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well for some time when set in the soil of the surround¬ 
ing hills. After several trials, he concluded to raise 
his trees from seed on land of the same kind on which 
they were to stand. For this purpose he appropriated 
a part of a field lying on the side of a hill, the soil 
rather thin and slaty, to a nursery. He has succeeded 
in growing apple, pear, plum, and cherry trees on this 
land, by keeping it entirely clear from weeds, without 
manure. They are healthy, well-shaped stocks, the 
wood sound and well seasoned, and of sufficient size 
for their age. We noticed some plum stocks of the pre¬ 
sent year’s growth that were over five feet high, and 
some pears which had grown nearly as much. The 
trees so produced, are transplanted at the proper time, 
and suffer no check in growth. They are more hardy 
and thrifty than those taken from the flats. 
Grafting the Pear on the Mountain-Ash.— 
Mr. Tomlinson has tried this repeatedly, but it does 
not succeed. The graft outgrows the stock, and after 
a few years declines and dies. 
Nomenclature of Fruits. —In order that the Po- 
mological nomenclature may be amended, where errors 
exist, I send you annexed a list of names of Pears that 
still exist in the American catalogues, which are mere¬ 
ly synonyms of the true and established names; and 
being consequently mere repetitions, their use serves 
only to mislead and create confusion. I have not in¬ 
cluded any of the synonyms that are enumerated in 
Downing’s work on Fruits, that being deemed super¬ 
fluous, save in the few instances where an asterisk (*) 
is attached, and in which that gentleman has been in¬ 
advertently misled—the corrections of which will, no 
doubt, be made by himself in the forthcoming edition 
of his work. Wm. R. Prince. Lin. Bot. Garden and 
Nurseries , August 25, 1847. 
* Angora, 
Beaumont, 
Belle Heloise, 
- de Berry, 
Bernard, 
Beurre Ananas, 
- Aurore, 
- Blanc de Nantes, 
- Bruneau, 
- Chaptal, 
- de Noirchain, 
- de Waterloo, 
- Lefevre, 
* -- Piguery, 
- Royal. 
- Thouin, 
Bezi de Caen, 
Bonaparte, 
Bonehretien de Bruxelles, 
- d’Auch, 
- Napoleon, 
-- sans pepins, 
Bourgmestre, 
Bowdoin, 
* Capsheaf, 
Captifde St. Helene, 
Chenille, 
* Charles d’Autriche, 
* Charles of Austria, 
De Livre, 
Doyenne d’hiver nouveau, 
- d’Alencon, 
Due de Bordeaux, 
Duchesse de Berry, 
- d’ete, 
--d’mver, 
Esperin, 
Fourguois, 
Glory of Cambrone 
Gros Rateau gris, 
Great King Louis, 
Grosse Angleterre, 
Henkell, 
Howland’s Winter, 
Long Green Swiss, 
Louise de Bologne, 
Le Cure, 
Maria Louise bis, 
Melon de Namur, 
Monsieur, 
Mouthwater, 
Moorfowl Egg, of Boston , 
Mouille bouche, 
Noirchain, 
Oken d’hiver, 
Orpheline d’Engheim, 
Petite Cuisse Madame, 
Poire de Louvain, 
-de M. Bonnet, 
- Neill, 
* Pitts’ Prolific, 
- Marie Louise, 
* - Surpasse Marie, 
Prucelle de St. Onge, 
Roi de Louvain, 
- de Rome, 
Sabine, 
Sans pepins, 
St. Nicholas, 
Shakspeare, ' 
Sold at Laboureur, 
Sublime gamotte, 
Sylvanche verte, 
Surpasse Marie, 
* -Louise, 
Trois Jours, 
Turkish Bonehretien, 
Webber’s Autumnal, 
Waterloo, 
Winter Virgalieu. 
Rose Bugs. — I have been looking over the last three 
volumes of the Cultivator to see if I can find any in¬ 
formation in regard to keeping rose bugs from vines or 
plants. 1 do not find anything to answer our purpose. 
