is likely to boar so as to break down, espe- 
pecially if the limbs are not shortened in; for 
as it grows naturally it is inclined to make 
long branches, and the weight of fruit it car¬ 
ries breaks them down. 
As to its longevity no one knows; for no 
tree has died of old age hereabouts. I have 
grafted it on the peach, wild plum and the 
common plum of this country ; also upon its 
own stock. It does best grafted on the peach, 
POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP, 
As an evidence of the earliness of this 
season, I may mention that Delawares and 
Harlfords were spread before the guests in 
large quantities in good eating condition. 
This for the 25th of August will do for 
Western New York. 
Grape growers we met there li^iChau- 
tauqua Co., informed us that the crop was 
very promising there. 
Connected with grape culture at Ham- 
IJoyenm; il'Eie Pear. 
Ttte editor of the Germantown (Pa.) Tele¬ 
graph says:—“ For the first time we fruited 
this pear the present, season, and have been 
greatly surprised that a fruit of such excel¬ 
lence, and the first to ripen—the Madeleine 
proving worthless in this locality—com¬ 
mencing about the 20tli of July and ending 
A CARD OF THANKS. 
AMONG THE VINEYARDS 
Editor Rural New- Yorker: — Will you 
permit me, through your columns to return my 
sincere thunks to the many fruit growers of our 
country who have so kindly tent me, at times, 
specimens of new varieties, or of varieties to 
them of name unknown. Will you also permit 
me to thank, in the pages of the Rural, read 
by your half million readers, the Secretaries of 
various local societies and publishers of news¬ 
papers for transcript notes and publications of 
the Associations of which they have charge or 
are cognisant V Will you also permit me to ten¬ 
der my sincere thanks for many courteous invi¬ 
tations, etc., to attend exhibitions, meetings, 
&c., &«,? And, lastly, will you permit me to say 
to one ami all that I ain in no way a dealer. I 
work for the people. J have no ax to grind, no 
plan! or tree to sell; but I love the subject, and 
stand ready to give my feoblo brain and Judg¬ 
ment to note or speak of any new thing tn Hor¬ 
ticulture or Ploriculturo; and I hope t o so speak 
of it that the public, in their expenditures, will 
never be deceived by my writings. 
Cleveland, O. F. It. Elliott. 
Notes lroin Mr. Hurry. 
Tite grape growers along the borders of 
our lakes are jubilant over the bright pros¬ 
pects for an abundant and excellent vintage 
HOT-HOUSE GRAPES, 
“ I’ro Bono Publico,’’ an anonymous cor¬ 
respondent, scuds us the following: “Among 
the multitude of enterprises for making 
money, 1 am not a little surprised that the 
raising of hol-house grapes and other choice 
fruits upon alargGscale, has not been thought 
of. That it is practicable and sure, allow me 
to attempt to demonstrate. 
“ The first requisite is a locality like Pitts¬ 
burg or the Maryland mines, where coal may 
he had at one-tenth of its cost on the sea¬ 
board, saving all expenses of freight and 
speculation. Lumber there, is doubtless very 
much cheaper, and the price of labor cer¬ 
tainly not greater, if as great, as in many 
other places. Machinery lias diminished 
more Ilian one-half the cost of sashes; and 
glass, in such quantity as would he required, 
could be had at wholesale price. 
“From either of the points above men¬ 
tioned, railroads afford regular and speedy 
communication with every part of the Uni¬ 
ted States. Grapes and other delicate fruits 
are safely forwarded in this way from Cin¬ 
cinnati and latterly from California, but the 
supply is confined to one season of the year, 
while by forcing and retarding houses, it 
could be maintained during every month, if 
desired. 
“ Whoever conducts this operation, should 
either he himself thoroughly experienced in 
the business, or should employ a person thus 
skilled. Five thousand dollars of e.q.l’d 
might begin it in a small way, but ten thou¬ 
sand would be better, or if a joint stock com¬ 
pany should be formed it might be under¬ 
taken on a large scale. It would not bo at 
once remunerative, except, partially, by the 
forcing of annual crops like strawberries. 
In three years grapes, peaches, nectarines, 
&c., would begin to come into hearing, and 
each year thereafter the crops would rapidly 
increase. 
“ Competition would be impossible except, 
under the same conditions and facilities, and 
whoever first started it would get the monop¬ 
oly of the market, and hold it long enough 
to make a fortune. 
