Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-02-03

thorough cultivation. The trees Inas,cbe pr.
erly pruned, and cultivated broadcast, as oftea
as once week-of course by horse powers.
with tins treatment, success will be certain.
de had failed at first by using bad stock--on
the common ounce they soon faied-seedlings
from the common ounce were perfectly worth
less. The Angers ounce was the only sort be
had succeeded with, In answer to a question,
he said he erred ia sending bis pears to Boston
mnrlset, where he received but ten dollars pt-
barrel, while they sold freely at all times at
New I ork for at least fifteen dollars per bar
rel. He finds the Winter Nelis to crack bad.
| ly BY the side Of Virgalieus that never crack.
with him. G.. Ellwanger thought the Fonts-
| nay stock better than the Angers-the latter,
indeed, grows faster at first but the Fontenay
| afterwards expands and makes better union
i With the pear, He said he; had never found
| the Angoulenle of any value on the pearl
| which remark was confirmed by S. H, AIMS
/ worth. T. G. Yeomans stated that it is, i'm.
portant to have wql grorea specimens of tho
| Angonieme- that first and second size are gen.
orally excellent in quality, but small ones new
er- but ouly as good to eat as raw potato
A. Pinney had never found any good but fully
grown ones r;,
I. 6. Yeomans stated that he had 14O trees
OF the Angoulene one-third of an acre
they yielded about 80 barrels-of these, Eve
barrels were blown off by the wind, and were
sold for from six to eighteen dollars per barre |.
But the best six barrels sold for one hundred
and JUy-siI dollars, or $26 per barrel, T'he
whole third acre yielded him five hundred dol.
lars. The trees are planted ten feet apart. cul.
tivated by horses, at much less expense than
cultivating potatoes. The best barrel was fill
ed with l66 pears. He has already applea-
tions for his next years crop. The barrels
hold two and half bushels He places the
pears in carefully, till the weight OF one per-
son is required to press them enough TO placa
the head in, after having covered the top with
cotton batting. q. Elwanger stated that the
fruit OF the Louise Bonne Of jersey he had
sent to market at New York, sold from size
teen to twenty dollars per barrel-and, frSmr
the experiments already made, he thought that
eight or ten year trees, with good cultivntiena
would safely yield on an average per amumy
at the rate of over Thousand dollars per acre
land that this variety would produce at leasss
twice as much money from the same land i,asl
any other sort. P. Barry called the attention
of the members present to two important
pN'hN' shN AiotJ SiNebI DOOu AulGus tuWl
dwarf pear has been to those who live in VIII
lagos, where thousands now enjoy the fruit Of
these trees who otherwise could have nome
and the second, the readiness with which elder-s
ly people could quickly have fruit. contradict,
ing the old saying, that ry - .si o.ai gs1
g He who plants pears T 5rea. -
Plants for his heirs ora, --7 -r '--r
He also alluded to the ease with which they
could be transplanted, which is less attended
with failure than any other tree. Their early
fruiting had been a great advantage in testing
the vast multitude which has been introduced
and rejecting many wothless sorts. He said
that the question q are dwarf pears hun-7
bug +" would never have been asked If cuAi-
vators had not raised too many sorts not adapt
ted to dwarting, aud neglected their proper
culture, Fl s5r .-.5.- >..1 a.. an II.
Injuries OF THE GRAPE IN WINTER. sa3
j. Peck, of Bloomfield, a very successful
cultivator, thought his crop failed the past sea-
son in consequence of the severity of last win
ters celd--some, he said, ascribed it to the
June frost, but he could see no reason for
this conclusion. The vines did not bloom
He thinks if he had spent few days ia laying
down and covering his vines at the commence
ment of winter, this labor would have yielded
him hundred dollars day, as he would cer-ra
tanly have saved thousand dollars worth Of
fruit. Another member said that he finds elt
slight covering of earth the best and most con-o
nient-straw invites mice another had left =
portion of his Isabella vines on the trellis--a
part he simply laid down-and a third he
buried slightly. The first, or exposed portion
bloomed more sparingly than those laid down
and the latter thirty per ceut less than tho
covered vines He would always cover all
kinds of grapes, under all circumstances. S.
Ii. Ailsworth had laid down vines before tho
last cold winter a portion of which were cove
cred by snow, and the other portion exposed.
The former bore profusely the latter had the
buds killed and yielded nothing. He thinks it
profitable to lay them down always for winter
to be covered either with snow or earth-.
j. Peck, of Bloomfield, thinks it would be i'm
possible to lay down all the old vines after they
have grown or 70 years. Very successful
instances were, however, mentioned where the
old portion of the vine near the ground was
buried during successive years, and consequeht-
ly no old wood allowed to remain above the
surface. i'.a d W.
COMPARATIVE PROFITS on FRUITS.
The comparative merits of apples, pears and
small fruits, for market, by sllillfu cultiYntors
occupied considerable share of attention.
P. Barry said the proper estimate of their
merits would depend greatly on circumstances.
Near city, small fruits would doubtless bs
most profitable. For distant mrketing, BY
barrel;ng up the fruit, larger and longer keep
ing fruits viii be best. In some places the
soil NAV be best for 1,eyyS-in another 1eGcbsa
may be more rcmunerative--in others again,
apples may be best. Apples, if good always
have ready sale. In Niagara county, the es-
timated amount sold was half million dollars
worth. Where the soil is right pears promise
the highest notwithstanding that terri.
BILE malady the FIRE blight, and the various ac-r,
cidents to which the tree is peculiarly liable.
He thought the pear promised higher remu-
neration to skif'l cultivators on proper soils, >
than anything else. For farmers the apple
promised best Some who had but four or i've
acres of good orchard, of the best winter APP
pies, had realized more from this small area.
than from all the rest of their farm. The
crop fails less frequently than some Of the
most common farm crops-and from the fact /
that in large portions Of the country elsewhere n
good apples could not be raised he thought
the market would not be soon overstocked. II
In answer to a question, he said the pear was
a more certain crop than the apple-indeed II
bore every year without exception--and' by
keeping a quantity of trees on hand to replace
losses by the fire-blight, he does not apprrhcnd
much trouble under good management Of this
tree t'
W. p Townsend of 1ockport, said be lad
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