ones  were  piHiited  tlic  inm  necamo  aimoBi  uu- 
known.  except  as  imix>rtecl,  often  in  poor  condi¬ 
tion,  from  file  Delaware  and  Mainland  i>each 
orchards.  This  failure  of  peaches  we  believe 
entirely  needless.  By  selecting  side  hills,  or  lo¬ 
calities  prutected  by  belts  of  tinilH‘J‘  from  the 
severest  winter  winds,  the  trees  and  buds  may  be 
protected  in  regions  where  ixach  growing  has 
long  since  b<ien  almost  abandoned.  One  of  the 
most  succcHsfnl  ptiacli  growers  of  tVestem  New 
York.  Mr.  D.  E.  Hookkh  of  Scottavillc,  N.  Y.. 
plants  his  jieach  trws  between  rows  of  a  young 
apple  orchard.  The  apple-trees  protect  the 
peach,  and  even  in  the  severe  winter  of  1874-5 
Mr.  Rookr's  ti  ees  were  unharmed.  On  a  small 
scale  peach  trees  maybe  protected  by  wisps  of 
straw  tied  on  the  branches  and  ends  of  twigs.  It 
is  also  a  good  ))lan.  after  the  ground  is  well  fro- 
■/.eu  early  in  winter,  toiuulcli  Uie  trees  with  straw 
or  coarse  maiiurc.  This  fertilizes  the  tree,  pro- 
moliug  vigorous  growth  and  health.  It  also 
serves  a  more  valuable  purpose  m  retarding  tlie 
growth  of  bnds  in  warm  winter  weather  or  early 
I  spring.  A  gcaxl  mulch  of  straw,  even,  will  keep 
the  soil  frozen  till  late  in  the  spring,  and  corres¬ 
pondingly  retard  the  development  Of  leaf  and 
fruit  buds.  Cakes  of  ice  thrown  on  the  ground 
under  fruit  trow  and  then  covered  thickly  with 
straw  would  also  answer  the  sanio  purpose.  ITie 
peach  is  ono  of  the  most  delicious  fruits  iu  culti¬ 
vation.  and  wherever  it  has  onco  groan  success¬ 
fully  a  little  <-are  on  the  part  of  the  cultivator 
!  will  make  it  succeed  again. 
very  conHpi^uouH  or  l>eautiiui.  bui  iiie  iea\eb  aie 
exceedingly  pretty,  being  more  or  less  veined 
with  white,  or  to  use  a  scientific  tem),  “  white  re- 
The  leaves  areiinstered  at  the  roots, 
The  most 
fl-piihi'xreiiK  and 
tictilatod, 
about  two  imdicK  long  by  one-  broad 
showy  and  common  H])e(ieH  arc 
hotli  found  ill  our  norlherii  woods, 
tliun  ill  early  spring 
Thes«!  are 
ferneries, 
conditions,  if 
placed  miderneath  plants  of  tidier  gi  owth. 
Tlic  little  MitrhfUn,  also  known  by  the  common 
narais  of  ••  ()ne-15eriy.”  “Squaw  Berry.”  *•  I’art- 
ridge  Beiv.v,”  etc...  etc.,  is  iKuhapstoo  well-known 
to  need  a  word  of  praise  from  me.  still  1  fear 
tliat  many  iiersous 
woods,  iu  spring 
know  I'ttle  o 
plant.  Its  Ion, 
ADAPTATION  OF  VARIETIES, 
DAILY  BUBAL  LIFE, 
Wi;  may  have  our  likes  and  dislikes  in  fruit 
culture  as  well  as  iu  other  affairs  of  life,  hut 
eivcumstaiices  freiiucntly  e^mtrol  <mr  netious  and 
It  is  certainly  well  to 
and  they  never  look  hotter 
.soon  after  the.  snow  hasmelted  away, 
excellent  jtliuilH  for  Wardian  oases  t»r 
growing  quite  freidy  under  sueli 
rrom  the  Diary  of  a  Centlcman  near  Ne 
York  City. 
