THE CULTIVATOR. 
Nov. 
raising hedges. After many years trial, we are satis¬ 
fied it will succeed perfectly in any localities where 
peaches can be raised, or Isabella grapes ripened. 
It is raised from seed, but as thi3 requires skillful 
management, our correspondent will do best to obtain 
the plants from nurserymen, which he can do at five 
or six dollars per thousand. The best way, is to plant 
on the line of a ditch, made for this purpose, filled with 
mellow earth, the ditch keeping the soil dry, and of 
course enabling the plants to withstand the frost 
much better than if soaked with water. 
If kept well an,d constantly cultivated, such a hedge 
will afford protection against cattle and horses in about 
five years, notwithstanding the heading down each 
spring for a few years, aY successive heights, which is 
indispensable to a good and compact hedge. Without 
cultivation, the time required will be much longer. 
Nothing can be better than an Osage hedge for a 
fruit garden, as from the innumerable sharp thorns, no 
fruit-stealer would be likely to undertake more than 
once to pass such a barrier, and he would probably re¬ 
member the effort for a long time. 
W. C. S. Jr., Claremont , IV. H .—We would by no 
means advise you to go to the “celebrated farm,” to 
which you allude, if your object is to learn how “farm¬ 
ing can be made profitable.” You can find much bet¬ 
ter examples nearer home. We are too apt to consider 
things “ far-fetched,” of greater value than those im¬ 
mediately around us. For lessons in practical farming, 
we can refer you to J. W. Colburne of Springfield, 
and to the Messrs. Tufts of Wardsboro, Vt., men who 
can teach you how to farm so as to make the business 
both pleasant and profitable ; and we doubt not but 
that, were we acquainted in your vicinity, we could 
refer you to many others whose instructions would be 
equally useful. —«©»— 
Notices of Fruits. 
Kirtland Pear. —We have been favored by Lew¬ 
is F. Ali^en, of Black Rock, with specimens of this 
fine pear, grown on,his own grounds. They were about 
half the size of those we had formerly seen from Dr. 
Kirtland, doubtless in consequence of the drouth. 
They were found, however, to maintain fully their ex¬ 
cellent flavor, and were quite equal in quality to the 
best specimens of the Gray Doyenne, with rather more 
of the peculiar Seekel perfume. These are the first, 
so far as we know, that have fruited in this state. 
The Ford Apple. —Specimens of the apple, to 
which we have given this name, have been sent us by 
. Daniel Ford of Canaan, N. Y., who has also furnish¬ 
ed a short history. It has been known for some fifty 
years, the original tree standing on the farm of Capt. 
Daniel iovejby, in Canaan, Columbia county, N. Y. 
It is now dead ; while standing it was large and lofty, 
with a thick upright top, and long slender branches. 
It has become extensively cultivated in that and ad¬ 
joining towns. 
The following is a description of the specimens re¬ 
ceived Large; nearly round, usually with a very 
slight conical taper towards the apex;; color a rich yel¬ 
low ; stem long, beat at a sort of joint in the- middle, 
set quite in a shallow cavity; basin small', plaited ; 
flesh yellowish white, solid, moderately tender, with a 
high, rich, rather acid flavor. It is- reported to us as 
ripening successively through • most of autumn, and 
with care may be kept till mid-winter. We cannot, 
speak decisively of its merits from a few specimens, 
but are inclined to think it deserves the-American Bo¬ 
rnological Society r s distinctive character of “very 
good," although too acid to be agreeable to many. It 
is unquestionably a fine stewing apple;; and if a good 1 
bearer , with uniformly fair fruit, (of which we are not 
informed,) it would he doubtless worthy of more ex¬ 
tended cultivation. If our correspondent will send 
grafts this fall or winter, we will distribute them among 
pomologists for a further trial of its merits. 
The Druid Hill Peach. —It has now been seve¬ 
ral years since this valuable late peach has bOrne with 
us, and it has proved uniformly excellent through all 
the varying seasons. It ripens about ibe same time as 
Crawford's Late, and is superior to this, to the Presi¬ 
dent, Morris’ White, and other late peaches, in flavor. 
Average specimens this year measured seven to seven 
and a half inches in circumference, and although the 
stone is small and thin, so thick is the flesh that it 
gives the peach rather an ovate-form—the model form 
for peaches. We have given specimens to different 
pomologists, 'and they have uniformly pronounced it 
the best late peach of its season. This is the sort that 
is placed by Elliott’s late work on fruits, on the reject¬ 
ed list, as unworthy of any cultivation whatever. 
Northern Muscadine Grapes. —We have receiv¬ 
ed two boxes of the fruit of this new variety from E. 
Fowler and P. Stewart, of Shaker village. New 
Lebanon, Columbia county, N. Y. The specimens first 
received were somewhat injured by conveyance, and 
we were unable to judge properly of their merits. The 
second box contained bunches in a good state of preser¬ 
vation, which afforded a more favorable sample of 
their quality. They were earefully examined and com¬ 
pared with fruit of the Diana, and of the Isabella 
ripened on the warm side of a building, but were de¬ 
cidedly inferior to both of these in quality. This sort 
appears to be an improved seedling of tb.e la.rge native 
Fox grape, and is claimed to ripen a month earlier than 
the Isabella; if this is the case, it may prove valuable 
in northern latitudes, especially to those who like the 
peculiar flavor of the Fox grape. When these were 
received, however, the Diana, growing in a wholly ex¬ 
posed situation, (which usually matures two weeks be¬ 
fore the Isabella,) was fully ripe, and is far superior in 
flavor. 
The seedling grape, sent with the above, and desig¬ 
nated “Black Cluster,” (wholly different from the true 
Black Cluster, an old sort,) was not equal to the “ Nor¬ 
thern Muscadine,” and we should think unworthy of 
cultivation, while better sorts are so easily to be had. 
A box 12 inches by 11-2 inches square, and 8 inches 
deep, will contain half a bushel. 
