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POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP. , 
“ Concord,” a correspondent of the Rural 1 
AVorld, thus describes some of the new West¬ 
ern apples“ The past season we had an 
opportunity of testing Home of the new West¬ 
ern apples, and comparing with some of the 
Eastern. Our surprise is, that they arc so 
little known. Were they in the hands of 
Eastern growers, they would be puffed, as 
the Grimes, Stark and many other Eastern 
varieties have been. 
The llsivmro 
is a variety that Dr. Crain found in the 
grounds of Judge Davaok, in Illinois; very 
large, conical; color of Rawle’s Janet; flesh 
white, juicy, very tender; rich, spice-like 
flavor. A winter apple of the best hearing 
quality; free grower; hardy, and everyway 
worthy of a place in every orchard. 
The Boreucr 
had its origin in Missouri; yet it cannot be 
accurately determined by whom, as there 
seems to be more than one claimant. Fruit 
large, bright, red, darkly shaded; flesh golden 
yellow, subacid, juicy, crisp and llrsl-rate. 
Tree a fair grower, hardy and a great bearer. 
In season from February to 1 st of J unc. 
The Hermann 
is a seedling of Rawle’s Janet; originated in 
Missouri, of fair size, light red, brownish dots 
or specks, very juicy, rich flavor, and as good 
a keeper as the parent; tree a moderate grow¬ 
er and healthy. 
The WrlKlil's .1 nut*I 
originated in Missouri; larger than the par¬ 
ent, nearly round, bright yellow, striped 
brilliant red and carmine, subacid, very fine¬ 
grained and of best flavor. Tree a good 
grower, good bearer and hardy. Fruit will 
keep perfectly until midsummer. One of the 
greatest acquisitions yet introduced. 
1‘nrk'M liri-per, 
from an old Indian orchard in Kansas; a 
beautiful, large, yellow apple, covered with 
splashes and stripes of crimson, covered 
with a dark, ashy bloom;.tree a line grower, 
hardy, bears young; fruit keeps well until 
June; a fine market sort. 
Missouri Milperior, 
a large, dull red apple, subacid, a little 
spicy, very good ; supposed to be a seedling 
of Niekajack, which it somewhat resembles. 
Tree is remarkably upright, bears early and 
productive. 
IIii iiimiii mi’s Favorite 
originated in Johnson county, Mo.; a large, 
deep yellow, with brilliant red cheek, flavor 
first-rate; tree a fine grower, hardy, hears 
every season as heavy crops as Rawle’s 
Janet; keeps to May 1st. 
hftwvcr, 
found in an old Indian orchard in Kansas, 
by Senator Parke of Missouri; fruit very 
large, brilliant dark red, very smooth, flesh 
white, stained pink, crisp, aromatic, and of 
a decided cranberry flavor; keeps well and 
sells well. Tree hardy and thrifty, and a 
constant bearer. 
Crain’s Spice 
originated by Dr. Crain of Illinois; fruit 
rather medium to small, dull red, flat, with a 
rich, spicy flavor very pleasant to the palate. 
Tree a fair grower and bearer. Keeps w r cll 
to June, and fully retains its flavor. 
Early l{e«i Marten ref, 
of medium size, conically oblong, yellow, 
Striped and splashed with bright red, of 
good quality. Earlier than Red June, and 
becoming, where known, a popular market 
apple. Tliis may not lie considered a very 
new apple, yet it is hut very little known, 
and should be in the orchards of all our fruit 
growers." 
The (iolilcu |{uks«‘I u ml Wagoner Apples 
in Mieliitrn.it. 
C. Knieein, Lowell, Mich., says:—"The 
Golden Russet, has been all that it was ever 
recommended to me to be; the tree is a har¬ 
dy, thrifty grower; it hears quite young, and 
the apples are good for cooking. Early in 
winter, and when ripe, which is about the 
first of May, its flavor is delicious. In fact, 
1 know of hut one apple that, will compare 
with it, and that is the Wagoner. With me 
the Wagoner bore the first year from the 
nursery, and has borne every year since, it 
is a thrifty grower—very hardy. The apple 
is ready for use hi the fall, and can lie used 
all winter, both for table and hand use, 
"With me the Wagoner is keeping equal with 
the Golden Russet; but I think in general it 
will require a little more care in picking. 
