American villages with the cheerless gather¬ 
ing together of houses one sees in England 
and France. We have, indeed, all over the 
country, charming places, where the natural 
advantages are great, and where a little taste 
and culture would develop from an ordinary 
village an almost earthly paradise. And 
why should we not always have a little plat 
planted with trees and provided with seats ? 
We can call it a park if we choose, or, if we 
prefer, let us ornament the ground about the 
churches 
put immediately into a fruit room at a tem¬ 
perature as nearly down to 40 J as possible. 
They should be placed in shallow boxes or 
on shelves, in such a manner that the air 
can reach them, and so they will not he 
bruised or crushed. The fruit room should 
be kept constantly at about 40"; the air 
should be kept dry and pure, but no fresh 
air should ever be introduced into the apart¬ 
ment with a view' to ventilation, as such ven¬ 
tilation would introduce fresh supplies of 
Currant might show a decided improvement 
in quality of fruit, and at the same time re¬ 
tain those merits w hich are really desirable. 
Of the black varieties there arc a number 
growing wild in our valleys. One of these 
produces fruit of immense size, but very in¬ 
ferior in flavor. Auother variety (sample 
enclosed—Fig. 8,) is not quite as large, but 
the flavor is excellent, having none of that 
rankness so common in all the varieties of 
the foreign species. From this we ought to 
produce varieties that 
would astonish foreign 
politologists. 
I might name many 
other native fruits of this 
region,but tbe above must 
suffice at preseut. I will y- 
add that most, if not all, / 
of our native small fruits y ^ 
have been sent to Eastern A 
horticulturists, and are / " 
doubtless thriving in their /A 
gardens. Utah. /yy /A 
Provo City, Utah, 1870. / ,/ 'f M 
rboriculture 
PLANTING TREES IN STREETS, 
FRUITS RECEIVED. 
BV F. R. ELLIOTT. 
Hcniper Apple. 
From Dr. E. Ware Sylvester, Lyons, 
N. Y., I am this, 14th July, 1870, in receipt 
of specimens of his new seedling apple, 
named by him the Semper, which he says is 
the Latin for “ always," and thereby be in¬ 
tends to convey to fruit growers the impres¬ 
sion that with trees of this variety, Semper, 
they will never be without apples, as it is a 
yearly and sure bearer, keeping from year to 
year, in an ordinary cool cellar, without ex¬ 
tra care, one, two or three years, as the own¬ 
er may desire. Of the apples sent me, 1 have 
to acknowledge the grow ths of three years, 
viz., 1868,1869 and 1870, although the latter 
were not fully grown or mature. Those of 
1868 had lost flavor, although measurably 
sound. The drawing aud description I have 
made from the specimens of I860, adding to 
it the leaf and stem which accompanied the 
specimen of 1870. 
The fruit is of medium size, roundish ob¬ 
late conical, slightly oblique; color a clean, 
p!,lp ypUr>ur, iiwmifid. with dull red in the 
sun; a few T minute hut raised specks or Jots, 
and several patches or blotches, which I al¬ 
ways think are caused more from neglected 
culture than any inherent character of a 
fruit; stem pretty stout, nearly an inch long; 
cavity narrow, acute, not deep; calyx with 
short segments, half or nearly closed and 
nearly stiff, erect; basin moderately deep, 
varying; in some specimens quite broad and 
open, and in others narrow and acute; flesh 
yellowish, crisp, tender, with a moderate 
amount of mild subucid juice, void of any 
special richness or flavor, yet pleasantly 
good; core rather largo, with open hollow 
capsules; seeds pointed pyriform, dark 
brown. 
BY LAURA SOUTHGATB. 
“ Our street is just the hottest street in 
town,” said a young man, a resident of the 
city of Boston, to me. I thought exactly so 
myself, and asked why it 
■w as not planted with trees. 
“ It would be handsome 
with elms,” was the reply. 
