|himo logical. 
THE WEALTHY APPLES. 
Peter M. Sideon writes the Farmers’ Un¬ 
ion, Minneapolis, Minn., a> follows :—“Some 
twelve years ago 1 obtained the seed of 
Albert Emerson, Bangor, Ma ine, marked crab 
seed, which 1 suppose was correct, from the 
outward polish of the fruit, as well aa ex¬ 
treme hardiness of the tree—having since 
grown perfect apple trees from crab seeds, 
and perfect, crab trees from apple seeds. The 
old Wealthy tree bore in seven yearn from 
the seed, and now a seedling from it is bear¬ 
ing only four years from seed ; and the young 
grafted stock bears as soon as crabs. 
“Tn size the Wealthy apple is large, the 
form and outward polish perfection; juicy, 
almost melting, mellow subacid, as good as 
the best; season, early winter, but With care 
will keep till March or April, The tree is a 
good grower, forms a handsome head, bears 
early and profusely, every year that any ap¬ 
ple will bear. This year is an cxeeptiog, the 
crop light, its is the case with the Duchess 
and the crabs, uone holding better on the 
same exposure, or putting forth new growth 
more vigorously. Of all the large varieties 
of the apple, none came through the past 
winter better than the Wealthy ; the Duch¬ 
ess being its only competitor iu hardiness, 
yet not its superior. The Wealthy must 
stand at the head of the apple list, comprising 
more good qualities in tree and fruit than 
any other known variety.” 
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BEURRE DUBUISSON PEAR. 
Respecting this Pear, which attracted so 
much attention last season iu Belgium, we 
read the following remarks in the Bulletin, 
d’Arboriculture :—“ We consider the Beurre 
Dubuisson the most valuable acquisition of 
tiie present generation, as it equals the finest 
October Pears in quality, and is hi perfect 
condition iu February and March—a time 
when thoroughly melting fruits are not to be 
had. It lias, moreover, another invaluable 
quality, viz., that of keeping ripe in a fruit- 
room, without suffering any change, for four 
months, commencing from the beginning of 
December,” The following description of 
this Pear is given by M. Du Mortier, iu the 
Pomone Towmaiaienne :—“ Fruit very large, 
oblong, slightly indented, truncate, and rib¬ 
bed at the base, somewhat attenuated to¬ 
wards the trip. Stalk short, thick, oblique, 
not much sunk in the flesh. Skin yellow, 
dotted and spotted with russet, sometimes 
slightly colored on the side next the sun. 
Flesh fine-grained, buttery, sweet, slightly 
aromatic, and very juicy. Quality unsur¬ 
passed.” The Beurre Dubuisson is liuoly fig¬ 
ured in the Bulletin d'Arboriculture, for 
September 1872, where its aspect in the cul- 
ored plate fully supports all that has been 
written in its favor. 
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RASPBERRIES FOR THE SOUTH. 
The Rural Carolinian says :—“If our tables 
are not supplied with an abundance of tliis 
delicious fruit from the middle of May to 
the tenth of June, or later, it is our own 
fault. We have only to properly plant, 
prune and cultivate the plants and they will 
give us their crops in due time, with only 
such partial failures, in unfavorable seasons, 
as all other objects of cultivation are liable 
to. The black cap varieties are the surest 
for our climate, perhaps, and of these Large 
Miami or Mammoth Cluster is the best; but 
the Philadelphia and Clarke (red) have never 
failed with us to give satisfactory results. 
We now have on trial Herstiueand Saunders, 
which promise well. The raspberry, how¬ 
ever, iu our climate, requires partial shade 
and should be planted on the north or east, 
side of a fence and mulched in summer. 
With these precautions and a reasonable 
share ol' attent ion there need be no failure ; 
aud yet how few raspberries are raised- in 
the South 1 ” 
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A NEW LATE PEACH. 
Under the name of Peche Bella de Saint - 
Gesliu, a new Peach is described, in t he last 
number of the Ilmw TTorlicole as the latest- 
ripening kind known to French cultivators. 
The stock from which it sprung was discov¬ 
ered some years since growing among the 1 
ruins of the old tower of St. Geslin, near ‘ 
RicheUeu (Iudre-et-Loire). The discoverer s 
(M. Joutron) finding that it fruited much i 
later than any of the other kinds he pos- £ 
sessed, continued to propagate it. The quul- J 
ity of the fruit is excellent, the flesh being i 
very melting and sweet, with a slightly per- i 
fumed flavor. It is also of large size and 
handsome appearance. Its chief merit., how¬ 
ever, is that it ripens as late as the beginning 
of November, somewhat later than the Sal- 
way Peach. The tree is described as a vig¬ 
orous grower, with long, stout branches cov¬ 
ered with bark of a uniform blood-red color. 
