VOL,. XXXVIII. No. 41. I 
WUOL.E No. 1350. f 
NEW YORK, OCT. 11, 1879. 
I PR ICE FIVE CENTS. 
I 92.00 PEH YEAR. 
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SOME OF OUR BEST APPLES. 
Where they Will Succeed. 
We have made a number of accurate draw¬ 
ings from specimens of well-known and well- 
tried apples, which we shall endeavor to place 
before the reader before the present planting 
season shall have passed away. Our present 
engravings are from specimens kindly for¬ 
warded by Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry of Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y. From all sources available to us 
we append a list of the States in which these 
varieties will thrive best. 
Golden Rugset. (See p. 655.) 
f ruit, medium in size, generally somewhat 
oblong, keeps till spring. Flesh, fine, firm, 
crisp- flavor, rich, aromatic. Tree, irregu¬ 
lar. This apple thrives well in Vermont, New 
\ ork, Michigan, Wisconsin, and moderately 
well in Connecticut, Ontario, Minnesota, Ore¬ 
gon, Ohio, Kansas, Utah, California, So. Caro¬ 
lina and Alabama. 
Red Canada. (See p. G57.) 
(ibis is the Nonsuch of Massachusetts, Rich¬ 
field Nonsuch of Ohio, Steele's Red Winter.) 
i' ruit. medium, conical, regular, nearly cov¬ 
ered with red, indistinct whitish dots ; keeps 
.through winter. Flesh tine, compact with u 
.rich sub-acid, excellent flavor. leaves wavy ; 
.tree productive. One of the best tabic apples.' 
iu some localities the growth is slender, the 
fruit scabby. Entirely distinct from the Non¬ 
such of England. It succeeds best in Maine, 
Michigan, Ohio, Illiuois, and moderately well 
in Connecticut, Indiauu and Nebraska. 
Esupiis Spitaenburgb. (See p. 657.) 
'ibis apple of unequaled flavor, is unfortu¬ 
nately a moderate bearer, succeeding best, so 
far as we are aware, in its native State, New 
York. The fruit is above medium size, some¬ 
what conical, of a rich red color, sometimes 
faintly striped. The flesh is yellowing crisp, 
very spicy, rather acid. Keeps till spring. 
Growth erect. Thrives best in Now York and 
California; moderately well in Vermont, On¬ 
tario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, 
Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Alabama and 
Louisiana. 
Itoxbury Russet. (See p, t>55.) 
(Boston Russet, Putuam Russet of Ohio. 
Thomas,) Fruit, medium to large, covered 
with russet on yellowish-green ground. Oc¬ 
casionally a brown cheek. One of the best of 
keepers. The quality is very good. Spread¬ 
ing growth. Highly productive, fair fruit al¬ 
ways. One of the best market sorts. Suc¬ 
ceeds best iu Massachusetts, New York, Rhode 
islaud, New Jersey, Kentucky, Louisiana, and 
moderately well in Nova Scotia, Connecticut, 
Ontario, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, In¬ 
diana, W. Virginia and Utah. 
Cooper's Market. 
(Cooper’s Market—Cooper's Refiling. Thomas ) 
Medium size, splashed and striped with red on 
yellow ground. Flesh white, tender with a 
hrisk, sub-acid flavor. Keeps through winter. 
Shoots long, slender. Profitable, though not 
of best quality. New York, Pennsylvania, 
New Jersey and Michigan. 
Northern Spy. 
Medium to large, striped, dard-red on suuny 
side, juicy, aromatic retaining its good quali¬ 
ties until June. Tree a rapid, erect grower 
and abundant bearer uuder good culture. 
It is one of the very best late keeping 
apples. It is a tardy bearer. We find it 
does # remarkably well on Paradise stock, 
# Be!Jriug the second year. This fine apple suc¬ 
ceeds well in Nova Scotia, Maine, New York, 
. Michigan, ludiana, Illinois, and moderately 
well in Louisiana, Alabama, California, Utah, 
Nebraska, W. Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, Vir¬ 
ginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Wis¬ 
consin, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachu¬ 
setts and Vermont. 
Jack, more productive than Wilson, but not 
worthy of cultivation. The fruit stalk is so 
short that unless very carefully mulched, the 
berries rot on the vines before ripening, and 
the later pickings are of very inferior flavor. 
Col.Cheney it is useless to say a word about, 
except iu comparison. It always gives some 
of the largest berries as well as some of the 
smallest, both rather soft, except for home 
markets. It bears nearly equal to Wilson for 
the same number of vines; but it is worthless 
it planted alone. 
Of Green Prolific the same can be said. So 
far as quantity for home market is concerned, 
no pistillate is more productive than this, and 
the quality is all right, if the fruit is eaten the 
same day it is picked, but with these last two 
kinds one must set some such varieties as 
YYilson, Charles Downing or Captain Jack, 
say every second or third row. or one will not 
have a bushel to an acre. 
