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THE CULTIVATOR. 
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attempt to pass it, and the boy who should pre¬ 
sume to do so would probably remember the en¬ 
counter for years. But the plants are more diffi¬ 
cult to raise or transplant, and they are too ten¬ 
der for the extreme north, but-are quite hardf 
enough for the climate of Kelloggsville. or any 
other place where the peach tree is not killed by 
winter. Shearing and compact growing, makes it 
much hardier than under ordinary circumstances. 
The American Arbor Vitce (or white cedar of 
Western New York,- but not the true white ce¬ 
dar,) is an excellent hedge plant, as it forms, by 
shearing, a dense wall of verdure, both in winter 
and ih summer, through which domestic animals 
are not tempted to pass. This and the Buckthorn 
would be best for marshy ground. 
Before planting a hedge, the ground should be 
sub-soiled and trench plowed a foot and a half 
deep, and well enriched with manure, thoroughly 
incorporated with harrowing. We have known 
hedges to linger along for ten years, before reaching 
maturity, which would have been efficient in four 
years, by deep soil and good tillage. Select the 
plants in such a manner that those of nearly equal 
size may be together, and then the large will not 
overtop and check the small ones. The distance 
should be about six or eight inches in’the row—the 
tops should be cut off to about three inches of the 
ground—the fine roots well spread out, and care¬ 
fully filled in with fine earth—and the roots, be¬ 
fore getting, kept constantly moist by a covering 
pf earth. 
The plants being cut otf to within three inches 
of the earth, will sprout up thickly at the bottom 
of the hedge; the next spring the shoots are to be 
again cut off within six inches of the previous 
year’s cut; the third year eight inches, the fourth 
year a foot, &c., which will give the whole hedge 
a thick matted texture, like wool in felt, so that if 
a portion of it is shaken by the hand, it will shake 
rods of it on either side. One great leading cause 
of failure in making hedges, is that the owners 
“ can’t bear’ 7 to cut down the fine thrifty shoots, 
according to these directions, and consequently 
they grow up long-legged, and full of jfig holes* 
helow. We have also seen some otherwise good 
Buckthorn hedges much injured by being left 
broad at the top-, shading the lower portions,' in¬ 
stead of shearing up to a sharp peak at top. 
Hedges will never succeed well under the dense 
shade' of large trees. Cultivation during their 
growth, is as necessary as for a field of corn—the- 
earth must be kept clean and mellow on each side.. 
“ I shall look with eager interest to the Horticultural 
Department. Although there is a list of fruit recom¬ 
mended for general cultivation, for instance about forty 
pears, I know not which is the best. If a person 
wishes 2,0 of the best varieties, how shall he deter¬ 
mine?' X ho$e your paper will give the information de¬ 
sired. Samuel Burritt.” Union Vale, Susquehan¬ 
na Co., Pa., March 12, 1853. 
The following list comprises twenty excellent pears, 
and if a smaller selection is wanted, those in italics may 
be taken as the best of the twenty: Madeleine, Doy¬ 
enne d’ Ete, Osband's Summer, Golden Bilboa, Bostie- 
Ter, Tyson, Bartlett, Washington, Flemish Beauty. 
White Doyenne, Louise Bonne of Jersey, Beurre Bose, 
Autumn Paradise, Beurre d’ Anjou, Dix, Fulton, 
Wlnkfield, Glout Morceau, Doyenne gris d’ Hiver, Ea¬ 
ster Beurre. -- 
Quince Stocks—-Foreign Grapes for Market.— 
I wish to inquire if quince stocks raised from seed of the 
common quinefe, will answer to bud the pear on. 
Also, whether raising the Black Hamburgh and other 
foreign grapes under glass, can be made profitable for 
market. An answer to these will oblige H. A. 
The common or Orange Quince, for most varieties of 
the pear, does not succeed so well as the French Quince 
some sorts, indeed, that succeed welLfor a time on the 
latter, absolutely refuse to grow on the former. There 
are, however, a few pears, that are so much at home on 
quince stocks, as to succeed nearly or quite as well on 
the common quipce as on any other, among which we 
may name the Louise Bonne of Jersey and Angouleme. 
With regard to grape-houses for marketing, our own 
observations lead to the conclusion that on a large scale, 
systematically and skillfully conducted near a large city 
market, raising the Black Hamburgh may afford a fair, 
but not heavy profit. In ordinary cases it pays expen 
ses, affords the family a beautiful luxury, and the grape 
house is an attractive ornament. 
The Augusta Rose. 
This rose, which has been described in former 
volumes of the Horticulturist, is this spring for the 
first time offered to the public, by its proprietors, 
Messrs. Thorp, Smith, Hanchett & Co., of Sy¬ 
racuse. It was raised from seed gathered in the 
garden at Mount Vernon, by Hon. James Mat¬ 
thews, M. C. of Ohio, who, finding it to be su¬ 
perior to any rose with which he was acquainted, 
and believing it to be worthy of extensive propa¬ 
gation, presented it to Mr. Fahnestock, one of 
the above firm, who have'propagated it for two or 
three years past, and found it to equal the high 
encomiums given to it by Mr. M. Great asis the 
list of roses already enumerated in the catalogues 
of our nurserymen, we are inclined to think the 
11 Augusta” w’ill prove a very valuable acquisition; 
It is represented by those w'ho have seen it in the 
grounds of the proprietors at Syracuse, as a vari¬ 
ety of rare, and in some respects, unequalled ex¬ 
cellence—a climber of rapid and vigorous growth, 
with rich foliage, and a profuse and perpetual 
bloomer. The flowers are a fine yellow, deeper 
than the Cloth of Gold, and of a delicious fra¬ 
grance, not surpassed by the^ finest of the Tea 
roses With such qualities it cannot fail to be a 
universal favorite. ■ 
Influence of Unfrozen Lakes. —The influence 
of large unfrozen bodies of water, in softening the se¬ 
verity of sharp frosts in winter, is familiar to intelligent 
cultivators pf fruit and tender plants. An interesting 
example is given by Dr. Kirtland of Cleveland, in a 
late number of Silliman's Journal. At his residence, 
half a mile from the south shore of Lake Erie, the tem¬ 
perature of the air has in no instance in ten years, fall-, 
en below zero; while at Columbus, Marietta, and Cin¬ 
cinnati, lying from one and a, half to two and a half de¬ 
grees further south, the thermometer frequently sinks 
to 5° and occasionally to 10° below zero. 
Compost to Prevent Potato-Bot. —T. A. Smith, 
of Syracuse, has published in the Bural New-Yorker, 
an account of a successful experiment in preventing 
potato rot. He purchased two bushels of refuse pota¬ 
toes, of the long pink-eye sort, a variety very liable to 
rot, and in planting them, put about half a pint of the 
following compound into each hill:—One part of gyp¬ 
sum, three parts hen manure, four parts charcoal, and 
ten parts <f salt ashes,” (unleached ashes from the salt 
works, supposed to contain 5 to 10 per cent of salt.) 
Half the eyes had been destroyed by the rot—the soil 
was gravelly loam resting on dry sub-soil, and the crop 
suffered some from drouth. The result was 12 bushels 
of medium sized potatoes, with every tuber sound. 