The way rose bugs have increased for a few years past 
is a caution” in the full sense of the word. Formerly 
we scarcely saw enough to notice them, but this year 
they came upon us almost like the locusts upon Egypt. 
Not* 
But though they did not eat all the “ herb of the land 
and every green thing,” yet they were not very fastidi¬ 
ous in respect to their diet. We have some fine Isa¬ 
bella grape vines in our garden, and from their appear¬ 
ance we anticipated a crop of about ten bushels; but 
we shall hardly get twice as many bunches. The bugs 
“ came and destroyed them all.” We resorted to va¬ 
rious expedients as preventives, but in vain. A steep 
of tobacco—half a pound of tobacco boiled in a gallon 
of water, and when cold sprinkled over the leaves, had 
no perceivable effect. To pick them off would have 
been impossible—for if out in the field while they were 
flying about, you might stand still for hours, and hard 
work you would have to keep yourself clear of them. 
I think I took a pint from one rose bush one morn¬ 
ing, and in a few hours they would not have been 
missed. Besides eating grape blossoms and leaves, 
and roses—or rather rose buds (for a full blown rose 
was seldom found)—they eat clover blossoms, bean, 
corn, briar, and apple tree leaves, and even apples and 
peaches after they became as large as walnuts. From 
their first appearance to the time they disappeared was 
about three weeks. If they increase as much for two 
years to come as they have for two years past, I don’t 
know but they will equal the locusts in their devasta¬ 
tions. If you, or any of your numerous readers, know 
of any remedy, making it known in the Cultivator 
would confer a great benefit on one if not many of your 
subscribers. W. L. Eaton. Last Ware, N. H. t 
Aug. 7, 1847. . 
Starting Buds too soon. —A correspondent in the 
Genesee Farmer , thinks he has made a discovery by the 
acccidental breaking off of the stock just above the in¬ 
serted bud, which caused the bud to grow immediately. 
He will probably discover next spring that the winter 
has totally killed the shoot, if it is a peach, apricot or 
nectarine ; and by the end of another summer, that he 
has gained nothing in growth, if hardy, like the apple, 
a few inches growth this year, rather stunting than ac¬ 
celerating growth. 
Watermelons. —A Trenton correspondent of the 
Horticulturist , says the best watermelon he has ever 
seen, is a round thin-rinded sort, known as the Imperial. 
The Black Pear of Worcester. —Cheever New- 
hall, of Dorchester, Mass., says that one of his neigh¬ 
bors, who cultivates this pear largely, bas realized for 
several years past, ten dollars per barrel, for his whole 
crop, by shipping them abroad. The tree bears heavy 
crops. 
The Harvard Pear. —The original tree of this va¬ 
riety is standing at Cambridge. The trunk 4 ft. above 
the ground, mersures 4 ft. 2 inches in circumference. 
The Baldwin Apple. —This fine apple does finely 
in western New-York, which has a climate much simi¬ 
lar to that of Massachusetts ; but at Cleveland, Ohio, 
it suffers from specks of black or dry rot. like those so 
common in the Pennock. 
Varieties of Pears. —T. Rivers, of the celebrated 
Sawbridgeworth nursery, England, has about 900 vari¬ 
eties of the pear, under trial. Robert Manning, of 
Salem, Mass., has about 800. Probably not forty of 
all of them are fully first-rate, or worthy of extensive 
cultivation. 
Confusion. —A. Bryant, of Princeton, Ill., states 
that four different varieties of apples have been sold 
there as Esopus Spitzenburgh, and it is still doubtful 
if they have the genuine. 
Pcenias. —The four most splendid pcenias are per¬ 
haps the Whitleii, Humei, Pottsii, and Reevesii—the 
first white, the second deep rose, the third dark crim¬ 
son, and the fourth fine rose—all very large and double, 
the flowers five to seven inches in diameter. 
