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A QUESTION 
^ | cue Rnm ii’ji Iron 
Bitters cure everything?" Well, it doesn't; but it 
does cure any disease for which a reputable physician 
would M-escribe Iron. Physiciana recognize Iron 
as the nest restorative agent known to the profes¬ 
sion, ami intiairy of any Tending chemical firm will 
substantiate the assertion that there are more prep¬ 
aration* of iron than of any other substance used m 
medicine. This shows conclusively that in n is ac¬ 
knowledged to be the most impt-rtant factor in suc¬ 
cessful medical | | nm IT practice. It is, 
however, V l?E- R HI ll I I J1 V KKA HI.E 
FACT that pri HuUU I or to the rjiscov- 
eryof Brown's | mbwhhm Iron Hitters 
no perfectly sat isfactory iron combination had. ever 
been found. BROWN** IRON BITTERS 
does not injure the teeth, muse headache, 
or produce constipation—all other IRON 
medicines do. BROWN'S IRON' BITTERS 
cores Indigestion. Biliousness, Weakness, 
Dyspepsia, Malaria, Chills and Fevers, 
Tired Feelitig.lieneral Debility,Pain in the 
Side, Back or Limbs, II enduelic and Neural¬ 
gia— fur all these ailments Don is prescribed daily. 
B ROWN’S I RON R ITTERS 
however, does not cure in a minute. Like all other 
thorough medicines, it acts slowly. When taken by 
MEN', the first symptom of benefit is lltncirrd En- 
eri/if. The wwrrhoithen become prri' er. the dinenlion 
imfrov*. the bowels are active.’ Is \VIMQ5N the 
effect is usually m*ire rapid arid marked. The eyes 
begin at once to brighten: the skin clears up; 
healthy color comes to the cheeks; nervousness 
disappears; functional derangements become regu¬ 
lar. and if a nursing motbor. abundant sustenance 
is supplied for the child. Remember Biw?n'« Iron 
Bitters is the only iron ■ >■ Allir*n m 
medicine that is net in- A Jv L 111 L U L J 
iurions. Physicians and H110 Vb LlIUU 
Drugeists recommend it 
The Genuine has Trade Mark and crossed red lines 
on wrapper. TARE NO OTHER. 
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ANSWERED 
IOWA ORCHARD NOTES. 
L. E. BENTON. 
The Wealthy Apple is receiving much 
praise, and is rather pressingly urged to be 
planted in the cold sections of the North. 
There is no doubt of its hardiness, and the 
fruit is quite good, but let us go slow in plant¬ 
ing it for these reasons: It has not yet neen 
tried enough in a way to test its value, many 
of those praising and selling it having never 
seen it outside of the nursery. It will proba¬ 
bly be liable to blight in some sections, blight¬ 
ing already in the case of young trees which I 
saw last Fall in the Iowa part of the Missouri 
basin. Lastly, it is a Fall apple, and one does 
not need many trees that ripen their fruit iu 
Autumn. This is not said to discourage plant¬ 
ing this variety, hut to induce people to plant 
it as it should be—just a few trees by each 
until it is better known. 
*** 
Tbe notes by Dr. Hoskins and the results of 
his long experience in his Northern Vermont 
home, so aptly describe our needs as to be of 
great value, His experience with the hardier 
apples ulmost exactly coincides with ours. 
Still there is much difference in the climate, 
for he spoke, in a late number of the Rural, 
of the Concord Grape ripening perfectly only 
one year in five. With us it hardly ever fails 
to ripen,and generally has two weeks or more 
to spare. It begins to color on August 15, 
and it is best by the first of September. It is 
probable our advantage lies in sunnier and 
warmer autumn days and drier air. 
*** 
Neither does our early Richmond Cherry 
suffer by loss of its blossoms from injury from 
late Spring frost, as he says it does with him. 
We often have late frosts, commonly occur¬ 
ring about the time strawberries begin to 
show blossom, and often to their injury. The 
blossnifRfof our cherries receive their injury 
in the Winter while in the embryonic condi¬ 
tion,in the fruit buds. 
