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THE CULTIVATOR. 
August, 
have had to contend with this season, and they in 
small numbers. In dry seasons, trees of one or two 
years growth, should be occasionally watered in order 
to keep them in a growing condition. I have prac¬ 
ticed this with good success. 
Some attention to trees is wanted in cold as well as 
warm weather. Many who have young orchards, will 
remember the snow storm of October last. While the 
leaves were green on the trees, they became loaded 
with snow and ice, and the consequence was an im¬ 
mense number of trees were nearly destroyed. I per¬ 
ceived what the consequence would be, and went to 
every tree thus loaded with snow and ice, and shook 
it off, and thus preserved my trees from destruction, 
^although before I commenced they were so much bent 
by the weight of snow that the tops came in contact 
with the ground. Out of about 200 trees, I discover¬ 
ed but one small limb broken. 
I would like to know what kind of trees are best 
suited to our climate in this latitude. Will some of 
your readers give their views from personal observa¬ 
tion ? My Rhode Island Greenings so far have made 
the most yigorous growth, and appear the most hardy, 
and both last year and this have borne a considerable 
number of apples. The Baldwins are nearly as large, 
but do not look so hardy, and have as yet borne no 
fruit. Of nine or ten other varieties, the growth and 
appearance are quite different. I give this descrip¬ 
tion of my trees, for the purpose of calling the atten¬ 
tion of others to the subject, who have more experience 
in the business than I have, and also more time and 
talent for writing. As to the theory of planting and 
taking care of trees, we have been pretty well in¬ 
structed ; what we now want is the experience of sen¬ 
sible men, whose knowledge has been obtained by ac¬ 
tual experiment. Those who possess the knowledge 
which would be useful in instructing their brother far¬ 
mers in their laudable efforts to improve the cultiva¬ 
tion of fruit, and publish the same in your papers, 
would receive the thanks of many readers of the same. 
W. M. C. West Hebron, Wash. Co ., N. J. 
Remedy for Poisoned Sheep. 
One of your correspondents asks what is good for a 
sheep when poisoned from eating some vegetable poi¬ 
son—(I presume hemlock, wild parsnip root and other 
kindred poisons.) Doctor Banks uses a mixture of about 
three parts chamberlye to one part liquid camphor. 
Drench soon as the sheep gets down. When the cam¬ 
phor is not at hand, he sometimes uses the urine alone. 
He has cured cases for me that I regarded as hopeless. 
There can be no harm and not much trouble nor ex¬ 
pense in trying it. All that try it as successfully as I 
have, will hardly ever try anything else. 
Were the above remedy universally used, and the 
Doctor and myself to have one tenth of the sheep 
saved by it, that otherways would die 'from ordinary 
or scientific treatment, I have no doubt but we should 
soon have means enough to pay for several head of 
my Friend Jewett’s French Merino sheep, which we 
very much need in this section of country. Hender¬ 
son Co., N. C. 
French Names to Fruits. 
The Prairie Farmer denounces these, and proposes 
reform. A great many of them may as well be re¬ 
formed or removed as not, it is true ; but some of them 
will stick fast, in spite of all the editors and conven¬ 
tions in the country. We shall have to bear them just 
as we do such 'barbarously pronounced French words as 
apropos , depot, beau, amateur, boudoir , reservoir, 
unique, souvenir , debut, eclat, corps, bureau, and fif¬ 
ty others, which most people manage to get through 
their lips without many wry faces. There seems to be 
no remedy for Angoulerne, Aremberg, Clairgeau, &c., 
but why should we retain the prefix of the word 
“ beurre ” to some forty or fifty varieties, when in fact 
this is no designation at all, for hundreds of varieties, 
including nine-tenths of the whole list of pears, pos¬ 
sess more or less of the buttery character. We cannot 
see any advantage the name Beurre d ) Aremberg (or 
as the would-be modish so often blunderingly have it, 
“ Beurre de Aremberg ”) has over the simple appella¬ 
tion, Aremberg ; or that Beurre Bose and Beurre Diel, 
have over the simple names Bose and Diel. Unne¬ 
cessary verbiage, especially in French, ought to be 
repudiated. ■ 
Rive Braces for Fruit Trees. 
Every fruit culturist knows that crotehed trees are 
frequently split apart and nearly ruined when loaded 
with fruit. I have found by experience that this can 
easily be prevented by putting in a live brace or stay 
when the tree is young, to fasten the two prongs or 
stems of the tree together. It is done in the following 
manner : Take a small branch of one of the main 
stems, growing between the two, and cut off the top 
end slanting, similar to a scion prepared for lap graft¬ 
ing ; then make an incision on the opposite stem with 
a sharp-pointed knife or small chisel; then insert the 
top end of said branch and tie it down firmly with a 
woolen string; then cover the wound with grafting 
wax, and the work is completed; remembering to cut 
the string as soon as the brace has grown fast., to pre¬ 
vent it from girdling the tree. This is the best ope¬ 
ration for crotehed trees that I have ever seen tried. 
Elihu Cross. Hoosick, Rens. Co., N. Y. 
The Shakers at Niskayuna, have practiced aays- 
tem of connecting the branches of fruit trees, some¬ 
thing like that described above, for years, and we 
should be greatly obliged if some one of them would 
furnish us with a description of their process, with the 
benefits derived from it. 
BUDDING ROSE BUSHES. 
I take this way to inform all persons who have a 
taste for raising flowers, that they can have a§ many 
varieties of roses as they wish, growing on the same 
bush by budding it in July or August. The operation 
is very simple and is performed in the same way as in 
budding peach and pear trees. I tried the experiment 
last summer on my rose bushes with success. 
Cross. Hoosick, N. Y. 
