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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 5 
Early Bearing Apple Trees. 
Sonic years ago Kdwin Hoyt advocated 
a new plan for growing apple trees. He 
advised planting them 18 feet apart so as 
to give 125 trees to the acre. They were 
to be thoroughly cultivated and fed with 
hoed crops between them. They were ex¬ 
pected to begin to bear with the fourth 
season and after that were to be well fed 
and cultivated with no other crops in the 
orchard. Mr. Hoyt made some remarkable 
statements about what might be expected 
from such an orchard. He has been asked 
how his experiment “came out.” 
In relation to our young orchard I 
want to say that some of the varieties 
in our young orchard produced more 
than I say they should bear. We had 13 
Gano apple trees which bore the fourth 
season one bushel to the tree and one 
tree bore lVz bushel. This bushel and 
a half I showed at the State Pomologi- 
cal exhibit in 1902. This young orchard 
was injured somewhat in its bearing 
the fourth season by growing a very 
heavy crop of California privet on the 
ground the second and third year. The 
roots of the apple trees ran all out un¬ 
der this heavy crop of privet, and the 
privet is a strong and late-growing 
plant. It draws very heavily on the soil 
and I have no doubt was an injury to 
the orchard. My faith is very strong in 
the early bearing of an apple orchard if 
it is properly fed and cultivated. I was 
told by a party in Danbury recently 
when I read my paper on apple orchards, 
that he could more than verify my state¬ 
ment that an apple tree should bear one- 
half bushel the fourth season, for ho 
said he had a tree which bore four bush¬ 
els of apples the fourth Summer. I was 
amazed at this statement and said: 
‘‘You do not mean four bushels but four 
pecks.” “No I don’t,” he said, “ij bore 
four bushels.” This only confirms what 
I have said, that we do not know the 
possibilities of an apple tree when prop¬ 
erly treated if set on suitable soil. Of 
course all varieties will not bear so 
young and bountifully, but there are 
many varieties which have this habit. 
Connecticut. edwin iioyt. 
Frozen Onions; Heating Manure. 
J. M., Port Jervis, N. Y. —1. I have about 15 
bushels of onion sets all frozen hard. 
Will this injure them so that they will 
be unfit for use? Part of them are 
Red Wethersfield, the remainder Yellow 
Globe Danvers. 2. How can I make the 
manure for use in hotbed heat? 1 am try¬ 
ing everything but am unable to make the 
manure heat. 
Arcs.—1. I would advise covering the 
sets eight to 10 inches deep with fine 
chaff of any kind, or sawdust, something 
that will work in and around the bulbs, 
over this place four or five thicknesses 
of heavy bags or old blankets and let 
them remain until all frost is removed. 
Do not handle them in any way while 
frozen, as it injures the bulbs. I have 
had onions come out in the Spring 
bright and fresh covered in this way as 
soon as they were frozen, that is, not al¬ 
lowed to thaw and freeze the second 
time. 2. There is no reason why horse 
manure, if fresh and full of litter should 
not heat, the trouble is perhaps too 
much litter for the amount of manure it 
contains or too dry. Probably the lat¬ 
ter. In either case the manure should 
be forked over, mixing it as evenly as 
possible. Build it up in a snug square 
pile, throwing on occasionally a few 
pailfuls of hot very soapy water, enough 
to wet thoroughly all the manure. Do 
not walk or tread on heap in anyway as 
the lighter it is the quicker and better 
it ferments. Leave the pile level on top 
and in a few days (say six to 10) it 
should be hot enough to use or can be 
again forked over to even up the heat 
and prevent its becoming firefanged. 
E. E. B. 
The Palmer Greening Apple. 
F. P. B., Ayer, Mass .—Is this apple a 
strong grower on its own roots, or ought 
it to be top-worked on some other variety? 
What variety would you graft it on to 
have it keep as long as possible? How 
soon after the tree is set out could it be 
grafted? 
Ans— Palmer Greening is a moderate 
grower. I think it would be an im¬ 
provement to top-work on a more thrif¬ 
ty stock. I know of nothing better than 
Northern Spy. I have top-worked on 
Walbridge in raising varieties like Will¬ 
iams for a retail trade; also in a small 
way for myself. It is a straight, thrifty 
grower. Hurlbut is a good grower, and 
forms a well-shaped top. All three are 
good. If I were to graft I should wait 
until near bearing age, and then graft 
the whole top at once, but prefer to top- 
work by budding, trimming trees so 
they will make a thrifty growth and 
bud into the same season’s growth, al¬ 
though it is not necessary to use the 
same season’s wood. I would bud any 
time after two seasons’ growth. The 
older the tree the more work to do the 
budding. I would not do the work un¬ 
til we had a well-balanced top to start 
with. h. o. MEAD. 
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