tip them, or leave them until the latter part 
of the season?” 
As the trees are, from your accounts, evi¬ 
dently very vigorous, wc advise leaving them 
to grow as they will, until just at the close of 
t lie growing season and then, ere the terminal 
bud of this year's growth has fully formed, 
cut them back into the rounded, compact 
shape 3 ’ou desire, both for beauty and capa¬ 
city, to withstand storms and wiud. Were 
acteristic I find is a great fault with most of 
the red raspberries. Too many of them 
come to pieces in picking. I have one small 
plat of them, about four rods square, from 
which we have picked about one hundred 
and fifty quarts this season. It gives me the 
best satisfaction of any raspberry 1 ever cul¬ 
tivated. 
I have one other variety I think much of 
for home use; that is Purple Cane or Ellis- 
Arboriculture 
RAISING SEEDLING GRAPES 
THE MULBERRY IN THE SOUTH, 
THE HERSTINE RASPBERRIES, 
We need no evidence to prove that a wide¬ 
spread interest is felt in raising grape vines 
from seed. The number of new vines that 
appear every year, and the stories that come 
G. W. C., Munro, Buena Vista, Ga., writes 
the Southern CultivatorAbout ten years 
ago I got a few sprigs for grafting of a mul¬ 
berry which was very highly recommended, 
In Rural New-Yorker, July 10, we 
mentioned the fact that the Fruit Commit¬ 
tee of the Pennsylvania Horticultural 
Society and other prominent pomolo- 
gists had visited Mr. Hkusttne’s 
grounds, examined and named 
some of his seedling raspberries. 
The above named Fruit Com¬ 
mittee has made its report, from 
which we extract the following 
notes concerning the raspberries 
named: 
11 ermine. 
To No. 1 the above name was 
given. “Plant a good grower; 
most abundant and early bearer; ^ 
suckers m o d e r a t. o 1 y ; c. a n c 8 
strong, of a red - green color ; 
covered with white bloom, spines 
green, but not abundant ; foliage 
healthy, of medium size, and 
often lobed ; of a pearl - gray 
color on the under side; fruit 
large, oblong, with small grains HK 
and crimson color; flavor, sub- 
acid, and very good.” * 
Ruby 
Is the name given No. 10. 
“ Plant a free grower aud abun¬ 
dant bearer; canes strong, of a /m 
light green color, shaded with W-A 
purple and covered with white MM 
bloom; very few spines; foliage MM 
healthy, and of a light green 
color, with pearl-gray on the un- ysm 
der side of the leaves; fruit ^ 
large, round, of a dark crimson 
color, largo grains, and some¬ 
what hirsute; flavor, subacid, 
and excellent.” 
Snundera 
is the name given No. 16. “ Plant 
a good bearer, suckering freely; 
canes green, shaded with purple; 
Spines numerous, small, and light 
green; foliage light green and 
abundant ; IVuit very large, 
round, of a crimson color, with 
large graius, of high character, 
and delicious.” 
Elizabeth 
is the mime given No, 9. “ Plant a very 
strong grower; great bearer, and suckering 
moderately; canes light pea-green color; 
spines numerous, and of a purple color; 
foliage of a dark green color, deeply crimped, 
and of a pea-green color ou the under side; 
fruit very large, round, crimson - scarlet; 
grains large and strongly marked, Arm, of 
delicious flavor, and late in ripening.” 
The Committee adds:—“llersiine, Ruby, 
and Saunders, arc the result, of planting a 
row of Philadelphia and Allen side by side, 
and propagating from the seed of fruit pro¬ 
duced on the Allen, of which several thou¬ 
sand were discovered, none being retained 
but such as showed a decided improvement, 
on t he older sorts, not only as regards size 
of berry and flavor, but, productiveness and 
apparent hardiness. The plants examined 
by us were entirely unprotected during the 
winters, without, being at all injured ; and, 
we think, we can see in the purple tinge of 
the canes, and the beautiful crimson of the 
fruit, formed by the admixture of the scarlet 
of the Allen with the dark purple of the 
Philadelphia, that they are a true cross be¬ 
tween these two kinds; but, coming as they 
do from the same parents, they present a 
similarity in their general appearance. The 
Elizabeth, however, is from a different and 
unknown source, and presents a strangely 
marked difference from the others, both in 
foliage and fruit, and, we think, equally 
meritorious.” 
