1871 



THE POMOLOGIST AND GARDENER. 



215 



Early Queening. 



By the A880CIATK Editor. 



Fruit medium; weight six to eight ounces; form round, slightly conic, a little flattened, regular; skin 

 rich yellow, splashed and striped with reddish purple ; dots few, small, scattered, grey ; stein medium, 

 rather stout; cavity wide, deep, green, 

 wavy ; eye small, nearly closed ; basin 

 narrow, shallow, furrowed ; core slightly 

 open, medium size ; carpels wide open > 

 seeds small, ovate, dark brown ; flesh yel- 

 lowish, tender, juicy, very spicy, quince 

 flavor, mild acid ; quality very good ; use, 

 table, kitchen, market; season, July 15 

 to August 15. 



Tree healthy, medium grower, spread- 

 ing, early bearer, productive. This we 

 consider the best early apple we have, 

 coming in soon after the Early Harvest, 

 when we have no other apple of equal 

 quality for all purposes. This must not 

 be confounded with the Summer Queen, 

 which is a very inferior apple, and de- 

 fective tree, compared with the Early 

 Queening. We procured it of Dr. War- 

 ing, Tyrone, Pennsylvania, some twelve years ago, and do not know its origin. This will no doubt 

 prove a valuable addition to our list of early summer apples, and should be extensively trietl, particularly 



in Kansas. 



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Divarf Apples.— Profit and Propagation. 



The desire to have pear trees bearing at an early age, and on trees that do not grow too large for a 

 small garden, gave rise to the mode of propagating pears on a quince stock, or so-called dwarf pears 

 Thus an amatuer may have a considerable collection even in a city garden. For pear trees on a still 

 smaller scale, say for growing in pots, they are worked on the haw (cratmgus.) 



Apples are dwarfed in a similar way, a mode long known among horticulturists, though as yet but very 

 little used in America, while it is quite common on the European continent. Thus, for instance, at Her 

 renhausen, in Germany, pears and apples raised in pots and producing very fine fruits may be seen to 

 a considerable extent. 



But the dwarf apples are of much more 

 importance in the open garden, and in 

 France whole compartments in the large 

 gardens are devoted to them. According 

 to the stock on which they are worked, 

 they are planted at from five to ten feet 

 apart. 



Many varieties of apples can be raised i 

 from cuttings without any trouble ; but | 

 those of the Codling or Burknot tribes 

 grow as well from cuttings as in any other 

 way. Apple trees raised in this way from 

 healthy one year old branches with blossom 

 buds upon them, will continue to go on 

 bearing the finest fruit, in a small com- 

 pass for many years. 



The stocks on which the apples are 

 dwarfed, are of three kinds, as: 



1. Doucin, (by some pomologists ineor- outline. 



recUy called " Doucain.") 2. French Paradise. 3. Dutch Paradise, or creeper. 



