APPLE-TREE. 



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squeeze out the juice through a cloth, to which add a little 

 of the white of an egg. Boil it to a proper consistence, 

 skimming just before it begins to boil. 



APPLE-TREE.— Pynf5 malus^—lw propagating the apple- 

 tree, the common method in New England has been t( sow 

 the pomace from late made cider, without regard to the 

 quality of the apples producing the pomace. But we doubt 

 very much w^iether this is the best mode of raising this val- 

 uable fruit-tree. The seeds for a nursery should, we think, 

 be selected from the best varieties of apples which can be 

 procured ; and this for the simple reason that " like produces 

 its likeness." It is as expedient to propagate from the best 

 individuals of the vegetable as of the animal creation. In 

 proof of this theory, we would cite the following from a 

 communication to Dr. Mease of Philadelphia, addressed to 

 him by Mr. Joseph Cooper, of New^ Jersey, an accurate 

 observer and scientific cultivator : — 



" Experience for more than fifty years has convinced me 

 that, although seedlings from apples will scarcely ever pro- 

 duce fruit, in New Jersey, exactly similar to the original, 

 yet many of them will produce excellent fruit ; some will be 

 even superior to the apples from which the seeds were taken 

 This fact has led me to plant seeds from the largest and best 

 kinds of fruit, and from trees of a strong and rapid growth, 

 and to let all young trees bear fruit before grafting, which 

 produced an uncommonly strong shoot, or large, rich looking 

 leaf. I have seldom known them fail of bearing fruit hav- 

 ing some good quality ; at all events, they make stocks to 

 put any good kind on, which may afterwards present itself" 



Loudon observes, that " the apple, like most other hardy 

 trees, may be propagated by seeds, cuttings, suckers, layers, 

 or engrafting; by seeds, for obtaining new varieties, and by 

 the other modes for continuing such as are in esteem. The 

 seeds should be taken from fruits having the properties it is 

 desired to perpetuate or improve in the greatest degree. In 

 collecting seeds to sow, it must be remembered that the 

 habits as w^ell as the diseases of plants are often hereditary, 

 and attention should be paid to the state of the tree from 

 which the seeds are taken ; it should be large, and of free 

 growth, and rather in a growing state than one of maturity 

 or decay." — See Cuttings, Engrafting, Layers, Nurse- 

 ry, Orchard, Scions, in their alphabetical order. 