THK NEW SEEDLING RASPBERRY — HERSTINE. 
the trees wanting in vigor, we should defer 
pruning in, until early next spring; but 
their great vitality will find its account in 
filling up remaining buds, by a cutting at 
the close of this year’s elongating growth. 
to light in the journals now and then, that 
So-and-so has a thousand seedlings growing 
on his grounds, and his neighbor ten thou¬ 
sand, show that innumerable experiments 
are being made In this country to improve 
the quality of our outdoor grapes. 
The brilliant successes of a lew cultiva¬ 
tors, and the fascination of the pursuit, at¬ 
tract new experimenters annually, and I have 
thought that a few hints drawn from my ex¬ 
perience iu raising seedlings, during the last 
eight years, might save beginners from some 
blunders and waste of time. When I began 
I was so ignorant of what was being done 
all around me, that 1 actually planted a 
large quantity of seeds of the wild grape, 
and kept the plants till they were three 
years old before 1 destroyed them. Of 
course, we should begin with the best and 
most improved kinds, and of these plant 
only the largest and ripest berries. 
Seed may be planted out doors iu spring 
or fall. Fall is rather the better time. Se¬ 
lect a warm, mellow, rich piece of ground, 
and make a seed-bed about four feet wide, 
and of any convenient length. Fork in a 
large quantity of rotten manure, unleached 
ashes and bone-dust—one or nil of these 
fertilizers—rake level, and plant grapes, or 
seed in drills about an inch and a quarter 
deep and fourteen inches apart. In a drill four 
feet long, put at least fifty good grapes or a 
hundred seeds; for, in my experience in 
raising plants, only a small percentage of 
seeds ever germinate. (I planted quantities 
of the seeds of Allen’s Hybrid, Adirondack 
and Martha, last fall, and did not get one 
seedling.) Fill the drills with soil, press 
down firm by laying on a hoard, and step¬ 
ping on it from end to end, and finally drive 
a stake at each end of the drill. Use zinc 
labels written on with a solution of sulphate 
of copper (blue vitriol,) and for additional 
safety, make a record of the number of 
drills, varieties planted, &c. 
Nothing is now to be done till the follow¬ 
ing spring. If any weeds show themselves, 
they may he cautiously hoed down till the 
15th of May, with a sharp hoe, disturbing 
the surface of the ground as little as possible. 
The luost of the seed that does germinate 
will come up between May 20 and Jttue 15. 
If the weather is very dry and hot, the 
young plants may he watered as they show 
themselves; but usually this is needless. As 
soon as the rows are well defined, hoe the 
intermediate spaces clean, taking great care 
not to disturb the plants, which are exceed¬ 
ingly sensitive to violence, and which must 
be weeded by hand. A sharp look out for 
cut-worms must be now kept. The bed 
must be examined every morning, and when 
a seedling is found cut off, search must he 
made and kept up till the worm is found. If 
left to his own guidance, lie will destroy 
the whole row of plants. If I remember 
dale; hardy, very prolific, lnit too soft for 
market. So, after spending much time and 
money, as 0. M II. says, for new varieties, 
I am this season more than ever convinced 
the first two kinds I began with are the only 
ones it will pay me to cultivate for market. 
J. N, Stearns. 
Kalamazoo, Mich., July, 1870. 
and represented to be ever-bearing or per¬ 
petual. I grafted into the marua muUimulia 
mulberry, and got about forty young trees 
from the grafts that lived. They were very 
slow in bearing, and ndt until this year have 
borne a remundrating.erop. The berry is 
quite large, long and. Avlack, when ripe—be¬ 
gins to ripen about the first of May, and con¬ 
tinues till July. 1 have another kind ripen¬ 
ing at the same time, but the berries are 
smaller. One of my neighbors lias still an¬ 
other variety, which is nearly white when 
ripe. These mulberries all begin to ripen at 
the same time, last two months, and are pro¬ 
lific bearers; and are valuable for hogs, ns 
they ripen at a time when other fruit is 
scarce, or not ripe at all, except, the plum, 
which, with us, ripens at the same time, and 
is equally valuable. 
