THE CULTIVATOR. 
Sckenck’s August Fear. 
Preventing Gooseberry Mildew. 
We have been favored, through A. Fahnestock, 
(of the firm of Thorp, Smith, Hanchett & Co.,) of Sy¬ 
racuse, with fine specimens of this large and fine pear, 
received, as we understand, from the neighborhood of 
Philadelphia. It is a large, yellow, obovate, exceed¬ 
ingly melting pear, of pleasant but not high flavor. It 
is stated to ripen during the lfist half of xlugust—pro¬ 
bably a little later—north of its present locality. Its 
earliness, large size, and exceedingly agreeable quali¬ 
ties, render it, we think, a variety of much value. It 
is supposed to be a seedling of the Virgalieu. The 
specimens had a slight musty taste in consequence of 
the packing. —< 3 *— 
Seedling Plums. 
Mr. E. Dorr of this city, well known for his devotion 
to fruit culture, has favored us with samples of one of 
his seedling plums, which he has named Howard's Fa¬ 
vorite. It is rather large, roundish obovate, with a 
slight neck, stem an inch long, in a small cavity, suture 
indistinct, color a fine rich orange yellow, shaded with 
purplish red, and often with rich reddish purple spots, 
next the sun; flesh rich yellow, somewhat fibrous, ex¬ 
ceedingly juicy, rather rich and sub-acid in flavor, ad¬ 
hering to tbfe rather small stone. S( Good,” or <c very 
good,” not equal in flavor to the best; very agreeable, 
but comparing well with Imperial Gage; shoots smooth. 
New Cherries. 
K. Norris of Bloomingburgh, states that he has tried 
successfully for two seasons, for preventing mildew on 
the gooseberry, the practice of “ transplanting and se¬ 
parating, every March and November,” the bushes in 
bearing, and inquires the cause. Preserving a young 
and thrifty growth by separating, pruning, cutting 
back, and high eulture, is. usually found the best pre¬ 
ventive ; but transplanting would tend to check growth. 
Mildew does not, however, commonly occur on' very 
young bushes in any instance, and probably the means 
we have just mentioned would have been quite as effi¬ 
cacious. Some seasons are more favorable than others, 
when the growth and treatment are otherwise the same. 
Girdling Fruit Trees. 
Can you explain why girdling an apple-tree limb will 
cause it to bear ? C. C. 
In all growing trees, when the sap circulates freely, 
it favors the growth of wood and leaves, hence young, 
vigorous trees mostly produce strong shoots and 
sparingty of fruit; but when the trees are older, the 
vessels become more rigid, and impede the sap, and 
consequently the leaf or wood-buds are changed to 
fruit-buds, and heavier crops are borne. Whatever 
therefore, impedes the flow of sap, favors the production 
of fruit, girdling being one.of these methods. 
Markets, and Cost of Fruit. 
Please inform me through the Cultivator, where I can 
obtain the Great Bigarreau and August Duke, described 
in your August Cultivator. Watson Lowel. Romeo , 
Michigan. 
The Great Bigarreau may be had at the nursery of 
J. J. Thomas, Macedon, N. Y., raised from the origi¬ 
nal tree, and also in quantity, and of large size, of L. 
M. Ferris, of Coldenham, N. Y. The August Duke 
has not, that we are aware, been introduced into the 
nurseries, and we cannot furnish our correspondent the 
desired information. —*§»— 
Transplanting Strawberries. 
Is it beneficial to move strawberry beds directly after 
they have done fruiting ? A friend of mine says he 
has followed the practice with complete success, for a 
number of years. Where can I get some plants of a large 
kind that will hull itself in picking, the berries large 
and productive 7 K. Norris. 
The best time, decidedly, for transplanting stawber- 
ries, next to early spring, is during that comparatively 
dormant season that immediately follows bearing. If 
the old leaves are cut off, and only the half opened new 
ones left, the plants being mudded at the root, the soil 
settled with water, and an inch of manure mulching ap¬ 
plied, to prevent crusting, they will succeed admirably. 
The only strawberry that hulls itself completely in 
picking, is the Alpine and its sub-varieties ; but it is 
small, and commonly but little esteemed on account of 
its deficient flavor. —<>— 
Mr. J. S. Gould has presented us with specimens of 
the Lawton Blackberry, grown in his garden in this 
city. Though grown on vines put out last spring, they 
were of large size, and promise to be very productive. 
It would bo a very interesting inquiry to ascertain 
the actual amount of money paid out by the people of 
the United States for fruit, in those regions where plant¬ 
ing and cultivation would be the only requisites for a 
plentiful supply at all times, and a surplus for market. 
And it would also be worth while, during this investi¬ 
gation, to make a careful estimate of the amount that 
would be likely to be used, if all could obtain cheaply 
in market, or by their own raising, whatever they might 
need—would it not be twentyfold at least the present 
quantity 7 In a single new State, (Wisconsin,) possess¬ 
ing comparatively a small population, and whose people 
do not probably feel disposed to pay heavy sums of 
money for luxuries, it is estimated by F. K Phcenix of 
that state, a gentleman very competent to the task, that 
“ the direct tax, self imposed, for green and dried fruit, 
cannot be less, annually, than $300,000, which even 
then procures not one-twentieth part of a supply.’ 3 We 
hear continual predictions of* a glutted market of fruit 
— when , we ask emphatically, will it come ? At the 
present rate, with the millions of trees set out annually, 
it seems on the contrary, to be constantly receding from 
us, the supply increasing actually less than the still 
more rapidly increasing and enormous demand in every 
direction. —<a>— 
Large Plums and Nectarines. —I have plums 
that measure as follows : Washingtons, six and a half 
inches, Columbias, six inches, and Nectarines six inch¬ 
es in circumference. If there is any one in the Empire 
State that can produce larger plums, I should like to • 
