AU6. as 
FRUIT NOTES UPON ITEMS IN MOORE’S 
RURAL NEW YORKER. 
Peach Culture in Michigan .—There is no 
question that, so far, the eastern shore of 
Lake Michigan has been successful as a peach 
growing region, hut let me say, its fruit 
growers must look just a little bit ahead, or 
they will find, as those of the south shore of 
Lake Erie have, that they must avoid too 
many of the light-colored or white-fleslied 
varieties, when market profit is regarded. 
Cooledge’s Favorite, President, and many 
others may do for the amateur ; but among 
the whole class of white-fleslied peaches, the 
large Early York, the Oklmixon free,’ the 
Early Newington free, the Late Admirable, 
and the Hyslop cling will prove the most 
durable and profitable. Of the yellow and 
yellow-fleshed varieties, the true Early Yel¬ 
low Rareripe, the Yellow Alberge, the old 
Red Cheek Melaeotou and its seedlings, such 
as the Crawfords, Smocks, &c., & c .’, are 
among the valuable ones. 
Hill's Chili seems to have a number of 
synonyms, and Mr. Dyckm vn of the Michi¬ 
gan Pomologieal Society may be correct in 
his history. Our first knowledge of it wap 
when it was grown near Cincinnati and 
brought before the Cincinnati Horticultural 
Society, the first year of that Society's 
origin. It was there shown by a Mr. IIili. 
as “Chili,” There and then it received its 
name and description. 
Ere. dropping this peach item, let, mo say 
that for hardiness of tree, and Certainly of 
crop, no yellow-fleshed or colored peach 
comes up to the Orange, and to-day lie who 
plants of it for market will gain more of 
profit, from one tree than from a dozen of 
Hale's Early, Early Beatrice, Alexander, or 
Arnsueu. 
The Wild Goose Plum.—moll is the char¬ 
acter of public taste (in the market value of 
a fruit depending upon its appearance) that 
it seems as it all of education and refinement 
iu plum culture had gone backward ; and 
to-day, while any one of refined taste would 
sooner eat of Purple Favorite, Jefferson, or 
Lawrence, and would sooner look upon Du¬ 
ane’s Purple, or Coe’s Golden Drop than upon 
the wjIdlings of the West and South, yet it is 
possible that the grower for market will 
realize without care or culture more money 
from these wildlings than from improved 
varieties. A. Thorn. 
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POMOLOGICAL NOTES. 
Malang Fruitless Cherry Trees Bear. —Mr. 
H. S. Long of Elmwood Farm, near Raritan, 
N. J„ tried a prescription given in the Rural 
last winter, to make fruitless cherry trees 
beai. Flo had a tree which had borne no 
good fruit for the four years he has owned 
the place nor for the 15 previous years as 
reported to him. The little fruit produced 
was bitter and little better than skin and 
stone. He made a strong brine with eight 
quarts of salt, uud poured this in February 
last around the trunk of the tree, careless 
whether it would kill or cure. This season 
the tree has thriven and borne full of very 
late Black Mazzard cherries. A large branch 
left at our office on the 3d of August enables 
us to attest the quality and abundance of the 
fruit. 
Errors in Nomenclature. —To-day (24th of 
Julyj we have been examining a pear called 
the “Ennis,” received from Kentucky. At 
the same time a friend sends us the “ Wind¬ 
sor." They are identical; only the true- 
namod one, Windsor, was grown here and is 
not fully matured ; but had we not had it 
for comparison, the old Windsor or Summer 
Bril stuck its name right out as soon as we 
saw the Kentucky specimen. An apple also 
has been sent us as “ Red Harvest” from the 
same State, Kentucky. It, is nothing more 
n»r less than Carolina Red June. We are 
thankful to our friends for samples of fruits 
under the names they know them, and will 
do our best to assist in correcting and certi¬ 
fying to their true names. 
The Early Beatrice Peach has ripened 
mejy with me this year. Trees planted in 
• l1 luive borne a few each, which were 
mostly ripe and picked on the 23d of July^ 
and were very handsome with bright color, 
beautifully red and mottled, juicy and ex¬ 
cellent. Their average size was about 1% by 
/r. inches in diameter, Hale’s Early, grown 
by their aide, about the same size, are now 
(July 27) turning red, yet are hard and will 
be a week earlier in ripening here in New 
Jersey-latitude of Philadelphia,-W ili-xam 
1 arry, Ctnnaminson, N. ./, 
MOORE'S BO BA 
A Chance Raspberry .—There is a Black- 
Cap raspberry which came up wild in our 
garden which has, at present, 125 berries in 
a single cluster. They are very sweet and 
firm. It has also a cane at present (July 
27) in full blossom. Do you think it worth 
experimenting with ?—j. w. L. 