*** 
Every one recognizing the value of correct¬ 
ness in scientific names, should insist upon 
more care being used in naming those fruits 
which are the results of sexual reproduction. 
For simplicity iu classification of such new 
fuits, let us put them in three classes distin¬ 
guished as follows: Those produced from two 
varieties of the same species, as a seedling 
resulting from a cross between a Green and 
Yellow Gage Plum. Secondly, those cross¬ 
breeds which result from different species. 
Last, that rare and more difficult production 
from a cross between different races, tribes or 
genera, which results iu a hybrid. 
*** . 
I bave admired the position which the 
RuRAL,editors have taken on the name of 
Ivieffer’s Hybrid Pear, and on such misapplied 
names generally. Not only is it better to have 
a correct name, but it makes the work more 
instructive and plainer, and there will be less 
to unravel in order to get at results and make 
comparisons. 
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Is it not possible in the many efforts being 
made, to discover such laws of plant breeding 
as will enable us to make rapid progress in 
the improvement of our fruits, that we have 
been working in a very incoherent way? A 
variety is a mongrel, so to speak, beiug the 
last of many generations of seedlings. Now 
a cross between two such varieties cannot 
produce any constant and instructive results. 
One of the parents, at least, must be of a race 
that has been grown so long under tbe same 
conditions that it will reproduce itself from 
the seed. 
Rockwell City, la. 
BLOOM ON RUSSIAN APPLES. 
PROF. J. L. BUDD. 
The tendency to bloom on the apples we 
have fruited from central and eastern Russia 
has been often spokeu of in tbe Rural. In 
lookiug over “British Fruits” published in 
1833, 1 find this note by Dr. Lindley iu speak¬ 
ing of the White Astrachan: 
“The waxy secretion called bloom, which 
has been wisely provided for protecting the 
delicate cuticle of many succulent fruits, such 
as plums and grapes, is scarcely found in the 
apple and pear. In apples, however, there 
are a few exceptions to this, and, what is re¬ 
markable, these are almost exclusively among 
tbe varieties from Russia. For instance, 
Duchess of Oldenburg, Alexumlor, aud White 
Astracban—all known to come to us from 
Russia—are coated with bloom hs copious aud 
delicate as that of the most beautiful plum.” 
As with the thick leaves, coated with 
pubescence, of dry, interior climates, this 
bloom of the apple seems a provision of 
Nature to prevent too rapid evaporation when 
the air has little moisture. The orchards on 
D. S. Marvin's account of an apple under 
the name Tomahawking (Rural, page 242), 
adds one more to the list of synonyms of the 
Fallawater (as the Rural, no doubt rightly, 
suggests).already comprising over a dozen. The 
whole list would bear printing to illustrate tbe 
range and modification of names for a single 
variety of fruit. It is generally known in New 
York markets under a grotesque name sound- 
iDg phonetically as Tallakeehawkee. I doubt 
if it is known there as Fallawater at all. 
When calling the attention of friends to this 
apple under its true name, I would nearly 
the banks of the Volga are exposed to the dry 
winds from the deserts of Arabia, Persia, and 
South east Russia, and we find the apples, ami 
most of the pears, are covered with this deli¬ 
cate bloom to such an exteut as to draw forth 
extravagaut praise from the’Russian poets of 
the Middle Ages. In the dry air of the Miss¬ 
issippi basin, this bloom of the apple, pear, 
plum, and grape is far more perfect and beau¬ 
tiful than in the rnoister air of Michigan or 
the Eastern States. 