The Russet has but one disadvantage of the 
Wagoner, and that is, it does not bear as 
young as the Wa.geuer.” 
II. II. Goodwin, Iona, Mich., writes*.—“ I 
have an orchard of four hundred apple trees 
just comimg into bearing; the soil is mostly 
of clayey loam, and the trees are promising 
well, but the Wagener has gone beyond the 
promising point, and for two years has been 
paying down for all it received, and cancel¬ 
ling the old score of purchase price and care 
which I had charged against it. From the 
twenty-five Wagoners 1 have, I expect to 
pick more fruit for the next five years than ( 
from all the other varieties in the orchard. ' 
Tlie long season of use, and the perfect satis- i 
faction rendered when used, either as a des- I 
Bert limit or as a cooking apple, make it the I 
most desirable of any with which I am ac- 1 
quainled.” 1 
A White Northern (Spy. 
At the meeting of the Shite Poifiological 
Society of Michigan, May 3d. it is announced 
that Henry IIolt, Cascade,Mich.,exhibited 
a “Northern Sp) r entirely white;” also Wag¬ 
ener, Holt’s Seedling, Spitzenberg, Jonathan, 
Yellow Belleflower, Green Winter Sweet 
and Ratnbo were exhibited at that date in 
fair order. _ 
Apple Gin..* for Michigan. 
The State Homological Society of Michi¬ 
gan recommend planting: 
For Summer —Duchess of Oldcnburgh, 
Sweet Botlgli, and Red Astrakhan. 
For Fall —Cayuga Red Streak, Maiden’s 
Blush, and Snow or Famense. 
For HYfcter—Baldwin, Wagoner, Rhode 
Island Greening, English Golden Russet, 
Northern Spy, Talman Sweet, Hubbardston 
Nonesuch. 
Grapes at Oshkosh, Wis. 
James Brainabd, Oshkosh, Wis., (latitude 
forty-four,) writes the Journal of Agriculture: 
“ 1 have been engaged in grape culture about 
ten years, and have yet to see or hear of the 
locality that is any better for our American 
varieties than here on Lake Winnebago. 
1 am in the city, only about one hundred 
rods from the Lake, and have only one and 
three-fourths acres of land; have ripened 
the Catawba every year, excepting the last; 
never have been troubled with rot, mildew 
or leaf-blight; tkrips have troubled me some 
on the Clinton and Delaware. 1 have over 
thirty varieties in hearing this year; and am 
trying the Walter, which made good growth 
last year, wintered well, and some have 
grown about eight inehes now.” 
Tlio “ Mexican Evci-heaving Strawberry,” 
Tins editor of the Rural Carolinian, 
(Charleston, S. C.,) in reply to an inquiry of 
a correspondent, says:—“We have the so- 
called Mexican Everbearing Strawberry 
growing in our garden,side by side with the 
Monthly Red Alpine, and have been able to 
detect, no difference between the two. Both 
have blossomed and borne fruit, both have 
put mil, runners and furnished US with nu¬ 
merous new plants, and both are apparently 
equally worthless—except ns curiosities.” 
The Gardener’s Monthly, for June, con¬ 
tains the following: — “Among the chief 
attractions of our greenhouse this season, has 
been a dozen plants of Mexican Everbearing 
Strawberries, received from Mr. Whiting. 
We have collected together all the varieties 
we could find, and grew them side by side. 
At tins writing (May 13th) the Mexicans 
have been in bearing three weeks, to the ad¬ 
miration of hundreds who have seen them. 
The next kinds to hear have been some of 
the paler fruits. Tim Old Monthly Red Al¬ 
pine, received both from Mr. Pui.i.ku and 
Mr. Knox, have the fruit scarcely formed, 
much less ripe. We have sent some to Mr. 
Chas. Downing, who replies:—‘There is a 
difference in the leaves and leafstalks, as you 
point out.’. At the same time, it is proper to 
say, Mr. Downing does not place the same 
value on the facts that we do." 
Major Fricas, editor of the Germantown 
Telegraph, says of" Mexican” and Monthly 
Red Alpine:—“ We have the plants growing 
side by side, and from comparing them early 
in the season there was, in our judgment, a 
L distinction.” _ 
l ot. Wilder’s Strawberry Experiment*. 
