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orous than the plain ones ; but in no instance have we known the varia- 

 tion in the color of the fruit and wood of the pear to extend to the leaf. 

 We have had a Red Astrachan apple whose leaves were spotted with 

 white, and this variation was perpetuated by grafting, but the fruit was 

 not affected in any unusual manner. There is a blotched-leaved Tur- 

 key apricot, said by Downing to be a true variation of the Turkey, but 

 by Thompson, to be a sub-variety of the Roman, from which it would 

 appear that there must be two varieties. 



We hope that any of our readers who are in possession of facts bear- 

 ing on this interesting subject in any direction, will do us the favor to 

 communicate them. 



APPLES IN CONNECTICUT. 



By William H. White, South Windsor, Conn. 



Like all other crops, apples are a variable, uncertain crop in this state. 

 In some localities the crop is much better, generally, and surer than in 

 others. Within the memory of the middle-aged, apples in the vicinity 

 of the river, in towns lying within a few miles of Hartford, were a sure 

 and certain crop, as much so as any other crop of the farm ; then every 

 farm had apple trees on it, usually but few planted in the same lot, and 

 those wide apart, or not near enough to interfere at all with each other ; 

 and, as a general thing, a failure to grow sufficient apples for all neces- 

 sary family uses, green in summer, to dry for other seasons, and a good 

 stock put up in the cellar to last through the winter, as well as enough 

 others, not desirable for these purposes, to make from six to twenty or 

 thirty barrels of cider, was almost an unheard-of circumstance. Now, 

 with as large a number of trees, more collected together, and of different 

 and more refined quality of fruit, the exception appears more to be, to 

 get apples enough, once in two, three, or four years, to have a good 

 family supply, and to make three or four barrels of cider. 



Why this difference, or falling off? is a question that a large number 

 would like to have solved, but one that is not within the scope of this 

 article to answer ; but perhaps a few random thoughts, plainly stated, 

 may set others thinking, and lead to more extended investigation and 

 experiment. 



Our people ar^ of that class, generally, that prefer to devote their 

 energies to crops that they understand, and can be pretty certain of 

 harvesting and turning into money or domestic use ; and many, too many. 