Certainly, it is worth careful attention, 
as it may, though it probably will not, prove 
to be worthy of general culture. 
ABOUT KANSAS. 
Having recently received a letter from a 
gentleman named J. H. Blake of Newark, 
N. J., requesting me to give him some infor¬ 
mation in regard to this country, I have de¬ 
cided to reply through the columns of the 
Rural. 1 will state first, that 1 feel scarcely 
adequate to the task, having been a resident 
of Kansas only four years, and during that 
period residing in town, therefore f cannot 
reply from actual experience upon every 
point, I am aware that very many of the 
opinions put forth in regard to the State of 
Kansas have not been derived from observa¬ 
tion and experience sufficient for so difficult 
a question. I fed that my experience is en¬ 
tirely too limited to speak upon it with 
much confidence ; but I simply propose to 
tell the truth concerning it so far as I 
may be able to glean or know it. Having 
been troubled considerably with that dis¬ 
tressing complaint, homesickness, since fak¬ 
ing up my abode here, perhaps I shall not do 
justice to the State in giving in my “testi¬ 
mony.” While I believe every suitable ef¬ 
fort should be made, anrl inducement held 
out, with a view to bring to our State the 
enterprising and intelligent emigrant of ov 
ery nation, yet the imperfections and draw¬ 
backs should be pictured, as well as the ad¬ 
vantages of the country. I am aware that 
many of our State papers exaggerate their 
descriptions t.o a great extent, thus luring 
many here who were well situated in their 
former homes ; and one must not expect too 
much of Kansas. 
The bleak, cold winds of winter and the 
hot, dry winds of summer are among the 
disagreeable characteristics of this country, 
The scarcity of timber for fencing, building 
purposes and fuel is another disadvantage. 
Forest, and fruit trees are being propagated, 
and it is believed that by a judicious plant¬ 
ing and preservation of trees a decided im 
provoment can be effected in the climate, 
that the winds will decrease, and it will 
have a tendency to promote the fall of rain. 
There are extensive coal beds in Kansas, also 
excellent building stone, and many avail 
themselves of the privilege of erecting 
substantial dwellings and business blocks. 
Hedges are substituted for rails, although, as 
far as I have been informed, the sprouts are 
generally too weak to afford a proper pro¬ 
tection to crops. There are so many locali¬ 
ties which present About equal advantages 
that T am not prepared, to express a prefer¬ 
ence. Land in this section (Pottawatomie 
Co.) is well adapted to dairying, and a very 
good quality of milk is produced from the 
native grasses. The climate is admirably 
adapted to fruit-growing, especially to the 
culture of grapes. Peaches grow in great 
abundance here. Two years ago I attended 
the Pott. Co. Fair hold at this place, and such 
specimens of fruit as were there, exhibited I 
never before witnessed. 
The surface of the country is rolling, ele¬ 
vated aud level, and the laud is of fair fer¬ 
tility. The price of land varies in different 
localities. Railroad land can be bought for 
$4 per acre, and improved farms at from $15 
to $30 per acre. I believe it is generally con¬ 
ceded that there are as cheap and flue lands 
in the vicinity of Lawrence as in any part of 
Kansas. Were I prospecting, I should not 
fail to give particular attention to Law¬ 
rence and the adjoining country. A person 
wishing to locate should decide which sec¬ 
tion of the country he desires to visit, and 
go to the Land Office and procure township 
plots, with the land which is open to settle¬ 
ment marked on them. In this way he can 
readily find any particular region of country 
he desires. In regard to the health of the 
country, this State is like every other. In 
some communities much sickness prevails ; 
yet the dryness and pureness of the atmos¬ 
phere is considered a great curative and 
preventive of consumption. I have been in¬ 
formed that a healthier region of country 
lies 100 miles west of here, in Ellsworth Co., 
which appears reasonable, as the nearer we 
approach the mountains the more bracing 
and invigorating is the atmosphere. Chills 
L NEW-YORKER. 
and fever are not unknown here, yet are 
not very prevalent. There are some well- 
read, practical farmers here, and r have no 
doubt that a young man could find employ¬ 
ment. and learn farming, would have a fair 
chance for improvement and a just compen¬ 
sation for his labor. One thousand dollars 
would lie a good start for a young mau, pro¬ 
vided he invests it prudently—that is, if he 
does not expend it all for land, as is fre¬ 
quently the case, thus having no surplus 
funds for improving the laud. 
