Stocks For Standard Peaks

During the past season our attention, in visiting orchards, has been repeatedly called to the varied strength of pear-trees of the same variety growing in the same soil, and, apparently, under the same cultivation. We have no doubt of this being attributable to the stock. Seedlings, of course, are not all alike in vigor, and as the use of a strong or weak stock has influence on the future tree, we suggest to propagators more care in selecting their stocks for certain varieties - in putting the weakest-growing named sorts on the strongest stocks, and the reverse. Again we will say that some vears since we used the Buffum and the Pound pear grafted on pieces of roots as stocks, and found them very successful - our before weak-growing varieties, when worked on these stocks, making fine growths. It is a cheap way of getting stocks, as the root grafts are fit to bud in August the first season.

Stoever Raspberry

M. D., formerly of Philadelphia, now of Groverille, New Jersey.

Several branches of the Stoever Raspberry were sent to me on the 23d of September, 1859, by Mr. Henry A. Dreer, of Philadelphia. These branches, when received, contained green and ripe fruit in all their various stages of development.

The berry is very large, 2/3 5/2 of an inch long by 1 1/8 inch wide; roundish conical in form; of a rich crimson color;and of good flavor.

This fine large raspberry was discovered growing wild, in August, 1858, near Lake Dunmore, in Vermont, by Mr. Jefferson F. Stoever, and removed to his garden at Taconey, near Philadelphia, in the fall of the same year, where it fruited in 1859. Being a native of the northern part of the United States, it will probably be better adapted to the exigencies of our climate than most of the large varieties.

Stone Hill Potatoes

Mr. Bulkley's Stone Hills, which we promised to report upon, have produced a wonderfully fine crop of large and excellent potatoes, never exceeded by any in our experience.

Mr. J. B. Gardner, in an early number.

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Stowell's Sweet Corn

R. S. Knight, (Waterloo, N. Y.) If you refer to the article again, you will see that the seed is to be had of Prof. M apis, Newark, N, J., and not of us.

Strawberries - Preferred List For Planting

William Parry, of New Jersey, who devotes about 100 acres of his farm to small fruits, is said to prefer the following varieties of strawberries, mentioned in the order of their ripening: The New Jersey Scarlet, French, Wilson's Albany, Seth Boyden, Charles Downing, Monarch of the West, Dr. Warder, Black Defiance, Col. Cheney, Late Prolific, Kissena and Kentucky. His shipments during the height of the past season reached nearly 2,500 quarts daily.

Bush Honeysuckle*The masses of flowers on the Honeysuckle vine may be greatly increased in beauty and their fragrance strengthened by pruning them closely, and training them as round-headed shrubs; at first they might not seem as naturally ornamental as if trained, on a trellis, but by the testimony of gardeners they seem to be very much more attractive.