“ The mode of propagating the mulberry 
is simple. Take the moriiH mnltic.aulix limbs, 
of one year’s growth, ami plant them in a 
furrow, as you would sugar-cane. They will 
put out roots and a stem at each bud. Take 
them up at the proper time for grafting, cut 
off the stem and divide the roots—-put in the 
graft of the kind of mulberry wanted. Plant 
them out where neither stock, chickens, 
or anything else can disturb them. Cultivate 
one year carefully, and they will grow ten 
feet if the soil is good. The second year 
transplant them where they are wanted to 
grow, and be sure to never let cows and 
horses have, access to them until they attain 
to large trees. The mulberry grows on des¬ 
perately poor land, as well as rich, but not 
so large, and hears equally well on both, 
But the trees should have good distance, on 
good land, say fifty feet each way. Plums 
may he planted in tlio mulberry orchard, 
after the trees have been standing ten years. 
If anything can be planted that will pay 
better, land must be high and labor cheap.” 
ARBORICULTURAL NOTES. 
Slimling ScadIIUK Evei-greeim. 
A CORRESPONDENT asks :—“ In raising 
evergreens from seed how long should the 
plants be shaded from the sun ?” The most 
successful propagators cover the seed beds 
with lath which remain over the plants 
throughout the hot weather of the first sea¬ 
son. Others plant the seed iu a border on 
the shaded side of a hedge or screen, aud 
transplant to a more sunny exposure the 
next season. _ 
Honey I.ociiKt Hedge in Iown. 
L. P. Buti.er writes the Iowa Home¬ 
stead, June 27, 1870:— u Five years ago this 
month, I soL out a honey locust hedge one 
hundred rods long. I now have a splendid 
good hedge seventy rods in length. The 
gophers took the plants in places, so I had 
to take from the ends to fill up the middle. 
Every one that has seen my hedge pronounce 
it as good as any Osage hedge of its age they 
have ever seen. It is now about five feet 
high, a perfect mat of wood, bristling with 
thorns from bottom to top, a perfect bar to 
man and beast, free from blight and not a 
bud winter-killed ; buds that did not come 
up till August stood the winter.” 
Itiioriodendrun Cam w bleusc lor City 
1*1 ii mi oit. 
Robert Ritist, Sr., says, of this tree, in the 
Gardeners’ Monthly:—“There is a locality 
in which it seems quite at home, but it is 
overlooked by all that I observed. It is 
well-known that resinous trees and shrubs 
do not thrive in our city gardens or locali¬ 
ties where there is much smoke; the Rho¬ 
dodendron does, and makes a very superb 
hush in a grass plat fully exposed to sun. 
You will have observed that Pine or Spruce 
trees have been repeatedly tried in our 
public squares, and have invariably failed; 
the grand substitute would be hardy Rho¬ 
dodendrons with the hardy sorts of Aueuba 
and evergreen Euonymous. We look to 
our great Park for a feature in Rhododen¬ 
dron planting excelling anything in this 
country. One more remark, wo must not 
overlook the fact, that where the varieties 
have a touch of It. pontictim they are too 
tender for our latitude, so are those where 
they have a severe touch of the crimson or 
Scarlet Asiatic varieties.” 
POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP 
Trn n willii tit intt UInrkberrie«. 
Jesse Crkgo asks the best time to trans¬ 
plant blackberries. After they have done 
growing in the fall, they may be taken tip 
and planted where wanted. Some take them 
up iu the lull, heel them in until spring, and 
then plant when wanted, cutting back to 
two feet. Either way will succeed. 
Aim>I<*n tor NoI’tliiTii Iowa. 
“A Farmer,” Janesville, Iowa, recom¬ 
mends the following list of apples for 
Northern Iowa:—Red Astraclian, Sops o! 
Wine, Fameuse, Gros Pomicr, Nonsuch, Fall 
Winesap, Duchess of Oldenburg, Red Ro¬ 
mani te, Dominie, Tallman Sweet, Rawles’ 
Janet, Ohio Seok-no-furLhcr. 
Tin* Khnrkley A|>i»le. 