This was a new street, 
finely built, and not yet 
paved, so I said at once, 
^ “Why don’t you see to 
it ?” The gentleman, I re¬ 
membered, was wealthy, 
and had the usual amount 
^ of leisure, but he looked 
at me as if he wondered, 
“ Could I really be in earn- 
Mnt est?” lie considered the 
trees of New York and 
Paris, as forming a very 
'Mm! attractive feature of those 
WBj cities. Buffalo he thought 
|g|§' a charming place, so beau- 
and New 
always, however, making sure 
that we have a few seats where we can rest 
after a weary' walk, or at any t ime for a little 
quiet enjoyment. 
The expense of a few Norway spruces, a 
few Larches, Mountain Ash, Horse Chestnut 
aud other trees, would not he so very great. 
And might we not have a few'vines? and 
two or three little circles of bright flowers, to 
give a bit of color to the neighborhood? 
And would not the boys contribute some 
pretty bird-houses for us ? 
We do not ask for fountains and statues, 
but if nothing more was done than the clear¬ 
ing away of the tall weeds, and the setting 
out of a few trees, we should feel ourselves 
much improved. 
And in this regard of embellishing the vil¬ 
lage, I half suspect the consideration of the 
small number of social pleasures of the coun¬ 
try comes in for its share. It seems to me 
the agreeable people of a neighborhood, 
drawn together by a mutual interest, and 
formed into a society with a particular ob¬ 
ject in view, might find a great deal of social 
enjoyment. In all gatherings, a work to do, 
NOTES and QUERIES 
Product* of nit Acre of \/ / HHffl 
Pencil Trees. 7 / k HfHBI 
A correspondent at t / 
Still Pond, Kent Co., Md., y A 
writes: —“Here are the k / \ 
statistics of one acre of 1 ( k I ^ 
(one hundred and ten) 1 \ I 
peach trees. Can any one h ' j* 
boat it? I have it from \ y 
Mr. I. P. Vandyke— \f 
whom I know to be a Y 
gentleman of undoubted 
veracity — that one acre 
of peach trees has paid him, clear of all 
expenses, as follows, viz.:— 1 Trees five years 
old, 1866, $500 ; 1867, $200 ; 1868, $18; 1869, 
$100; total for four years, $818. I have 
given rouud numbers, net prices being a lit- 
W tifully planted,• 
Haven, the loveliest city 
in the world. 
And here was this new, 
wide, handsome street in 
Boston, whose beauty 
might have been enhanced 
ten-fold by the setting out 
of a few young trees. 
We all know how it is said tire streets of 
Bagdad were in remarkable order, because 
each man attended to the part before his 
own door; and so I thought, if only each 
one would throw in his individual interest 
aud influence, how f much might be accom¬ 
plished. It is true, you reply; and with 
those conditions what, in the way of achieve¬ 
ment, might not the world realize? 
It was not, however, in regard to city em¬ 
bellishment that I took up my pen, but con¬ 
cerning that which more interests us whose 
THE SEMPER APPLE, 
oxygen, the destructive agent of the atmos¬ 
phere.” _ 
Fie» lor Profit. 
In answer to a Florida correspondent the 
editor of the Southern Farmer says:—“ We 
have had many very pleasant eatings from 
home-grown and dried figs. We think they 
were dipped in a boiling sirup and then 
dried, the fig quite ripe. The best sort, 
after having a variety, would be the Celeste, 
a small blue or rather purplish fig, and a 
small, yellowish white, almost as sweet, at, the 
Celeste. With a dryjng-Uouse, we think 
figs could be plucked when ripe, and dried. 
This may be done by females and children, 
yet in tills busy AJuvUnn iR.ico who wrlll can’t 
be tied to such employment, and for those 
who are lazy, the work is too hard.” 
FRUITS FROM UTAH, 
SHADE THE KITCHEN 
There, I’ll bet you, not one 
\ in ten readers of the Rural 
\ New-Yorker have got a bit of 
\ a shade at your kitchen door. 
