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1864. 



THE ILLmOIS FAEMEK. 



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Stannard Apple- 



We are indebted to the Prairie Farmer for the 

 above outliue of this apple. We have nothing fur- 

 ther to add than the fact that the trees are again 

 loaded with an abundant crop of fine fruit, and that 

 we have but few trees to sell . The demand of 

 those who had the pleasure of seeing this valuable 

 apple in bearing in our grounds having exhausted 

 tho stock of trees on hand. — Ed. III. FAuaER. 



The above outline gives a fair average illustra- 

 tion of this apple, as we saw it growing a few days 

 since in the orchard of M. L. Dunlap, near Cham- 

 paign City. Mr. Dunlap has furnished us the fol- 

 lowing remarks relating to the apple. 



"This variety of apple was received from the 

 Buffalo Nursery of Col. B. Hodge, Buffalo, New 

 York, in the spring of 1846. The trees came un- 

 der the name of peach apple ; subsquently under 

 its true n ime, the modesty of the Colonel seldom 

 allowing him to send out a fruit under its true 

 name. 



The trees fruited in 1849 and have given large 

 annual crops of fine fruit up to the present time, 

 (Oct. 1863.) Not a twig has been injured by win- 

 ter, nor the crop in anywise lessened by frost. It 

 bears the same relation to Romanite apples that 

 the Keswick Codlin does to those of Summer, be- 

 ing an early and abundant bearer, and valuable 

 both for the table and kitchen. 



DiscRiPTiox. — Col. Hodge, in his Catalogue for 

 1845, describes it as 'large, oblate, green, red and 

 yellow ; December to March ; very productive ; 

 juicy, pleasant, fine.' To be a little more precise : 

 the fruit is large size, slightly angular, rather flat- 

 ish, and in some specimen j tapering to the eye ; 

 skin at first a dull green, ch^mging to yellow at ma- 

 tunity ; deeply splashed and striped with red and 

 dotted with numerous large russet specks, with a 

 slight m irgin of pale russet about the stem ; otem 

 rather deeply inserted, half an inch long and bod- 



ing the fruit firmly to the fruit spur ; calyx closed, 

 set in a moderate basin ; slightly corrugated ; flesh 

 yellowish white, raihir cearse, very juicy, with a 

 rather rich sub-acid flavor ; ripens in December 

 and keeps through March ; is a superior cooking, 

 and a very good table apple, For cooking, it is in 

 use from the first of September, and from that time 

 to the first of April, has no superior for this pur- 

 pose. Add to this that the tree is hardy in all 

 parts of the State, is a rapid grower, a young, 

 abundant and annual bearer it is a fruit that 

 should not be slightly passed over. The tree is a 

 crooked, spreading, irregular grower, with large, 

 deeply serrated leaves, the young shoots of a deep 

 wine color, covered with a white bioom, with prom- 

 inent white colored budsw 



This variety has been fruited by several parties 

 in Cook county, among them the '0!d Doctor' at 

 'The Grove,' and his brother, Joseph Kennicott, at 

 Dunton Station. In my orchard at Leyden, Cook 

 county, there are three trees that have borne fif- 

 teen annual crops." — Prairie Farmer, Oct. 3, 1863^ 



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The Potato Rot. — At a meering of the Far- 

 mers' Club, Mr. Carpenter stated: "I have read 

 and observed a great deal on the subject of the po- 

 tato rot, and the sum of the whole seems to be that 

 potatoes planted in moist and tenacious soils are 

 much more subject to rot than if planted in dry 

 ground." Prof. Mapes remarked : "I had a field, 

 half of which was under-drained, and I planted 

 the whole to potatoes. On the under-drained por- 

 tion none of the polntoes rotted, while on the oth- 

 er half they all rotted." 



„_^ He who pursues wealth and dispenses it 

 not in alleviating the woes of his less fortunate 

 neighbor, is aa alien in the uaiverse of God. 



