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THE CULTIVATOR 
Oct. 
PRESERVING GRAPES. 
The most common way is to pack them in layers 
with cotton. Sawdust, sand, and even dry maple 
leaves have been successfully used, and the latter is 
said to have answered an excellent purpose, being su¬ 
perior to cotton for its superior cleanliness and freedom 
from the little white fibres which so often adhere to 
the berries and prove so troublesome when cotton is 
employed. 
We have never found any thing to succeed so well 
as filling in the interstices with baked maple sawdust 
—using jars which may be covered air-tight. 
The last number of the Prairie Farmer furnishes 
the results of a number of experiments, performed by 
Jeremiah Price of Chicago, who has tried all the 
modes he could hear of or invent, including packing 
in cotton, leaves, sawdust, wet sand, dry sand, and in 
cans with the air exhausted, and he finds nothing equal 
to dry oak sawdust or dry sand, the former being best. 
He has kept them till the following summer. We ne¬ 
ver succeeded in keeping them so long—solely for the 
reason, undoubtedly, that they were not under lock 
and key. —— 
§3^* When gentlemen address us on their own bu¬ 
siness, they should not fail to pay the postage—espe¬ 
cially if they expect to have their requests attended 
to. 
Asiatic Fowls for Sale. 
KA PAIR BrahmaPootra; per pair..S3 to $5 
OU 50 do. Buff and Red Shanghai; “ .$2 “ $4 
All perfectly healthy and warranted pure bred. Referen¬ 
ces—Dr. John H. Cole and S V. C. Van Rensselaer. 
E. G. STUDLEY. 
Sept. 7—wltmlt. Claverack, Col. Co., N. Y. 
GENEVA NURSERIES. 
T HESE Nurseries are located on the New-York Central 
Rail Road, 50 miles from Rochester, and the same dis¬ 
tance from Syracuse, having every facility for shipping East, 
West, North or South. The attention of those that wish to 
purchase, is invited to the following stock of Fruit and Orna¬ 
mental Trees: 
200,000 Apple, 2 to 4 years—50,000 Cherry, 1 and 2 years— 
5,000 Standard Pears—20,000 Dwarf do.—5,000 Peach, 1 and 
2 years—10,000 Mountain Ash, large size—2,000 Horse 
Chestnut, 5 to 9 ft.—5.000 Balsam Fir, 3 to 6 ft.—500,000 Ap¬ 
ple Seedlings, 2 years—200.000 do 1 year—20,000 European 
Mountain Ash, 1 year—50,000 Arbor Vilce—50,000 Basket- 
Willow Cuttings—50,000 Osage Orange, 1 and 2 years—50,- 
000 Asparagus^Roots—together with a general assortment of 
other stock. W. T. & E. SMITH. 
Sept. 21—wltrnlt* Geneva, N Y. 
Fruit and Ornamental Trees, 
At the New Canaan Nursery^. situated in Neio Cayman ( Ct .) 
3 1-2 yniles from Norwalk R. R. Depot. 
T HE subscribers offer for sale, the coining Autumn and 
Spring, one of the largest stocks of FRUIT TREES in 
New England, carefully grown and propagated by ourselves. 
Our stock consists in part of 40,000 Appple Trees, of 
suitable age and size for transplanting, of the most popular 
varieties. 
15,000 Peach Trees, one and two years from the bud, of 
a healthy origin. 
Also a stock of Pear, Plum, Cherry, Apricot and Quince 
Trees. 
Red Antwerp, Franconia and Fastolff Raspberries. 
ORNAMENTAL TREES, Norway Spruce, Balsam Fir, 
Arborvitae. Scotch Pine, Horse Chestnut, Mountain Ash, 
Larch, and various others. 
50,000 Appple Seedlings, 2 years old. 
Persons wishing to purchase in large or small quantities, 
will find it to their interest to communicate with us. 
STEPHEN HOYT & Co. 
New Canaan, Ct. 
Sept. 1, 1854—wltm2t. 
Choice Poultry for Sale 
B RAHMA Pootra or Chittagongs—Royal Cochin Chinas 
—White, Black, Bull' and Brown Shanghaes—Black 
Spanish and Gold and Silver Polands, all warranted pure 
blood, and of the best importations in the country, or from 
specimens which took the first and second premiums at many 
of the recent exhibitions. 
