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NEW ENGLATND FARMER. 



Feb. 



THE GARDEN 



The first outline below, that -with the short 

 stem, is a good outline of the Garden Royal Ap- 

 ple. The fruit is below medium, roundish-flat, 

 dull, greenish, russ&ty yellow, mostly covered with 

 dull, deep red in the sun, with numerous large, 

 light red specks, stem short, slender, in a medial 

 cavity ; calyx medial, open in a broad, shaUoAV ])a- 

 ein ; flesh very fine, tender, almost melting, crisp, 



ROYAL APPLE. 



of a delicious, higlily aromatic flavor. There is 

 scarcely an apple superior to it in point of flavor. 

 Fit for use in September and October. Moderate 

 grower and great bearer. Every garden should 

 have a tree or two. Ratlicr small for market. It 

 originated, we believe, in the town of , Sudbury, 

 near Boston, and is produced there now in per- 

 fection. 



THE LONG STEM APPLE. 



This apple is excellent for the dessert or cooking 

 from the first of September to the last of October. 

 It is a good and constant bearer. Originated in 

 East Bridgewater, in this State. 



The fruit is large, medial size ; flattish round ; 

 pale yellow, brown full in the sun; dark specks 

 and patches ; stem extremely lung, slender, in a 

 broad, deep cavity ; calyx large, rather open, in a 

 broad and shallow basin ; flesh white and tender, 

 juicy, of a rich, mild, delicious, sprightly and aro- 

 matic flavor. 



FARMING IE;r THE EXTREME EAST. 



Some people, in Massachusetts, seem to think 

 that if you go as far "down east" as Kennebec, 

 you have arrived at the extreme point of the Ag- 

 ricultural kingdom, beyond which no dependence 

 can be placed on cultivated crops ; if they continue 

 on as far as Penobscot, nothing is to be found 

 there but Iceland moss struggling for existence on 

 cold blue clay ; and if they should dare proceed 

 to the St. Croix, and thence follow up the line 

 that separates Maine from New Brunswick, as far 

 as the mouth of the Aroostook, they would have 

 to encounter granite boulders and perpetual ice 

 quarries all the way. There is a great mistake in 



this matter, and we have often wondered that ou 

 neighbors just west of us should remain so strange- 

 ly ignorant, as most seem willingly to be, of the 

 soil, climate and agricultural capacities of this 

 very "down east" State of Maine. 



We recollect that three or four years ago last 

 summer, we passed leisurely with our own horse 

 and carriage along the eastern line of our State 

 from Eastport, through Calais, by the State road 

 to Houltou ; and we were pleased to notice in most 

 places, the excellent quality of the soil, and the 

 exuberant crops that were growing out of the bo- 

 som of the earth. Grass, grain of all sorts, po- 

 tatoes and other vegetables were superior to any- 

 thing of the Sort we ever saw iu Massachusetts. 

 The trees of the fijrests through which we passed 

 wer3 larger than can be found elsewhere in New 

 England. In the course of our ride, one day, we 

 remember we came to a spacious opening, and our 

 eye rested upon a large, white editice that we took 

 at first for a great meeting-house. On a^iproach- 

 ing nearer, and inquiring for the use of the build- 

 ing, we ascertained that it was a barn. Its piazzas, 

 its neat finish, and its ventillators on the roof, re- 

 sembling towers, gave it the appearance of a 

 comely church. It was on the farm of Samuel J. 

 Foster, formerly of this city, whose neat and com- 

 fortable mansion house was on the opposite side 

 of the road. We halted to see an olu neighbor. 

 His location is in Weston, a town named for judge 



