The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-05-06
From the .Nelc England Farmer.
GRATING CHERRY TREES.

graft on, as the bark does not split freely, but
tears like cloth. In the spring of 1925, pro-
cured many kinds of plum scions of Capt. Hyde
of Newton, which ! set in March. Scarcely
one failed; and all kinds have borne except the
Canada plum. / also grated many cherries,
which took and lived well. Last spring had
about nine trees headed and grated. The
scions all lived and did we'll, except two trees,
the scions for which were cut or days be-
fore using. Of these none lived. The scions
of cherries, like twigs for budding, ought to be
cut the day they are used. l have the Tarta-
reans, Oxhearts, &c. growing on wild cherries
both the black and red stocks.
My method of grating is this. Take clay,
prepared for all other kinds of grating.
Then proceed in the same manner as in other
cleft grating on the heads or stocks of cherry
trees, using a wide thin shoe knife which
drive down as far as it is intended that the
scion shall 90. This cuts the bark smooth.
The clay must be bound on with rags or tow,
or it will become wet freeze, crack, and crum-
BILE off, and then death is the portion of the
scion. The knife must be wide, thin, and sharp
for grating plum or cherry trees and the clay
kept bound on tight and snug. This being
doIe, and done in season, scions are as sure on
cherry trees as on the apple tree.
Last spring grated my cherry trees the
18th of March. Then it was cool had to
warm the clay in kettle over the fire, and use
above manner of grating to Capt. Francis A.
Pickering. He sent for scions, and followed
my directions in grating the SMALL low, sour,
red cherries. He told me afterwards that they
lived as well as apple scions. Wild cherry tree
stocks should be grated at the ground.
| have peaches, apricots, and mulberres,
grated on plum stocks, | had pears growing
on the hazle or hop hornbine tree, but by mis-
fortune, they were destroyed. | intend bring
ing some scions have never seen advertised,
viz The Warren apple is large, juicy, good
apple, and trust but little known to any dis
lance 1t is the most prolific apple here, bears
well on poor solls and bears yearly. 1t is
large, green, fiat, juicy apple, and keeps till
January. 1t has branchy top, and must not
be grated at the ground. The Mackay Sweet
ing is of all the largest sweet apple for winter,
nearly twice as large as the Baldwin, and of an
orange color The Mammoth Spice is larger
than the Robust Greening, good bearer, of an
beautiful dark striped red, fall apple. The
Star Sweeting is of an orange color, about the
size of the Baldwin, ripe soon after the Sopsa
vines, and good bearer. Roberts Well apple is
larger than the Baldwin, surpasses it in beauty,
and keeps much longer.
Much can be done in identifying the colors
of fruit, by combining nature and art. To
make brilliant red Baldwin, the scions should
be set in trees that bear red apples green or
yellow apple tree stock diminishcs its beauty,
but red tends to beautify the colors of the
Baldwin. | have seen scions taken from one
tree, and set in pale green, and red tree stocks.
The apples they produced bore no resemblance
TO each other on these two trees. / have two
trees near each other, the seions taken at Capt.
Hydes, all of the Robust Greetings; one was
grated in a green, grabbed, late apple, which
bears a remarkably large apple, keeps till Feb
ruary; the other grated into small yellow
sweet apple, very early. This produces yell
lowish green apples about the size of the Bald
win ripe in October, and gone in November
This proves that winter apples will not do well
on early summer stocks.
GRAPE VINES. To all those who are fond of
good grapes, and enough of them, we would re-
commend the Isabella grape, as possessing more
valuable properties than any other with which
we are acquainted 1t is a great bearer, re-
quires no trimming, and is not affected by the
winter and is, after all, more agreeable to most
palates than the foreign varieties, which have
been cultivated with much success. Slips or
cuttings containing three buds, stuck into the
ground, leaving one bud about an inch above
the surface, will take root and grow in almost
any soil, and will bear in four years from plant
ing. The cuttings can be obtained in all the
principal villages and towns in the State. One
vine in full bearing will produce more bushels
of grapes, than half the wild vines do clusters.
Taunton AdoOeate.
CLIMATE OF THE UNITED STATES. The
American Quarterly Review contains some re-
marks on our climate, and the circumstances
which cause its peculiarities. At present, the
distribution of moisture is very equal through
the United States. Forty inches year, fall
in Pennsylvania, which is one third more than
falls in Europe at New Orle IS there fall
nearly fifty inches. The small spell of rain has
been known to extend over eight hundred miles
of our territory. The distribution of heat is
singularly uniform, being the same in August
or midsummer, throughout the entire country
The Difference hotvaan a southerr. suruuIoT
consists in the duration, not in the intensity.
NoRTH-WEsT PASSAGE PROVED BY WHALES
Whales which have been harpooned in the
Greenland seas, have been found in the Pacific
Ocean: and whales with some lances sticking
in their feet, "a kind of weapon used by no ma
ton now known,) have been caught both in the
sea of Spitzbergen and Davis Strait. The fol-
lowing is one of the authorities for this fact,
which of all other arguments yet offered in ia
YOUR Of the transpolar passage, seems to be the
most satisfactory:
A Dutch East India Captain, of the name of
Jacob Cool, Of Sardam, who had been several
times at Greenland, and was, Of course, we'll
acquainted with the nature of the apparatus u.s.
cd in tho whale fishery, was informed by the
Fischal Zeeman, Of India, that in the sea of
Tartary there was a whale taken in the back
of which was sticking Dutch harpoon, mark
cd with the letters w. B. This curious cir
cumstance was communicated TO Peter Jasz
Vischor, probably Greenland whaler, who dis.
covered that the harpoon in question had be.
logged TO William Bactiaanz, Admiral of the
Dutch Greenland aeet, and had been struck
into the whale in the Spitzbergen sea.
CURE TOR THE Gour. The Manchester
Guardian recommends, on the declared expert.
ence Of several gentlemen, the application of
raw Uplands Cotton, as positive relief from