Leaves long, oval-lance shaped, very finely 
toothed. Flowers like those of Grosse 
Mignonne. 
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MORE NEW STRAWBERRIES. 
Mr. E. H. Bogert of Long Island, brought 
to our office, a few days since, a large num¬ 
ber of new seedling strawberries. Among 
UMBRELLA FLOWER TRAINER. 
These Umbrella Flower Trainers make 
plants of seandent habit look well. The 
flowers, if they be of drooping character, like 
the LapageHa rosea, hang down under the 
foliage, and look like magnificent coral ear¬ 
drops. Even the Clematis, of which wc 
speak elsewhere, looks admirable trained in 
this way. And so do the climbing varieties 
of Roses. For villa garden purposes they 
form admirable requisites, coming in well for 
UMBRELLA FLOWER TRAINERS. 
! the number there were several very promis¬ 
ing varieties. This gentleman, like many 
others, has been raising seedlings for many 
years, partly for pleasure, but no doubt not 
without the hope of produccing something' 
better than any now in cultivation. That 
his efforts have been successful we have the 
best of proof in the many handsome and ex¬ 
cellent. sorts shown us ; but whether any of 
the number will prove to be more valuable 
for general cultivation than those already 
disseminated, remains to be ascertained 
through more extended experience. We 
wish Mr. Bogert success in his efforts to im¬ 
prove this most valuable, as well as best of 
all our small f ruits. There should be thou¬ 
sands of persons doing the same thing, in¬ 
stead of the few dozen now engaged in rais¬ 
ing seedling fruits of any kind. 
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POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP. 
Apples in Allamakee Co ., Iowa .— Jah, T, 
Mott writes to the Homestead concerning 
the effects of the winter upon fruit and says : 
“Of course some varieties of apples have 
fared much worse than others, but there are 
hardly any that are exempt from injury. I 
think the fruit is killed on many trees of the 
Oldenburg aud Tetofoski, which are our 
hardiest varieties. Many trees of Fameuse 
are killed, and I do not remember to have 
(in my 17 years’ experience) seen it injured 
before. Several varieties that have only 
been called half hardy, as Janet, Little Ro¬ 
man Lte, Tulman Sweet and Sops of Wine 
nearly the last t ree dead, and the Ben Davis, 
that hits been blowed as the hardiest tree, 
has proved itself about as hardy as the Sops 
of Wine. I have not an orchard tree left, 
and 1 do not know of a bearing tree that is 
not dead. It is not much loss though, as the 
fruit for use fe so nearly worthless. 
1 such simple flowers as the Canary plant 
(Tropaalum canarlensr), or Nasturtiums, or 
Convolvulus, or oven the Common Ivy, 
and the variegated Japanese Honeysuckle. 
Frames like these do to set isolated on lawns, 
or they may form the center piece of a figure 
in any' flower garden. Their extreme for¬ 
mality renders them objectionable in the eyes 
of many, hut when once they get covered 
with foliage, the party iu charge can so guide 
the shoots and correct them, as to remove, in 
a degree, the formality complained of. They 
have the particular merit, of exposing the 
shoots to sun and air, and inducing, there¬ 
fore, a better state of inflorescence. Being 
portable, too, they can be removed at plea ,- 
nre, kept within doors, if occasion re i . 
in winter, and set out in summer f »* 
plants that are selected for summer w i 
and flowering. They are cheap, and ca.i bj 
either had painted green or galvanized. 
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PANSxES IN KANSAS. 
You call for “brief notes from the ladie-, 
of their experience in the cultivation of flow- 
era, with the poetry left out." Now I think 
it would only be fair on your part to enlight¬ 
en us as to what is considered the pot try part 
of growing aud caring for flowers. The hoe¬ 
ing and digging you probably call plain prose. 
Yes, we agree with you, it is plain, very 
plain ; but not to be allowed the privilege of 
expatiating on the beauty and fragrance of 
the flowers we have grown, and have told 
you all about how we pruned and planted, 
and hoed and shaded, how we enriched and 
pulverized the soil—would, it seems to me, 
be something like the play' of Hamlet with 
Hamlet left out ; and, is it a fact that the 
briefest and plainest statement of facts are 
the most readable of newspaper articles ? In 
answer to your call here is a short chapter of 
MONOGRAM. 
Apples in Maine. —S. Wasson, East Surry, 
Hancock Co., Me., writes the Maine Farmer : 
“ Speaking of apple trees, I And the Graven- 
stein one of the most difficult to bear trans¬ 
planting, and the Tetoffsky wanting in ener¬ 
gy the first year after removal, while the 
Duchess, Red Astrakhan, Keswick Codlin and 
King of Tomkins like a broody Light Brah¬ 
ma, are content to ‘ set’ anywhere.” 
