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sunny side of branches, while those which were thawed 
gradually on the shaded side has escaped. 
H. E. Hooker, of Rochester, had known peaches at 
Montreal, where the thermometer not unfrequently falls 
to 20° or more below zero, saved by the simple protec¬ 
tion of a mat [which could not have increased the warmth 
of the air, but only prevented radiation, and excluded 
the sun’s rays.] He remarked that budded trees con¬ 
sisted of nothing but selected seedlings, and that he had 
usually found them to endure the cold best. 
C. M. Hovey thought budded trees the hardiest, be¬ 
cause they usually consisted of such varieties as were 
of strongest growth. 
P. Barry had known native seedlings, standing for 
many years in grass, loaded with heavy crops, when, had - 
they been cultivated, they might have been barren. This, 
C. M. Hovey ascribed to the well ripened, and not suc¬ 
culent growth which they acquired. He considered some 
varieties as hardy and others as tender, entirely inde¬ 
pendent of the influence of budding. 
A list of those sorts which were hardiest, and which 
bore most uniformly and abundantly after severe winters, 
being called for, C. M. Hovey named the following:— 
Yellow Rareripe, Cooledge’s Favorite, Bellegarde and 
Oldmixon Free. Several gentlemen from western New- 
York named the Early Barnard, or Alberge, of that 
region, as being eminently hardy and uniformly produc¬ 
tive. John Morse, of Cayuga Bridge, had found Jac¬ 
ques’ Rareripe to be the hardiest and best peach for mar¬ 
ket out of some forty sorts, and Early Barnard next. J. 
J. Thomas named Fay’s Early Ann, which he had fruited 
for eight years, as one of the most uniformly productive 
of early peaches; in two different years, when the Tillot- 
son and Serrate Early York had nearly failed, this had 
borne good crops. The present very unproductive sea¬ 
son, the White Imperial has also borne fully. 
j 2 list of such pears as had grown well on quince 
stocks, and had borne good crops for several years with¬ 
out exhausting the tree, was next called for, and the 
following proposed, without objection:— 
Louise Bonne of Jersey, Vicar of Winkfield, Glout 
Morceau, Beurre Diel, Angouleme, White and Gray 
Doyenne, Napoleon, Beurre d’ Amalis, Easter Beurre, 
Soldat Laboreur, Long Green of Autumn, and Striped 
Long Green of Autumn, Henry IV, Summer Frankreal, 
Bergamotte Cadette, Madeleine, Beurre d’ Anjou. Ur¬ 
banist e, and Doyenne Boussock. 
The Results of Manure on a Pear Tree. 
In a late number of Moore’s New-Yorker, Linus Cone, 
of Oakland co., Michigan, informs us of an interesting 
experiment with high manuring. Twenty-five years ago 
he planted a Summer Bonchretien Pear tree, the culture 
of which, after a few years, was neglected. The fruit 
at first was fine, specimens often weighing nearly a pound 
each, but afterwards grew gradually smaller, till nearly 
worthless. The tree was then well pruned, washed with 
lye, the ground well spaded, with no improvement. Last 
spring, twenty bushels of manure from a blacksmith- 
shop, consisting of dung, parings of hoofs, cinders, kc., 
was spread and dug in. Twenty bushels of fine, high- 
flavored fruit, was the result, the same season. 
Dwarf Pears for Marketing. 
A correspondent inquires if it would be profitable to 
set out a thousand dwarf pear trees, with a view to mar- 
keting purposes. The answer must be—If such sorts are 
selected as have been found durable on the quince; and 
if good and enriching cultivation is given them—they 
would probably prove quite profitable. They should be 
trained as half standards, that is, with heads on bare 
trunks about two feet high. This will prevent the dan¬ 
ger of the lower limbs being split off by deep snow, and 
the only pruning they will require will be a thinning of 
useless shoots once a year, and preserving a neat ovate 
shape to the heads 
It must not be forgotten that the roots of the quince, 
being smaller and in a more compact circle than those of 
the pear, need a better supply of the elements of fertili¬ 
ty, if the tree is expected to receive its due amount of 
nourishment. Hence, constant and enriching cultivation 
must be given. 
Among those sorts which have proved durable up¬ 
on the quince, are Louise Bonne de Jersey, Stevens’ 
Genesee, Angouleme, Glout Morceau, Passe Colmar, 
Easter Beurre, Beurre d’Amalis, Diel, Doyenne Bous- 
souck, &c. Many other varieties will grow freely on 
quince for a few years, but the first good crop of fruit, 
(even on double worked trees.) exhausts the trees, and 
they soon languish and die. 
There is one great drawback on the profits to be ex¬ 
pected from an orchard of dwarfs, or of any other pears; 
this is the danger of loss from fire-blight, which to some 
cultivators, has resulted in as heavy loss as would have 
been the destruction of their dwellings by fire. Cultiva¬ 
tors of the pear should form themselves into a mutual 
insurance company, for security against this loss. 
The inquiry whether dwarf apple trees can be made to 
afford profitable crops for market, cannot by any means, 
be answered so favorably. A tree ten years old will not 
yield perhaps a tenth part of the crop from an equally 
well treated standard. We have indeed known a dis¬ 
tinguished cultivator to give the opinion, (we shall not 
say it is strictly correct,) that taking all circumstances 
into consideration, the average cost of apples from dwarf 
trees, as now cultivated, is about five dollars per bushel. 
They can be regarded only as curiosities—fancy articles 
of which they afford sometimes very interesting speci 
mens. 
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English Strawberries. —A writer in the Gardeners' 
Chronicle gives his views in relation to some new and 
highly lauded strawberries. The British Queen, which 
has long since established its own reputation as the head 
of the list, he regards as the best sort in cultivation, 
being equal to any in size, superior to all large kinds in 
flavor, productive 11 if liberally treated ,” and the fruit 
of which every body must take two bites. The Black 
Prince he has rejected; the Goliath, “acid, insipid, 
coarse, very large, shy bearer;” the Bicton White, 
“ only valuable for its color.” Myatt’s Eleanor is pro¬ 
nounced disagreeably acid for the dessert, and only use¬ 
ful on account of its lateness; Myatt’s Globe, good and 
useful but not equal to Eliza and British Queen; Myatt’s 
Mammoth, only for display. “ magnificent in appearance, 
but horrible in flavor.” Prince Arthur, “ useful—as 
hard as a cricket ball, and will bear packing well.” 