“ The public would be so benefited by 
cheapening these luxuries, which are now 
confined Lo those who are rolling in wealth, 
that ('very one is interested to encourage a 
project, which would make hot-houses grapes 
almost as common as natives.” 
Middletown, Conn. 
if planted deep enough to keep out the peach 
borer, because the other stocks throw up loo 
many suckers. But the best root I have ever 
tried is its own, getting them when they 
sprout or sucker up under the tree. 1 know 
nurserymen do not, like this plan, but it is 
best for the orchardist. Then if he don’t 
want to plant the young trees from his old 
ones he can give them to his neighbors, or 
throw thorn away, as he pleases, 
about the 15th or 17th of August—should 
not he more popular and extensively culti¬ 
vated. Its size is all that is against it, bill 
this should scarcely ho considered, as the 
fruit is beautiful in appearance, one-half of 
it being a bright red, and ripens daily upon 
the tree. The tree is a firm, upright grower, 
the fruit clinging to the branches almost 
like onions to a rope. We are so pleased 
with it that we shall grow it more exten¬ 
sively.” 
Fruit Crop of Western New York, 
Ouk special correspondent, P. Barky, 
Esq.. Rochester, N. V., under date of August 
27, writes:—“ The fruit crop of Western 
New York, taken as a whole, is the largest 
we have had in many years. The apple crop 
is enormous. Everywhere we see the trees 
loaded and overloaded with fruits. Pears 
and plums are also a large crop, and of supe¬ 
rior quality. Peaches are always a light 
crop, only a few favored spots yielding any. 
Grapes promise to he better than for several 
years past. TIartfords are already in the 
markets. Adiromlacks are well colored and 
eatable, though not ripe. Delawares will be 
fit for the table in a few days. All the varie¬ 
ties look well, and the prospect is an abun¬ 
dance of grapes of good quality at low 
prices." 
—such as they have not had for several 
years past. If nothing occurs in the way of 
drawback during the next month, the vin¬ 
tage of 1870 will surely he extraordinary. 
The Pleasant Valley Company, in their 
liberal way, gave an entertainment to a 
large number of invited guests on the 25tb 
tilt. T bad the pleasure of being one of the 
number, and although the day was intensely 
warm the occasion was one of rare enjoy¬ 
ment. An inspection of the vineyards and 
wine cellars, a steamboat trip on the charm¬ 
ing lake, a collation in one place and a good 
dinner at another, w'ith music and pleasant 
social intercourse, made up a delightful day. 
We were shown through 
One Splendid Vineyard, 
sixty-five acres in extent. It, has been five 
years planted, and is now bearing a band- 
some crop. The work on this vineyard 
seems to have been done in the most thor¬ 
ough manner. Water courses, solidly con¬ 
structed of stone, intersect it in various direc¬ 
tions to carry olf the water and prevent 
washing of the ground. The various plots 
or compartments are designated by letters, to 
facilitate the movements of those who do 
the work. The ground is clean and well 
tilled. The vines, in wood, foliage and fruit, 
show health and vigor, and, in a word, tins 
vineyard is a model. 
The varieties are numerous—Catawba 
prevailing. We saw besides this, Dela¬ 
ware, Iona, Eumelnn, Norton’s Virginia, and 
others. 
Dr. Van Keren lias the management, I 
believe, and it. certainly does him credit and 
is a credit to the Valley. 
There are many other fine vineyards in 
the Valley, and some of them may be equal 
to this, but the day was so warm, we found 
climbing steep hillsides uncomfortable, and 
so our rambles were cut short. 
The past three seasons have been unfavor¬ 
able and rather discouraging; besides there 
was a damaging bail storm the early part 
of this summer that injured a portion of 
many of the vineyards. As a consequence 
mondsport, is the grape box manufactory of 
the Fairchild Bros., a very complete and 
systematic establishment. About forty per¬ 
sons are employed, and some six thousand 
five-pound boxes are turned out daily ; much 
of the labor is done by women and girls. 
The prospect of the grape crop has added 
fresh life to this business, and orders from 
the grape districts arc coming in faster than 
they can he filled. 
Since I last visited this charming locality, 
several private summer residences and a 
hotel have been erected on the margin of 
the lake, and henchforth “ Lake Kenka,” 
formerly “Crooked Lake,” will be known 
among the pleasant summer resorts of the 
interior of our State. Between Penn Yan 
at one end, to Haminondsport on the other, 
two very comfortable steamers ply daily. 
