128 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETI. 



FRUIT GROWING IN AROOSTOOK. 

 From Hon. E. E. Parkhurst, Maysville Center. 



We are making some advancement in new hard}^ varieties also in 

 cultivation. The Duchess is our best and safest fall variety. We 

 ask for nothing better for cooking or drying, but for dessert it is not 

 of much account. The Yellow Transparent is equally as hardy and 

 is our earliest, and we consider it very good. The Wealthy is hardy 

 and productive, but for a dessert apple cannot recommend -it as 

 highly as Dr. Hoskins does. He claims it to be equal to the Bald- 

 win in every respect For me the flavor is not so good and it is too 

 tart. It is a valuable apple and we can grow them cheap and any 

 quantity" of them. I stopped over night last week with J. W. 

 Dudley of Castle Hill and for the first time tried his Dudley Winter. 

 This apple grows as large as the Duchess, resembles it in color and- 

 form, is as hardy and productive, is superior to anything I have ever 

 tested as a dessert apple. If it continues to grow and mature as it 

 has this season we shall have no use for Baldwins in Aroostook. It 

 is the coming apple in all cold climates. 



This comprises the list as I consider it of anything valuable we 

 have for Northern Aroostook. I have in my orchard the Alexander, 

 Fameuse, Tetofsky, Red Astrachan, and several other half iron clad 

 varieties, but don't want any more of them. There has been several 

 orchards of Moore's Arctic plums started within three years, averag- 

 ing from 200 to 1,000 trees. They are layed down in the fall and 

 the deep snows in winter protects them from the excessive cold, 

 which saves the fruit buds. They are commencing to bear and trees 

 set two years yielded one peck plums each last fall. This method 

 of handling will prove a success so far as protecting the trees and 

 growing the plums. I fear only one trouble, that is, the injury of 

 the plums by early frosts before harvesting. So far there has been 

 no trouble, and there may be no danger in the future. 



