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June, 1890. 
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OFVRDEN 
June Jottings. 
There is perhaps no month during the 
growing season in which young trees re- 
quire more care and thorough culture than 
in this, for often in July we have a drought, 
and if the soil is not kept well stirred the 
ground becomes very dr} - and hard and, with 
the addition of weeds, the t rees get so stunt- 
ed that they never fully recover. We should 
rub or cut off suckers and limbs that ob- 
struct the natural growth on trees and 
grafts, and if pruning has to be done this is 
perhaps the best time to do it as the wounds 
heal over quickly now. Perhaps the less 
pruning we do the better it may be for the 
trees: so destructive has this been in some 
sections that one can scarcely find a good 
tree in an orchard. More particularly, how- 
ever, is this the case with the shade trees of 
many of our towns. Some of our finest 
trees here have been ruined by professional 
tree prun ?rs going the rounds of the city 
every Spring and taking off from half to 
nine-tenths of every limb on the trees to 
make them grow more stocky and hand- 
some, they say, but in fact to either de- 
stroy their vitality or to make them grow 
with longer slender limbs that are brok- 
en off by every storm. Give the trees 
plenty of room and let them grow and 
then we will have fine trees without such 
“judicious pruning.” 
The hints of last month in regard to in- 
sect remedies apply with equal force now 
and should be attended to in season. 
For the Codling Moth Mr. A. C. Ham- 
mond of Illinois recommends one pound 
of London purple to 120 gallons of water. 
With the cheap pump he used two men 
went over a ten acre orchard in a day. It 
therefore seems unecessary for theorchard- 
ist to invest in high-priced machinery for 
this purpose. 
June budding can now be done on young 
seedlings of this season’s growth. This is 
practiced by some in preference to fall bud- 
ding as we get trees from the seed in one 
season. The work is done exactly like any 
other budding, the only difference is in 
the time the work is done and in the after 
treatment. In about twelve or fifteen days 
after or as soon as the buds have united, the 
stocks should be cut off close to the bud and 
the bass ligatures cut loose so that the buds 
may start into active growth at once. All 
the suckers must be kept off the stocks and 
by fall fine, handsome little trees will be the 
result. These, of course, are not as large as 
fall budded trees for they have only had one 
season's growth, but for sending by mail or 
express they are much the best and are 
equally as good for any other purpose. June 
budding has one important advantage over 
fall budding in this section and northwards 
where the climate is so cold that we have 
to cover a portion of the stocks to keep the 
winter from killing the dormant buds. In 
June budding the trees are grown in one 
season and can be taken up in the fall and 
disposed of, or heeled-in until Spring and 
then sold. This gives the North the ability 
to grow the peach and some other tender 
trees without so much labor in winter pro- 
tection. — J. Stayman. 
Orchard Notings. 
Two Confounded Apples. 
“I do not see why you and so many other 
fruitgrowers praise the Hubbardston apple 
so highly; I call it a rather poor apple;” — 
was a remark made quite a number of vears 
ago by a farmer in the southern Champlain 
Valley. It was put aside th< n, as a matter 
of personal taste; but sev ral years after, 
while visiting my now deceased friend, 
Robert H. Gardiner, of Gardiner, Maine, 
(who was then president of the Maine Po- 
mological Society,) I accidentally got a clue 
to the reason of that remark. 
Probably not one reader in hundreds, ev- 
en though a fruitgrower of experience, 
knows (what is nevertheless on record in 
« The Yellow Transparent apple. Fig. 399. 
Downing's “Fruits and Fruit Trees of Amer- 
ica,”) that there is a Hubbardston Nonesuch 
and a Hubbardton Pippin, — and that the 
two apples very closely resemble one anoth- 
er in external appearance. Mr. Gardiner 
not only drew my attention to the record of 
this fact, but he also showed and gave me 
specimens of both varieties. He said that 
many years ago he set out a considerable 
number of trees bought for Hubbardston 
Nonesuch; but when they came to bearing, 
and the fruit was shipped to Boston, the 
dealers there found them entirely unlike 
the Massachusetts Hubbardstons, and unsal- 
able as such. He then ordered a new lot of 
trees, set them in orchard, and in a few 
years was able to make close comparison 
between the two kinds, thus satisfying him- 
self that they were truly unlike in quality 
and keeping, though soclosely alike inform 
and color. Downing’s descriptions are as 
follows: 
“ Hubbardston Nonesuch. A fine large 
early winter fruit, orginated in Hubbardston, 
Mass. Tree vigorous, with a branching 
head, and a large producer. Shoots, dull 
grayish brown, slightly downy. Fruit large, 
roundish oblong, much narrower near ' he 
eye. Skin smooth, splashed and striped 
with pale and bright red on a yellowish 
ground. Calyx open, stalk short, in a rw«- 
seted cavity. Flesh yellow, juicy, tender, 
very good to best. Season Oct. to Jan.” 
“ Hubbardton Pippin. Origin uncertain. 
[Since traced to Hubbardton, Vt.] Tree 
thrifty, a strong grower, and productive. 
Young shoots clear reddish brown. Fruit 
large, globular, inclined to conic, yellow, 
shaded and striped with red. Stalk short, 
in a moderate cavity. Calyx closed. Flesh 
tender, yellowish, crisp, juicy, pleasant sub- 
acid. Very good. Nov. to March.” 
One might think from these descriptions 
that the Pippin could be made to replace 
the Nonesuch in market and be of more val- 
ue, because a better keeper. But this only 
shows the weakness of a written description. ■ 
Though one might easily be deceived in the 
two apples by the eye, no one acquainted 
with the Nonesuch would ever be satisfied 
with the Pippin as a dessert fruit. Stand- 
ing alone, on its own merits, the Pippin 
might be, and indeed is a well liked and 
salable apple. It is only when it is forced 
to play the part of an unconscious fraud 
that it is rejected. 
The Yellow Transparent Apple. 
Being the first to call attention to this 
valuable Russian summer fruit, and hav- 
ing distributed cions of it all over the 
United States, I have taken much pride 
in its popularity, as well as a good deal 
of satisfaction with the profit I have 
derived from the sale of its fruit, ripen- 
ing as it does nearly a month ahead of 
any apple of nearly equal merit in this 
section. But last year I discovered an- 
other merit in it, which, if it proves 
general, is of hardly less importance than 
its introduction. I find that here, at 
least, it out-runs the apple maggot, ( trypeta 
jjomonella), being all in market before that 
destructive insect begins to do harm. As 
for all our other soft-fleshed apples, — not 
only sweets and all September and October 
varieties, but even winter sorts, — I fear 
that they will, in a very few years, practical- 
ly disappear from market, unless an effec- 
tive remedy is found. So far nothing but 
yarding sheep and swine on the orchard 
seems likely to prove effective. — T. H. 
Hoskins. 
Carson’* Favorite Apple, 
Fruit large; form oblong ovate-conic, 
slightly fine ribbed; skin smooth, glossy; 
color clear white, mixed, splashed and strip- 
ed with bright light and deep crimson, hand- 
some; dots small, few if any, light; stem 
short, slender; cavity rather narrow, deep, 
green, irregular; calyx medium, closed, or 
half open; segments short, erect; basin nar- 
row, rather deep, furrowed ;core large, ovate, 
slightly open; carpels large, long, hollow” 
seeds small, plump, ovate, dark brown ;flesh 
wdiite, very tender, juicy, sprightly, pecu- 
liar pleasant sub-acid; quality very good. 