Fowls to be sent a distance, will be carefully cooped in 
good health and good condition. All orders post-paid. 
Reference, C. W. Godard, Esq., B. B. Kirtland, Esq., 
Albany. GEORGE ANDERSON, 
5G Schuyler st. Albany, N. Y. 
Sept. 1—w&m3m. 
ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY FIVE CENTS. 
I2I.I,IOTT’§ FMIT 
OR, THE AMERICAN FRUIT GROWER’S GUIDE IN 
THE ORCHARD AND GARDEN. 
SENT FREE OF POSTAGE. 
“ A large number of Western apples and other fruits are 
described in this book, which are not found in other works of 
the kind : and the remarks on the selection of varieties for 
Western culture, propagation, management, &c., as far as 
we have had time to examine seem to us judicious and valu¬ 
able. Every nurseryman and fruit grower, especially in 
Ohio and the western States should procure a copy.”—Ohio 
Cultivator. 
But the chief value of the book lies in its practical details 
—in its classifications and specifications of the different varie¬ 
ties, with the peculiarities they present, and the different me¬ 
thods of training they require. This branch of the subject, 
which is very full, is copiously illustrated by drawings.”— 
Phil. North American. 
“ It is a book that every farmer and fruit grower may pro¬ 
fitably read.”—Rochester Daily American. 
“ As Mr. Elliott resides in Cleveland he is much better ac¬ 
quainted with what fruits are adapted to the Central States 
than horticulturists or pomologists who reside on or near the 
Atlantic seaboard. This fact gives the work great addition¬ 
al value to those who are engaged in cultivating fruit in the 
Mississippi valley.”—Democratic Press, Chicago. 
“Elliot’s Fruit Book,” is the most direct and practical of 
any treatise that has fallen under our observation; clear and 
minute in its directions, both as to modes of culture and qual¬ 
ities of the different kinds and varieties of fruit. We recom¬ 
mend its purchase as an investment that will speedily return 
many hundred fold.”—Binghamton Democrat. 
It contains much matter of practical value to fruit growers 
in the new states.—Rural N Yorker. 
“ The great mass of the matter is marked with correctness 
and with much knowledge of fruits, and the work will of 
course stand at the head, so far as its descriptions of West¬ 
ern varieties are concerned ; and as such we strongly com¬ 
mend it to Ihe fruit raising portion of the community.”— 
Country Gentleman. 
“ This work, from the examination we have been able to 
make A^ill probably be found one of the best works on Po¬ 
mology yet published. The author has had the aid of many 
of the best fruit growers of this country, and gives drawings 
of numerous varieties of each class of fruit.”—Am. Farmer. 
“ Mr. Elliott has long been known as a practical horticul¬ 
turist, and as an able writer on pomology.”—Boston Cultiva¬ 
tor. 
“ It embodies all the latest important information pertain¬ 
ing to fruit culture, and we can recommend it as a thorough 
and reliable work—got up for its intrinsic worth, not for spe¬ 
culation.”—Northern Farmer. 
“ Such a book cannot fail to secure a ready and extensive 
sale in every part of the country.”—Godey’s Lady’s Book. 
“ Mr. Elliott is definite in his descriptions, and a man of 
experience in the culture of fruits in the orchard and garden, 
and favorably known.”—Maine Farmer. 
“ Mr. Elliott has rendered au acceptable service to the 
cause of horticulture.”—Practical Farmer. 
“ From what we have seen and read, we cannot hesitate 
in recommending it as in many respects the most complete 
and valuable book of the kind in existence. The descrip¬ 
tions of fruit are full, clear, and methodical; and the illustra¬ 
tions of the best order—not mere outlines—but full, or half 
sectional figures, with cores, seeds, &c., as true to nature as 
we have ever seen. The book cannot fail of being useful in 
a high degree.”—Prairie Farmer. 
“ The author of this work now before us has given us a 
very valuable work on the cultivation of fruits. He was 
amply qualified to do so, having been for ten years engaged 
in “ the nurturing of trees and noting their products.”—Mi¬ 
chigan Farmer. 
C. M. SAXTON Publisher. 
Sept. 27, 1854—wltmlt. 152 Fulton street, New-York. 
