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November, 1910 



The tree may be described as a fair 

 grower, with short, stout, curved branches. 

 This is, in effect. Beach's description of 

 it. Its general form is upright or roundish. 



The fruit of Grimes as grown in the 

 East is of medium size; when well grown 

 it may be described as large. Its form is 

 a regular roundish oblong. Sometimes 

 Western specimens show a conical ten- 

 dency and well - marked ribs or ridges. 

 The stem is short and set in a broad, deep 

 cavity, which is fre- 

 quently russeted. 

 The fiesh of Grimes 

 is yellow, tender, but 

 firm and crisp, fine- 

 grained, quite juicy, 

 with a pleasant sub- 

 acid, sprightly fla- 

 vor. It is highly 

 praised by growers 

 of the Middle West, 

 but has never at- 

 tained a prominent 

 place in the East. 

 Its season ranges 

 from November 

 through January. 



As a bearer. 

 Grimes has a very 

 good reputation 

 where it succeeds. 

 As a keeper in cold 

 storage, like most 

 yellow varieties, it 

 is not very satisfac- 

 tory, owing to its 

 susceptibility to 



scald. Grimes represents one of the va- 

 rieties of apples which are much less cos- 

 mopolitan in its characteristics than others, 

 but a variety which gives great satisfaction 

 when grown in suitable conditions. 



LADY 



Under the name of Pomme d'Api, this 

 variety has been grown in France for at 

 least three centuries, according to the 

 statement of the best pomological his- 



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torians. It is difficult to say how and 

 when it found its way to this country. 

 Certainly it was among the pioneers, for 

 it has long been prized by discriminating 

 apple-growers of New England. Another 

 evidence of its relative antiquity is afi'orded 

 by the number of its offspring found in 

 Eastern New York and New England. 



There is nothing in the size of Lady to 

 prevent it from being classed with crab- 

 apples. It has, however, coupled with 



Blue Pearmain. a century-old variety. Of a beautiful purplish color and pear-like flavor 



its small size the saving feature of a short 

 stem, which is usually regarded as an 

 essential character that separates the 

 crab from the apple, and it also has no 

 astringent, crab-like characteristics of 

 flavor or flesh. 



The tree possesses moderate vigor, 

 coupled with a rather dense and somewhat 

 upright habit of growth. It should not 

 be planted on clay soils. This is impor- 

 tant. It requires a warm loam to develop 



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color and the highest flavor. As Beach 

 remarks, in "The Apples of New York," 

 the fruiting habit is peculiar in that the 

 apples are borne in clusters on spurs dis- 

 posed quite closely on the branches. 

 This fact, together with the small size 

 of the fruit, makes picking rather expensive. 

 It cannot be said to be an early bearer, 

 but on the other hand it produces with 

 considerable regularity after the bearing 

 period is reached. The commercial value 

 of Lady lies in its di- 

 minutive attractive- 

 ness, its beautiful 

 color and its high 

 quality. These char- 

 acteristics are, how- 

 ever, only fully 

 brought out when 

 under suitable soil 

 and culture condi- 

 tions. 



The fruit is of the 

 smallest size, regu- 

 larly oblate or flat in 

 form. The skin is 

 smooth, rather thin 

 and mostly covered 

 with a beautiful 

 pink and red blush, 

 irregularly inter- 

 spersed with clear 

 yellow areas. It is 

 this interesting fea- 

 ture of color which, 

 makes Lady so at- 

 tractive. The flesh 

 is white and unusu- 

 ally fine grained. The qualities of juice 

 and flavor are pleasantly subacid, aromatic 

 and all that is required to make it a kind 

 ranking from good to best. Lady is one of 

 our best keepers, and in ordinary ventilated 

 storage can be held in good condition until 

 May. It is essentially an amateur apple 

 that may be grown for the special market, 

 but with most favorable conditions the 

 grower should receive top market prices 

 in order to make its cultivation profitable. 



Practical and Impractical Ideas from England— By wiiheim Miller, 



WHY DO WE SQUANDER THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS A YEAR ON ENGLISH YEW, WHEN 

 JAPANESE YEW, WHICH IS PRACTICALLY THE SAME THING, IS ABSOLUTELY HARDY? 



New 

 York 



TT IS easy to understand why the Ameri- 

 -■■ can people seem determined to plant 

 English yew in spite of all the experts 

 who have ever lived. No other evergreen 

 tree or shrub has its roots so deep in 

 Anglo-Saxon life. It is a perfect symbol 

 of England's passion for ancient and 

 enduring things. It grew in England 

 many thousands of years ago when the 

 elephant and rhinoceros roamed that 

 land. And when all the other evergreen 

 conifers left England, the yew was the only 

 one, save Scotch pine, that remained. 

 When Caesar visited Britain and gave 



the first authentic account of our brave 

 barbarian ancestors, the Britons defended 

 themselves with bows of yew, and as long 

 as English archers were celebrated, the 

 yew furnished the best wood for bows. 

 In many an English church-yard there 

 is a yew tree i,ooo years old — the soli- 

 tary living witness of the rise and fall of 

 the oldest human families in the land. I 

 heard of several yews that are thought to 

 be 4,000 years old. 



Both as a tree and as a hedge the English 

 love the yew. As a tree it reaches a 

 maximum height of about sLxty feet, but 



the familiar size is fifteen to twenty feet. 

 Every English child that ever lived has 

 rejoiced at the sight of this small, square- 

 headed tree, with its short trunk and sturdy 

 frame. Every child that has grown to 

 manhood has been comforted in winter 

 by its perennial verdure and its warm, 

 reddish bark. Nothing is more pictur- 

 esque, weird, or solemn than the double 

 rows of yew that lead to many an ancient 

 church, for the overarching and inter- 

 lacing branches, seen from within, remind 

 one of Dore's illustrations of Dante's 

 Inferno. Yet no evergreen is more dec- 



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