On our arrival here we had an opportunity 
to visit around Manhattan, in Rielly Co. The 
lack of timber gave the county a barren look, 
yet the lay of the land, the condition of the 
farm buildings, and the general appearance 
of the farms gave us a favorable impression 
at to the thrift of that part of the State. I 
have endeavored to answer every question 
propounded by my correspondent, perhaps 
noli consecutively, but in my plain way have 
given him a mere insight into the merits and 
demerits of Kansas. Mrs. M. IIutzel, 
Wamego, Kansas. 
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FROM NORTHPORT, LEELENAW CO., 
MICH. 
[n Leelenaw Co., Mich,, the agricultural 
interest, has boon somewhat neglected and 
thrown iu the background by «, largo Indian 
reservat ion of hoi' lands ; and then these un¬ 
broken forests arc generally not so attractive 
to the farmer as the open regions of the Far 
West; but throughout tlm county there are 
numerous tracts of immense fertility that 
can be bought of Indians, who hold them a 
trillo above the Government price. Corn, 
wheat, buckwheat., rye and oats, grass and 
clover, though thus far grown to an extent, 
sufficient only for home consumption, have 
yielded enough to show that the soil is well 
adapted to their profitable cultivation, as 
well us to that of nearly every vegetable 
common to temperate climates. 
Potatoes are. a. most profitable crop, and 
so tine are the varieties raised here that the 
annual crops demand the highest prices ; in¬ 
stances have occurred of late where the sum 
of $200 per acre has boen realized by their 
cultivation. 
The county in many respects resembles 
Western Now York, with a more favorable 
climate. In the matter of fruit-growing it 
is iinequaled. The exposure to large bodies 
of open water admits of the raising of any 
kind of fruit peculiar to temperate latitudes. 
Poaches require the highest elevation that 
can be found here to make a, successful crop, 
but apples, pears, plums, cherries, currants 
strawberries, raspberries and blackberries 
can be raised in abundance, and a profitable 
business bo made to grow up in shipping 
them. Apples 1 1 ore are the longest keepers 
in the world. Some winter varieties are 
known to keep till apples come again. 
The advantages for shipping could not be 
better ; have over 100 miles of lake and bay 
coast, with seven steamboat docks on Lake 
Michigan and six on Grand Traverse Bay. 
People living near the bay or lake can have 
abundance of wkitefish and trout brought to 
their doors by Indians. There is an inlaud 
lake twenty miles long, of unrivaled beauty, 
filled with every variety of fish known In 
Northern waters. On its banks are some of 
the finest, locations for farms that can be 
found in the county. 
Northport, the county seat of Leelenaw 
County, is a small town of 400 inhabitants, 
pleasantly situated near the mouth of Grand 
Traverse Bay, and nicely sheltered from the 
wind, making it a desirable resort for pleas¬ 
ure parties who wish recreation either in 
fishing or sailing. Wm. H. Franklin. 
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GOOD ADVICE TO SETTLERS. 
At a late celebration of Queen Victoria’s 
Birthday in Virginia, Mr. St. Andrew is re¬ 
ported to have given his countrymen the 
following sensible advice, which is equally 
applicable to Americans intending to mi¬ 
grate. He said : 
I. Come in colonies, or go to colonies. 
II, Bring money in your purse. 
11L Leave your prejudicus behind. 
IV. Don’t expect too much. 
V. For laud or business, pay cash. 
VI. Keep two thirds at least of your 
money for working capital. 
VII. Avoid land sharks. You can easily 
find out the reliable, land agents. 
VIII. In buying land, don’t get too much of 
a good thing. 
XI. Adhere to the old-fashioned principle 
of British honor. Don’t attempt 
“smartness.” Better class Ameri¬ 
cans don’t admire it ; but they can 
beat you at the game if you chal¬ 
lenge them to it, 
X. Remember that success is more in the 
man than in the country. 
