1848. 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
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from which proceeded what I call its roots, like cob¬ 
webs, which adhered closely to and completely covered 
the bark. Last summer, which was moist and warm, 
it spread to some apple trees, (in fact over the apples 
themselves)—plum and mimosa trees and rose bushes, 
and I have no doubt they will all die this summer, as 
the pear limbs attacked in 1846, all died in 1847, the 
bark cracking clean to the wood in young twigs. 
If you know of any cure, you would confer an obliga¬ 
tion on me, and I doubt not many others, by publishing 
it. I should observe that peach trees in the imme¬ 
diate vicinity, entirely escaped. 
North Vickshurgh, Miss. R.^Y. Rogers. 
The blight described in the above communication, 
does not correspond to either the frost blight, or insect 
blight which are known here. 
Budding once more* 
See Vol. 4, p. 339. 
Your correspondent R. T., is right as respects~the mode 
of budding, but appears not to have quite discovered the 
best time to perform the operation. 
In March, 1846, I received by mail from Rochester, 
N. Y., through the kindness of Messrs. Ellwanger 
& Barry, a slip of the “ Northern Spy” apple, which 
when received was quite dry, and showed but a very 
little indication of life. I kept the scion in moist earth 
until the second week in April, when I put the buds, 
(10 of them,) on some young seedling trees, four of 
which grew freely, and made during that summer , about 
10 feet of wood, averaging nearly three feet each tree. 
I used last spring a part of the buds of the growth of 
1846, and have now, from that small beginning, about 
50 trees of that noted variety of apple. 
In August, 1846, I budded several cherry trees, 
which proved almost an entire failure; last April I 
re-budded 50 of the same trees, with buds taken from 
the scions of the Black Tartarian cherry, cut the pre¬ 
vious February, 49 of them grew, some of which made 
the past season upwards of three feet of well ripened 
wood. I advise R. T. to try again as soon as the bark 
separates freely from the wood next spring, using buds 
cut from scions next month, and whether he succeeds 
or fails, communicate the result “ for the Cultivator.” 
I know not how it may prove in New-England, but 
am satisfied that in Illinois, the months of April and 
May are the best for budding. 
For the benefit of some of your western subscribers 
who have abandoned the cultivation of the Quince, un¬ 
der the impression that our soil or climate is not con¬ 
genial to its growth, I remark that the quince may be 
inoculated on either of the varieties of our native thorn, 
and the bud takes freely. I have raised the large 
orange quince on the thorn the second year after the 
insertion of the bud, which was taken from a quince 
tree that had never shown any signs of fruit, although 
upwards of fourteen years old. The quince on thorn 
stocks produces fruit every year, while those on their 
natural roots do not bear any. Several quince-bearing 
thorn bushes may be seen in Mr. Slack’s garden, at 
Lewistown. J. D. Fulton County , III., Jan. 1848. 
Strawberry Runners 
These should be treated as weeds, and kept hoed from 
among the regular rows of strawberry plants. They 
have precisely the same effect upon the crop as the 
same quantity of weeds, and cannot fail to lessen the 
amount, as well as to diminish the quality. A writer 
in the Gardeners’ Chronicle remarks, “ So convinced 
am I of the propriety of cultivating this fruit in separ¬ 
ate and distinct plants, and of cutting off the runners, 
that I have this season taken out a plant between each 
of my plantations, thus making the distance between 
each plant four feet by three, 
Productive Apple-Tree. 
Browne, in his trees of America, says there is an 
apple-tree at Romney in Virginia, which, according to 
Dr. Mease, grew spontaneously from seed, is estimated 
to be fifty years old, and has obtained a height of 45 
feet, with a trunk more than a yard in diameter. In 
1835 it" produced 180 bushels of large fruit, besides 
four or five bushels left under the tree as damaged, and 
several bushels taken by visitors during the course of 
the season—so that the whole amount, in the opinion of 
Dr. Mease, must have been nearly 200 bushels. 
The greatest quantity of fruit borne on a single tree 
in England, in one year, grew in Littlefield, Sussex, 
and produced 74 bushels of fruit—the total weight of 
the crop being nearly two tons. 
Repeated instanees have occurred in Western New- 
York, of trees of the Rhode-Island greening, with little 
or no cultivation, yielding single crops of more than 
forty bushels. 
Bassano Beet 
We observe that A. J. Downing, in a late number of 
his Magazine, describes this fine early beet as “ oval” 
or “ long turnip-rooted.” We have cultivated it for 
several years, the seeds being obtained from different 
sources, and with us it has had invariably a fiat root, 
like that of the flattest turnips, the horizontal diameter 
being usually twice the distance from the crown to the 
tap root. It has proved very early, sweet and delicate, 
and always remarkably productive,—where thickly 
planted, the roots literally touched each other, without 
a diminutive growth. Which is the genuine variety? 
Fruit Stealing. 
Some of our readers will doubtless remember the 
remedy published some time since against fruit stealing. 
James Matthews, Esq. of^Coshocton, Ohio, thus speaks 
of this remedy in a letter to the Ohio Cultivator:—“We 
have found the article published in your last number, 
the best remedy yet known here for fruit-stealers and 
garden robbers. The tartar emetic works finely! A 
good dose will lay a fellow out limber for a while, as 
the sad experience of some here amply proves. It 
also clears out the stomach, prevents chills and fever, 
and creates a distate which very much diminishes thiev¬ 
ing propensities.” 
“ An’ sure, and ye don’t call it stealing, to get over 
and take a little fruit, do ye? Yes, we do, (says iie of 
the Maine Farmer,) and the meanest kind of st< aling, 
too. You wouldn’t walk into that man’s house and 
take his money from his drawer, nor his bread from his 
table; and yet very likely that bread and that money 
have not cost their owner half so much care, half so 
much labor, and are not half so much prized and va¬ 
lued as his fruit.” 
The Curculio repelled. —A. J. Downing, "in the 
Horticulturist, states that on two nectarine trees, (a 
fruit eminently liable to destruction by this insect,) 
standing near a stable yard, not a single puncture could 
be discovered, while others a few rods distant did not 
escape. This effect was attributable to the offensive 
fumes of the manure repelling the insect. The same 
journal contains a communication stating that the writer 
wishing to stimulate some old plum trees, left round 
them for a fortnight, uncovered, a heavy coating of 
fresh horse-manure, during the period of the swelling 
of the fruit. These trees bore fine crops; all others 
were stung, and dropt all their fruit. 
Lamoille Co. Ag. Society, Vt.—Fair at Hyde Park, 
Sept. 20th. Officers for the present year, Ariel Hun- 
ton, President; Samuel Merriam, Noah Robinson, 
Vice-Presidents; L. H. Noyes, Treasurer; C. S. Noyes, 
of Hyde-Park, Secretary. 
