December, 1862. The Horticulturist And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste

PETER B. MEAT, Editor.

GEO. E. WOODWARD, Associate Ed.

HEAD & WOODWARD, Proprietors & Publishers, 37 Park Sow, New York.

Vol, 17. - No. 12. - Whole No. 198.

Pottage upon the Horticulturist 18 cente per annum, if vaid quaterly in advance.

Declare Strawberries

Later returns of strawberry shipments from the Delaware Peninsula, give the following astonishing figures: Total number of car loads for the season, - - 667

Each car will hold 400 crates, but averages 280 only, - 186,760 crates. Total number of quarts, - 7,470,400

About half were shipped to Philadelphia, and half to New York. Many growers did not realize enough to pay for their crates, and the average of the season was not sufficient to pay for freight, picking and commissions, leaving no profit to the grower.

One large grower, near Smyrna, Del., who cultivates thirty acres, was brought largely in debt, and yet has invested $6,000 in crates, baskets, fixtures, plants, cultivation, etc., without any return.

Deep Trees

A Michigan Subscriber. If your apple trees which you are forced to bury a foot deeper than they stood, by raising the ground, arc trees readily moved by all means lift them, and bring the roots as near the surface as before, as this covering them with so much earth is often fatal. If they cannot be lifted, then cover the roots for a very large space, with small stones, spreading earth over the top.

Deferred

Our friends have so abundantly supplied us with articles, the past month, that we find we have a dozen pages in type that must be deferred, besides many other articles marked for publication. Correspondents who look in vain for their contributions in the present number, will therefore accept this as our apology.

Deferred Articles

We have a large number of articles prepared for this number, which we are compelled to omit - enough, our printer informs us, for another number. Among the deferred articles are the following, with many others we have not space to mention: "Green-houses and their Management," by D. K. R.; "Curculio Remedies," by WM. Adair, Detroit; "Notes on Pears," by John B. Eaton, Buffalo; "The Diller Pear," by Samuel Walker, Roxbury, Mass.; "Evergreen Shrubs," by Wm. Saunders, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.; "Deep Digging," by William Bacon, Richmond, Mass.; "Rural Cemeteries," by A. D. G., Clinton, N. Y.; "Village Cemeteries," by. W. H. Scott, Adrian, Mich. We shall give all in due season.

Defiance

Lemon yellow, fading to straw color, the zone carmine and black, with obscure patches of deep brown. There is so much blue in the red of the zone, that when a fine plant is in fine condition, there is a purplish hue perceptible, in pleasing contrast to the black, green, and yellow. .

Degeneration Of A Variety Of Fruit

It is my intention to graft a great many of these varieties on our native vines, so common with us in the south, and I expect by this means to render these European varieties vastly more hardy, productive, and no less noble than the original stock. Time alone can determine whether my views of this subject are correct. Should you be possessed of any particular information on this mother idea of mine, you would confer a great favor on me by giving me your ideas about it. My method of grafting differs somewhat from all those described by yourself, and those which are in general practice. When experience will have completely confirmed it, I shall take great pleasure in communicating it to you.

In the hope of hearing from you, I remain very respectfully, Joseph Togno.