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HOW TIMBER MAY BE MULTIPLIED. 
One of our exchanges has the following to 
say in reference to this important subject: 
Much has been written about raising tim¬ 
ber, but all the light that can be shed upon 
the. subject by all the arboriculturists in the 
land, will not bo amiss. There is no want 
in the not distant future which has so for¬ 
bidding a look as the increasing scarcit y of 
timber. Our forests are not producing ,n»e- 
twentieth of the supply we are annually 
consuming or arc destroying. More atten¬ 
tion should be given at once to its propaga¬ 
tion and preservation. It was said by some 
philosopher that he who makes two blades 
of grass grow where but one grew before is 
a benefactor to his race. If this be true 
and none will dispute it, how much more 
credit is due him who makes a landmark by 
the cultivation of trees ? Reference to this 
subject brings back to our recollection a sug¬ 
gestion we saw some time ago iu regard to 
a simple mode by which timber may bo in¬ 
creased on those tracts of land upon which 
it is being out away. It is as follows : Plant 
the ground in the fall with acorns, black and 
white walnuts, butternuts, the sends of the 
ash, etc. The nuts should be covered lightly 
with the soil and decaying leaves, go that 
boys and squirrels cannot find them. They 
will come up in the spring, and if cattle are 
kept, out of the woods as they should be by 
all who would preserve the young t roes—they 
will make a rapid growth, under the imme¬ 
diate superintendence of Dame Nature her¬ 
self, who has been pretty successfully en¬ 
gaged in this business of tree culture, more 
or Jess, ever since the Silurian age. in the 
same way cuttings may bo pub out in the 
t imber in the spring. The mulching of the 
ground by the falling of the autumn leaves 
is the heat dressing that can le put around 
such young trees, which, in a year or so, will 
surprise you with their rapid growth. We 
would discourage no one who can do so from 
planting out groves on the prairies, which is 
one of the best works a farmer can do ; bub 
these hints carried out will enable many to 
utilize places now going to waste, and get a 
good return for their efforts. 
Remarks Care must bo t'tkeu that, the 
acorns do not become dry or they will never 
vegetate. They stick out a pointy root into 
the ground in the fall. The same with chest¬ 
nuts and the like. 
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VICTORIA AND COLUMBIA. 
It is not the real flesh and blood Queen 
Victoria or the mythological lady known 
as Miss Columrta that we propose to intro¬ 
duce to our readers, but two new and beau¬ 
tiful evergreens bearing the above names. 
Both, we believe, are accidental seedlings 
of our common American Arbor-Vitae, and 
quite similar in appearance. They are what 
is termed silver-tipped varieties, the termi¬ 
nal leaves of all the branches being silvery- 
white, affording a beautiful and marked 
contrast with the deep green of the leafy 
branches below. 
The golden-tipped Arhor-Vitae is becom¬ 
ing pretty well known, at least among those 
who are socking novelties of this kind and 
can afford to pay $3 to 35 each for very 
small plants ; but the “silver tips” arc evert 
more rare. Still, they are on the way to fill 
a niche in the evergreen temples long vacant. 
The principal difference between Victoria 
and Columbia is iu their habits of growth, 
the first being what might be termed a rather 
tali and slender grower, while the latter is 
very compact and stocky, although vigor¬ 
ous and quite hardy. They arc both as beau¬ 
tiful as they are rare, and we have no doubt 
that they will-fie highly appreciated by all 
admirers of handsome trees and shiubs. 
Lest our readers should write us to know 
where those plants can be obtained, let it be 
understood that we do not know, if our ad¬ 
vertising columns do not tell. 
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Time to Prune Arcor-Vit.-e Hedges.— W. 
W. Fisher of Chautauqua Co., N. Y., asks 
the best tine to prune American Arbor Vi- 
tae hedges. He says helms been in the pi ■/>- 
tice of pruning in September, but has be. t 
advised to prune earlier. The latter advice 
we count good. In all probability, the full 
ripened growth for the year has taken place 
already, and if trimming is to be performed 
a second time, the sooner it Is done the bet¬ 
ter. We would, however, prefer to postpone 
trimming until early spring, and to make the 
second clipping just before the ripening of 
the season’s growth, 
