Fruit Catalogue Of The American Pomological Society

We have been favored, promptly, with the Transactions of the American Porno-logical Society, at its session in Philadelphia in September last. It makes a handsome pamphlet of 168 pages, and will be read with interest by fruit growers throughout the country. We copy from it the annexed catalogue of fruits, which are now placed on the Society's list: Fruits worthy of general cultivation.

Fruit Crops

The prospects for fruit growers this year are very discouraging. Grapes are very generally killed in Ohio; blackberries in the Eastern States. The strawberries here were dried up by the drought, and prices hardly averaged ten to twelve cents per quart. Pears were badly cut by late frosts. Mr. Bateham writes from Ohio: "Our apples and pears will be a very short crop, as well as the smaller fruits generally. I have never seen so poor prospects for fruit growers."

Fruit Crop In California

An estimate made of the value of the fruit crop of California places the apple at about $400,000, the peach at $300,000, the plum at $160,000, cherries, apricots, and pears at $230,000, and grapes at over $1,000,000.

Fruit Crop In Kentucky

Mr. Fruitt, writing from Hickory Hills, Ky., says: "The prospect for fruit in this part of the country is very flattering. I have some fruit of almost all kinds." We are glad to hear that some of our Kentucky friends have been spared by Jack Frost. Another correspondent, writing from Virginia, deplores the entire loss of the peach crop. We conclude, from all we can hear, that those who eat peaches this year will have to "pay" for them.

Fruit Culture In Virginia

John T. Bronaugh, Esq., of Warrenton, Virginia, writes us as follows:

"More trees have been put out here this fall than during the previous twenty years. There is a perfect mania here for fruit I raised peaches this year in my orchard weighing from 8 to 10.

Fruit In Iowa

Writing to the Iowa Homestead, Suel Foster, Muscatine, Iowa, says the Michigan strawberry, B. Hathaway's seedling, is a softer, richer berry than Wilson's Albany, and he thinks it will be a strong competitor with that for productiveness and profit. He prefers the Philadelphia and Miami raspberries, although the Clark does well with him. The Kittatinny blackberry is hardy and productive of large fruit. He is well pleased with the English cherry. His pears are over-bearing. The Bartlett stands first, the Flemish Beauty next. His grapes are also overloaded.

The Fruit In Rochester

A harried letter appears in our "correspondence" which might have been greatly extended, and would properly have described other useful establishments, but time was wanting for examination, and we took the most extensive. With regard to the absence of fruit in so many other sections of our country, the old adage occurs to the memory, that "the vestry eat the venison and treat the congregation to a chime of bells!" While our model nurserymen are enjoying the fruits of their labors, and have plenty of apples, pears, and plums, the majority of our parish are starving on potatoes - the nurserymen have the venison, and the congregation the chime of bells only. Let us all wake up - "follow the leader " - stir the ground, shake off the curculio and the slumber that pervades so many, and resolve to have the venison in spite of that incumbrance which wraps so many in the cloak of indifference, and why not say at once, laziness.