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the whole tree might be Baldwin. After this branch was 

 removed another brancli which grew out of the tree directly 

 above that which was removed, and had previously borne 

 Baldwins, then produced what is now called Red Russet ; 

 red and rusty, as one would suppose they would be, being a 

 cross of the two kinds. They are said to keep as well as the 

 Russet and bear every odd year. Mr. Eastman sent us some 

 of the apples, which we carried to the trustees' meeting in 

 June and they were pronounced Red Russet. 



Another case we will refer to, equally strange as it may 

 seem, but is from authority we have no reason to doubt. A 

 tree was grafted near the ground with Baldwin scions. It 

 grew up about four or five feet, then branched out, and among 

 those branches was one of the natural stock. We saw the 

 tree in September last ; the natural fruit was a small sweet 

 Russet then ripe. The Baldwins were said to be, when ripe, a 

 little rusty and of mild flavor. Many more instances of like 

 character can be named, and some that seem mucli more 

 strange, but they are all peculiar cases and the like cannot be 

 expected again, and are what we call sport, others cslW freaks 

 of nature. 



Last winter or spring we sent a copy of the Transactions of 

 the Essex Agricultural Society to a gentlemen in Norwalk, 

 Conn., a Scotchman by birth, an intelligent man of more than 

 four score years, who has spent the most of his long life in 

 this country in the cultivation of fruit. After reading the 

 report he sent us a long letter saying that it contained much 

 general information for the farmer, and was the best report he 

 had ever seen. He also said he was much taken with the 

 address, particularly that part which alluded to the farming in 

 Europe. He says the American farmer can raise grain and 

 send it five thousand miles and undersell the farmers in that 

 country, and the speaker might have said that our prairie 

 farmers will eventually revolutionize the farming in Europe, 

 and break up the entailment system which has always been a 

 curse to any nation where it has existed. 



