THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 5, 
584 
SUTTON BEAUTY APPLE FOR NEW 
ENGLAND. 
1. L. IV’., Gardiner, Me .— Is Sutton Beauty 
hardier than Baldwin, or equal to Spy for 
hardiness? is it likely to become as popular 
a seller? Should you think it would do 
well here? Baldwin suffered more than for 
25 years last Winter here. 
I am not favorably impressed with the 
way the Sutton bears or grows. 1 believe 
double the money can be made from 
Baldwin McIntosh. The Sutton is not 
a strong grower nor an early bearer. This 
apple has been known for 50 years, yet 
how little headway it has made. If it 
was a good grower, bearer and profitable 
apple to raise it would be better known 
throughout New England. While we 
have a good lot of the trees growing, and 
will have a good stock of the trees this 
Fall for sale, yet 1 would say go slow on 
the Sutton as a commercial apple. 
Connecticut. edwin hoyt. 
I have only a few trees of this variety 
in bearing, most of which are grafted. 
These, up to this time, have not borne 
as much fruit as the Baldwin. The tree 
is very upright and vigorous, and comes 
into bearing much later than the Baldwin. 
The fruit has shown a tendency to be¬ 
come water-cored, and on some trees 
has been attacked by the black rot. Un¬ 
der the same conditions it is of smaller 
size but about the same color as the Bald¬ 
win. Many consumers prefer the latter 
for cooking, but for table use the Sutton 
will be most popular when known. 
Massachusetts. s. t. maynarp. 
Sutton Beauty is a fine apple. It has its 
merits—also some demerits. I doubt if 
it ever becomes as popular as Baldwin. 
It does not bear quite so early, it appears 
not to stand neglect as well, and the fruit 
does not keep so late in storage. They 
are apt to run a trifle small also on trees 
heavily loaded. The color is superb and 
the quality rather better than Baldwin, I 
think. You ask me what proportion of 
Sutton I would plant in setting out a new 
orchard. Of course this is an entirely 
personal question, and my answer must 
be judged in that light. Personally I may 
say that I would not plant any Sutton 
in a new orchard, neither would I plant 
Baldwin or Ben Davis, though I recognize 
these to be the most generally profitable 
varieties grown. f. a. waugh. 
Massachusetts 
The Sutton is an admirable apple on 
rich or well-tilled lands, but apparently 
will not stand the conditions to which 
many New England orchards are subjected. 
Baldwins will produce freely of very high¬ 
ly colored attractive fruit under conditions 
which would result in utter failure with 
Sutton. On the other hand, Sutton is ap¬ 
parently hardier than Baldwin, and is of 
better quality, though not quite so good a 
keeper. It is doubtful whether Sutton 
ever takes the place of Baldwin as a pop¬ 
ular favorite. If setting a new orchard 
of 1,000 trees, I should be inclined to set 
200 Suttons and most of the remainder 
would be Baldwins. The severe weather 
of last Winter, following a very heavy 
crop, was disastrous to the Baldwin in 
many sections of Maine, but where the 
trees were cared for and the fruit was 
properly thinned, there was little trouble. 
Personally I am a decided advocate of the 
Baldwin as the commercial apple for New 
England, except in those localities where 
it is not hardy. w. m. munson. 
Maine. 
As comnared with Baldwin, Sutton will 
probably never be as popular to grow. 
In market it will sell with Baldwin; at 
least readily does so far as our crop 
goes. It is of brighter color and finer in 
quality as a dessert fruit. It will not keep 
as late. March is about its limit. The 
Sutton’s great fault is in the tree. It is 
tender in trunk as a root-grafted or 
budded tree, although easily grown. As 
a top-grafted tree it does very finely, but 
must be set very low, as it is a very up¬ 
right grower. It comes into bearing 
about with the Baldwin. The variety is a 
verv heavy biennial bearer; usually must 
be thinned to have good size. For or¬ 
chard purposes. Spy, Ben Davis or some 
other hardy variety should be planted, 
then a year later top-work to Sutton, or 
use trees top-worked in the nursery row. 
We are using Sutton in this way, and 
planting about as many as of other stand- 
rrd sorts. Spy is not a valuable apple in 
Connecticut. There are very few locali¬ 
ties where it does well. As a stock for 
oilier sorts it is very good when not too 
high-headed. a. g. gulley. 
Connecticut. 
Some years ago $. D. Willard spoke at 
one. of our pomological meetings. He 
spoke with much enthusiasm of the Sut¬ 
ton Beauty. At our next annual exhibi¬ 
tion Mr. Willard sent us samples of this 
fruit, saying that his children always 
selected for their eating the best speci¬ 
mens, and consequently those sent were 
the »maller ones. Several persons ordered 
more or less of the trees of this variety, 
and they were set in different parts of 
the State. As yet fruit has been shown 
from only one locality, but that was very 
fine, and the grower was enthusiastic. 
The fruit was of good size, and every one 
was well pleased with it. The Spring 
following Mr. Willard’s visit to Maine 
he sent me a few scions. I set them in two 
trees. One of them bore last year, but 
the fruit, though highly colored, was 
small. In harvesting they were mixed up 
with the Baldwins, and we completely lost 
sight of them. Since then I have grafted 
one or two other trees, but have no fruit 
from fliem as yet. The trees are very late 
in sending out leaves and blossoms, and 
seem to be very slow in coming into bear¬ 
ing. My trees seem to be entirely hardy. 