It is well known among pomologists that 
Col. Wilder is experimenting with straw¬ 
berries, hybridizing and producing seedlings. 
* Some lime since lie wrote the editor of the 
Gardener’s Monthly concerning some of his 
" curious crosses:—“ My seedling strawberries 
eight months from seed are now in full 
! bloom, and I can assure you that they are 
the most interesting experiments in crossing 
I have met yet, with Wilson, with Royal 
llsmtbois, crosses with ITaulbois foliage and 
’ Wilson flower. Pistillate No. GO, crossed 
with Napoleon Ill, produces a noble truss 
of pistillate flowers. Napoleon 111, crossed 
( with llauthois, brings a new type of Ilaul- 
bois, with very dark, round foliage and large 
I flowers. Wilson crossed with Triumph, 
some plants are hermaphrodite and others 
pistillate. Napoleon III and Triumph, glo- 
( rious plant with splendid trusses. Jueimdu 
by Napoleon III, very promising, Ac., Ac. 
Q But what will you say to the fact that some 
s of the crosses of varieties by the Haulbois 
are regular mules ? In addition,] have some 
forty pots more to come into bloom.” 
duced during the winter months. In mild 
winters, such as the last,, it survives out of 
doors here. In its native country it is said 
to attain to the size of a lofty tree. Its ro¬ 
bust growth and large leaves unfit it for any 
but. the largest conservatories, and the fruit 
cannot, claim to he of any important value, 
owing to its small size and large seeds. 1 
Arboriculture. 
IN THE ORCHARD. 
As I have said in former writings, I al¬ 
ways carry my clipping shears when I go 
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ARBORICULTURAL notes. 
Hemlock Hedges. 
Tils Gardeners’ Monthly says:—“ Some 
think that as the hemlock is a large forest 
timber tree, it cannot lie kept down as a 
hedge plant; but summer pruning will keep 
the strongest iree in a dwarf condition for a 
great number of years. The priming has to 
be done just after the young growth pushes 
out, which generally is about the end of 
May. It is very important the hedge should 
be cut with sloping sides, so that every part 
of the surface should have the full benefit of 
t he light. No hedge with upright sides or a 
square top will keep thick at the bottom 
long.” 
Mode of Nourishing Street Trees in Parii. 
All the boulevards of Paris are planted 
with trees, many of which were, however, 
destroyed during the revolution of 1848. 
New trees were, therefore, planted, and their 
growth fostered with an amount of skillful 
attention that, has produced astonishing re¬ 
sults, when the natural disadvantages are 
taken into consideration. The trees are 
planted in loam that has been previously 
mixed with sand and transported to the city. 
This is contained in large receptacles, lined 
^vil.li brick, sunk below the surface of the 
footway, and coated over with cement, so as 
to render them impervious. They form, in 
fact, gigantic water-pots ; and into them are 
conducted the roof-drains of each house 
block,from which the earth derives ita water 
supply. These basins or flower-pots are 
built of capacity sufficient to admit of con¬ 
siderable expansion on the part of the roots 
of the trees. An ornamental circular iron 
grating, set flush with the footway, is placed 
over these basins and around the trunks of 
the trees. This admits of air for the proper 
support of the roots. The roots of the trees 
are thus removed from the deleterious in¬ 
fluences of escaping street gas and the 
poisonous emanations from sewers, causes 
which are well known to have destroyed the 
vegetation in the streets of many cities. 
LOQUAT FRUIT - photinia JAFONICA. perienccd arboriculturist, writing May 25th, 
send, with this, a couple of leaves; also, a through my orchard or small fruit grounds, saysLet me urge that now is the time 
sample of the fruit- William Saunders, and almost always I find a chance to use to plant maple and elm seeds, limit as you 
KrpermenM Gar.lrm, WaMnfiton, 1). 0. them on some straggling limb or some lit t le would apple or pear seed, now and they 
. nmiv Khnni ilini 1 have before overlooked; will grow a loot or two before tali. When 
, r E RXt&rSZ Ol it but at this time of year, May and early June. I have failed to do this at this season, 1 go, 
1 ,7—1-1, • Him at’ ’ 1 depend more on my thumb and Huger than after harvest, into a grove or by a stream, 
the stone amt lea ■_•_ J * my shears. I And here and there among my where timber grows, and gather thousands 
Micanor KtruwbtTry* dwarf pears, a shoot growing Joo strong, or, of little trees of that seasons growth 
A Boston correspondent of the Gardener’s careless fellow as I am, here is a tree that 1 maple, elm, cottonwood, box elder, *V<-, 
Monthly says:—“ The only strawberry I had neglected to prune when it should have and set them in rows like cabbage plants, 
freely ill bloom on the first of May, was the been; or possibly 1 said it. grew so strong six or eight inehes apart, cultivate them, and 
Nicanor, which shows it to be a very early last year that it will be better for it not to in two years l have a stock of trees for the 
sort,, supposing that early blooming and be cut back ; but when it. has well started, whole neighborhood. Any man can do it. 
