NEW YORK, APRIL 19, 1884 
PRICE FIVE CENTS. 
$2.00 PER YEAR. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1884, by the Rural New-Yorker In the office of the Libra Jongress at Washington.] 
and tender growth; frost came on suddenly 
and late, freezing the sap in the tender 
branches. Tbe result was that when Spring 
came the young orchards of both apples and 
pears were found cut down, some below, 
though many just above, the graft: and in 
the three years that have followed since that 
time, the trees have not grown to their orig¬ 
inal size, or large enough to give us auy fruit 
for market. Yet we still believe pears can be 
grown successfully here, as there are old trees 
growing in cultivated gard •» in Montreal, 
which are laden with fruit every year—Bart- 
letts, Bon Chretien, Sekels, and many others. 
But in cold sections, as the northern parts of 
the United States and Canada, it is best to go 
slow, and not to push the growth too much 
while the trees are young. Even the apple 
trees of those varieties we call “iron-clad," 
suffered the same fate as the pear trees, for 
that Spring we bad set out nearly a thousand 
trees from a Rochester firm. 
The duty and expressage go by weight here, 
and our packages cost us nearly $50, while 
his own orchard, in this Province, not so shel¬ 
tered as our own Little valley, the Flemish 
Beauty bears well, his loaded trees and flue 
finit bearing evidence that pears can be 
grown in this cold north. But, as I said 
before, in order to succeed it is best to “go 
slow,” not to encourage too much growth, and 
to endeavor to have all young wood well 
ripened before severe frost. 
Prov. Quebec, Can. annie l. jack. 
and in the woods I have seen places that 
would turn horses and cattle, and with culti¬ 
vation 1 believe it could be made one of our 
best hedge shrubs. 
Rice Co., Minn. o. e. d. 
A ‘ PEAR WALL 
OTH as a curiosity, and as a 
hint to those residing in the 
“cold north," we give, at 
Fig. 114, an illustration of a 
“ pear-wall," re-engraved 
from the (Loudon) Garden-, 
ere 1 Chronicle. The scene 
depicted is in a Kentish or¬ 
chard, which is 
xaxmn 
SPRING DWINDLING. 
ADDING TO MR. BEECHER’S LIST. 
In a late Rural, the Rev. Henry Ward 
Beecher commended the Primate as one of the 
very best early apples, and as an invitation 
was also given to others to add to it their 
choice until a selection of the best shall be 
completed, here are some others that ought to 
be in every orchard. First comes what was 
called the Rusty Coat in Kentucky. GO yeare 
ago; now called Prior’s Red. Sixty years ago 
we had very few varieties. I l-ecollect that in 
a large orchard planted bv my father three 
prof. a. j. cook. 
The attentive readers of our bee-journals 
have often seen the remark that wintering 
bees, difficult as it often is, is not half as haz¬ 
ardous as "springing them.” As the writer 
in all the years of his experience wnth bees 
has never lost a colony by “spring dwind¬ 
ling.” he feels as though he were competent 
to advise in this matter. 
In the first place, successful spring manage¬ 
ment depends largely on care in wintering. 
If the bees were strong in Autumn, went into 
inclosed by 
a sllb8tautial brick wall, 
oj from eight to twelve feet 
^ higb ' gainst which are 
( CH \ trained about 105 pear trees, 
^ Y principally in oblique cor- 
b dons, though a cousiderablo 
number are trained vertic¬ 
ally. The varieties are principally Windsor, 
Beurre d’Amanlis, Beurrt* 
Hardy, Beurre C’lairgeau, r p - - - 
Beurrtf Bachelier, Beurre /- 
Diel, Beurre Giffard, Beur- if^ ~ 
reGoubalt, BeurreGapiau- ", 
mout, Beurre Berckmaus, 
Louise Bonne de Jersey, 
Doyenne Boussock, Doyen- ^ k ‘• 
ue du Comice, Durandeau, 
Hansel's Bergamotte, Ber- 
gamotbe d'Esperen, Baron 
de Mel to, Josephine de Ma- 
lines, St. Michel Archange, 
Knight’s Monarch, Duch- 
essed’Angouleine, and Pit- 
mastou Duchess. 
Whenever peaches are ist-yy; 
grown out-of-doors iu Eng- 
laud, even in the southern 
counties, they will not 
ripen unless trained 
against a w-all with a pjg' 
southern, southeastern, or 
southwestern exposure, so 
that peaches are frequent - * • 
but the training of pears 
iu this fasliion is, even iu 
England, a curiosity. 
PEARS AND APPLES 
IN CANADA. 
A SUBSCRIBER to the 
Rural living in Vermont 
asks me to give our expe¬ 
rience w ith pears. As the 
Rural always encourages 
us to tell our failures as 
well as our successes, I 
P are cniuea by rhe raw 
J summer stands, they should 
warmly covered, and on 
raw, windy days, discour¬ 
aged from flying by shad¬ 
ing the entrance or the entire hive. Even clos¬ 
ing the entrance on ;sueh days may not be 
amiss, especially if the weather is not warm 
enough to excite them to uueasiness. 
The second point to observe is the use of a 
division board to crowd the bees on to just as 
few frames as they will cover Some of our 
large bee-keepers ridicule this limiting of the 
space iu the brood-chamber, but they are not 
of the number wffio eau boast of wintering 
their bees successfully. Reason suggests chat 
crowding the brood-e ha tuber with bees wall 
secure the warmth so esseutial to rapid breed¬ 
ing, on which everything depends. How can 
a few bees keep an entire hive w'arui, and still 
furnish heat for the rearing of brood? But 
reason stands uot alone, for oft-repeated ex¬ 
periments have shown it pays to limit the 
A PEAR-WALL 
Re-etigraved from the Gardener 
Chronicle, 
varieties constituted the list of winter fruit, viz., 
Newtown Pippiu, Jeuuettiug and the Rusty 
Coat; and if we could have Rawle’s Janet now 
as it was then, ( should place it near the top of 
the list: but it seems to have degenerated in 
quality, while the Newtow n Pippin is still a 
popular variety. The Rome Beauty, too, is a 
pleasant eatiug apple; season, December to 
May* N. A. RANKIN. 
Warren Co., Ill, 
[Mr. Beecher’s idea was to mention fruits 
excelling others for special purposes.—E ds.] 
THE WILD CRAB APPLE AS A HEDGE PLANT. 
Has any one ever tried the wild crab apple 
fora hedge? It will uot spread from the roots, 
is perfectly hardy in auy farming country. 
