Nebraska advertiser., 1856-07-05
,farrnrs' Department.
FRUIT AND FRUIT TREES OF THE WEST
From az YnlIeY Farmer.

a condensed account of extensive OBJ
servation on the effect of the past
winter on fruit trees at the west, will
be valuable to our readers. Results
have varied with a variation Of causes,
but these, on the whole, do not greatly
differ from the effects generally OBJ
served throughout the west.
The severe effects Of the cold Of last
winter upon fruit and fruit trees are
without a parallelin the history Of this
country. During the most intense cold
the mercury sunk to about thirty de-
grees below the zero of Fahrenheit.
The more tender varieties of fruits,
as peach, nectarine, and apricot, are
, generally killed to the ground.
Ounces are generally killed. The
more hardy varieties Of fruit, rs apple
and pear, have suffered far less on high
, rolling land, than the same on level
d. soil.
Young trees from Eastern nurseries
: have Jared as well or even better than
those reared from. seed in our vicinity.
= Dwarf apple, and pear trees have
. almost entirely escaped.
In an orchard of owe four hundred
dwarf pear trees, including almost
every variety recommended by Down
ing, Ihave not had more than three or
four killed, and these were all the sum
mer Franc-Real. 1 only lost one dwarf
apple, and it was on a wet piece of
land. The Yellow Belle Flower, Lady
Apple, Fameuse, and Herefordshire
Pearmain, appear to have entirely es-
capped in every locality. The following
varieties of apples have not been seri-
ously injured, except on lands decided
ly wet, viz:
American Summer 'Pearmain, Red
Astrachan, Benoni, Princes Harvest,
Early Strawberry, Golden Sweeting,
q. Keswich Goblin, Autumn Strawberry,
Cooper, Duchess of Oldenburg, Feiner,
Hawley, Lowell, Maiden Blush, st.
Lawrence, Bailey Sweet, Yellow Belle
Flower, Belmont, Danvers Winter
Sweet, Dutch Mignone, Fameuse,
Green Sweet, Hubbardston None Such,
Lady Apple, Lady's Sweet, Mother,
Newtown Pippin, Golden usset, Spitz-
enburg, Talman's Sweeting WAGNER.
Coles Ounce, Genesee Chief, Scarlet
Pearmain, and Wells Sweeting.
The following varieties have been
severely injured, and in many cases
killed outright, viz:
Large Sweet Bough, Summer Rose
Fall Pippin, Williams Favorite, Drar
dor, Gravenstein, Hawthordon, jersey
Sweet, Porter, Pumpkin Sweet, Bald
win, Bourassa, Norton's Melon, North.
ern Spy, RawI's Janet, Rambo, Rhode
Island Greening, Romantic, ,Roxbury
.Russet, Beauty of Kent, Winter Swaar
Summer Queen, and Milan.
The following varieties of pears have
{. generally escaped, viz:
Bloodgood, Beurre G1:Eart, Doyennt
d'ete, Osborne's Summer, Tyson, Buff
fun, Beurre d'amalis, Beurre Goubault
Beurre Golden of Bilboa, Bergamo.
.Crassanne, Belle Lucrative, Dix, boy.
enne white, Doyenne Grew, Forelle
Fulton, Louise Bonnie de Jersey
. ..QswegogB eurfe, 0swego Incompatible
Seekel, Stevens .Genesee, Swans Or
a1ge, Beurre d,ATemburg, Passe Col
MAJ.
The following varieties have general
ly been severely, if no fatally injured
viz:
Bartlett, Madeline, Rostiezer, Sum
merF ranc-Real Brown Beurre, Beurr,
Rose, Beurre Diel, Duchess of An
gouleme, Flemish Beauty, Henry ".
Marie Louise, Easter Beurre, Glou.
Moroccan, Princes st. German, Vicar
of WINFIELD, Apgora, Winter Nelis
OFT.
The following varieties of cherrie.
are fatally injured, viz:
Black Eagle, Black T~artarian, Burr
Seeding, DOwnton, Downer's Late
Elton, and Yellow Spanish.
The following varieties have entirel,
g. escaped, viz:
. Belle. de ChOisy, Belle M~agnifque
Carnation, Early Richmond, Mont
morency, May Duke, English MOrellC
. Refine Hortense.
The following varieties of plum
have escaped, viz:
Goes Golden Drop, Magnum Bonul
yellow, Red Magnum Bonum, Orang'
Washington, Yellow Gage, andSmith
Orleans.
-. The following varieties are most
killed, viz:
Bleeker's. Gage, Duane's Purpl
Jefferson, Lawrence's Favorite, Reir
; Claude de Bavay, and Cherry.
The above has been made out aft
:. carefully examining very many fru
trees in various localities. E.
~oooPER-HeadersOn H., Nay 2, IS
BLINDNESS IN CATTLE.
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