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THE CULTIVATOR. 
March, 
I Beurre d'Amalis —second-rate. 
Dix —first-rate—long in coming into bearing— 
has sold in Boston for $2 per dozen, or $30 per bush¬ 
el—has rarely fruited in N. Y. or at the West. 
Easter Beurre —variously ranked as first and se¬ 
cond rate—requires ripening in a warm room, after 
being kept cool through the winter—if brought too 
early into the warm room, it shrivels. 
Bleecker's Meadow —from second to fifth-rate. 
Beurre Bose —first-rate. 
APPLES. 
Roxbury Russet —first-rate. 
Hawthornden —second-rate ; first-rate for cooking 
—productive. 
Maiden's Blush —second-rate. 
Rambo —very highly esteemed at the West. 
Rawle's Jannette —highly esteemed at the West or 
SouthWest—blooms very late, and hence escapes 
spring frosts, and a constant bearer—a long keeper 
■—has kept in Kentucky till past midsummer. 
Root-Grafting Large Stocks. 
In grafting upon large two-year stocks, half an 
inch or more in diameter, must the graft be placed on 
one side of the stock so that the bark on one side of 
each may match? Would you in such case prefer a 
cleft graft to a splice? D. Herkimer Co., N. Y. 
In all cases of 
grafting common 
fruit trees, the line 
between the bark 
and wood must coin¬ 
cide at some point in 
both stock and graft. 
Hence it becomes ne¬ 
cessary to place the 
graft at one side. As 
we receive frequent 
inquiries on this sub¬ 
ject, we give the an¬ 
nexed figs, to make 
the operation plain; 
where a is the large 
two-year stock, slo¬ 
ped and tongued for 
the reception of the 
graft b, which is also 
prepared with a cor¬ 
responding slope and 
tongue. The mode 
by which the two are 
joined by being firm¬ 
ly locked together, is 
shown in c. To fa¬ 
cilitate the wrapping 
of the wax-plasters, 
one side of the stock 
and its upper point are pared off with the knife, as 
shown in a, where the dotted line shows the origi¬ 
nal or full size of the face, after the first cut is 
made. 
This mode is better than cleft grafting, on account 
of the close contact effected by cutting the faces of 
the tongue, instead of splitting them as more com¬ 
monly practiced in cleft grafting; by the greater ex¬ 
pedition with which it is performed; and by the 
greater ease with which the plasters or wax may be 
closely fitted. 
Camellias. —Ghent is somewhat remarkable for 
its nurseries and gardens; the Gardener's Chroni¬ 
cle says there are orders from England alone, ave¬ 
raging from 10,000 to 20,000 plants annually. 
Root-Grafting. 
The Diana Grape. 
This new seedling American grape, which origi¬ 
nated near Boston, appears now to have been fully 
tested, and has recently been figured and described 
in the Horticulturist and in Hovey's Magazine. 
The former work describes it as “ superior to the 
Isabella and Catawba,” and 11 the best of Ameri¬ 
can Grapes,” “ ripening a week or ten days before 
the Isabella.” It is of a pale red color, with less 
pulp and more juice than the Catawba, more deli¬ 
cate, and less of the peculiar wild taste of the na¬ 
tive grape. It is an abundant bearer. 
The Diana Grape. 
The following is the description in Hovey f s Ma¬ 
gazine :—“ Bunch medium size, about four inches 
long, without shoulders ; berries medium size, round, 
closely set, forming a compact cluster, of a delicate 
pale red color, with a greyish bloom, not so dark as 
the Catawba; flesh with scarcely any pulp, juicy, 
rich and vinous, with a high, delicious flavor. Seeds 
generally two, rather small. Ripe from a week to 
ten days before the Isabella.” 
Cultivating Dwarf Pears. —Every intelligent 
fruit raiser is aware of the necessity of cultivating 
and manuring the soil well, for dwarf pear trees. 
S. B. Parsons states that he has 1700 trees on four 
acres—that he applied to this orchard last spring, 
$150 worth of manure, and gathered in the autumn 
275 bushels of potatoes, 30 tons sugar beets, and a 
large quantity of turneps and cabbages—paying 
the expenses of manure and cultivation, and giving 
the pear trees a vigorous impulse. 
