142 THE CANADIAN HOKTICULTURIST. 



TETOFSKY APPLE. 



BY A. BRIDGE, WEST BROOK, ONT. 



1 am acquainted with a man in this Township who is the owner 

 •of a fine young orchard, in which he has quite a number of the 

 Tetofsky apple trees planted, and he regrets very much that he planted 

 any of that variety. He has condemned it on the ground that the 

 fruit is poor, and the tree is a slow grower. I think this cannot he 

 said of the Tetofsky on all soils. His soil is a sandy loam, and most 

 of his trees are doing remarkably well, but the Tetofsky refuses to 

 grow to his liking. I know the Tetofsky is a slow grower on some 

 soils, and I also know that it will grow as fast as the general run of 

 apple trees if it is planted on a soil that suits it. I consider the fruit 

 superior to the Eed Astrachan. 



In 1876 I planted four two year old Tetofsky trees, two and a half 

 feet high, without a limb on one of them. I planted one of these trees 

 -on a hard clay knoll, with a hard clay subsoil. I planted it very 

 shallow, and did not loosen the subsoil as is generally done, but set 

 the tree on the hard ground, and put fine earth about the roots. The 

 tree commenced to grow at once, and formed a good head the first 

 season, and has made a good growth every season since. The tree is 

 now a beauty to look upon, being a little over nine feet in height. 

 It has made sixteen inches of new wood this season, making an 

 average yearly growth of sixteen inches, and does not get any manure 

 •except a few wood ashes scattered on the surface once a year. This 

 piece of clay ground was of no value to me until I planted it with 

 apple trees. I formerly planted it yearly with potatoes, but it was so 

 hard I never got a crop from it. 



I planted a few other varieties on this olay knoll at the time the 

 Tetofsky was planted, and it would do a person good to see them. 

 They are the finest trees of their age I have ever seen, and were all 

 planted on the surface soil, hilling up a little to get the roots covered, 

 and the subsoil was not loosened. I dig up the ground with a fork 

 once a year, and keep the weeds down witli a hoe. There is no other 

 crop raised on this piece of land. The trees are planted ten feet apart. 

 The Tetofsky came into bearing in 1878, and in 1879 it bore half a 

 'bushel very fine apples. The apples grew all around the limbs, and 