The Baldwin is our leading variety, but 
there are others that growers find profit¬ 
able. Spy, Golden and Roxbury Russets, 
the R. I. Greening, Harvey, Wealthy and 
several other varieties have been found 
nearly or quite as profitable as the Bald¬ 
win, and the trees are more hardy. The 
Baldwin has fared hard the past two sea¬ 
sons. It may be they have been permitted 
to bear too much fruit. There were many 
trees that showed weakness in 1904, and 
yet nearly all were permitted to bear much 
fruit, which ao a rule was much under 
size. At the present time many trees are 
covered with dead limbs, while others are 
entirely dead. How much the cold weather 
bad io do with this killing of the trees I 
cannot say, but I cannot help thinking it 
was one of the faults. This weakness of 
the Baldwin makes the fruit grower think 
of other varieties as equally desirable. I 
do not believe the ideal fruit has been 
grown as yet. Certainly it is not the 
Baldwin, and if Mr. Willard’s recent writ¬ 
ings on the Sutton Beauty are correct that 
is not the ideal apple for him, and I do 
not believe it is going to become as popu¬ 
lar as the Baldwin. As to planting a new 
orchard 1 should be slow in setting cither 
Baldwin or Sutton Beauty. Some in 
Maine are setting Wealthy quite largely, 
and the sales of this variety the past few 
years seem to warrant this choice. There 
are several orchardists who are very fa¬ 
vorable to the McIntosh and I am sure 
they are getting good returns from it. 
It scabs some, though few of our growers 
are spraying to prevent it. 
D. K. KNOWLTON. 
ALFALFA FOR INOCULATING. 
Under this heading, page 356, replying 
to A. B., warts or nodules are spoken 
of. On Alfalfa inoculated by the use of 
soil from New Jersey, and on that in¬ 
oculated by California soil, 1 found within 
three months of sowing, not warts or 
nodules, but clusters of tubercles, so 
slightly attached that if was necessary to 
exercise great care in withdrawing roots 
from the soil, lest these tubercles be de¬ 
tached. 1 found the first on the main 
stem of the loot, and later on tiny root¬ 
lets. Still later I found the tubercles 
somewhat deformed and more crowded, 
the clusters having more than one point 
of attachment. Alfalfa can undoubtedly 
be grown successfully in soil free from 
bacteria. Feed it well, protect it at the 
start from robber weeds, and pay for 
your nitrogen. The “nodule”-bearing 
plant is simply less likely to be starved 
out. When the crop is gathered into the 
barn it means much nitrogen gained from 
the air (sometimes equal to 200 pounds 
per acre). Without bacteria this nitrogen 
has been gathered from your own soil. 
Bacteria may and often do exist in soils 
never sown with Alfalfa, and they find 
their way to the roots promptly. Every 
farmer interested in Alfalfa should read 
Farmer’s Bulletin No. 214, issued by the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
w. w. s. 
GIRDLED GRAPES IN THE HUDSON 
VALLEY. 
I think about one-half as many grapes 
are girdled as were five years ago. Some 
of our very best Delaware growers still 
adhere to the practice, but have changed 
their method. F'ormerly they girdled two 
or three of the four arms used in the 
Kniffin system; now three shoots are 
trained from the ground to a five or six- 
foot wire. One bearing fruit is girdled; 
this one is three years old; the next is two 
years and has all of the fruit removed, 
and is in reserve to be girdled next year, 
and carries foliage enough to mature 
the fruit after the girdled part is cut off. 
and the third or year-old one is growing 
from the ground to the wire to take the 
place in the rotation. A ring of bark 
is removed from vine back of the fruit 
about three-quarters of an inch long. This 
is cut out; by shears with a notch filed out 
by a pocket knife, or an ingenious little 
tool having parallel knives the right dis¬ 
tance apart, riveted to a block that also 
holds a thumb spring that removes the 
bark as cut by the knives. It is just 
turned around the cane once or twice 
to complete the operation; the depth of 
cut is regulated by the block, and the 
pressure on the spring starts the bark. If 
allowed thoroughly to ripen the quality is 
not injured, but the object is to color 
them a week or 10 days earlier, and the 
grapes are usually cut as soon as colored, 
and before they are very sweet. The 
price for Hudson River Delawares in 
Boston starts at $2 or more for 15 to 20- 
pound cases, and in 10 day falls to $1 or 
less, and it is to secure the higher price 
for some part of the crop that all this 
trouble is taken. E. w. b. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
Japan Plums. —Referring to Mr. Ben¬ 
son's article on page 535, our experience dif¬ 
fers from his. The Abundance, Burbank and 
Red June were not injured a particle by the 
unexampled severity of the Winter of 1903-4, 
when the mercury dropped to 33 degrees be¬ 
low zero (some sections of the State reporting 
40), more or less Injuring all kinds of fruit 
trees except Japan plums. The Abundance 
and Burbank were overloaded last year, which 
may account for a relatively small crop this 
year. We know of no more delicious plum 
than the former, not equaled, as we think, 
by any of the European class. The Burbank 
is better canned than eaten out of band. 
What few peach trees (about 50 per cent) 
survived the two past Winters are loaded 
with fruit, but are evidently nearing the end 
of their usefulness, ns indicated by a lack of 
leaf vigor. To be sure of peaches In this lati¬ 
tude continuously we must plant every year. 
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