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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



bardston Nonsuch, Wincsap, Lady Apple, Danvers 

 Winter Sweet, Wine Apple, Red Astraclian, Tander- 

 vere, Bullock's Pippin, Svvaar, Autumn Pearmain. 



Ejected List. 

 Gloucester White, Beachemwell, Pcnnock, Henry's 

 Weeping Pippin, Red Ingestric, White do., Kirke's 

 Lord Nelson, Marmalade Pippin, Priestly, Rowland's 

 Red Streak, Red or Royal Russet, Hoary Morning, 

 Large Red Sweeting, Red Doctor, Grand Sachem, 

 Cathead, Dodge's Early Red, Gray French Reinnette, 

 Muscovia, Irish Peach, Pigconctte, Salina, Wool- 

 ston's Red Streak, Golden Reinnette, Woolston's 

 White Sweet, Caroline, (English,) Fenouillct Rouge. 



List proposed for rejection, but retained agreeably to 

 the rule which we have named. 



Black Apple. — Mr. Hayes, of New Jersey, objected 

 to its rejection. 



Winter Pearmain. — Jlr. Hancock, of Burlington, 

 N. J., Mr. Hovey, of Boston, and Mr. French, of 

 Braintrce, Mass., objected. 



Cabashea. — Col. Hodge, of Buffalo, N. Y., and 

 Mr. Barry, of Rochester, N. Y., objected. 



Blenheim Pippin. — Mr. Hovey objected. 



American Pippin, or Grindstmie. — Mr. Playes ob- 

 jected. 



Scarlet Pearmai?!, — Col. Hodge, and Mr. Elliot, of 

 Cleveland, Oliio, objected. 



List of new Seedlings. 



The committee on seedling fruits reported as fol- 

 lows on apples ; — 



Balm Apple, from H. C. Hunt, Vt. Medium size, 

 fair quality, or good. Said to bear every year. 



Tender Apple, presented as a cooking api^le. 



Jexoett's Best Apple, of fine appearance, but not in 

 season for eating. Has a high character in its origi- 

 nal neighborhood. 



Northern Golden Sweeting, from J. Battcy, Koese- 

 ville, N. Y. Of beautiful appearance, good size, best 

 quality. We recommend it be called simply the 

 Xorthern Sweet. 



Champlain Apple, from the same. Good quality, 

 beautiful appearance. 



Bailey's Spice Apple, from the same. Good, spicj', 

 handsome. 



Forrence Apple, from the same. Good. 



Bibbed Codlin, from D. Miller, Jr., Carlisle, Pa. 

 Lai-go, waxen, tender ; good, particularly for cooking. 



Cumberland Seedling, from the same. Large, hand- 

 some, oblate, red, tender flesh, pleasant, very good. 



Page Apple, from Henry Little, Bangor, Me. Hand- 

 some, good appearance, not in eating order. 



Seedling Apple, from W. T. & E. Smith, Geneva, 

 N. Y. Large size, greenish-yellow, quality good. 



About half of the list of apples selected as worthy 

 of general cultivation, arc either but very little 

 known in New England, or have been tried, and 

 found to be deficient. 



Early Harvest is a slow grower, poor bearer, and 

 the fruit is very liable to crack and blast. Some of 

 our most skilful orchardists and nurserymen have 

 excluded it from their nurseries. 



American Siunmer Pearmain is very liable to blast, 

 and though long sijice introduced, it is cultivated but 

 very little. 



Early Stratoberry is but little known in New Eng- 

 land, and in some cases it is affected with blight, and 

 it is too small for the market. 



Fall Pippiji is very liable to blast, and far less 

 profitable than some other varieties. 



The three varieties recommended for particular 



localities are not generally profitable in this section. 

 The first two are fine fruits, and succeed in some 

 favorable situations in propitious seasons. 



White Seek- no further is but little known, and we 

 do not have a very favorable account of it. Thomas, 

 in his Fruit Culturist, speaks of it as a fruit culti- 

 vated in New England. AVe think he must have 

 been misinformed. In our numerous visits to fruit 

 orchards, we have never seen but one tree of this 

 variety, nor do we hear of it to any extent elsewhere. 

 We have seen it in this market but once, and then it 

 was raised in some other section, and it sold only at 

 a moderate price. It is liable to be imperfect. When 

 perfect, it is a fine fruit, but it will not sell for its full 

 value in the market, owing to dark spots on it, which 

 have the appearance of mildew or blast. 



Fametise is a very beautiful apple, and this is its 

 greatest excellence. It is not of a high quality. It 

 originated in Canada, and is one of the most popular 

 apples in that country. It is adapted to a northern 

 climate and cool locations. In this region, it does 

 not succeed well in warm locations. 



Winesap is but very little known, though long 

 since introduced, which shows that it is not a favor- 

 ite. It is too small for the market, and better for 

 eider and for cooking than for the table. 



Lady Apple is a very small apple, very beautiful, 

 of tolerably good quality, but often imperfect. Some 

 cultivators, who keep stalls in this market, and who 

 know what is profitable, have changed their trees of 

 this variety to something more valuable. 



Wine Apple of Coxe is hardly known in New Eng- 

 land. It is frequently in this market from the south 

 or west, and sells well. It is tolerably good fruit, 

 but we have better natives for the same season. 



Vandervcre is hardly known m this region. It is 

 generally fine in New York, but as it is liable to the 

 blast, and bitter rot, under unfavorable circumstances, 

 and as it is a native of the south, we do not think 

 that it will flourish well here. 



Stcaar. We have had fine Swaar apples from New 

 York, but have never seen a good one raised m New 

 England, and we have never heard but one cultiva- 

 tor speak well of it, and he was an amateur. All 

 that we have seen raised in this region were not 

 sicaar, (heavy,) but light and corky at the core. 



Autumn (or Ilcrfordshirc) Pearmain is but very 

 little known in New England. 



It is stated in the report, that some of these fruits 

 were adopted unanimously. In such cases, did the 

 New England delegates vote in favor of apples not 

 known in this section, or did they give their silent 

 approval of a list, many of which had not been fairly 

 tested among us, or, having been tested, Tekcl is writ- 

 ten on them ? 



Having disposed of the apples, in our next, we 

 shall give the action of the Congress on other species. 



We intended to state at the commencement of this 

 article, that Hon. Marshall P. Wilder presided over 

 the deliberations of the Congress in the former part 

 of the session, but having been called away, Samuel 

 Walker, Esq., of Roxbury, was called to the chair. 