early fruiting go along together.” pinch out the terminal shoots of the strong- Every man who owns a treeless prairie farm 
est limbs, and so cause them either to make ought to do it.” So lie ought 1 
Nicanor, which shows it to be a very early 
sort, supposing that early blooming and 
early fruiting go along together.” 
l’liint Tree Seed* on the I’rn irios. 
A valued Illinois correspondent and ex¬ 
perienced arboriculturist, writing May 25th, 
says:—“ Let me urge that now is the time 
to plant, maple and elm seeds. Plant as you 
would apple or pear seed, now, and they 
will grow a fool or two before fall. When 
I have failed to do this at this season, I go, 
after harvest., into a grove or by a stream, 
where timber grows, and gather thousands 
of little trees of that season’s growth— 
maple, elm, cottonwood, box elder, Ac.— 
“Jnpim Plum.” 
Tile plant, alluded to in an issue of 
the Rural New-Yorker, recently, under 
the above name, is undoubtedly the Loqmt 
of Japan, the l'hotinto or JEriobot/q/a Japonico 
of botanists, and may frequently be met 
with in our green-houses ami conservatories, 
where its hawthorn-scented blossoms and 
clusters of small yellow fruits arc freely pro- 
Itoeky Mou n in in Uiirvuiit. 
L. Easterduooks, Will Co., Ill., writes 
the Rural New Yorker, June 4th:—“In 
the fall of 1807 1 have planted in my garden 
the seed of a Rocky Mountain Currant. At 
this date one of them is over seven feet high. 
1 planted both red and lilaek currants. This 
is the first year of their bearing fruit; the 
fruit, is more than double the size of our or¬ 
dinary garden currants. Canes grew in the 
year ’0‘J four and one-half feet. They are a 
great curiosity, and are exciting quite a cur¬ 
rant fever here. Nothing of the kind has 
been seen by our oldest, settlers here. The 
borer has not, as yet, troubled them; they 
stand within twenty feet of our common 
currants, which the borer is slaying, right 
and left If the fruit proves to he of good 
quality, out of the garden go all other kinds 
of currants.” _ 
The Hen Jlnvi* Apple. 
The St. LouisMournal of Agriculture lias 
the following:—“In the year 1799, Win. 
Davis and J. D. Hill came from Virginia to 
Kentucky, and settled in that part, of Logan, 
now known as Butler County. They locat¬ 
ed near Capt. Ben Davis, the brother of W. 
Davis, and the brother-in-law of llill. A 
few years afterwards, Hill went back to Vir¬ 
ginia on business, and when he returned to 
Kentucky, brought some apple grafts with 
him. Hill and Win. Davis raised fruit, from 
these grafts. Capt. Ben Davis, finding the 
apple a desirable one, grafted the same for 
himself; and also raised a young nursery of 
it, These trees were sold through the coun¬ 
try, and for want of knowing any other 
name, the people called it the Ben Davis 
apple, using the word Bun to distinguish 
him from his brother William. Capt. Davis 
himself, and his family, always called it the 
Virginia Pippin, because the original grafts 
wore brought from Virginia. It is, there¬ 
fore, legitimate and proper to call it Ben 
Davis, as the name by which it was then 
known is not now, and, perhaps, never will 
be known. So much for tire history of the 
Ben Davis.” 
more side branches or create spurs for fruit 
along the growth of last year. A Com....H uh. to.- Vi-«i-..U.n- lM.y»iolo«is»H. 
