ty feet in length. The Adirondack here 
grows to perfection, so far as the vine is con¬ 
cerned, and docs not have this particular 
disease; but the berries ripen so irregularly 
that they can only be picked a berry at a 
time. 1 have noticed that all our native 
grapes approaching iu foliage the European, 
generally do best. Of our native grapes, we 
have none (although we have about fifteeu 
varieties) that is an eating grape, though I 
expense with my j think some are better than the Hartford. 
fair, open vineyard, without special prepara - 
turn for catching the public and selling vines, 
then it will become one of our most reliable 
varieties. 
Martha and Eva are certainly commend¬ 
able, and deserves trial. They require seve¬ 
ral years to get established, and bear well. 
Slowly-growing vines often outlast the rank 
growers. 
A score of other new and untried vines 
could he named, hut we need time to prove 
them. This year will not, fully prove them, 
but make them better known. The first 
grapes edible here were Rogers’ No. 39, Eva, 
and Wyoming Red 
t immittrlr 
FRUITS RECEIVED 
BY F. 11. ELLIOTT. 
appearance, although Mr. Haiti, writes, 
“They are from a half dozen specimens all 
grown on one little branch, and therefore 
may not be supposed to present the full and 
true size to which the variety has claim, it 
having been grown in England to weigh 
nineteen ounces." 
To my knowledge this is the first fruiting 
of the variety in this count ry, and Mr. Haiti-, 
in his endeavors to obtain and test by fruit¬ 
ing new fruits, bids fair to stand as promi¬ 
nent before the public, pomologically, as lie 
now does floriculturally. The unfortunate 
name of t his pear lias been attempted to be 
reduced by the English .Touriml of Horti¬ 
culture to Pitmaston Duchess; hut as it was 
first described in tbe Gardener’s Chronicle, 
and its name given, as we understand, by 
iis originator, that name, except by common 
consent, or acknowledgment of tiic first dc- 
scriber, cannot correctly be changed. Other 
pears have equally unfortunate names, and 
each change adds to our list of 
The latter is like Wal¬ 
ter, ripens at. the same time, exactly like it 
in most respects, yet grown ns it is on a bar¬ 
ren soil, is not as compact, or large in hunch. 
Concord, Delaware, and Mary Ann begin to 
crowd tbe market. Yet, as I eat them a day 
or t wo since from Lake Erie, at Rochester 
and here, all cannot be said, anywhere, to 
he very sweet yet. The dry seasons give 
color and the appearance of ripeness more 
than the fact. 
The discussion of new varieties is very 
important, yet should never be to the damage 
of the market. It is yet true that the market 
has Isabella first, Catawba second, or second 
with the Concord; next Delaware, and last¬ 
ly, the small quantities of new kinds. Good 
fruit of any of these in the market will sell 
well; it Is a misfortune that poor fruit, by 
tons, is crowded so early on the market. 
The standard should be higher of sales, 
and none bought by large dealers until ripe. 
It is the unwisest plan for the buyer to get 
Let the eater of 
synonyms 
and consequent confusion. 
The variety is recorded as having been 
raised by the late .John Williams of Pit- 
maston, England, from seed gathered from a 
Duchess D’Angoulemc, crossed with Glout 
Moreeau, and is set down in the English 
publications as ripening late in October or 
early in November. 
The drouth and heat of the present season 
has doubtless brought, it. forward earlier 
than usual; hut it must he remembered that 
l>ears at Washington, or in Southern Illinois, 
ripen a month or so earlier than at Boston 
or Rochester, so that in ordinary seasons we i 
may look for this new and promising variety 
to ripen from the middle of September to 
the middle of October. In appearance the 
pear bears little or no resemblance to the 
Duchess D’Angouleme, being oblong, obo- 
vate, acute pyriform, of large, size, with sur¬ 
face slightly undulating; color a pale yel¬ 
low, mottled, dotted, and marbled with thin 
cinnamon - colored russet, becoming thick 
and connected around the base of the stem 
and calyx. The stem is pretty stout, curved. 
the early-packed trash 
fruit lmy only sweet, choice fruit, and teach 
the money-grabber of an early market that 
his game is played out.—S. J. Parker, Itha¬ 
ca, N. Y., 1870. 
A Great Growth of Vine, 
I iiavk a very great curiosity in the 
growth of a graft in a vine. Last fall I 
visited Mr. Ward’s graperies in Detroit and 
obtained cuttings of six varieties of his best 
foreign grajies, and buried them in the earth 
through the winter. In the fore part of last 
March I cut oil' an old Isabella stock and 
put in several of these cions. Rut one started, 
and 1 trimmed oir the laterals, except six 
branches. I have measured the growth of 
all of them. They measured two hundred 
and ten feet—the longest branch forty-two 
feet. Beat this if you can. This was grown 
under glass, the upright part fifty feet long 
and wing forty-two feet.—A. Sigler, Ad¬ 
rian, Mich. 
rborknlttrrc 
PLANTING TREES FOR TIMBER. 
Witiiix the past thirty or thirty-five years 
tlie price of timber, especially on our East¬ 
ern coast, has increased from fifty to one 
hundred per cent., and the price is regularly 
and constantly advancing from year to year. 
