Jersey, and unless the tree is better, it is no 
better than the Louise. I give, herewith,, 
an outline of form.—[To be continued. 
believe, by-the-bv, is all the pear deserves; 
for in form it is a rough, broken, oblate, ir¬ 
regular, knobby thing, that would never sell 
in our markets, albeit its flesh is really melt¬ 
ing, sweet, vinous and delicious. 
TJiereee Apperi. 
This is, I suppose, the first fruiting of this 
specimen and a shaded sketch from another, 
and say its color is a rich warm yellow, with 
marbling* of crimson red in the sun, and 
thickly dotted with many small russet dots; 
the russet is deeply and broadly patched 
plan to have these little asters take the place 
of my candytuft edgings, the beauty of 
which passes away early. Pansies were not 
ns good as usual; the drouth was too much 
for them, and my irrigating facilities not per¬ 
fect. The glory of the snapdragons is past, 
and there are only scattering flowers upon 
my lovely prinks. 
Ildlilrnltll mill I.uclnliitua 
stock I aui entirely disgusted with. 1 ac¬ 
cepted a package of the best seeds, and ex¬ 
erted my skill to the utmost in rearing them 
to a blossoming state. Out of twenty-five 
plunts only three gave me double blooms, 
and they were of such a melancholy hue 
that 1 entirely abjure stock now and hence¬ 
forth. 
Verbenas me as brilliant as ever, and I 
take pains that these, as well as the rest of 
my flowers, do not mature many seeds. My 
perennial blue Linum Is one of my pets. It 
is always early in flower, and lasts as long as 
iflorlntlturt 
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POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP 
FRUITS RECEIVED 
FLORAL NOTES 
At Home anil Abroad. 
About Siberian Crabs. 
Please give us a little information in re¬ 
gard to the Siberian Crab apple. I presume 
some of the Rural New-Yorker readers 
have had experience with the large kinds. 
We have a few small Siberians in this vi¬ 
cinity, but I have heard of larger kinds, and 
would like to know more about them. I 
obtained a few cions of wliat I suppose to be 
the " Hislop ” last spriug, and set in tlie 
wild crab stock of this country. W ill the 
wild stock affect the fruit of the graft? 
Plow Boy, Pitoli, Win. 
In the Rural for 1869 will be fouud the 
names and descriptions of nearly all the 
known choice varieties of the crab apple. 
The following are a few of the very many 
choice sorts :—Aiken’s Winter, Gen. Grant, 
Hislop, Marengo, Montreal Beauty, Sou lard, 
and Transcendent. The wild crab stock 
will uot affect the quality or size of the va¬ 
rieties worked on it, and in very cold locali¬ 
ties it is probably better for this purpose 
than seedlings of the common apple. 
Tbe Euniclnn Grape. 
We have received a note from Mr. Alva 
Busjinell, in which he takes exceptions to 
some of the statements made by Mr. Geo. 
W. Campbell, which appeared in the Ru¬ 
ral New-Yorker relating to the Eumclan 
grape. Mr. Busiinell states that the fol¬ 
lowing named gentlemen report this grape 
as having grown strong and healthy with 
them the past season: — W. H. Wilcox, 
Reading, Mass.; II. P. Beach, Piper City, 
Ill.; Wm. F. CnANNlNG, Providence, R. I.; 
Geo. V. Ott, Madison, Wis. We will add 
that in Central New York, especially at 
Geneva and Canandaigua, the reports of 
growers arc very favorable to the Eumclan. 
It may not succeed in all localities, and that 
would be expecting too much ; hut so far as 
we have been able to learn, it promises as 
well as any of the newer sorts. 
Proim*** In Apple*. 
W. C. Flachj, at one of the meetings of 
the Alton Hort. Society, stales that of the 
forty-one varieties of apples approved by the 
American Pomologlcal Society in ten or 
more discussions in 1864, eleven were recom¬ 
mended by Cox half a century ago. These 
are Early Harvest, Large Yellow Bough, 
Summer Queen, American Summer Pear- 
BY F. R. ELLIOTT. 
