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THE CULTIVATOR. 
March 
Gravenstein, Rhode Island Greening, Tallman Sweet¬ 
ing. 
(2.) Like many others of our finest apples, it is some¬ 
times very slightly affected, but on the whole few are 
more free from the bitter-rot, so far as yet tried. 
(3.) If compelled to choose between them, we should 
take the Red Canada. Its flavor is more agreeable, 
though scarcely so rich as the Spitzenburghj and al¬ 
though a slender grower, bears better. 
(4.) We have no knowledge on the repelling influence 
of salt on this grub. If it has a cuticle like that of the 
cabbage-grub, salt cannot affect it much, as some years 
ago in an experiment to save the cabbages, it was found 
after having eaten its fill, to be reposing unhurt in the 
bed of salt encircling the plant, with all the indifference 
of a philosopher. 
(5.) Norton’s Elements of Scientific Agriculture. 
Fruit Trees To Supply a Family. —“ How many 
trees, and in what proportion for the different kinds, 
would be a fair number to supply a family of ordinary 
size, with a good supply of fruit?” P. W. 
This is a question which admits of a great many an¬ 
swers, as the domestic habits of a family, nature of the 
locality, soil, treatment, fcc., may vary. Rut taking 
the different circumstances at a fair average, and admit¬ 
ting that good cultivation is to be given, one hundred 
trees ought to be sufficient. With carelessness or inat¬ 
tention, two hundred might not be enough. 
A family should be supplied with fresh fruit through¬ 
out the whole yearly circle, and therefore there should 
be a large proportion of long-keepers, which are only 
to be found among the pears and apples. If the varie¬ 
ties are well selected, and with a proper distribution for 
a succession in ripening, the following numbers of each 
would probably effect the desired purpose as well as 
any: 
30 apple trees, 
20 pear trees, 
12 peach trees, 
10 cherry trees, 
10 plum trees, 
6 apricots, 
4 nectarines, 
5 quinces, 
3 grape vines. 
If, in addition to the above, a few square rods were 
occupied with strawberries, raspberries, and currants, 
they would afford a good supply of most grateful delica¬ 
cies through the first half of summer. 
Mice. —A correspondent wishes to know the best way 
to protect trees which have been laid-in in quantities 
for the winter, from the mice. After trying various 
modes, the following has proved best—set the trees in 
an upright or perpendicular position, either on the sur¬ 
face of the ground or in a slight hollow, and then bank 
up round the stems on all sides. The mice will never 
climb the sides of a steep mound of fresh earth, and the 
trees will be safe. Where trees are annually to be thus 
preserved, a bed of peat drawn on purpose will enable 
the workman, from its lightness, to cover the roots in a 
fourth part of the time required with common soil. 
Western Horticultural Review. 
No American city is advancing more rapidly towards 
maturity in horticultural knowledge and enterprise, than 
the metropolis of the Ohio Yalley. An index to this 
progress is furnished by Dr. Warder’s excellent Horti¬ 
cultural Review, published at that place. Judging from 
the second number, the only one seen, it must stand in 
the first rank of periodicals of its kind. The present 
number is largely occupied with a well prepared and 
minute account of the late rich and varied exhibition of 
the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, and it also contains 
several valuable original articles from the editor and 
correspondents. Although particularly adapted to the 
region of the west, it cannot fail to prove interesting to 
amateurs in all parts of the country. Its mechanical 
execution is in keeping with its general character, ex¬ 
hibiting much neatness and taste. 
A few pomological notes, derived from its pages, may 
prove interesting: 
Diana Grape. —It appears that the Diana Grape, 
classed by many eastern cultivators as the best American 
variety, is not regarded with great favor by Cincinnati 
pomologists. In common with C( forty others,” the 
editor renders his condemnation of this sort, when com¬ 
pared with the rich and melting Catawba, as it becomes 
when ripened under the hotter suns of southern Ohio, 
and thus far exceeding in quality the same Catawba as 
usually ripened in the eastern and more northern States. 
He therefore recommends his friends not to purchase 
too largely—or to purchase the Catawba, already so 
well proved in that region, “ of which they can procure 
one thousand roots, instead of one, for their five dollar 
bill”—one year Catawbas having been actually sold so 
low in some instances, where it is cultivated so largely. 
Kentucky Apples. —Among those highly commend¬ 
ed, are the Bohanon, a delicious, yellow, autumn apple, 
ripening at the close of summer in Kentucky; the Fall 
Queen, known also as the Horse Apple, a mid-autumn 
fruit ■ and Pryor’s Red and Rawle’s Janet—“ neither 
of the two latter,” it is observed, “ appear to be known 
in the eastern States.” Pryor’s Red has repeatedly 
fruited in Western New York, where it proves to be a 
fine apple, but much smaller in size and less reddened 
than the Kentucky specimens, and considerably resem¬ 
bles in quality and flavor the Westfield Seeknofurther. 
Saving the Peach Crop. —It often happens that 
throughout the Ohio valley, the peach crop is destroyed 
by the frosts of spring, after the warm weather has 
rendered it liable to the disaster by an early growth. A 
correspondent mentions the case of several young peach 
trees which were incidentally severely root pruned, by 
digging a grape border within two feet of the trees, the 
buds of which did not burst until a week after those in 
orchards. He therefore proposes root pruning as a 
security against this destruction. Further north and 
east, where the peach crop when it fails is nearly always 
destroyed by the intense frost of winter, this remedy 
will perhaps be of less importance. 
The Chaumontel Pear. —The editor of the Genesee 
Farmer, who has given this pear considerable trial, and 
who considers it equal to any early winter variety, states 
that it will not succeed in the latitude of Rochester, 