The Western New York and Geneva Hor¬ 
ticultural Societies are announced to hold 
their fall meeting at. Geneva on the 15th of 
September. The grape growers of Pleas¬ 
ant Valley and Canandaigua are each to 
have exhibitions toward the latter end of 
the month.—p. n. 
The young 
seedlings are worthless, as they throw up so 
many suckers they are not fit to work tiny 
other fruit, upon. 1 think I have raised thou¬ 
sands of them, and never have seen one that 
boro fruit that was worth cultivating, it 
will hybridize with the peach, but the hy¬ 
brids will not hear. Some may dispute this; 
but I have grown too many of them to be 
fooled in that thing. 
The Wild Goose plum is the most prolific 
and regular hearer I ever saw. Its fruit is 
from one to one and a-half inches in diame¬ 
ter; its color is a bright red, with some 
bloom, and sprinkled with white dots; seed 
small and fiat; flavor good; when ripe is 
soft, juicy and pleasant; when you put it iu 
your mouth and suck it, it all dissolves, and 
you have nothing to throw out but, the skin 
and seed. It is no more acrid nor any 
harder tit the seed than just under the skin. 
One objection to it is that in wet weather 
some of ilie fruit will crack and become 
rather insipid; but in dry weather it is till 
right. Gather il, just as it begins to color, 
and it will improve its flavor, and it. will 
bear shipping a lour or five days’ ride. It 
commences ripening here about the middle 
ol June, and its season lasts about six weeks. 
The drawing I send you is correct. It is 
made from a branch that, 1 cut myself from 
my own orchard, by Mr. B. J. Johnson. 
When the trees arc full of fruit, the small 
limbs present the appearance of t he drawing 
frequently for two feet in length. 
The question may he asked, “ Where did 
the goose get the seed which produced this 
plum ?” My conjecture is that it got it from 
near the Mobile Bay. This is, of course, only 
conjecture ; hut my reason for thinking so is 
that I have another plum that is very like 
this, that Dr. S. Richardson of this place 
tells me he found growing plentifully around 
that bay, and brought it hither before, the 
goose was killed from which this Wild 
Goose plum originated, 
Dyersburg, Tenn 
THE WILD GOOSE PLUM, 
From Another Correspondent. 
The directors of the Pleasant Valley 
Wine Co. invited a number of their friends 
to visit them on the 25lli of August, and in 
obedience to their letters missive, I reported 
myself at their wine vault at nine A. M. on 
that day. It, was very pleasant to meet many 
of our old friends among the grape growers 
of this State and along the shores of Lake 
Erie, and it was especially agreeable to meet 
our old friend Patrick Barry, who has just 
returned from his California trip, and to hear 
from his own mouth those accounts of the 
vegetable wonders of the Golden SLate that 
he is now telling so clearly in the columns 
of the Rural New-Yorker. The venerable 
Peter Cooper, the life-long friend of 
American labor, now in bis eighty-first year, 
was there to see with his own eyes what was 
doing in this direction to give a pleasant and 
profitable occupation to the sons of toil. 
Wine Maui pit In t inn. 
The party first descended into the vaults 
where the wine is stored in enormous casks, 
holding fifteen hundred gallons, in which 
the juice is stored for a year after being ex¬ 
pressed from the grapes; after this it is bot¬ 
tled, and a certain amount uf sirup made by 
Ornnux Kina Rtupberry. 
I note in the Rural New-Yorker of 
August 18tb, under head of “ Raspberry Dis¬ 
cussion of the Fruit Growers’ Association of 
Ontario,” the remark that “ Orange King,” 
Mr Arnold’s Seedling, bad votes, &e. Now 
what is meant by this name of Orange King? 
Is it “Arnold’s Orange,” or “Canada White ?" 
both of which were originated by Mr. Ar¬ 
nold, and so named in Downing, from his 
own manuscript. I have respect for the 
man who grew these sorts, but none for a 
penny-a-liner Secretary who chooses to con¬ 
fuse and annoy our authorities, by giving 
his own petty, higli-flown names. We have 
had too much of this sort of thing; and in 
this particular l hope Mr. Arnold will set 
tlm pomological public right, and rebuke the 
would-bo eulogist of that of which he knows 
nothing. No secretary of a pomological 
meeting or exhibition should ever put down 
a name to a described fruit, without first con¬ 
sulting authority, unless he count himself, as 
many do, “ the authority.” —Addi. 
John H. Chuistik, 