The editor of the Plantation, Atlanta, 
Ga., was shown, May 81, six Shockley ap¬ 
ples taken from a young tree last Novem¬ 
ber—its first, fruiting. He says tliey were 
without spot or blemish, no speck of decay, 
and so perfect ly preserved and highly colored 
that they looked like pictures. He pro¬ 
nounces the Shockley “the prince of keep¬ 
ers.” The editor of the Rural World, St. 
Louis, Mo., says:—“We have fruited the 
Shockley for some three years. It is a small, 
irregular apple, of good quality, aud an ex¬ 
cellent keeper; but it would take much 
longer experience with it to recommend it 
for extensive cultivation. It may suit an 
amateur, but never will do for a market 
fruit,” _ 
I’nilli of St-npiHiVnoiiK (•rape Culture. 
A correspondent of the South - Land 
having seen iL asserted by Mr. Louts Fhoe- 
licii that the Scuppi rnoug will realize 
$4,850 as the net product per acre, the vines 
being fifteen years old, skeptically asks if 
any one in auy part of the South during the 
past three years in succession, “ Has made 
on a vineyard of Scuppernong of between 
five and eight years of age one-tenth the net 
profit of Air. Froelich, or four hundred and 
eighty live, dollars per acre V Now, let some 
Of these gentlemen who have made, or say 
they can make such immense sums on this 
grape, give us the figures both ways—ex¬ 
pense and profit? We, who raise coLtou, 
corn and sugar have given the profit on Lliese 
products time and again; but I have never 
.yet seen, in any agricultural paper that I 
have read, at least,, one solitary instance, re¬ 
duced to figures, of the expense and profit 
of an acre of Scuppernong. Mr. FnoELicn 
says it can be done: but he never did it, for 
lie has been in the business but nine or ten 
years. Give us some figures.” 
RASPBERRY EXPERIENCE 
1 have made the cultivation of the rasp¬ 
berry a specialty for the last five years. I 
have this moment read O. M. II.'s article in 
your paper, and it comes so near my own 
experience in regard to most of the new 
kinds, and high priced raspberries, that I 
thought 1 would like to give mine. 
1 have some twenty varieties of the rasp¬ 
berry in cultivation; live Black-Cap sorts, 
and tlie balance red and yellow,—about five 
acres in all. 1 have all of the new kinds, 
from Doolittle to the Naomi, and nil of these 
new kinds I have petted and given extra 
care, in hope of obtaining favorable results ; 
but out. of tlie whole, I find only three or four 
profitable. 
Of the Black-Caps, the Doolittle is my fa¬ 
vorite. The McCormick or Mammoth Clus¬ 
ter, is a nice, largo berry, but turns soon af¬ 
ter picking, to an iron-rust color. Of the 
red variety, I find only one kind profitable 
for me to cultivate, and that came herefrom 
Philadelphia as the “ Imperial;" but I sent 
| plants of it. toF. R, Elliott, aud lie thought, 
Av without doubt, they were the Kirtland, and 
> such 1 call it. It proves perfectly hardy with 
^ me and wonderfully productive. The berry 
, is perfect, and solid, the want of which char¬ 
ABOUT PRUNING 
E. D. L,, Lawrence, Kansas, says:—“I 
have an apple orchard planted two years. 
The trees made a large growth of from four 
to six feet last year. 1 had it pruned in the 
latter part of winter by a professed adept at 
the business, By strong personal opposi¬ 
tion I prevented liis trimming the limbs up 
to a six foot of body, and succeeded in keep¬ 
ing the first limbs or foundation of the head, 
at about two feet from the ground. The 
professed scientific primer cut them severely, 
opening out the tops wide and bold; but lie 
did not cut back, or bead in, any ofllie ram¬ 
pant. growth of last year, and now they 
stand with eight to fourteen long arms 
reaching up eight or ten feet from the 
ground, and the new growth nil making 
from the tips. The foliage is out quite large. 
Now what shall 1 do with them? Shall I 
cut them down half way at this season, or 
Fall Flaming Trees.—I wish your rcuders who 
have had experience would give it concerning 
the relat ive advantages p£ fall planting trees of 
all sorts. I knowthnt much has been written; 
hut experience, facts, from practical men. will 
help many men to decide what course to pursue. 
It will me.— p. R. p. 
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