It is but a few years since that wood was 
used for fuel ou board all our river and coast¬ 
wise steamers; iu the furnaces of our sta¬ 
tionary steam engines and upon all our loco¬ 
motives; and even at the present time the 
consumption on the latter is proceeding at. a 
fearful rale. Our extravagance in the use 
of wood is rapidly denuding our country of 
its forests, whilst, at the same time we are 
doing literally nothing to provide for the 
future, and the next generation will vent 
curses on our heads for our willful waste and 
thoughtlessness in not providing for their 
necessities in this matter. As an instance 
of our extravagance we may notice the im¬ 
mense quantities of valuable pine lumber 
cases and 
POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP. 
lYonnar America Peach. 
Nine years ago my young son planted a 
peach stone, (whether from Delaware, New 
Jersey or Western peach, I can’t say,) and 
this season, for the first, the tree has borne 
fruit, of which I send you a sample, (one- 
eighth of the entire crop,) trusting that you 
and your pomological assistant may give me 
your opinion of its merits. 
1 say it, to my shame, that the tree lias 
never received the least attention; it lias 
grown on a heavy clay soil, its roots covered 
by grass, and it lias never even had its 
“jacket trimmed,” (I had mine years ago;) 
but lias been allowed to run wild and do ns 
it pleased. Ilonce, if you think the peach 
worthy of a name, 1 propose to call it “ Young 
America.”— Thomas G. Young, Saratoga 
Springs, N. Y. 
It is a very fair flavored, handsome cling 
peach. That, is all we can say in its favor. 
We cannot conscientiously encourgo the 
propagation of clings; and there is nothing 
Keeping Pears Afier Gathering. 
Dr. J. S. IIougitton, in Tilton’s Journal 
of Horticulture, gives the following method 
of keeping pears. He says" 1 think pears 
intended to be kept for a long period of time, 
say six months or more, should be carefully 
picked, When well matured on the tree, anil 
put immediately into a fruit room at a tem¬ 
perature as nearly down to forty degrees as 
possible. They should be placed in shallow 
boxes on shelves, in such a manner that the 
air can resell them, and so they will not he 
bruised or crushed. The fruit-room should 
bo kept constantly at. about, forty degrees; 
the air should be dry and pure, but no fresh 
air should ever be introduced into the apart¬ 
ment with a view to ventilation, assuoh ven¬ 
tilation would introduce fresll supplies of! 
oxygen, a destructive agent of the atmos- I 
worked up annually into packiu 
for similar purposes, for which there is but 
little excuse, as many of our quick-growing 
trees, such as some species of poplar, would 
answer the purpose equally well, as nearly 
all the packing eases used for European 
goods are made of such cheap woods. 
Besides the consumption for building pur¬ 
poses, the immense consumption of bark for 
tanning is destroying our primeval hemlock 
forests and driving the tanneries farther and 
farther back from the sea coast, and at the 
cud of tbe next twenty or twenty-five years, 
in all probability, this industry will be driven 
from our State, unless science discovers some 
cheap material to take the place of bark. 
Tbe consequence of this waste is, that 
nearly all our Eastern States, with the ex¬ 
ception of Maine, are almost entirely denuded 
of merchantable timber, and the same is 
true of New York, New Jersey, Penusylva- 
Maine and Michigan are rap- 
VINEYARD NOTES. 
Grapm of 1870. 
Tins is not a good lest year for grapes. 
Like last year, it is an extreme, and extremes 
are not fair tests. Last year (I860) was cold 
and wet, and all varieties were so late that 
in many places frost killed the leaves, and 
consequently destroyed the fruit, so that in 
a grape region like this, the ground was 
literally strewn under the vines, so that we 
trod on them, unripe as they fell. This year 
the latest kinds and the earliest are coloring 
and ripening together, so that the natural 
I order of ripening is lost. Ilence, we cannot 
regard it as testing well any of the new 
kinds. 
Of the new kinds I regard the Eumelan 
as the most promising. It is, I believe, an 
old but neglected grape. It was sent to me 
by a friend in 1857, who said, “Get that, 
and there is a fortune in it.’’ I could get no 
cuttings or plants, and the price of the old 
vine was beyond my reach. Cuttings were 
refused. It is a large, early black grape; in 
flavor and sweetness it is to be highly com¬ 
mended. 
I next esteem the Walter. I am not sure 
that it has any relation to the Diana or the 
Delaware, even if there are those who thus 
claim it, for there are several grapes about 
its size and hardy like it. If the samples I 
have seen are genuine, Walter, grown in 
niaand Ohio, 
idly passing through the same process of 
denudation. From the first we now derive 
our principal supply of spruce, hemlock and 
larch; and upon the latter we are yearly 
becoming more dependent for our supplies 
of pine. 
Ship building timber is also becoming very 
scarce, but the future supply of this, is nnl 
perhaps of so much importance, as iron will 
before many years entirely supplant the use 
of wood in the construction of vessels. This 
ROST1EZEU THAR—OUTLINE. 
fruit generally about first to middle of June; 
the others, (diseased grapes,) a month to two 
months later. I have had the Hartford ripe 
by tbu middle of May, and Delaware before 
the first ot June. I have tried sulphur, 
shading, and other remedies, with no good 
rosuh, and am afraid I can only dig up ami 
plant other varieties, without you can sug¬ 
gest a remedy. The vines themselves are 
vigorous, malciug shoots this year over thir- 
Pomoluglcol Inquiries.—C. A. B. writes 
“ Please let me know, ir you can, who is pit 
abator of the Van week's Sweet Crab Apple. 
