NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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GARDEN ROYAL APPLE. 



This apple originated on the farm of Mr. Daniel 

 Bovvker, Sudbury, Mass. The tree is a rather 

 slow or moderate grower, and a good bearer. — 

 The fruit is of the highest quality for the desert, 

 being remarkably tender and of a fine spicy flavor, 

 resembling a good pear in its fine qualities. It is 

 a very good looking, but not beautiful fiuit. We 

 consider the Garden Royal one of the very best ap- 

 ples of its season, for the garden, or for orchard 

 culture for one's own use, and it sells well in the 

 market; but some varieties of more rapid growth, 

 and of larger and more beautiful fruit, though not 

 of so high a quality, may be more profitable for the 

 market. 



The Garden Royal is small; roundish flat; of a 

 dull greenish and russetty yellow ground, but 

 mostly covered with dull, deep red in the sun, with 

 numerous large light specks; stem short, slender, 

 in a medial sized cavity; calyx- medial, open, in a 

 broad, shallow basin; flesh very fine, tender, almost 

 melting, crisp, juicy, and of a delicious, highly 

 aromatic flavor. In use duiing September. 



REMARKS ON BREEDING. 



As an illustration of the eifects of in-and-in breed- 

 ing, the following is related as having occurred in 

 a particular neighborhood in this country. A farmer 

 of a sour, unsocial disposition, who as much as possi- 

 ble avoided all intercourse with the rest of the world, 

 and shunned asking the slightest favor of a neigh- 

 bor, lest he might at some time be desired to re- 

 ciprocate the kindness shown him, for a long se- 

 ries of years bred his cattle entirely from his own 

 stock. In consequence of this course, such a herd 



of misshapen, ungainly, big-headed quadrupeds 

 were produced that they could scarcely be recog- 

 nized as belonging to the cattle kind; and " -'s 



wolverines" were for a long time the butt of ridi- 

 cule in the whole vicinity. 



The careful breeder, upon either system, will 

 avoid using, even for a single season, any animal 

 possessing obvious defects; for such defects, once 

 introduced in but the slightest degree, are liable to 

 be transmitted and re-appear even after several 

 generations have passed. To the many curious and 

 valuable facts already on record relating to this sub- 

 ject, the following may be added: — A portion of 

 the fowls possessed by Constant Clapp, Esq., were 

 formerly of the "downy" breed. But this variety, 

 so strongly marked, had run out and entirely dis- 

 appeared from his premises for eight years, when 

 three of these downy individuals, perfect in every 

 particular, reappeared among his flock, showing that 

 the blood, though apparently obliterated, had yet 

 been lurking there, generation after generation. 



It was a favorite theory with the late distin- 

 guished General Schuyler, a man of extensive ob- 

 servation, of deep penetration, and sound judgment, 

 that the true character, either of a man or beast, 

 could be ascertained by looking at the parentage 

 from which he had descended; and as an illustra- 

 ' tion of this, he used humorously to relate the inci- 

 dent, that in the early years of the Dutch trade 

 with the East Indies, one of his ancestors, being a 

 sea captain, had gone thither, and returned with a 

 wife — a Mongolian lady, whom he had married in 

 his absence. And the blood of that cross contin- 

 ued still to cling to the descendants two centuries 

 afterwards, despite of all their efforts to eradicate 

 it — so that down to the present day, in one branch 

 and another of the family, one of these confounded 

 East Indians would occasionally be making his ap- 

 pearance \— Trans. .V. York Ag. Society. 