In connection with this early mention of 
Russian apples in England, it may be well to 
note that Dr. Lindley gives a fine cut aud 
description of an apple received from the 
Taurida Gardens of Russia, under the name 
of Dolgoi Squoznoi—Long Transparent—“an 
excellent summer apple among the earliest to 
ripen; fruit ovate or oblong; stalk about an 
iuch long in a deep, regular cavity; skin a 
very clear, light-yellow green, yellow on the 
sunny side; flesh whitish, firm, crisp, very 
juicy, with a most agreeable, lively, sweetish, 
suh-acid flavor.” At that time it was grown 
in England, and I think it still is, as “Sugar- 
loaf Pippin,” yet another quite distinct variety 
is given by Dr. Hogg under this name. The 
msseted, slightly irregular cavity; calyx 
small, closed, in a small, irregular basin; it 
has, quit* often, patches of russet scattered 
over its surface; core rather large and very 
full of medium-sized seeds; flesh fine-grained, 
of a greeulsh shade of white, tender, not ex¬ 
tremely juicy, very mild, sub acid, in quality 
very good. Eaten March 26. It is said to 
keep Bice)y till the last of May, but to be in 
the best eating condition in April. A section 
is shown in Fig, 107. 
FALLAWATER APPLE. 
VERMONT GREENING. (From Nature.) Fig. 166. 
apple figured by Dr. Lindley will probably 
prove identical with our Yellow Transparent 
receiver! from Russia as Schotoi Squoznoi 
(Yellow Transparent). 
Ames, Iowa. 
THE VERMONT GREENING. 
One of the best apples we have in cultiva¬ 
tion is one of the oldest—namely the R. I. 
Greening. Though to some tastes it is a little 
too soar, and though liable to over-bear, and, 
if left too thiekly on the trees, to be under¬ 
sized and still sourer in taste, yet a well- 
grown Greening is hard to beat, and in the 
market commands a higher price than would 
any other apple (the Baldwin possibly ex¬ 
cepted), if put there in equal quantities. On 
March 23d, we received by mail specimens of 
a fine apple from our friend, W. H. Rand, of 
Shelburne, Vt. From his letter and one in- 
always be ridiculed, some saying “A name 
you made np for it.” All who are growing or 
handling this apple should conform to the 
proper nomenclature, and adhere to Falla¬ 
water. 
Mr. Marvin's statement about 75 filling a 
barrel is within bounds. It is a wonderful 
apple for uniformly large size and perfeet 
shape, so exact that “fruit of the lathe" would 
be appropriate. It is regular, roundish, slight¬ 
ly conical: cavity narrow, not deep; calyx 
set in a broad, shallow basin; color green— 
hardly yellow green—blushed in the sun. with 
small, white dots a'l over, and an indistinct, 
frosty appearance in and about the cavity; 
skin rather tough; flesh white, sweetish, and 
without any pronounced flavor; slightly 
coarse—good for cooking, for market, and 
for show. Tree thrifty, large, with stout 
shoots and twigs—very productive. 
VERMONT GREENING. Half Section. Fig. 167. 
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closet! therein from O. W. Davis, we learn 
that it is a seedling of the R. I. Greening— 
which it slightly resembles—which originated 
iu Waterbury, Vermont, many years ago. It 
is very hardy even iu that trying climate, 
where neither the Greening nor the Baldwin 
can be grown. It is a vigorous grower, very 
healthy ami extremely productive. The fruit 
is a great favorite aud quickly bought up by 
the local dealers. The size aud shape of a 
medium specimen are shown in Fig. 106. Its 
color is a delicate waxy, greenish-yellow, 
shaded in spots with a deeper green, thickly 
covered with minute, whitish dots, which 
seem to be placed on the inuer skin, showing 
through its outer semi-transparent skin; stem 
very long (1# inch), very slender and slightly 
curved; planted in a small,-quite deep, faintly 
Mr. M. is correct iu noting its beiug less 
attacked than others by insects; but when 
smitten with tbe apple peel fungus, or “scab,” 
it cracks badly. Uncommon in Wayne Co., 
N. Y. W. L. DEYEREAUX. 
Wayne Co. 
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Among the many new varieties of apples 
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promising. It is of large size, a beautiful 
showy fruit of good flavor and good for all 
purposes, selling at the season of ripening— 
September and October— for the highest price. 
Tree a very thrifty, upright grower, bearing 
early fruit, mostly in tbe center of the tree. 
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