1856. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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THE WILLIAMS APPLE. 



This apple is called TVilliams Favorite, and Tfl,l- 

 liams Eaiiy Red. It originated in Roxbury, 

 near Boston, and was introduced by A. D. Wil- 

 liams, Esq., — hence its name. Cole describes it 

 as "large, oblong-ovate ; bright red ; dark red in the 

 sun ; little pale ye How in the shade ; stalk slender, 

 two-thirds of an inch long, in a narrow basin ; flesh 

 yello^vish white, fine, mild, pleasant and excellent. 

 Ripe during August. Moderate grower, good 

 bearer. Requires a strong moist soil, and high cul- 

 ture to bring the fruit to perfection, and then it is 

 splendid, and the most salable apple of its time in 

 the Boston market. 



The apple from which the above sketch was ta- 

 ken, grew in the garden of Wm. W. Wheildon, 

 Esq., of Concord, who not only obligingly furnished 

 the fruit, but the following description : — 



The above description by Cole, of this favorite 

 summer apple, (admitted to be the best we yet 

 have among the early kinds,) will hardly enable 

 any one not familiar with the fruit to recognize it. 

 The form varies considerably, but the true type re- 

 sembles the Porter in shape ; and others of them 

 can hardly be distinguished in color or feature from 

 the Sopsavine, which is ripe about the same time, — 



say the middle of August. The stalk or stem is 

 nearly an inch long, but sometimes very short and 

 fleshy at the base— this latter is an invariable fea- 

 ture, and together with the fleshy nob, where the 

 stem is set in, always distinguish it from he So})- 

 savine. It is of a rich iviney flavor, and generally 

 with fine veins of red running through the white 

 and delicate flesh. 



For the New England Farmer. 



CARROTS FOR HORSES. 



Mr. Editor :■ — For two winters past I have fed 

 my two horses upon carrots and hay ; commencing 

 with November, and ending about the first of April. 

 During this length of time, I gave very little other 

 grain, for carrots I consider grain, and fidly equal 

 to oats. My horses arc in constant service on the 

 road ; and under this treatment, they usually come 

 out at the end of the "pile" looking better than 

 when they commenced. My dose, is two quarts, 

 morning, noon, and at night four to each horse ; 

 they have as much good, sweet English hay as they 

 will eat, and cut, whether fed to them dry or other- 

 wise. This latter, I have always practiced, ever 

 since I have had the management of horses ; and 

 I am satisfied, that it is the cheapest and best way, 

 in which it can be given to the horse. There is no 



