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twenty acres, trees eighteen years old, a crop of Indian 

 corn which averaged 140 bushels of ears to the acre.'" 



29. Rawle's Janet, or Jennetting. — Tree round 

 topped, a little spreading and handsome. Wood strong, 

 slow growth, short jointed, and the healthiest, perhaps, of 

 all orchard trees. Does not bear young ; but when estab- 

 lished, a great bearer every year, unless overloaded, when 

 it rests a year. It is the finest of all apples to graft on the 

 root, and should be always so propagated in the nursery ; 

 if budded, it being a late starter in sj^ring, the stock will 

 put out its branches before the bud, and make great trou- 

 ble. Fruit medium sized ; color green striped with red ; 

 roundish but inclined to sharpen toward the eye; flesh 

 white, melting, very juicy; flavor mild and delicate. 

 Ripens from February to May. This is, and deserves to be, 

 an exceedingly popular apple in all the West. The tree 

 is remarkably healthy ; it blooms ten days later than other 

 varieties, and therefore seldom loses a crop by spring frost ; 

 but the bloom is very sensitive to frost if overtaken ; the 

 fruit is very relishful ; keeps as well as the Newtown Pippin, 

 and By many, and by this writer among the number, is much 

 preferred to that noted variety. It has the peculiar excel- 

 lence of enduiing frost without material injury ; a property 

 which has enabled cultivators to save thousands of bushels 

 of fruit which by sudden and early cold had been severely 

 frosted. 



The reason that the Cockle-bur, that great pest on farms, 

 cannot be destroyed by being cut ofi" once a year, is that 

 nature has provided for its propagation by bestowing on it 

 seed vessels which ripen at two different times of the year. 

 This will be found to be the case on careful examination. — 

 Western Farmer and Gardener. 