i have just been among my rows of dwarf A curious correspondent asks \V hat 
apples, planted out, now four years, and is the reason that three out of four I almuu 
then one year old, cut down to one foot to Sweet trees bear white blooms, while a 
eighteen inches of the ground. They stand fourth produces a dark pink blossom , 
mostly five feet apart in the row, in rows six Perhaps our correspondent can tel us why 
feet apart; and such a show 1 never before the same variety of peach, upon the same 
saw although f have been around some, soil, with equal exposure to the sun, w.ll on 
with my eves open. A row of Maiden’s .me tree show little color and on another 
Blush is, say, made of forty trees, each about blush like a bashful boy t Dr. 1 rjmrle m 
five feet apart, and each tree ten feet high, the case of the peach, will answei that the 
the branches just meeting, but not running tree with the blushing fruit gets iron, w n e 
into each other, and laden with blooms for the other does not._ 
fruit—one continuous iuasso! spills, UOt loin ^yj, y A|,|»leti Ito no. Reproduce from Weed, 
inches apart, from within a l'ootof the ground ^ j> Wiieelock asks why a tree grown 
on every limb,clear to the top. Had 1 been from tlie R(1C( j () j- au a p p i e will not produce 
in China, and witnessed the same, 1 should (hc gam(J of - ap pi 0 ? For the reason 
have written all the glorious words I could ( | 1(; blossom which produced the seed 
of it, and the world of planters would have may have been fertilized with pollen from 
been crazy for some of the Chinese dwarf B0llie other variety. Thus the seed becomes 
apple trees! But now I have the item here, misec j ( j U8 t as gquashes, melons and corn 
and 1 feci so proud of it; “ feel to know, as w]|( , u two varieties are planted near 
the saying is, that it is a good thing—a thing Iu somo cases the seed of the 
that can and ought to he repeated again and does rQ p ro duce the same fruit. This 
again, and I will not keep silent, whoever . g o( - lcll Ilie case where entire orchards of 
may laugh at my item ! O no variety are planted. 
I have also Benoni, Baldwin, Red Astro- ——- 
chan, etc., of each of which I can shoiv trees Omuri; Orange Fi-ui.. 
occupyin ,r only six feet diameter of ground, R. C. Richards asks if the Osage Orange 
and eight to ten feet high, full of blooms, ac- trees which bear fruit ever 
cording to ils peculiar habit. I must say, ^ 7 n 'reply, we have heard ihos’c who 
however, that 1 have some ot Alexander, familiar with its habits in the South say 
line trees, but where the other sorts have that a small proportion Of the trecMire fruit- 
abundant bloom, it. lias but a mere half score, hearing, and those that 
It is a poor but showy apple, a poor bearer, when ymmg. 
unprofitable to fee fruit grower, but lino for ■*. btooi 
the nurseryman, for it.magical gmwei, ami g(J(>n au Q sn g e Orange 
showy while young. cannot speak from pern 
My raspberries and my blackberries—well, iiT-77- 
I thought i bad cut them back all they “ 'It ad 
should be; but as I go through them now 1 VfolU, Vs 
am satisfied that the linger and thumb here ot - ina king holes for his 
the trees which bloom, vve nave neve, 
seen an OsngC Orange tree in bloom, and 
cannot speak from personal observation. 
Holes lor Trees. 
I hope all who read the statement of Col. 
Leighton, Norfolk, Va., about the manner 
rj-maliinir holes for his trees m (day, will ic- 
Rnsp- 
Golilou Thornless vs. Minnesota Rasp¬ 
berry. 
Thomas Meehan say# in his Monthly, 
we notice Hint, there is a tendency in some 
quarters to pronounce this Golden Thornless 
the same as a Western variety called Minne¬ 
sota. This a great mistake. The kinds arc 
quite distinct. 
hook mg aiong m my wwoiu, superfluous moisture; anuyei.'D »» 
many Codliu apple trees, and then thinking {ion, the moisture is drawn from tlie deep 
back a little, I wept to and got, I don’t quite saiu { t 0 the roots of the tree in 11,0 
dare to ask that good pomologist, Charles when great bwit and drouth * 
Downing, if Climes Codlin, which you have, holes onV cls- 
th rough him, lately figured, may not bean for stiniftnt water, soon to become 
old sort? 1 fear it is only a synonym; ifso, ^ ^ ' Kau V mit -, etc., in all 
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