 
ceived from Henry E. Chitty, Superin¬ 
tendent of the Bellevue Nurseries, Pater¬ 
son, N. J., a specimen of a new bedding 
plant known as Salvia sphmdens olho 
to mpacta —or, in plainer language, a white 
varioty of the common Scarlet Sage. The 
plant is similar in habit to this species, thu 
principal difference being in the color of 
the flowers. We think the lovers of choice 
bedding plants will hail this novelty as a 
great acquisition. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTES 
Splendid Night-Blooming Cereus.— 
A correspondent of the Gardeners’ Monthly, 
at Reading, Pa., writes:—"(Ju the night of 
tho2ud of .1 uly. 1872, a very line plant owned 
by Miss Kitty Geiiii of this city, attracted 
many Visitors by its magnificent display of 
24 open flowers. This cactus is trained oil 
a wide frame 7 or 8 feet high, winding in 
ami about it like some great green snake. 
The plant is 10 years old and in full vigor. 
I luring the summer of 1870 its flowers num¬ 
bered as high as 40. The .buds do not al¬ 
ways perfect, some dropping off when half 
grown. This plaut was not kept nearly or 
Apples for Northern Ohio.—I. B., Me¬ 
dina, O., wants to plant an orchard of 200 
trees in Spring, aud asks our correspond¬ 
ents from that region to inform him what 
four kinds will succeed best there. 