A  PEEP  UNDER  THE  SNOW. 
Fch.  7.  rhe  first  snowstorm  of  the  season  in 
New  JeiHcy)  occiured 
lalhng  to  the  dejith  of 
Klify  onr  asjiirations, 
strike  very  low,  but  true  I 
wisdom  will  always  lead  a  man  to  seek  that  which  i 
it  is  jKJBsible  to  obtain  instead  of  something  be- 
yond  his  l  eAch. 
No  one  ithase  of  fruit  culture,  jirohably.  has 
puzzled  the  masses  more  than  the  one  wliich  we 
term  “adaptation  of  varieties."  Boil,  climate. 
lo<^ation  in  regard  to  market,  suiqdy  and  demand  ^ 
and  vaiiouH  other  conditions,  come  in  under  this 
head,  rw|uiring  the  careful  eonHuloration  of  the 
cultivator.  A  man's  preference  may  lead  him  to 
plant  the  Hamburg  grape  in  a  location  where  he 
could  scarcely  succeed  with  (he  Concord  ;  hut  no 
one  would  consider  him  wiw.;  m  permittnig  a  de-  i 
sire  lo  run  counter  to  well  known  facts  develoiied  i 
through  long  experience  in  the  same  field. 
aim  high,  though  we 
three  days  since,  snow 
about  eight  inches,  and  the  temjieraturo  (hopped 
to  aljout  7  deg.  below  zero  for  a  few  hours  only. 
The  ieeincn  began  to  look  liappy.  as  well  as  the 
boys  and  girls,  who  had  lieen  “  spoiling'’ for  a 
slcigh-ridc.  Bid  hist  night  there  came  a  I'hange  : 
the  mercury  look  a  sudden  rise  iu  thc^  Iheriuom- 
cter.  wldle  the  rain  came  down  quite  briskly. 
Tliis  luoruiiig  the  siiii  shone  out  bright  and 
warm,  melting  the  snow  --lowly  hul.  surely,  and 
leaving  the  grouiul  almost  bare  again  at  night. 
Perhaps  it  is  only  imagination  oii  my  part,  but 
it  always  srieuis  to  me  that  the  Ibouaauds  of  little 
wild  aud  (jiiUivatcdiihiuts  look  brighter  and  more 
beautiful  ns  they  come  pooping  out  from  the 
snow  than  at  any  other  time.  Tlieir  leaves  fairly 
glisten  hi  the  light  as  the  last  drop  of  melted 
snow  disappeais.  carrying  with  it  the  iininiritiOB 
w'hieh  may  have  accumulated  and  ^<^sted  there 
before  the  great  white  rohe  fell  uix>n  them,  days 
or  months  before.  For  one  I  enjoy  a  ramble  in 
the  woods  at  such  a  time.  e.veu  while  .snowbanks 
still  linger  in  the  shady  nooks  and  ice-water 
trickles  over  moss-covered  rocks,  hceaus<;  it  is 
thou  that  th«  sturdy  character,  .as  well  as  beauty, 
of  frost-proof  foliage  shows  to  the  best  advan¬ 
tage. 
IN  THE' GARDEN 
we  can  find  much  to  admu'c  at  tliis  season,  iu 
addition  to  the  taller  kinds  of  evergreens,  like 
the  pines,  spruces  aud  hemlocks,  because  those 
of  less  stature,  such  as  the  HoUicx.  Hfnhonias, 
RhododeiiOrons.  Kahiiias  and  other  broad-leaved 
evcrgrecu  shrubs,  are  really  more  conspicuous 
wlio  never  ramble  in  the 
or  take  a  iHHip  uiulei'  the  snow, 
f  tlm  beauties  of  this  bumble  little 
slender  stems  creep  o\cr  the 
ground,  forming  dense,  masses  of  the  most  deli¬ 
cate  green,  wliilc  the  bright  scarlet  fruit  nostlc 
among  the  hiavcs.  like  coral  beads  in  a  lusiklacc. 
noitber  frost,  nor  snow  affecting  their  brilliant 
color.  Later  in  the  season,  in  )il.acc  of  fruit  we 
may  find  a  vneatb  of  cxipiisite.,  minute  white 
llowcrB.  but  anudall  these  changes  the  delicate 
little  leaves  remain  ever  green. 
