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GENESEE FARMER. 



Mar. 



Two Fine Winter 



les. 



We present below, to the attention of orchard- 

 ists, two really fine and valuable winter apples, 

 combining vigor and fruitfulness in the trees, 

 with size, beauty, and flavor, in the fruits. Nei- 

 ther of them is, to our knowledge, cultivated to 

 any considerable extent in this region. Both 

 are entitled to rank with our best winter fruits, 

 such as the Swaar, Spitzenburg, Melon, Baldwin, 

 Bellflower, Nonsuch, Greening, and others in 

 use up to the month of March or April — after 

 which the Northern Spy, Newtown Pippins, and 

 Russets come in. 



THE DOMINIE APPLE. (Fig. 20.) 

 From November (ill April the Domine can 

 hardly be surpassed as a dessert apple, as pro- 

 duced in Western New York. It is supposed 

 to be a native fruit, as it is not found in foreign 

 works on pomology. Fruit about medium size, 

 flat. Skin dull yellow, with stripes of bright 

 red on the sunny side, and sprinkled more or 

 less with brown specks. Stalk nearly half an 

 inch long, rather slender, and somewhat curved. 

 Calyx closed, rather small, in a broad basin, like 

 that of the Rambo, (which is very similar in ap- 

 pearance to the Dominie. ) Flesh white, exceed- 

 ingly tender, juicy, and pleasant, but deficient 

 in flavor compared with " Norton's Melon," de- 

 scribed in the January number of the Farmer. 



Mr. Downing says in his Fruits and Fruit 

 Trees, that the " young wood is of a smooth, 

 lively, light brown, and the trees are the most 

 rapid growers and prodigious bearers we know, 

 the branches being literally weighed down by 

 the rope like clusters of fruit." The same is 

 said of it by those who cultivate it here. J. W. 

 Seward, Esq., from whom we lately received a 



basket of fair well-^rown specimens, 

 one of the best apples and best bearers 

 In use from November till April. 



says It IS 

 he knows. 



PECK'S PLEASANT APPLE, (Fig. 21.) 



This is another winter apple of the first char- 

 acter which we would strongly recommend to 

 orchardists. It is said to be a native of Rhode 

 Island. We have before us beautiful specimens 

 grown in Penfield, in this county, where it is 

 found to succeed admirably. 



Fruit above medium size, or large. Form 

 round and regular, slightly flattened. Skin 

 smooth and glossy, green, changing, as it ma- 

 tures, to clear pale yellow, with a brownish red 

 on the sunny side. Stalk short and stout. — 

 Calyx open, segments quite wooly, set in a pret- 

 ty deep basin. Flesh yellowish white, fine 

 grained, crisp, juicy, and high flavored. 



The appearance of this fruit is somewhat sim- 

 ilar to the Yellow Newtown Pippin ; but here it 

 is fairer, more uniform in size, and the flesh is 

 much more tender. In use from Nov. till March. 



Spring Budding. — It may not be generally 

 known that fruit trees may be budded as well in 

 the spring as in the summer, but such is the 

 case. We have done it with the most entire 

 success. — This fact is of some importance, 

 especially in reference to peach trees, because 

 they cannot be successfully grafted, and, by bud- 

 ding them in the spring, one year's growth may 

 be gained. The cuttings should be taken, the 

 same as for grafting, and carefully preserved till 

 the trees are so far advanced that the bark will 

 slip freely, when the buds may be cut out and 

 inserted in the usual mode. To make success 

 more sure, a slight coating of grafting wax may 

 be used ; and the stock should be cut off a few 

 inches above the bud. — N. E. Farmer. 



