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CRANBERRY AND STRAWBERRY TREES. 
Chas. H. Horton asks about cranberry and 
strawberry trees, which have been peddled 
and sold in his neighborhood. There is a 
shrub that grows from three to ten feet high, 
known as Cranberry tree, or Bush or High 
Cranberry. It boars an aoid fruit that is 
sometimes cooked and used as a, substitute 
for cranberries. It is a beautiful, ornamental 
shrub and we give, herewith, an illustration 
of a section of it.. But no one need hope to 
get rieh by cultivating it for its fruit. Its 
botanical name is Viburnum opulus. 
There are also several shrubs known as 
Strawberry tree or Strawberry bush. But 
they are merely ornamental. We give a sec¬ 
tion of one. ol' them, otherwise known as the 
American Burning Bush or Spindle tree, 
(Euonymoitu Uitifolia,) which our correspond¬ 
ent will probably recognize by its fruit, of 
which, so far as we aware, no use is made. 
Our advice to our correspondent and his 
friends is to let tree peddlers alone. 
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WEEPING BEECH, 
The accompanying illustration represents 
a Weepiug Beech tree after it has acquired 
age, and become well furnished with branch¬ 
es profusely laden with pendulous spray. It 
is a peculiarity of most weeping trees not to 
show their full bounty of character until 
they have attained a considerable age. Who 
knows anything of a Weeping Beech, who 
has oidy seen a young specimen recently 
planted ? Years must elapse before such 
trees exhibit the appearance represented by 
the accompanying wood cut; but when that 
condition has been attained they form, in 
ornamental grounds, a never-ending source 
of interest. 
aisle are marble slabs with inlaid figures of But, friend Moore, 1 have run o(T the track, 
brass, with a regular succession of Bariletts I began writing this paper for the purpose of 
—inscriptions, names and dates from John telling you that near this old church, there 
v i* a Yew tree, supposed to have been planted 
near the time the church was erected, and 
ENGLISH YEW AND SOME OTHER TREES. euonymus latifolia—strawberry tree. 
VIBURNUM OPUf.U.H—CRANBERRY TREK. 
Friend Moore I received the Rural 
New-Yorker of July 25th by due course of 
mail, and perused the articles on the English 
Yew and Honey Locust trees with much 
interest. At the time when the paper was 
received we were in the midst of haying, so 
I laid it by, intending, “ at a more convenient 
season," to offer some remarks upon the 
Yew, Honey Locust and some other trees 
not indigenous to this section of the country, 
that 1 have grown during the past forty 
years. By “ some cantrip sleight,” the paper 
got mislaid, but fortunately it has just turned 
up, enabling me to carry out my good in¬ 
tentions. 
Adam Bartlett, the progenitor of the 
Bartlctts in England and America, came to 
England from Normandy in LOGO, an officer 
in the army of William the Conqueror, and 
fought in the decisive battle of Hastings, 
14th of October in the above year, in which 
the Anglo Sixon King, Harold, and most 
of the nobility of the south of England 
perished. After the conquest, William 
granted Adam B. a large tract of land in 
Stopham, Sussex Co., Eng.; Adam B. died in 
1100, now having been dead 774 years. The 
estate has remained in possession of the fam¬ 
ily ever since, and at the present date con¬ 
tains over 7,000 acres. The preseut repre¬ 
sentative of the family, is Col. Walter B. 
Bartlett, M. P., 54 years of age. On the 
estate, is an ancient Norman stone church, 
the gift of the family, erected early in the 
13th century. On the stone floor along the 
Bartlett, who died in 1408, down to the the body of the tree is now 7^ feet in diam- 
present time. Here, there is no mistake or elor, and it is thought to beat least 500 years 
sham. While the times of high nobility have old. Nearly forty years atro, tho late Mr. 
run out, over and over, this family have Duel, in the Albany Cultivator, highly rec- 
steadily held possession hundreds of years, ommouded Honey Locust as a hedge plant. 
VA ••'x. 
WEJELPITvra- BEECH, 
I procured a quantity of seed, grow a largo 
number of seedlings, and set out a few rods 
for a hedge. But the young shoots badly 
winter-killed. Soon after L sold the place, 
and no care was taken of them. But years 
ago 1 saw a very handsome Honey Locust 
hedge on the grounds of the late Joseph 
Cushing, Esq. of Watertown, Mass. Of ihosS 
not used for n hedge, I transplanted several 
on the farm I now occupy, and sold and 
gave away many which were planted in 
door-yards and about the houses in the vil¬ 
lage. They generally made a rapid growth 
and suffered no injury from our severe win¬ 
ters. 1 know nothing respecting their value 
for timber or fuel. About the same lime, I 
procured seeds of the Yellow Locust. There 
are many of them now in various parts of 
this town. They have made a much larger 
growth than the Honey Locust, and I am not 
aware of their being infested by the locust 
bprer. Their durability for fence posts and 
value for other purposes arc too well known 
to need repeating. 
The Norway pine has made a rapid growth, 
and I am under the impression that it would 
be a very valuable, variety of forest trees, to 
stock the worn out and sandy soils of New 
England and elsewhere. J have, in several 
instances, seen the Norway pine growing 
quite freely ou the poorest soil in this 
section. 
Thirty years ago, 1 procured from a nurs¬ 
ery near Boston, two small silver-leaved pop¬ 
lars. They have outgrown all others of more 
than thirty varieties of forest and orna¬ 
mental trees T have transplanted. One of 
them I have just measured ; girth, 18 inches 
above the surfaced’ the ground, over i’.l; feet 
in circumference ; tho other some few inches 
less. But a serious objection to having this 
tree about the building, yards and gardens 
is the immense number of suckers thrown 
up from the roots. I think half a dozen of 
these trees, properly planted on an acre of 
land, would soon fill the ground with tho 
sprouts from the roots. From this fact it 
might prove a valuable and expeditious way 
of obtaining a wood lot. About the same 
time I procured from Salem a few horse 
chestnuts. There is now one on an adjoining 
farm, which measures 18 inches from the 
ground, over bj.* feet in circumference. Of 
some forty varieties—mostly forest trees, the 
silver leaved poplar or abele and the horse 
chestnut, have made altogether the largest 
growth of any kinds 1 have grown. 
About thirty years ago, 1 planted a border 
of trees, twenty feet wide, and several rods 
in length (as a break wind). There are 30 
varieties, mostly forest trees, taken from tte 
open ground—in Light when transplanted 
ranging from six to ten foot; many of them 
are over sixty feet high. Among the most 
thrifty are the Norway pine, hackmatack 
llr balsam, white birch, red oak, and sugrfl- 
maple. The above named, a foot from si 
face of the ground, measure from 2,8 to 40 
inches in circumference. Levi Bartlett. 
Warner, N. 11., Nov. 13.1874. 
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PRUNING APPLE TREES. 
I have a young orchard that has borne a 
few upplas the last few years, but has not 
done as well as I think it should. All who see 
my trees say they should be pruned consid¬ 
erable. Now what. I want to know is, Will 
it do to prune my trees at any time between 
now and the time of blossoming. If not, at 
what time should they be pruned ? and is 
there danger of pruning too much by remov¬ 
ing too many of the large limbs. Is it neces- 
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