PLAIN AND PLEASANT TALK 



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

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



29. RAWLE'S JANET, OB 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 tin- 

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

 if budded, it being a late starter in spring, 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 enduring 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 off once a year, is that 

 nature has provided for its propagation by bestowing on it 

 seed vessels which ripen at two different times of tin- y-ar. 

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

 Western Farmer and Gardener. 