SOWING  GRAPE  SEED. 
Fi'.b.  8.— Years  ago  I  cxpeiimented  a  little  hi 
raising  seedling  grajres  but  gave  it  up  for  want 
of  encouraging  Buccess.  .My  aim  was  a  good 
white  variety,  eijual.  if  not  superior,  to  any  of 
the  native  red  or  black  sorts,  hut  in  this  1  failed, 
not  in  obtaining  varieties  of  the  right  color,  but 
they  all  lacked  something  in  other  important 
properl  ifs.  From  the  Delaware,  wilhoiit  at- 
teniiitmg  any  cross  fertilization,  1  obtained  one 
seedling  which  in  vine  aud  leaf  was  almost  au 
exact  counterpart  of  its  parent.  The  fruit,  how¬ 
ever.  was  iu  color,  wliat  is  usually  te-nned  white, 
bolli  berry  aud  buneb  resembling  the  parent  iu 
size  and  fonu,  but  did  not  equal  it  in  quality. 
besidoH  rijieiiing  nearly  a  month  later,  conse- 
queiitly  1  did  not  consider  it  worth  pn^serving 
and  projiagating. 
Having  bad  such  poor  luck  myself,  and  rea'iiug 
the  glowing  accounts  of  the  wonderful  results 
I  obtained  by  a  dozen  or  more  “  scientific  hy¬ 
bridizers  ”  of  the  giapc,  I  coneluded  to  iibandou 
mSTAKES  IN  FRUIT  CULTURE 
Mk.  Muir.  Secretary  of  the  Missouri  State 
Horticultural  Society,  does  not  believe  iu  paint¬ 
ing  the  details  of  fruit  culture  in  such  high  col¬ 
ors.  Ill  his  last  report  he  says  : 
The  extreme  simplicity  of  fruit  culture  has 
been  viwy  much  insisted  on.  In  this  many  have 
been  greatly  misled.  There  is  a  necessity  of 
practical  education.  More  knowledge,  more  cx- 
]K<rieiice,  more  of  the  bsihnical  training  must  he 
had  to  give  a  chunee  for  sueeess.  Nurserymen 
and  propagators  have  been  blamed  for  encom- 
aging  excessive  planting,  but  to  a  degree  that  is 
a  mistake. 
When  a  farm  is  well  adapted  to  labor-saving 
implements,  pnxlucing  giaid  crops  of  stiqile  arti¬ 
cles  not  liable  to  early  decay  in  traiisportalioii  to 
market,  keep  them  producing  such  enqis.  But 
•where  land  is  broken,  not  adapted  to  the  usual 
farm  croiJS.  and  still  (capable  of  prcKlucing  fine 
fruits,  then,  duty,  economy,  necessity,  will  indi¬ 
cate  that  fruit  culture  is  not  an  extremity,  and 
too  risky  oil  untested  conditions. 
A  necessity  exists  for  the  thorough  review  of 
Uic  lists  of  varieties,  with  refercnco  to  the 
changed  cuuditious  of  culture  and  transportation. 
Deixuidcnce  must  mainly  rest  on  varieties  origi¬ 
nated  at  home,  or  fckmth,  for  staple  fruits,  and 
not,  as  has  liithorto  been  the  case,  on  those  orig¬ 
inated  East  and  Nort  h. 