\ Your wife and all who do the 
\ terrible, roasting hot work of 
cooking all summer, have the 
sun pouring its broiling rays 
down upon your kitchen, or 
y 1 shed, your wood-piles, your 
well and cistern, to which those 
who have to endure that terri¬ 
ble NKuucnADNEZZAR heat of 
cooking in summer, are con¬ 
stantly compelled to resort. 
You come in from your work, 
out in the sun,to bo sure, but 
all the time in a breeze, and 
you want to cool off, while you wait for din¬ 
ner ; meantime, your wife and her assistant 
—if she has one, as she ought to have—are 
compelled to keep the hot kitchen; and 
when they want a stick of wood or a pail of 
water, to turn out into the broiling hot sun 
with the breeze all shut off by your build¬ 
ings. 
Out upon all men who once seeing the 
evil fail to apply the remedy—a remedy 
which only consists in setting a few posts, 
the attacking slats as rafters and stretching 
over all common, coarse bagging; or if you 
are where brush is plenty and money 
scarce, go every other morning and cut 
brush and lay over to make the requisite 
shade. Do this, ye lazy, neglectful ones, 
ye good fellows who love your wives and 
are not looking for auother in advance, and 
see what a comfort and a cheer it will give 
to the whole household, or plant trees there. 
Addi. 
The Walter Grape. 
M. II. A.,Gonzales,Tex.,writes:—“ What 
are the qualities of the Walter grape? Is it 
regarded as a superior grape or not ? A few 
roots were introduced among us lust winter, 
and all are growing finely, look thrifty and 
healthy. We are taking extra careof them. 
We want to know whether or not we are be¬ 
stowing labor upon a worthy object.” So 
far as flavor is concerned, the Walter is a 
good grape; so far as profit is concerned, we 
know of no one who knows anything about 
it. It has not been sufficiently tested yet to 
establish for itself a reputation which we 
regard reliable. 
of Europe, and in quality they are in noway 
inferior. Could we grow tbe foreign varie¬ 
ties of the gooseberry as successfully here as 
it is done at home, and begiu our improve¬ 
ments where the English grower ends with 
his, we should have much hope of great 
progress. But this we cannot, do, because 
the foreign kinds are not adapted to general 
cultivation in this country, although they do 
succeed in a few circumscribed localities; I 
consequently our only resort is the native 
species, of which we have a great number, 
many of them possessing merits of a high or¬ 
der. It cannot be expected wild varieties 
can be found possessing all the good quali¬ 
ties required in a first-rate fruit of its kind; 
but if the very best are selected as the start¬ 
ing points, new and improved sorts can be 
readily produced from their seed. 
For instance, the Black Gooseberry, (sam¬ 
ples of which are inclosed,) is a delicious 
berry, and entirely different from any Euro¬ 
pean species, and it will eventually become 
the parent of some excellent varieties. 
The fruit (sec Figure 1) is rather small, 
but entirely free from prickles, of a deep, 
bluish black color. The flavor is good, 
being slightly acid, but agreeable. The 
bush is a very rank grower, making canes 
an inch or more in diameter, and five or six 
feet high. It will, probably, be proof 
against mildew anywhere In the Northern 
States. 
We have many larger species and varie¬ 
ties, but a class of black gooseberries would 
be unique and, I think, attract the attention 
of fruit growers more than the more com¬ 
mon colors. 
