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THE WESTERN POMOLOGIST. 



1871 



Davis, Kirkbridge, and so on, as early bearers. And 

 in the January number of the Pomologist Mr- 

 Adams comes with the Tetofski. 



T. S., Kenosha, Wis. 



Rbmabks.— What T. S. says of the Hawthornden 

 is true. One objection to it is, the fruit is rather 

 small, and has more acid than most people like. It 

 does very well for cooking, but for eating from the 

 hand we should prefer almost any other apple of 

 fair quality. In a new country, where apples are 

 scarce, it, with others, will do to start with— in fact, 

 rather desirable. 



For th^Western Pomologist. 



Rasslau Apples. 



By S. J. Parker, M.D., Ithioa, N. Y. 



The Department of Agriculture has distributed In 

 the Northwest quite extensively cions of Russian 

 apples. The leaf of these is quite peculiar, the ap- 

 ples early, and the flavor is remarkably sprightly. 

 It seems to open a new world in the apple line ; and 

 I call attention to the debt those who have received 

 them owe to fruit culture to improve by them our 

 choice natives. This will, in the main, be done by 

 taking the pollen of the Russian, and crossing on 

 the pistils of our natives ; — enclosinj- the flower 

 operated on in a cotton cloth bag until the cross is 

 made. I would like to see the Tompkins County 

 King, that great and hardy apple, which originrited 

 within a mile and a half of where I am now writing, 

 crossed by at least five varieties of Russian pollen ; 

 I predict an apple such as we have not yet in Amer- 

 ica from it. We should bear in mind that Northern 

 Persia, Astrachan, and Northwestern India, are in 

 reach of Russia, and that of all the native homes 

 of fruit, none equal that comparatively little visited 

 region. So, too, we should bear in mind that for- 

 eigners, whether men or plants, are not as desirable 

 citizens as natives, and if we allow the foreign 

 influence, it is in the cross, not in the unmixed type, 

 that we gain. 



I hope some day the Caucasian, and especially 

 that great midland region just east of the Caucasus, 

 as well as Russia, well give us these new germs of 

 fruits. Certainly these cions are one of the best im- 

 portations of late years. Fruit growers, go to work 

 and use them. 



with red, often quite dark next the sun, tender, 

 juicy, and with a refreshing flavor. Sedgwick, from 

 CentreviUe, Indiana, a large apple, roundish oblate, 

 entirely covered with deep red, flesh yellowish, 

 a little coarse, tender, juicy, sub-acid, rich, of good 

 or very good quality. Tattle, an apple from P. 8. 

 Beers, of Cheshire, Conn., tree a handsome upright 

 grower and good bearer, medium in size, conic- 

 oblate, striped, flesh fine, tender, juicy, pleasant sub- 

 acid, quality very good, ripens December to April. 

 Tuttle of Geneva, medium in size, roundish oblate, 

 pale yellow, flesh fine^ white, tender, pleasant, sub- 

 acid, quality very good. Schuyler's Sweet, a large 

 showy, yellow, sweet apple, from Renssalaer 

 Schuyler, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., the tree in growth 

 resembling the Baldwin — quality good or very good, 

 ripening in October. A seedling of the Northern 

 Spy fertilized with Wagner, was received from 

 Charles Arnold, of Paris, Canada, the fruit resem- 

 bling Wagner. Bailey's Crimson Crab, raised by W. 

 H. Bailey, of Plattsburgh, N. Y., is very large, 

 handsome, bright rich crimson — tree vigorous, up- 

 right, and very productive. The Eastern BeUe 

 pear, raised by James McLaughlin, Maine, size 

 medium, pyriform, pale yellow, slightly russeted, 

 flesh half melting, juicy, sweet, rich, and with a 

 slight musky perfume — quality very good. Rogers' 

 or Dean's Seedling pear, from Roxbury, Mass., tree 

 upright, productive, size medium, obtuse pyriform, 

 flesh half melting, sweet — quality very good. Among 

 new peach-es from T. Rivers of Sawbridgeworth, 

 England, Rivers' Early Albert and Early Alfred, 

 have fruited and proved excellent in quality. 



Neiiv Apples and Pears at <Ue East. 



At the late meeting of the Western New York 

 Horticultural Society, Mr. Chas. Downing reported 

 several new varieties of apples, as follows i 



Rose Bed, an apple received from N. P. Aldrich, 

 of Egypt, Monroe Co., N. Y., the tree a strong 

 grower a d abundant bearer, beginning to ripen 

 early in au, mn — medium in size, oblate, striped 



The Tetofskt— Wliere I Fonnd It. 



Ed. Western Pomologist : — My experience 

 with Tetofski has been about ten years. I was 

 first made acquainted with it by Chas. Giftbrd, of 

 Milwaukee, as Russian Crab. I thought but little 

 of it, as at that time I was somewhat prejudiced 

 against all crabs. But I propagated a few to keep 

 up an assortment of fruit, until at length trees that 

 I had sold came into bearing in the neighborhood, 

 and produced a tremendous excitement from the 

 beauty of the fruit, the evident hardy quality of the 

 tree, and its prolific habit of bearing. 



The fruit is the first to ripen, most excellent for 

 eating from the hand, and sells at high figures in 

 the market. The trees come into bearing quite 

 young, need and must have rich soil, and be kept 

 clean from grass and weeds to do well. If the soil 

 is not naturally rich it must be made so by manure. 

 You may keep it up. The fruit must be handled 

 lively when ripe, as it is soon on the decay. I find 

 the Tetofski doing well far north of this, and its 

 extreme hardy qualities no longer in doubt. 



Beaver Bam, Wis. I. Gould. 