My good friends, Eli.wanger & Barry, 
have overwhelmed me with numbers of va¬ 
rieties of fruits, having sent me at one time, 
sixty varieties of pears and fifty-six varieties 
of apples. All among them are not new to 
[The following article has been waiting a 
place some weeks; but it is good now.—E ds. 
Rural Nkw-Yorker.] 
It does me good to get glimpses of whole¬ 
sale business occasionally,—a thousand-acre 
corn-field, a warehouse piled with bales, a 
ship full-freighted,* so the other day I went 
to Vick’s, just to look for one precious hour 
upon his blossoming acres, and to make a 
few private notes that shall guide in}' gar¬ 
dening operations next year. Zinnias claim¬ 
ed attention Mrst, a million or more, 1 should 
think, of every hue that n Zinnia is .capable 
of wearing, and all as double as they could 
possibly be. They are better than dahlias 
for the most of us. 
Phlox drummondii merited any praise that 
anybody could lavish upon it, The mixed 
beds were very brilliant, but I enjoyed the 
A ribbon bed failed of 
plat of pink most, 
ils proper effect because the strip* were not 
neighborly enough to cover the ground. My 
own phlox ribbon is made of the blood, pur¬ 
ple, scarlet, Isopoldi and Jton-aWo; is kept 
trim by a judicious use of scissors, and is 
especially remarked by all its beholders. 
The verbenas made a brave show, and 
also the tall bright spikes of gladiolus. Japan 
lilies were as beautiful and fragrant as if 
each one of the multitude were queening it 
alone—and the Litiuni at: rat urns ! 1 wish 
they wore within the reach of everybody, 
and that inconvenient $1.50 could be whit¬ 
tled down to five cents. 
Pansies were past their prime, and also 
the varieties of the pink ; but I found many 
beauties slill lighting their respective spaces. 
The very loveliest tilings were the double 
portulaeas, and their number was legion. 
Each plant was a gem, and the little rose- 
like blossoms that covered them so won 
upon my sense of the boautifhl that 1 de¬ 
termined to have double portulaeas next 
year, if I have nothing else. There were 
rows of stock, and snapdragon, and scahl- 
osa, and I know not what—a few specimens 
of the IrilOtua, which 1 don’t like at all, and 
balsams that one couldn’t help wishing were 
trimmed. And then the petunias, which 
were in pots and under cover, double and 
single, of every color and fanciful marking 
that any imaginative petunia could possibly 
devise, massed together in such mounds of 
bloom as 1 had never imagined. 
“ Oh,” said Azalia, as we looked hack 
from Ihe gate to dazzle our eyes for the last 
time upon the brilliant squares, 11 if one 
could only have all this spread out over a 
week it would he endurable. It’s more than 
1 can hear. I can’t take it all at once." 
We went coleus hunting to one of the 
great nurseries where all kinds of trees grow, 
where, as a little hoy remarked, “ even the 
horses wear slippers." I suppose it is per¬ 
fectly proper ami right to put up those little 
painted hoards every few rods, but 1 wish 
they could be abolished. If they bad been 
an institution at Vick’s, I’m morally certain 
that my abhorrence to them would have led 
me into despoiling a corner of the domain. 
Here, where the temptation was less, l walk¬ 
ed calmly along past beds of bright gera¬ 
niums, heliotrope, verbenas—the prettiest 
stock l ever saw—ugly cacti, &e. Azalia 
THE ROUGE D*ANJOU PEAR AND OUTLINE. 
me, nor are they all of quality that I would 
advise planters to buy of and plant; but I 
must return thanks to my friends for their 
contributions, as it gives me an opportunity 
of renewing my association and classifying 
my knowledge. Among those received, I 
have first a variety named 
Huulnril Bcrttumotte, 
which at first I supposed the same as Ber- 
gamotte de Souleins, or Bonne de Souleurs, 
hut ils form and character arc so entirely 
distinct, that 1 know it cannot he that variety. 
This is a round oblate, conical fruit; light 
pale yellow, with many small green dots; a 
short, very short, thick stem,set in a narrow, 
abrupt cavity; calyx open, with stiff, erect 
segments, set in a deep, irregular, but broad 
basin. Of the flesh I can say nothing, for 
the specimens were too much decayed, ere I 
had time to examine them, for me to remark. 
