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*o your experience and observation to determine its 

 importance. 



The Westjield Seeh-no-further^ taking all its qual- 

 ities, is the best apple for cultivation, on any soil, 

 that I know among the old varieties. It has a low 

 spreading top; the limbs come out of a nerve and 

 never split. The fruit spurs are distributed all 

 over the large branches, and it bears every other year 

 profusely. The apple is good size, ready for use in 

 the fall, and remains good all winter. It is my 

 favorite apple for eating. For its many good quali- 

 ties I should not complain if one third of my 

 orchard was of this variety. It seems adapted to 

 any soil, but my neighbor thinks they are not quite 

 so good on his alluvial creek bottom as on my clay. 



Ramho is a healthy tree; good bearer, and most 

 people want the fruit. It seems to do well any- 

 where. There is but one objection I have to the 

 tree; that is its tendency to run up beyond your 

 reach. Last year I had one Rambo forty years old- 

 It had about five or six barrels of larger fair fruit, 

 as much so as on trees not half so old, yet with a 

 ladder I picked my Seek-no-furthers of the same 

 age; I could not reach a single basket full from the 

 Kambo, The fruit went to loss because we had no 

 ^adder that would reach it. 



Newtown Ptpphi — John Matthews, formerly of 

 Moxahala, who had the greatest of apples of his 

 -day, considered this the most worthy of cultivation 

 of any he had experimented with. It has not done 

 near so well of late, being inclined, some seasons to 

 scab. But I never had a better crop cf this favorite 

 than last year, it was large and fair on trees from 

 fifteen to forty years old. But on strong soil it is 

 inclined to run up. It is in its perfection in the 

 spring. 



Gate^ or Belmont, as the boos men improperly call 

 it, is one of the handsomest apples cultivated. It 

 bears well, and is perhaps better adapted to the 

 taste of the amateur than any other apple ; and, 

 if it were not for the defective habits of the tree 

 would stand at the very head of the list for cultivation. 

 The trees split apart and perish in various ways as 

 they are coming into maturity. My neighbor 

 planted ten Grate near twenty years ago, they bore 

 about two or three good crops and then went apart, 

 so that he has not had a Gate apple in his orchard 

 for a number of years. I planted fifteen about the 

 same time; two passable trees are all that are left. 

 I have seen on a farm of Joshua Gorsuch of this 

 County, a Gate tree that had been bearing for 

 thirty years. It was grafted in the top, on limbs of 

 a natural stock five or six years old. • This proved 

 quite a successful experiment against the splitting 



habits of the tree, and shows that the friends of 

 this particular kind of fruit have a remedy for its 

 defects. 



SELECTION FOR AN ORCHARD. 



We will give the proportions we would re- 

 commend in a selection of one hundred trees from 

 such varieties as we have tested on our soil : West- 

 field Seek-no-further, 15 ; Newtown Pippin, and 

 Willow Twig 10 ; Wine Sap 10 ; Federal 5 ; Rambo 

 5 ; Bently Swc et 5 ; Yellow Bellflower 5 ; Ameri- 

 can Golden Russet 5 ; White Bellflower 4 ; Roman 

 Stem 2 ; Kaighn's Spitzenberg 2 ; iilue Pearmain 

 2 ; Cooper 2 ; Summer Sweet 2 ; White Jennetting 

 2 ; Early Harvest 2 ; Early Pennock 2 ; Black Ap- 

 ple 2 ; Northern Spy 2 ; Putman Russet 2 ; Gate 

 2 ; Winter Pearmain 2. 



It may be proper to give a list of such fruits as 

 we have found on trial to be comparatively worthless 

 for cultivation, so as to put the public on their 

 guard ; viz : Fall Pippin, Tulpehocken, Grind- 

 stone, Rhode Island Greening, Romanite, Rawle's 

 Jannet, Red Cathead, Dutch Mignonne, Bough 

 Sweet, Jersey Red Streak, Cornish, Gilliflower, 

 French Pippin, Esopus Spitzenberg and others of 

 which we have not the names. Some of these are 

 worthless bearing qualities, as the Fall Pippin and 

 Bough ; others, because the tree perishes, as the 

 Tulpehocken ; and others, because of their inferior 

 quality, as the Grindstone ; this apple has long been 

 celebrated for its keeping properties, but there has 

 of late years been so many superior keepers intro- 

 duced, that it should be permitted to retire from 

 the list. 



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The RoyalHorticultural Society oe London 

 has been "starring" it in the Provinces. The Gar- 

 deners' Chronicle gives an account of a very success- 

 ful exhibition at Bury St. Edmunds : 



"We mentioned last week that the locality 

 chosen for the exhibition was the Vine Fields, as 

 they are called, a spot which, we may presume, the 

 monks of olden time knew how to turn to good ac- 

 count. Here Mr. Eyles succeeded in arranging a 

 most effective exhibition — probably the best provin- 

 cial show that has yet been seen. 



There was, in the first place. Unite's great circu- 

 lar tent, 90 feet in diameter, forming the reception 

 room, so to speak, from whence the visitors were 

 conducted through the suite of tents beyond, extend- 

 ing to more than 200 yards in length. In this cir- 

 cular tent were a central stage, a broad pathway, 