The Currant, 
in variety, is abundant all over the Western 
territories, even to the Pacific coast. They 
are of various colors—red, yellow and black; 
but the last two possess the most merit, in¬ 
asmuch as they are larger aud naturally 
much superior to the European varieties of 
similar color. The Yellow (Figure 2) is 
probably the largest of our wild sorts. The 
berries arc oval, and about a half inch in 
diameter. For flavor, there is not much to 
be said in its praise, as it is very acid; but 
its size and color, in addition to the vigor¬ 
ous growth and productiveness of the bush¬ 
es, are merits that should be transmitted to 
a better berry. Seedlings of this Yellow 
THE SEMPER APPLE—OUTLINE. 
life is in the country. Several years ago a 
society was formed in the village of Stock- 
bridge, Mass., called the Laurel Hill Asso¬ 
ciation. Its object was to beautify the vil¬ 
lage by laying out a little park, and also by 
planting young trees on the approaches to 
the place. The land for the park was given, 
and the taste and energy of the ladies and 
gentlemen forming the society were very soon 
displayed; and now, as a result, Stock- 
bridge is one of the most beautiful villages 
in the whole country. 
And would it not appear as though this 
example might he followed by many other 
places? As it is, compare our pleasant 
Fig. 1.—Black Utah Gooseberry. 
tie in excess of the amount named. In 1866 
he sold the peaches off of four trees for $80 
net. This season ids prospects are such that 
he will not take $250 for said acre of fruit. 
It, is the only orchard he has had in hearing. 
This season he has twelve thousand trees, 
three years old, which are now very full of 
fruit." _ 
Keeping Pears after Gathering. 
Du. J. S. Houghton, in Tilton’s Journal 
of Horticulture, gives the following method 
of keeping pears:—“1 think pears intended 
to be kept for a long period of time—say six 
months or more—should be carefully hand- 
picked, when well matured on the tree, and 
Nnuvoo Strawberry. 
Calvin Bradley, Nauvoo, Ill., says con¬ 
cerning this berry, that it has not been suf¬ 
ficiently tested to disseminate. It is only 
two years old from seed, and this is the first 
year it has fruited. He has no plants to sell. 
atrhscapt Iprtrfttmg 
IMPROVING A CEMETERY LOT. 
B. D., Lebanon, Tenn., asks, “How shall 
I improve a cemetery privilege, twenty by 
thirty feet square, so as to combine taste and 
economy, reference being had to the appear¬ 
ance of the plat as a unit, and to its relations 
to the whole cemetery ? Should it be separ¬ 
ately fenced?” Without knowing the plan 
and features of the whole cemetery, we can¬ 
not advise. We would never fence a ceme¬ 
tery lot, unless absolutely necessary to pro¬ 
tect it from sacrilege because of the inade¬ 
quate protection afforded by the cemetery 
authorities. A low evergreen hedge is the 
prettiest boundary for a lot, if it is desirable 
to define it at all; but. we think it better still 
that the owners of a block of lots should 
unite upon a harmonious plan for the sym¬ 
metrical aud homogeneous adornment of the 
whole block, which may be surrounded by a 
low, neatly trimmed hedge. Then the plant¬ 
ing of trees and shrubs should be in accord 
with the topography and surroundings of the 
ground to be adorned. We. confess to an 
aversion to these petty fences, and square in- 
CypreuM Trees of the Sou III. 
If S. G., in his inquiry about the value of 
the Southern Cypress— Cypressim diatycheun 
a wood, 
—simply wishes to know its value as 
he has only to turn to past records and find 
that for the purpose of shingles or siding to 
buildings, it is a light and durable wood, 
easily worked and kept in place; that lor 
inside finish, if it is thoroughly seasoned, it 
comes out strong in the grain but perhaps 
too coarse in character to please generally ; 
that for posts, or endurance under ground, it 
is about equal to the common white cedar 
of the North, and that lor the making ol light 
yet strong boxes or packages for trai»*ort- 
ing fruit, cigars, and any other matter ol the j 
kind for which our common white collar oi ] 
our Linden of the North is used, it is equally ^ 
as valuable. 
We have on hand an article, ol some «; 
length, on tbe cypress, which we shall give 
as soon as we can find space. We shall be ^ 
glad to receive from Southern correspond- > 
ents information concerning its economic V 
value. Nr 
Fig. 3.—Black Utah Currant. 
Yellow Utah Currant. 
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