Herkimer l'car. 
This, sometimes called the Earl pear, is 
well described by Downing, but in many 
around the calyx or eye, which is open, with 
great reflexed segments. In quality it is 
hardly good; but show is what makes the 
money in all our Western fruit markets, and 
1 fear will do so for years to come. 
Doyenne Downing, 
The specimen of this pear is meet to the 
description in Downing’s work ; and always 
when 1 see it, causes me regret, for the rea¬ 
son that I would our leading and valuable 
horticulturists’ names should only he per¬ 
petuated by the same surpassing excellence 
in fruit which they themselves possess. 
Roumt «1’Anjou, 
or, as Downing has it, “ Bourre Rouge d’An¬ 
jou,” is perhaps a pear of more market value 
than it has so far received credit for. In 
general appearance it. is a good representa¬ 
tion of a medium-sized Louise Bonne de Jer¬ 
sey, and looks more like that variety than 
that of Beurrc d’Anjou, with which some 
pomologists at. first supposed it to be identi¬ 
cal. I give herewith an outline from one 
anything else; the whole plant is very grace¬ 
ful, and shows off best in a bright sun, when 
the wind blows lightly overits slender stems. 
One word about seeds. Don’t wad them 
up in hits of paper and t rust to your memory 
instead of a pencil. Save the different colors 
separately, and mix when you sow, if you 
want a mixture. In buying seeds I have 
found it economical to purchase mixed 
packets, and select from the first returns 
those that 1 desire to retain in my collection. 
The plant which your correspondent calls 
Gill-ovcr-the-ground, or Wandering Jew, is 
Nepeta fflechoma, 1 think. 11 is found in 
fields in Massachusetts, ami perhaps else¬ 
where— is realty very pretty for baskets. 
The strawberry geranium is often called 
“ Wandering Jew,” and is wliat your cor¬ 
respondents have referred to, with the ex¬ 
ception of Mr. Rexford, I am sure. 
Dork Hamilton. 
ovstmm 
NOTES FOR HORSEMEN, 
We see it stated that an important 
improvement in the manufacture of horse 
collars has just been devised by a 
Philadelphia mechanic. The collar being 
stuffed with elastic cork, is light in weight, 
and adapts itself to the shape of the animal 
as readily as if it were molded. It is highly 
elastic, does not chafe or gall the neck, ami 
the cork being a non-conductor, injury from 
the heat is prevented. 
To Cure Wart* on Home*. 
I had a tine colt that had about twenty 
large warts on his breast, under his belly 
and in his ears. I was recommended to 
burn them out with caustic or a hot iron, 
which I tried, and found that both were 
slow and barbarous. One day I picked up 
a small piece of newspaper, and found the 
following recipeTo cure warts on horses: 
Equal parts of spirits of turpentine and olive 
oil. Rub well every two or three days. This 
I tried, and it acted like a charm. 
Muirs tlti I*riullice Colts. 
In 1861 1 met a respectable farmer near 
San Jose, California, who related to me and 
others, the circumstance of his then having 
a colt, the mother of which was ft mule- 
lie said one morning he was astonished to 
find a colt nursed by a mule, and that she 
hnd a Rood flow of milk, and was rearing the 
Mntinimiienl nl Cnlln. 
Fannie R., Grinncll, Iowa, writes :—■“ We 
have a calla in a very flourishing condition, 
now in blossom for the fourth time since 
February. It has one offset. I should like 
TIIE THERESE APPERT PEAR—OUTLINE. 
s high as variety in this country, and I am deeply in¬ 
debted for the specimens. It surpasses the 
description of Leroy, is larger and hand- 
find any somer than 1 had supposed it.; is smooth 
Have Seed*.— Our lady readers should not for- 
jirci to save soedsfrom tlieirbeetfloweringplants 
and carefully label and put them away for next 
year. If those who love flowers would save 
seeds In autumn, they would bare Isas occasion 
to purchase plants iu spring:. 
