Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-04-02
CITY AND COUNTY.

the last horticultural meeting
Cut Flo,Oers-Hon. Stephen Salisbury John
Ring, gardener exhibited the following roses:
Double Yellow Persian, Sofrano, Formosa.
Hymeneas, Lyonese, Gloire de Dion, Jenny
Lind, Lamarque, Souvenir de Malmaison;
also-Loucia Rosea Geranium, Lychnosper-
mum Jasminoides, and the fu ,chia, Rose of
CASTLE and twelve stalks of rhubarb or pie
plant,
Mrs Garfield sent a cluster of snow drops
that bloomed outdoors
S. H. Cotton exhibited bottle of currant
wine, of the vintage of 1889, which was ap.
proved.
Vice President George jacques displayed a
bottle of "Isabslla'' wine, made in 1857, as
follows To the pure juice OF the grape add
in the proportion of one pound of the purest
and best refined sugar 20 the gallon. After
fermentation the wine was drawn off, carefully
keeping it lrJm the air. In the spring it was
again drawn off and bottled
Mr.. Jaques also exhibited some ShelIbarks,
part of a crop Of half bushel grown upon
three trees, transplanted in December, 1850,
by the frozenball method
Discussion.-V. P. Jaques in the chair. The
committee appointed to report list of the six
best CHERRIES for local culture, through Judge
Green submitted the following May Duke,
Black Tartarian, knights Early Black, Black
Eagle, Downer's Late Red, and American
Amber.
d. W. Lincoln moved, and it was carried
that the society adopt the report of the COM
nitee in these words 1.-THE society recon-
mend the above, as list of six varieties vau-
able for cultivation
PEARs.-Lists of what, in their estimation,
are the chest eight pears for market cultiva-
ton" were then submitted by Judge Green,
S. A. Cotton, John &. Ripley, o. B. Hadwen,
James F. Allen, w f. Wheeler OF Grafton,
and the chairman.
The chair regarded the Buffum as the most
profitable pear in this country. There is one
belonging to Mr.. Edward Earle, which has
produced fruit to the average value of S23 per
annum for tire last ten years. Would like to
learn the general opinion of the Gloui Nor
ceau. Has them upon land that would bear
seventy and eighty bushels of corn to the
acre, but cannot get crop. His land is how
ever underlaid with heavy clay.
Mr.. S. V. Stone has Glout Moroccan which
bore very heavily, both last year and the one
| previous.
The chair thought highly of the pear itself,
and would like to know the n rture OF the soil
upon which it was grown by Mr.. S.
Mr.. S. II. Cotton moved that the whole sub
ject be referred to a committee of thee, with
instructions to report list of the eight best
market pears to the next meeting. Carried
and it was voted that the chairman be also
chairman of the committee. The remaining
number consist of Messrs S. H. Cotton and
D. Waldo Lincoln.
Moved by o. B. HadweD, that lists of the
chest twelve varieties of pears for domestic use
he presented to the next meeting. Adopted.
Mr.. w. F. Wheeler of Grafton suggested
that the committee just appointed report wha
kinds of soil, and whether or not underdrain
ed, are most suitable for different species bu
the chair demonstrated the impracticability O
the proposition. Mr. Keith thought the gen
temen might minute these conditions upol
their own recommendations.
Mr.. James F. Allen thought there was n
. better bearer, in standard, than the Vicar G
{ WINFIELD. Mr.. Cotton esteemed it good TO
. nothing when grown and ripened.
. Gov. Lincoln had experienced as good SUE
cess with the St. Ghislain as with any. TIL
soil is a tenacious clay, covered by rich loan
. His Vicar Of Winkfelds have borne well, br
:, not so lately
=, Dea. Butman is of opinion that pears in
prove with the age of the tree. Upon thi
. DR.. Workman remarked that he had fsrmerl
been discouraged with the Louise Bonnie d
Jersey. 1t has improved exceedingly of al
% years
> Mr.. Stone spoke of the Iron as one of til
" best market pears. 1t is a good bearer an
= excellent for preserves. He has kept thel
II until the LIST of May. Mr.. Cotton considere
y the Iron better than the Catillac. With TIL
. the chair agreed, stating that he had forgotte
y the Iron.
Mr.. Wheeler of Grafton hoped that som,
thing might be done 10 supply information
n beginners and inquirers like himsef-abol
e the soils, situation, &C., and the necessar
IS conditions of cultivation. Col Wilder had il
d structed him to underdrain and practic
thumbpruning, l. G. to check the growth {
n the wood in order 10 ripen it and enable it
u furnish mUre saccharine matter to the fru
II whenever it is formed.
If Gov. Lincoln said that his attention ha
n been particularly arrested by a remark {
. some gentleman, during the discussion, tina
= the size and qualities Of some varieties of III
!. pear would be greatly improved by sever
: pruning of the tree while fruitng He fe
constrained, by his unfortunate experience, t
offer word of caution against recourse to an
2 such practice. He thought, whatever mig
8 be the effect upon the fruit of single season
that, of all fruit bearing trees, the pear woul
least admit of severe pruning.
e If you destroy the due proportion of tn
l. branches to the root, you assuredy impair tn
4. health and vitality of the tree. In severa
instances, in which he had attempted t
., change, too suddenly, the character of th
!" iruii' BY the process of engraiting into tn
es branches, he had suffered tho loss of the tre
I'd Itself The scions would push forward vinor
Y ousiy' 'or one or two years, and then scion
40 s'ocK' anc root would perish together I,
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