The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-12-01

northern Vermont than auy other sort
and is always hardy unless it has bee.
allowed to become debiltsted by over.
bearing, Among other sorts mentioned
as enduring the winters. are Goes q older
Drop. Green Gage, Mclaughlin, and
Schenectady Catherine Lawreuce's Fa.
vorite is rather tender.
CRAps.--Bartlel, Bryan, name. and
describes seventeen varieties ~ himself
and We mention this fact as an indication
OF the attention which this very hardy
family Of fruit is receiving from the hands
OF fruit growers in the north.
PEARS IN MASSACHUSETTS, - Robert
Manning names Doyenne d'Ete, Giffard
and Clapp's Favirite, as the three sum.
mer pears against which no others can
possibly take prize at our exhibitions,
at their respective seasons" The last
named is increasing in popularity. Ros.
tiezer, Tyson, Brandywine and Manning s
Elizabeth are better in quality but smaller
in size. Doyenne Boussock, as it be-
comes better known, is more and more
competing with the Bartlett Among
tho popular autumn sorts. are mentioned
Bose, Super6ne, Doyenne du Comice, Ho.
we'll and Sheldon, The following are the
sorts selected FL winter: Anjou, taking
the load Of all others; Lawrence, Winter
Nelis and DAna's Hovey, the only fault
Of the last being its small size For mid
winter, Alencon and Josephine do Ma.
lines Vicar of Winfield for cooking {;
and when well grown and ripened for the
table.
FRUITS IN WISCONSIN. %. s. Wiley,
OF Madison, furnishes many valuable
notes. The preceding winter (1S72-3),
had been one of great severity to fruit
trees, and the following are mentioned as
having stood well at Green Bay, viz :
Red Astrachan, Oldenburgh Fameuse,
Seeknofurther, Golden Russet. st. Law
renee, Tallman Sweet. Northern Spy and
Ben Davis were injured. Among grapes,
the Delaware appears to be gaining
ground, and it may yet stand at the head
Of the list. Doolittle, Mammoth Cluster
and Philadelphia raspberries have done
we'll Clark killed badly. Mr.. W. says,
in relation to rendering fruit trees hardy,
II have noticed that wherever either ap.
pie or pear trees have been thoroughly
cultivated, and the ground highly manur.
ed besides, the trees have been more in.
jured than where they stood in grass. l
think the best looking orchard that have
seen. all things considered, ia one that
has been cultivated but never MANFRED"
On soil always rich, it is obvious that
no manure is required, provided good,
clean cultivation is given, the object being
to induce timely and thorough ripening
of the wood, thus securing condition that
will be more important as safeguard
against intense cold than even the selec.
ton OF the most hardy varieties.
PEARS IN WIsCoNsIN.--Mr,W Wiley has
experimental with about thirty Of the
best known sorts, both on ounce and
pear, and of these he says "only one ever
paid the cost Of planting in fruit. and
that was dwarf Louise Bonnie of Jersey.
Recently he has top.worked the Bartlett
on Flemish Beauty, with apparent sue.
cess Tho latter is the only sort fully
hardy enough for their winters. He has
given his pear trees all sorts of treatment
in the past twenty years, from high cul.
ture to Starvation A medium course
proves best. The blight is the greatest
enemy.
The demand for the varieties of the 81.
berian crab is on the increase on account
of their extreme hardness
PLUMs IN OREGON &C. w. Hunt says
My young orchard, three and four years
old from the bud, nearly oil bore fruit
this season, one peach plum bearing near.
ly four bushels Of fiuo fruit" Tho cur.
culio has not yet arrived there. the borer
in the apple tree being the only orchard
insect;
VIRGINIA.-.P Pears are very successfully
grown in southeastern Virginia. f,
Davis says: THE Bartlett and Angoule.
me comprise .fourths Of our planting;
the former as a standard, the latter as a
dwarf. The Bartlett is marketed from
July goth to August 10th; the Duchesse
three weeks later" One acre of Bart.
let's planted in 1862, 20 feet apart, net.
ted the owner over FIVE hundred dollars
in 1871, six hundred in 1872, and in
1873 one thousand dollars were expected.
The soil of this orchard seemed admirably
fitted to it-a deep bed of sandy loan,
several feet thick, resting on shell mari,
with perfect drainage. If full statistics
could be collected from all parts Of the
Union, probably hundred pear orchards
could be enumerated that bad not ne;ted
all put together as much as this one
showing the importance OF securing the
the very best condition Of soil and culture
for success. -Country Gentleman.