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To corroborate the above statements, we would refer to 

 Cole's Fruit-Book, published in 1849. There described as 

 follows: Red Russet, large; flattish round; russet, half 

 covered with red ; flesh firm, crispy, juicy ; of pleasant, rich 

 flavor ; late winter and spring. Great grower and bearer. 

 New and promising. It seems to be a cross between the 

 Baldwin and Roxbury Russet. Origin : farm of Mr. Aaron 

 Sanborn, Hampton Falls, N.H. 



Believing as we do, that, if the theory of cross-grafting 

 is correct, much good may result therefrom, and believing 

 in the old saying that experience is the best schoolmaster, 

 we have entered largely into the subject of inquiry of those 

 who have had experience in the cultivation of fruit, partic- 

 ularly those who have grafted trees that were in bearing. 

 We find other cases not very much unlike the origin of the 

 Red Russet. 



Some time last winter an article was published in one of 

 the Boston papers, saying there had recently been a meeting 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in Boston, and 

 the subject of cross-grafting had been discussed for the 

 third time, and that apples had been received from Mr. 

 George F. Eastman of South Hadley, a variety said to have 

 originated by a ci-oss of the Baldwin and Roxbury Russet; 

 and we were informed that they were pronounced at that 

 meeting to be the Red Russet. 



We immediately wrote to Mr. Eastman for information 

 on the subject, and soon after received the following reply : 

 His father many years ago planted a nursery, and budded or 

 grafted it with various kinds of fruit. Finding a deficiency 

 of Baldwins, he grafted or budded a portion of the Russets 

 with Baldwins. When the trees commenced bearing, one 

 branch of a Baldwin tree bore Russets : that branch was 

 removed, that the whole tree might be Baldwin. After this 

 branch was removed, another branch, which grew out of the 

 tree directly above that which was removed, and had previ- 

 ously borne Baldwins, produced what is now called Red Rus- 

 set, — red and rusty, as one would suppose they would be, 

 being a cross of the two kinds. They are said to keep as 

 well as the Russet, and bear every odd year. Mr. Eastman 

 sent us some of the apples, which we carried to the Trustees' 

 meeting in June, and they were pronounced Red Russet. 



