NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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HUBBARDSTON NONSUCH APPLE. 



Fruit, from large to very large ; roundish, tapering 

 moderately and roundly to the top; sldn, smooth, 

 fair, rich, yellow ground, mostly covered with bright 

 red, dark and unbroken in the sun, striped in the 

 shade, generally russet around the stem, and some- 

 times a very few largo prominent russet specks on 

 other parts ; stem, medial length, rather slender, in a 

 rather broad, deep, regular cavity ; eye, largo, open, 

 in a shallow basin ; flesh, yellowish-white, tolerably 

 fine, crisp, juicy, of a mild, pleasant, aromatic flavor, 

 inclining to saccharine. In use from the latter part 

 of October into December. It should be used as 

 soon as it is in its prime, as it grows dry and spirit- 

 less very soon. It is hardy : we have had it growing 

 several years in Maine, without iirjury in the winters. 

 The growth is good, but not great, about the same as 

 that of the Porter or Jcwott's Red. The new wood 

 is long and slim, and covered A^ith a whitish, woolly 

 or furzy substance, which distinguishes it from a 

 spurious and worthless kind, that has a stout, naked 

 Bcion, resembling that of the Baldwin. It is a good 

 bearer, and bears about two thirds of its produce in 

 alternate years, and generally in even years, as, '46, 

 '48, &c. 



The Hubbardston Nonsuch is one of our best late 

 faU apples, particularly for the market, where it is 

 very popular, bringing the highest price. Some say 

 that this fruit has been overrated, but those who ^ive 

 it good culture, get lai'gc, fair crops, and sell the 

 fi'uit from three to four dollars a barrel, make no such 

 complaint. Yet as the fruit is rather transient, it is 

 not adapted to extensive culture. Origin, Hubbard- 

 ston, Mass. 



PIPES FOR UNDERDRAIMIMG. 



SALT MUCK. 



In your last number, you invite communications 

 in a plain way, from jilain men, and I avail myself 

 of the invitation, coming as I do under this denomi- 

 nation of persons. 



You have an article — " Pipes for Under draining," 

 — by which I learn of the intended importation of a 

 machine from England, for making drain pipes. I 

 desire to say to you, that this summer, I drained 

 1864 feet, and procured the pipes and flats made by 

 Mr. A. Price, of Middletown Point, Monmouth 

 county, New Jersey, at $16 per 1000 feet, at his 

 works. They are the half pipe, such as you see 

 represented in Stephens's Book of the Farm, each 

 pipe about one foot long, and three inches in diam- 

 eter, inside, of burnt clay. If any of your friends 

 should not be disposed to wait for the machine, this 

 may be to them acceptable intelligence. 



I have used a great deal of salt muck to good ad- 

 vantage. I hope to haul up 1000 loads, this win- 

 ter, into my barnyard. My first experiment was 

 with a Siberian crab-apple tree, which I transplanted 

 from a place where it did not ajjpcar to thrive. 

 The salt muck had laid over one winter, mixed in 

 alternate layers with lime. A hole, about three feet 

 by four, and two spades deep, was dug, and filled 

 with this mixture, and the tree planted in the centre. 

 It grew very luxuriantly, full two feet for one, com- 

 pared with another apple-tree, (a russet,) within the 

 distance of thirty feet, and I have ever since been an 

 advocate for salt muck. T. J. 



October 10, 1848. — Selected. 



IIuMAX Knowledge is a proud pillar, but it is 

 built in the midst of a desert of ignorance, and those 

 who have ascended the highest have gained the most 

 extended view of the waste. 