Duchess bids fair to be one of the best, early 
sorts; being large, productive, and of the best 
quality. 
T orest Rose, Pres. Lincoln, Pioneer, Red 
Jacket and others did not have as good a 
chance to show what they could do, as did 
some others. There is one serious objection to 
Red Jacket—the calyx adheres so firmly that 
it wants a kuife to detach it from the hard 
cure inside, otherwise, for u soft berry, it would 
aftve a run. 
/ vi e have a thira of a i acre set to 19 of the 
Vest kinds out of 40 varieties, on new soil just 
from the forest, from which we expect big 
returns, and a fair test of the kinds, and we 
propose to tell the faults as well as the good 
points of all. 
The Great American I forgoUto mention, 
because it forgot us; it is worthless ou light 
soil. On clay it will please the grower if he 
pets it. 
Janesville, wts. 
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THE LADY WASHINGTON GRAPE. 
For the last eight years I have supplied Mr. 
J. H. Ricketts with a large amount of produce 
from my poidtry yards aud farm. To deliver 
his orders I have to pass his Lady Washington 
Grape, and have watched its progress with 
much interest. I am fully convinced it is the 
most desirable Grape that 1 cau plant. As far 
as I can see, it receives quite ordinary care- 
no better than I give my own vines. The large 
full clusters of light-green, almost white* 
grapes at once win the admiratidn of all who 
see them, aud ihe very fine eating quality of the 
fruit must make it a source of profit to those 
who plant it. To satisfy myself, three times 
during the past season Ihavo walked up on the 
hill-side opposite Mr. Ricketts' home place, to 
watch the progress of his two-year-old -vines, 
planted for the purpose of fruitmgnext season, 
as well as of increasing his stock. Ou August 
19, I found the vines had made a growth of 
from 18 to 30 feet of strong, healthy-looking 
wood. The ground was closely planted with 
currants and tomatoes between the rows of 
vines. I saw four large clusters of the most 
beautiful grapes I ever beheld, ou ouo vine. I 
learn that the produce of this vine bus beefl on 
exhibition at New York, Rochester, "Waverley 
aud Philadelphia. 
I write the above notes iu good faith for the 
information of Rural readers who have not 
the opportunity of seeing the vines aud fruit, 
and will add that I sluli piaut as many of the 
vines of this Grape as I think I cau afford to 
buy, and regret that 1 have not done so before. 
Orange Co., N. Y. W. c. Hart. 
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The Great American Strawberry.—It is a 
pleasure for me to be able to say a good word 
for the Great American—the more so that it 
does not meet with universal favor. 
In the spring of 1877 1 purchased my plants 
of Mr. Durand, and, with many misgivings, 
planted them in a moderately rich spot. I per- 
NORTHERN SPY. 
failed to keep separate the pick of seven rows, 
19 rods long, one year planted, of this kind. 
The plants were set three by four feet apart, 
allowed tomtit oneway, but the seventh row 
only contained 99 plauts set in 1878, iu May. 
On June 10, 1879, iu the third picking, one boy 
in nine hours took from this seventh row 100 
For market it is objectionable, for family use 
it is in its favor. For market the stem must be 
flipped, and even then the pickers were anxious 
to leave the Wilson and Col. Cheney aud pick 
Captain Jack. Its size, flavor and firmness are 
in every way satisfactory. 
Proutx’s Seedling comes next to Captain 
loriintltol. 
STRAWBERRY NOTES. 
GEO. J. KELLOGG. 
I am situated on light, prairie loam near the 
timber. After a few feet of soil we strike a 
firm plastering sand for 70 feet. My strawber¬ 
ry crop the past season was something over 
quarts of very fine berries. The yield from 
this bed, I think, did not come up to the 15,000 
quarts per acre, hut it was quite satisfactory. 
As to its requirements, I think the late bloom 
failed to perfect the fruit as well as if a Down¬ 
ing row had been adjacent. It will doubtless 
do best to set a Wilson, Downing or Captain 
Jack every fourth row. There seems to bo a 
great variety of opinion as to the quality of 
the Crescent. With us it is very fine ; bears 
transportation well for a hundred miles, and 
cooper’s 
.100 bushels from about 1J acre of ground. My 
varieties were in about the order named for 
quantity of fruit. 
Wilson did nobly; the only fault was rust 
upon the leaf. 
Crescent Seedling, although but the second 
season’s fruiting, has done remarkably well. In 
the hurry of picking and owing to two days’ 
absence attending our State strawberry show, I 
market. 
retains its color, and markets well. Since frnit- 
ing, the Crescent bed has taken care of itself, 
no weeds are allowed to grow, while the 
foliage is very luxuriant and healthy. 
Captain Jack puts in a claim for productive¬ 
ness ahead of Wilson, and almost equal to Cres¬ 
cent. I find but one objection to this variety— 
the calyx is left upon the vine in picking. I 
have not seen this mentioned by any writer. 