Illustraf  ions  can  be  found  in  the  Northern  Spy, 
Rhode  Ishind  Greening,  How-’s  Crab.  Roxbury 
Russet,  aud  a  host  of  others,  losing  their  (juali- 
tics.  becoming  fall  instead  of  winter  fruits,  and 
iu  the  decay  of  the  tree  or  rotting  of  the  fruit 
“UTAH  HYBRID”  CHERRIES 
Ens.  Rur.m.  Nrw  -  Yorker  Tree  peddlers 
have  been  selling  in  this  vicinity  “  Utah  Hybrid 
Cherry  Trees.”  They  represent  it  to  be  a  cross 
between  a  idieriv  aiid  a  plum,  that  the  fruit  is 
nice  and  desirably,  aud  the  tree  ornamental.  If 
you  mil  infortu  us  through  your  columns  what 
the  “U.  H.  Cherrv”  is,  in  respect  to  its  deslra- 
ability,  von  will  suiter  a  favor,  I  think,  upon 
many. — isQUIPER. 
The  Utah  Hybrid  Cherry  is  a  fraud,  an,  gene¬ 
rally  speaking.  arc  all  “new"  fruits  introduced 
by  tree  peddlers  aud  sold  as  something  wronder- 
ful — “  milike  anything  ever  seen  before Buy 
of  men  who  deal  iu  fruits  tbat^  other  growers 
know  something  about,  aud  be  sure  that  you 
get  standard  varieties  true  to  name.  Many  a 
man  thinks  that  his  first  onset  in  fruit-growing 
will  astonish  old  poiuologists  with  new  varieties 
which  tlieir  life-long  exiierience  aud  study  have 
left  them  iu  ignorance  of.  To  exiK«t  this  is.  of 
course,  very  foolish,  and  a  Little  thought  would 
shoxv  that  it  is  impossible.  Yet  there  are  thou¬ 
sands  who  allow  themselves  to  be  imposed  upon 
by  the  idea. 
judged,  couBcipiently  a  man  may  betray  his  cu¬ 
pidity  or  igiiorHiice  by  ignoring  it  altogether. 
For  instance,  if  one  should  assei't  that  the  old 
Poimd  imai-  was  a  better  variety  than  the  tieckel. 
or  that  the  Charier-  Oak  grape  was  sirpoi-;or  to 
Uic  Delaware  we  would  know  that  he  was  either' 
very  ignorant  or  intended  to  deceive.  He  might 
say  with  propriety  that  they  w  ere  bigger ;  brrt 
“  better  "  implies  sometliing  besides  size.  It  is 
only  by  comparison  that  we  can  come  to  any 
definite  couehisiou  as  to  the  value  of  any  partic¬ 
ular  variety. 
POMOLOGICAL  NOTES 
Flnnlxh  Ren  The  London  Garden  notes 
that  at  the  great  Poinolugical  Meeting  ut  C'hicago 
this  pear  was  found  in  the  largest  number  of 
colleetions.  and  was  most  frequently  marked  for 
siH’cial  in-aise  by  the  t!oranuttoe.  Thrs  indicates 
a  very  wide  ar^  for  the  cnitivatiou  of  that  fa¬ 
vorite  kind.  While  it  has  faults  in  many  dis¬ 
tricts,  yet  its  hardiness  and  its  prolific  and  early- 
lieariiig  qualities  are  so  well  proved  that  it  finds 
great  mvor  everwliere. 
/■’((/.s.— Ellwamter  k  Babbv  say  that  Figs 
mavhe  grown  as  bushes  in  the  garden,  in  the 
Northern  States,  if  they  are  taken  up  annually, 
the  first  week  in  November,  with  a  ball  of  earth 
attached  to  their  roots,  and  placed  in  a  cellar  till 
about  the  middle  of  May,  w^eu  they  shoulii  be 
taken  out  and  replanted.  Most  all  of  them  ripen 
iu  August. 
PEACHES  IN  COLD  CLIMATES 
