The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . ng inideas and thoughts heretofore entirely know several such clubs, or weeklygatherings, and suggest to all our readersthat they should, one and all, form or join one. Take the district school-house for themeeting, if no better be had, or meetweekly from house to house of the mem-bers. Organize with a president and sec-retary, a business committee, and conductthe deliberations in parliamentary order,and our word for it you will be gratifiedand astonished at the results—at theamount of information which will accu-mulate in yo
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . ng inideas and thoughts heretofore entirely know several such clubs, or weeklygatherings, and suggest to all our readersthat they should, one and all, form or join one. Take the district school-house for themeeting, if no better be had, or meetweekly from house to house of the mem-bers. Organize with a president and sec-retary, a business committee, and conductthe deliberations in parliamentary order,and our word for it you will be gratifiedand astonished at the results—at theamount of information which will accu-mulate in your secretarys books. 10 The Horticulturist. UTTERWe have received specimens of this fruitfrom T. D. Plumb, Esq., of Madison, Wis-consin, who describes it as a very popularvariety at the West, where known, and isthought to be as valuable there as the APPLE. Baldwin is in the Eastern States. Thespecimens sent us were picked from a treeoverloaded with fruit, and are, consequent-ly, smaller than if the fruit had been prop-erly thinned. A specimen of last year. Fig. 4—Utter 11| ounces. Tree, a regular bearer, raised small russet dots and hardy in all the Northwestern description is as follows : Fruit, medium size, globular flattened: stem, slender,short; cavity, open, smooth, deep ; calyx,closed; segments, narrow, pointed; basin,broad, open, deep-furrowed ; flesh, whitish, color, pale lemon yellow ground, narrow crisp, tender, juicy, mild, subacid, pleas- stripes, and mottled with light clear red,the stripes showing deepest—scattered ant, but not rich; core, medium; seeds,globular pointed; early winter or late fall. ABOUT PEACHES. BY F. R. When I came to this country, sometwenty-five or thirty years since, the failureof a peach crop was the exception, not therule. Now it is reversed, and I feel verymuch like cutting down my trees, or, atleast, not planting any more. Such is about the burden of remarks bymany fruit-growers in different sections ofour St
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