Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-05-27
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From the Albany Cultivator.
MTXTURE OF FRUITS, &C.


y MIXTURE OF FRUITS, &C.
Mr.. Editor-One of your correspond
ents ! perceive puts the following query |
Twill the trees from the stone Of the
peach, plum, cherry, apricot &C., produce
fruit the same quality as did the trees on |
which they grew?'
= From my observation, nature is correct |
and regular. like producing likeness in
the vegetable as in the animal kingdom.
The seeds and stones Of the fruit of
any tree or plant, standing alone and
when the blossoms or the generatlve or
gans in them are imPregnated from its
own genitals, will uniformly produce a
progeny Of trees and plants, which will
produce fruit like the parent tree or plant,
lusns natura excepted
g We set in the same garden, fruit tress
of"ah sorts, and vegetables to produce
seeds of all kinds, near to each other
Those which are in blossom, their bridal
habiliments,) at the same time and of the
same genus, viii cast the pollen from their
stamina or male organs on the pistils or
female organs of their neighbors, and
lIhereby produce hibrids, mules, mulat-
toes.
? l once planted pits of fine yellow gage
plurhs, from tree in nay garden. Two
of the trees produced common blue plums,
nearly alikei one large blue plum. ting
ed with red, late to ripen, and excellent for
sweetmeats,; and one produced a yellow
gage, about half the size of the parent
tree, and OF inferior quality. The parent
tree stood near to blue plum trees, and
the progeny were all hibrids.
planted the Fit of an egg plum from a
garden of plum trees of various Sorts
The egg plum is nearly the size of the
hens egg, yellow, acid, and ripens in
September. and probably the best fol
sweetmeats. The seeding tree produced
plums Of similar color and shape, of less
than half the size of the egg plum, and
ripened the first week in August. The
f1aVor was sweet, except near the stone il
was acid, like the egg plum.
reared peach tree in the same gar.
den. The first season of BEARING. the
peaches were large, yellow, and very fine:
the next season it bore peaches of. red
blush. An early red peach tree stood 0
snort distance east of the tree in question
and l presume the east wind nrevailed
when they were in blossom at one time.
Most persons who have planted the
sweet boiling corn near to the hard vel.
low or white corn, and even fifty rods
apart, have noticed single kernels of the
hard, on the ears Of the sweet corn -
these kernels appear to be wholly of the
hard corn, studded by the side ofthe shriv.
elled sweet corn. So all the other trees
and vegetables mix in the blossoms and
produce new varieties.
Apples are improved in the same wav
or are rendered inferior. The flavor O
choice apples grated on the stocks O
sweet apple trees, is more mild than the
flavor of those grated on stocks bearinn
sour apples.
Ii you plant potatoes of one color anc
kind which were produced near % those
OF another color, you often collect both
colors and sorts from the hill planted O
the one color only. doubted by the con
have said enough to those who oh.
serve the works of nature. to establish ~.
proof of the cause of hibrids and var;e
ties in fruits.
Ii is often asked. which is the best meth.
% TO transplant trees! The most SUE
Ieesstul mode that have prac.ised. ba,
oeen' TO open hole sufficiently wide r.
pelmH the roots to extend in their.natura
PoSl'lon, not 10 be cramped Fill the
mole luil around the tree with drv .nG
loose earth, such as of onion beds n tbe
: garden, and of good quality then dash
IN pail of water, and s6ala ,ha 80
gently. The. water converts ,ha e.
!. earth to liquid mud in the hole aro,,od l ,be
tree the mud will cling to all the roots -, -.
the water will soon sink below, lesv;po,
! the mass of mud compact around thS
: roots, and no cavities of air. Then HI
j up lhe hole again with dry earth. ana
press i gently down.
d !. II the tree is set in dry earth, filed in
" raves vacancies of air under the roots.