PRICE FIVE CENTS 
$2.00 PER YEAR. 
NEW YORK, OCT. 28, 1882 
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[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by the Rural New-Yorker, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
takes in market. Many buyers take fruit by 
the appearance. 
Smokehouse is a fair grower; quality of 
fruit good. It ripens in October—so far not 
productive. 
Wine, a good grower; fruit of fine appear¬ 
ance and good quality—so far not productive. 
Canada Reinette grows well and the 
fruit is good; but the yield is not large—not 
profitable. 
Cranberry Pippin has nothing to recom¬ 
mend it except size. 
Belmont is a fair grower and fairly pro¬ 
ductive of medium sized fruit; pale yellow; 
not of a very attractive appearance. 
Duchess of Oldenburg and Evening Par¬ 
ty are so much alike that I put them to¬ 
gether. Trees grow fast and are productive. 
Fruit a trifle small for market, yet the quality 
is good and the color attractive—hardly 
profitable for market. 
Yellow Bellflower is here a Fall apple 
and an uncertain yielder, otherwise it stands 
in the front rank. We have a tree in rich 
soil that has not borne, so far as I recollect, 
a single crop, while we have others in Boil of 
fair condition that are good croppers. 
Fall Pippin is not very productive except 
when every apple tree bears, and then apples 
are low. 
Disharoon is a good grower; productive; 
color of fruit bad, being a dull yellow; qual¬ 
ity poor. 
St. Lawrence is a good grower and pro¬ 
ductive ; fruit of splendid quality and color; 
but its small size kills it for market. Sept. 
Hawley is so much like the Greening that 
either ours are not the true Hawley or else 
the Greening is just as good, 
Rhode Island Greening, a good grower 
and fairly productive, quality of fruit best: 
in every way superior to the Fall Pippin. 
Ripens here in September; older trees will 
sometimes ripen their fruit so that it will keep 
until January. I find that as trees get old the 
fruit keeps longer, and that it is hardly fair to 
judge of the keeping quality of a fruit until 
the tree gets 20 years old. 
Baldwin. The same remarks apply to this 
as to the Greening. On mountain land the 
Baldwin keeps best, the tree grows well and 
is productive: the fruit is of good size and 
quality. Ripens in October, but it will not 
bang on the trees much after the middle of 
September with us. It is one of the best 
apples of this season. We must class it here 
as a Fall instead of Winter apple. 
Fulton, a good grower and productive 
fruit good. 
Cogswell Pearmain is one of the best 
apples in every respect. September. 
W hite Pippin is a good grower; almost pro- 
ductive enough of large fruit to be profitable. 
American Golden Russet is a good 
grower; very productive; quality of fruit 
superior—an amateur’s apple; too small for 
market. Early October. 
Cooper’s Market is a tardy bearer; other¬ 
wise very good. 
Ridge Pippin, a good grower; not very 
productive; fruit keeps pretty well and makes 
the very best of pies. Trees need age before 
bearing. 
Nickajack, a strong grower, and the fruit 
sets all over the tree, literall v covering each 
branch. I know no other variety that sets so 
much fruit; quality good, size fair, a promis¬ 
ing apple; but it drops badly. I think this 
apple will keep better after the trees get age. 
Ripens now in October. 
Northern Spy is unproductive and ripens 
in September. 
W agenbr is sore to disappoint here. This 
place is too far south. 
Golden Russet, not profitable. 
Nevhrsink, Keirn, Marks, Turn-off Lane, 
White Winter Pearmain, and I might name 
more, are not worth planting here. 
Rome Beauty is a slow grower; productive. 
have no bearing trees of \this ’variety, and 
there are not many around here; it is valu¬ 
able only for home use. Early apples here 
are like peaches—they must give way to the 
larger fruit that comes from the South. 
Dutch Mignonnb Mr. Downing writes 
particular about the size of fruit as they 
are at present. Now if fruit is not of good 
size it will not pay to grow it in comparison 
with the profits of large-sized fruit. 
Early Flat-top is the local name of New 
Jersey Harvest. I sent samples to Mr. Charles 
LADY ELGIN CRAB 
ofRedBank, 
New Jersey, 
The apple grows to the average size of 
two inches in diameter, and its quality, 
to those who can bear the astringency of 
crabs, is as good as that of any of its class. 
We have been so well pleased with the 
beauty and fruitfulness of this little Lady 
Elgin that we have worked it upon a 
Transcendent Crab, changing half of the tree 
three years ago and the other half two years 
ago. This year the three-year-old cions were 
wreathed in fruit so heavily that half of it was 
pulled off to save the branches from being 
bent down and broken by its weight. Our 
engraving, from a photograph of a branch of 
this grafted tree, shows the n atural size of the 
apples. Crab-apples of improved varieties 
might advantageously be planted more liber¬ 
ally than they are in most gardens. The 
trees are ornamental and the blossoms are ss 
handsome as the Japan Quince, while the 
brightly colored fruit,as it maturesin the Fall, 
is itself a strong commendation. Again .these 
little trees are very hardy and will thrive in 
almost any soil or position, bearing crops 
every year. They bear very early—the 
second year generally after being transplant¬ 
ed ; they are excellent for cider, for canning, 
cooking or drying. 
LADY ELGIN APPLE, 
Tnis exceedingly beautiful little apple 
origiuated,if I mistake not, with C. Andrews, 
Marengo, Ill., from seed of the Siberian Crab, 
and is one of the group popularly known as 
* ‘the Mareugo Crabs.” Over ten years ago I 
heard the venerable horticulturist of Union 
Springs, Mr. J. J. Thomas, remark that, all 
things considered, he thought it the most de 
sirable crab-apple that had yet appeared. A1 
though several highly recommended varieties 
have since been brought forward, yet I think 
the same may be said still, at all events no 
other that I have become acquainted with do 
I esteem so highly. With me the tree is of 
vigorous, upright growth, very prolific and 
an early bearer. Fruit about the size of the 
Lady apple which it resembles, but if any 
thing even handsomer, being exceptionally 
regular in form and fair. It keeps until the 
Holidays with care; in quality it is most ex¬ 
cellent, being brisk though mild and eminently 
refreshing. While veritably a Lady Crab, yet 
there is nothing about it indicative of a 
crabbed lady, for it is as “delicious” as it is 
beautiful. J. T. Lovett. 
A WALK AMONG THE APPLE TREES, 
CRAYON SKETCH OF THE LADY ELGIN.— Fig. 400. 
Notes on walk of September 30, 
Munson Sweet, or Sweeting, is the proper 
name; Monson was an error in spelling. 
Queen’s Dklioht the late Isaac Pullen dis¬ 
seminated as a Delaware apple. He grew 
these trees for a number of years. Twenty- 
five years back the consumers were not so 
should be Blenheim Pippin. I presume this 
to be correct, according to page 100 of A. J. 
Downing’s Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. 
The Alexander sold this year at very 
high prices. 
Bbnoni gives very little return after pay¬ 
ment of shipping expenses. Size, not quality, 
Downing some years since, and he wrote me 
that it should be New Jersey Harvest; but I 
have another note from him, which led me to 
oonjecture that he may have had reference to 
an apple called Harvest, that is striped—not 
quite so large as the Early Flat-top, a little 
later in ripening, tart, and a fair bearer. We 
