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THE GARDENERS MONTHLY 



[September, 



QUERIES. 



IsHAM Sweet Apple. — Messrs. Baird & Tuttle 

 say that " Isham Sweet was sent out by F. K. 

 Phoenix about four years ago. Originated with 

 Mr. Isham, of Delaware, Wis. We have seen the 

 fruit, and believe it possesses qualities wliich no 

 other apple of its season has. Mr. Phcenix re- 

 garded it very highly, and thought it was destined 

 to occupy a high position among apples. It has 

 been tested in Minnesota, Vermont, and in many 

 other States, and so far reports have been very 



will you recommend other early varieties for 

 table use, as we wish to plant a new vineyard. 

 We grow Catawbas and Concords in large quan- 

 tities." 



Questions in Fruit Culture. — Not having had 

 time to reply personally to the following ques- 

 tions, we give them here, hoping some of our 

 readers will help the writer: 



"At the last meeting of our Horticultural So- 

 ciety I was appointed as correspondent with 

 Eastern Pomologists concerning the blight or in- 

 sects that affect our orchards. At present the 



isham 

 favorable. It is a seedling of Bailey Sweet from 

 Southern Wisconsin, fruited eight years. Fruit 

 large, fine, red, more oblong than its parent, a 

 good grower, very hardy and very productive ; 

 of much finer grain, more juicy and a much bet- 

 ter keeper than the Bailey Sweet; quality best. 

 Keeps through winter." 



The Brighton Grape. — The grape referred to 

 below by a correspondent is probably the 

 Brighton. It is a really good table grape. The 

 varieties of grapes are so numerous that it is not 

 easy just now to name " the best." " I would 

 like to know if the New Brighton grape is as 

 fine a table grape as the originator claims, and 



sweet. 



Aphis is destroying our apple crop, which 

 promised one of the largest ever had in Oregon. 

 The ends of the limbs and leaves are, not figura- 

 tively, but literally covered with the pest. Last 

 year they were on the younger trees ; this year 

 young and old alike are covered by thousands 

 and miUions of them. In their first stage they 

 are green, afterward ra3,ny black ones with wings 

 are seen, and on a sunny day a misty cloud of 

 these latter floats through the orchard. The leaves 

 of the part covered curl up, and the young fruit 

 falls. Hardly any but apple trees as yet are in"- 

 fested, and so far this green fly is confined to the 

 timber part of the valley; in the prairies, thirty 



