He Stands by the Baldwin 
I am located in Central New York, 
where all kinds of apples are grown. 
Some praise one kind and some another, 
but I believe in the Baldwin apple, and 
until they prove to be a total failure I 
shall always plant them, although they 
are sometimes a shy yielder. Last Fall 
I had a bumper crop, while my neighbor’s 
trees of McIntosh, Spy and fancy apples 
were a failure. I have trees of Baldwin 
on my farm that were set 75 years ago 
by my grandfather. Those trees are 
bearing more fruit than Baldwin trees 
that were set 25 yeais ago. It takes 
•time and energy to get Baldwin started 
and fruiting, but when they do come into 
their own a man has got a money-maker 
for himself and his grandchildren. Also. 
I think the Baldwin tree about the easiest 
tree to prune after it has gained it> ma¬ 
turity. say 30 years. About all the 
pruning it requires is to keep out dead 
wood and suckers, and spray well, al¬ 
though some will not agree with me on 
this point, and I find if you have a son 
who has just graduated from college, with 
his new fund angled ideas, it is a good 
practice to pur him in “MaV* flower bed 
during pruning, instead of the orchard. 
Then, if he ruins “JIa's" flowers they 
will probably make second growth with 
a little nursing, but if he spoils a Bald¬ 
win apple rree 30 years old hi- will prob¬ 
ably have a chance to nurse it the rest 
of his natural life. 
It takes time for a Baldwin to prove 
itself, so give them their chance with the 
rest of the apple trees, and you will in 
time find they are producing when the 
rest of your apple trees have been cut 
down and put into firewood. Those who 
have a young orchard and are in middle 
life will receive daily*blessings from their 
granehildren long after they have turned 
to dust, and in the cool Autumn of their 
life they can look back anti think of the 
days when grunddaddy planted the Bald¬ 
win apple orchard that is turning them 
into cash when the old harvest moon is 
shining. I, for one. would rather leave 
my sons a good Baldwin orchard than 
cash, as I know, and would be amply as¬ 
sured that, provided they gave it reason¬ 
able care, thy would have an income for 
life. L. S. SUTTON. 
New York. 
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Fruit Notes from Connecticut 
I have been agreeably surprised this 
season regarding the Late Crawford 
peach. We have only two or three frees 
of this variety, but they have borne a 
heavy crop of high quality. I should 
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