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NEW ENGLAND EARLIER. 



Aug. 



CRAB APPLES. 



Our interest in this fruit was much increased 

 by the display of Crab Apples at the Eair of 

 the Vermont State Agricultural Society last 

 fall, ■which included one hundred and five va- 

 rieties from the garden of the Misses Shipman, 

 near Burlington. It is with pleasure that we 

 notice a series of articles in the Bural New 

 Yorker, written by F. R. Elliott of Ohio, a 

 distinguished pomologist, on the cultivation of 

 this fruit, with suggestion's for the production 

 of newt varieties by hjbridization, &c. The 

 failures that have attended the introduction of 

 the choice varieties of our common apples into 

 the Northwestern States and Territories have 

 been so numerous that many have come to the 

 conclusion that this section is not adapted to 

 the growth of any but small fruits, such as 

 currants, gooseberries, »&c. 



Mr. Elliott believes, however, that some 

 varieties of apples may be grown wherever 



corn will ripen. Indeed, he says that "dur- 

 ing the past few years the exhibition tables 

 of horticultural societies in those sections have 

 been supplied with a new class of apples, 

 which, while they have not the size of a large 

 proportion of the old varieties of the Pi/rus 

 mains, possess richness of flesh, and eatable 

 quality, almost if not quite equalling them ; 

 and from the botanical character in tree — 

 the Pyrus haccata — a hardihood that insures 

 success to the planter." 



Mr. Elliott gives the following description 

 of the three varieties represented by the cuts, 

 which we borrow from his article already re- 

 ferred to ; the first being that of the one at 

 the head of this article : — 



The Transcendent,— Fruit, mediatn to large for its 

 class, roundlBh oblong, flattened at its ends, slightly 

 but regularly ribbed; golden yellow, with a rich crim- 

 son, red cheek in the sun, covered with a delicate white 

 bloom ; when fully ripe the red nearly covers the whole 



