570 TEAuYSACTJOyS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



" The fruit has been known with ns for many years, and botli 

 varieties have an established reputation for superior excellence as 

 table or eating apples. 



" The ' Perry Red Streak ' is a medium-sized apple, improving 

 both in size and flavor by cultivation, of a flattened form, and smooth 

 exterior, of a bright redish color, resulting from an abundant supply 

 of vermilion stripes upon a brownish green. These red streaks 

 strike tlirough the flesh, which is a pure white, nearly to the seed 

 case. The flesh is of a most delicious, spicy, sub-acid flavor ; small 

 seed, thin skinned, short stem, deep seated. The tree is a fair 

 grower, spreading, hardly standing the rigors of our cold climate 

 without sufiering ; is a profuse bearer ; in fact, needs thinning for 

 safety. The fruit ripens about the middle of November. 



" The other cions are of a variety known among us as the Golden 

 pippin, but to distinguish it from the apple known by that name 

 among pomologists, I suggest the name of ' Davenport pippin,' out 

 of compliment to the present proprietor of the old ' Perry orchard.' 

 This apple is, if anything, superior to the first mentioned, being 

 above medium size, of rich, light yellow color, thin and delicate skin, 

 crisp flesh, mild sub-acid taste, and similar to the red streak." 



Root Culture. 



Mr. Wm. Day, Morristown, N. J. — In view of the gro^\'ing wants 

 of a great and growing people ; in view of their ease of production 

 and enormous yield ; in view of the partial and, I trust, temporary 

 deficit of the oat and potato crop ; in view of so desirable a comfort 

 and convenience to the wants of the table, the more extended and 

 general cultivation of the root crop, as it is called, is a great national 

 desideratum. Taking into consideration the vicissitudes and casual- 

 ties of grain gi-owing, coupled with the enormous price our eastern 

 lands have reached, as Pi-of. Cook, of the geological survey, informs 

 us, the average in Xew Jersey being, according to our last census, more 

 than sixty dollars per acre, grain growing and grass farming must, in a 

 measure, be remitted to the great prairies of the west. The time has 

 undoubtedly come when progressive improvement is the necessary 

 order of the da}^ Improved implements of culture must ofl'set the 

 continually increasing scarcity and consequent rise in value of good 

 land, skilled labor, and fertilizers. Hence that the commoij farmer 

 must switch off' and come up in tlie right track, or tlie profit margin 

 will grow beautifully less. 