MONOGRAM. 
my experience in the garden, and the poetry 
part—the flowers themselves, I will retain. 
Every one admires Pansies; and most of 
people think it requit es a great deal of care, 
or knowledge, or something unattainable, to 
grow them and have line flowers. With some 
choice. Pansy seed 1 raised and set out in the 
garden last spring a number of plants. 
Through the summer they grew well enough, I 
but although I kept picking off the buds to 
prevent flowering, they would not grow 
stocky as 1 wanted them to, and by fall they 
were straggling, unpromising looking plants, 
I concluded to place over them for thewiuter, 
an old cold frame—which almost dropped to 
pieces when we moved it—and see what that 
would do for t hem by spring. 
In placing the frame where I did I covered 
up a Bourbon rose that dies down to the 
ground every winter, and a short row of the 
Trumpet Narcissus—a Feverfew and a bunch 
of Oxalis. Two panes of glass were broken 
out of the sash, and I covered the holes with 
boards. During the winter everything inside 
of the frame was frozen just as solid os on 
the outside, aud yet the rose has retained its 
last year’s green leaves ; the Feverfew looked 
in April as well as if kept in a greenhouse, 
and the Narcissus were up and out of blossom 
before others ou the outside had thought of 
such a thing ; and the Pansies ! well that lit¬ 
tle bed of ten varieties is the gayest spot 
out-of-doors ! Commenced blossoming veiy 
early and for profusion aud size of flowers, 
their beauty surpasses anything I ever saw 
and arc a marvel to all who see them. [Dear 
me that must be the poetry, and I did not 
mean to !] 
After working in a garden, and cultivating 
flowers of all sorts for a groat many years, I 
feel that I have just learned how to grow 
Pansies, and the question with me is, was it 
the protection the plants had from the winds 
alone, that made all thut difference ? The 
plants had the same light and the same cold, 
as those outside. 
In December 1 threw over the frame, a 
piece of old carpet, which only partially cov¬ 
ered the sash, and which was blown off many 
times when there was no snow to keep it on, 
and I really think it made little or no differ¬ 
ence. Still I would take the precaution 
another time to apply the carpet and fasten 
it on, had the frame been a good tight one it 
would seem reasonable that the plants should 
come out well and in good condition, but 
such a patched, loose old box reuders the 
matter a little puzzling. Harriet. 
Wyandotte, Kansas. 
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GAS TAR IN GREENHOUSES. 
Peter Henderson in Gardeners’ Monthly 
says :—We have used gas tar on the boarding 
for our benches for over twenty years with- 
■ ' injury, in the slightest degree, to the 
• l Is: but it is put on boiling hot, and when 
^ covered with sand an inch or so in depth. 
Wiiere it has got on the pipes, there is no 
remedy I think but having the portion taken 
out ami subjected to a heat strong enough to 
burn it out. There was a notable instance of 
this kind that occurred in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
some dozen years ago. A Mi'. Park, a well 
known florist , took it into his head one day 
to paint bis pipes, and as black was a suitable 
color, and gas tar cheaper thuu paint, he set 
to work and painted the whole of them, 
numbering several thousand feet. All went 
on well enough until getting into severe win¬ 
ter weather, when the pipes had to become 
heated to a temperature high enough to 
t hrow off the deleterious gas, when off came 
th i leaves in showers, destroying nearly 
every plant in the houses lor that . ea.-.un. 
He tried every expedient to get it off, but all 
failed, and there was nothing for it but to 
take down the pipes and subject them to a 
red heat, which was completely effectual. 
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TRAINING WISTARIAS. 
The Gardeners’ Monthly says : — “ We 
should like to call the attention to a note we 
gave last year, that some beautiful objects 
for lawn decorations can be made of Wista¬ 
rias, by training them as standards. A young 
plant is selected and trained to a stuke six 
feet high. When the plant reaches this it is 
headed off. The second year the stake may 
be taken away, and the young plant will sup¬ 
port itself. It will never make running 
branches after this, as it takes all its nutritive 
powers to overcome gravitation and sustain 
itself erect. A beautiful umbrella-lilce head 
is formed, aud its hundreds of drooping flow¬ 
ers in sprihg thus shown off to beautiful 
advantage. Another point of interest to a 
nurseryman in this is, that with this cheek 
to growth the reproductive po wers are called 
into play, and the plants then usually pro¬ 
duce seed abundantly. There is hope for 
numerous improved varieties as soon as these 
facts become generally known. This is a 
very good season to train plants up for this 
purpose. 
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The Chinese Yam is recommended as an 
out-door pillar or trellis plant, wherever a 
variety of such objects is desired. 
