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Morse's Seedling Harvest Apple. 



I again send }Ou a sample of my 

 Seedling Marvest Apple. My Seed- 

 ling is about "neck and neck" with 

 the Early Harvest, with a second or 

 so in favor of the latter as a rule. 

 But It can distance the old sort in 

 vigor of growth, size, freedom from 

 "spot," and the flavor pleases me 

 better — and it also pleases most 

 others better — but flavor is "a matter 

 of taste." The fierce frost of May 

 caused a few specimens to crack, but 

 there are no spots, while Early 

 Harvest near at hand on higher and 

 more open ground, has the whole 

 crop ruined by "spots" ; other varie- 

 ties subject to that evil have suffered 

 more or less. The crop as a whole 

 is a failure, very early and very late 

 blooming are least injured. The 

 frost, like lightning, struck whimsi- 

 sicall}', and though not at all a re- 

 specter of high or low as to tlie per- 

 son, it was, as to locality and aspect. 

 Some have apples, some pears, some 

 plums, some peaches, some most of 

 the above, yet very few an abundance 

 of either ; much of the fruit is badl\- 

 blemished by the weather and insect 

 enemies. The codling moth and cur- 

 culio are a vast majority compared 

 with the fruit, and where reductive 

 influences are not in force about ten 

 or so insects seem to have applied 

 for each specimen. The "blight" 

 prevails to a slight extent, is present 

 in both apple and pear. 



My premiums of later years. Yel- 



low Transparent, Niagara (irape 

 Vladime's Cherry, Jessie Strawberry 

 and Louise Apple, are all doing from 

 fair to very good. The grape some- 

 what protected was cut to the ground 

 b}' the frost, while a Concord, some 

 twenty-five feet away and not at all 

 protected, partially escaped and is 

 bearing some very fine fruit. 



I am sure the Horticulturist is 

 becoming more and more appreciated, 

 and by the more progressive culti- 

 vators of both the useful and orna- 

 mental felt to be a sine qua nou. — S. 

 P. Morse, Milton, Aug. 21, 1889. 



Reply by Editor. 



This apple comes to us in good 

 condition on the 23rd of August, and 

 fully bears out all that was said in 

 its favor on page 213, of Volume XL 

 of this journal. It is not quite so at- 

 tractive in color as the Early Har- 

 vest proper, and of course is out of 

 comparison with such varieties as 

 the Red Astracan and the Duchess 

 of Oldenburg ; but, in point of qual- 

 ity for cooking, we judge it to be 

 superior to any one of the three. 



Seedling Pears. 



I have sent you per mail, a box of 

 my seedling pears for your examin- 

 ation. The tree that bore them is 

 about ten or twelve years old and 

 has now borne two or three years. 

 This year it had about a peck on, 

 last year it bore perhaps a bushel ; 

 the sample I sent you is about the 

 average size. 



The tree is an erect grower, thick 



