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FRUIT NOTES. 
Apples for Monroe Co.,N. Y. 
I have 75 Northern Spy five-years-old 
trees that I wish to top-work with some 
early-bearing variety. How would such 
varieties as Alexander, Wealthy or Twenty- 
Ounce succeed? l. j. c. 
The list given in the enclosed question Is 
very good, but I should place at the head 
Malden Hlush followed by McIntosh and Sut¬ 
ton. While the Alexander is a very fine- 
looking apple and a good bearer, the quality 
is very ordinary, if not inferior; in fact it 
might be called a Fall Ben Davis. Another 
apple that does well with us, and is a money¬ 
maker, is the llubbardston, although it is an 
apple of medium quality, yet its many good 
points, such as being practically an annual 
bearer, and its freedom from fungus and 
worms, and the even size of the fruit, should 
commend it to the up-to-date fruit grower. 
S. W. WADHAMS. 
Budding; Plums In Hudson Valley. 
I have a number of apple trees set in the 
Spring of 1905 that I wish to replace this 
Spring with another variety. Which would 
produce quickest results: Dig the trees out 
and set the variety I want in their places, 
(two-year trees), or top-bud with that vari¬ 
ety in August? Which of the Domestica 
plums succeed best as commercial varieties 
in the Hudson Valley? inquirer. 
Greene Co., N. Y. 
If the trees are thrifty, buds set in Au¬ 
gust will take, and time ViII certainly be 
gained. In the days of old-fashioned plum 
prices some handsome returns were made 
along the upper Hudson from commercial 
orchards of Bradshaw and a so-called Ger¬ 
man prune, with Lombard doing best of all 
when It did not rot. The decadence of the 
commercial Domestica plum industry coin¬ 
cides with the rise of black knot and poor 
prices, and to-day I think there are not a 
dozen commercial orchards of Domestica 
plums along the Hudson which do much more 
than pay their way. A large proportion of 
the few young trees set out I notice are the 
Italian Prune or Fellenberg and Grand 
Duke. T. u. H. 
The Jefferis Apple. 
What is the character of fruit of the JeD 
feris apple in productiveness, quality and 
market? We have a considerable number of 
trees from grafted nursery stock three years 
planted; did not get bloom, but they are the 
most rampant, vigorous growers we have and 
frost proof. F. Q. B. 
Georgetown, Prince Edward Island. 
The Jefferis apple is one of the very best 
in quality of all the late Summer or early 
Fall varieties. It is medium in size, fiat 
in shape and beautifully colored with red 
stripes and splashes over a pale yellowish 
ground. The llesh is very fine grained, crisp 
and juicy, and the fiavor is mild sub-acid 
and very pleasant. This apple pleases the 
people at home, and when taken to market 
and sold to customers who appreciate good 
fruit will always bring a good price. The 
tree is vigorous nnd an abundant bearer, and 
there is none that grows to more shapely pro¬ 
portions. H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Plums and Peaches for Northern New York. 
I have about an aero enclosed in poultry 
yards which I would like to plant to apple, 
with some quick-growing plum trees as fillers. 
How would Red June and Abundance do? 
Soil is glacial, rather inclined to black 
gravel artificially drained, and of great nat¬ 
ural fertility; 800 feet elevation above tide 
and in valley. This Is where the native 
Green Gage plum nourishes everywhere. I 
specify Red June and Abundance because I 
am located only one mile from a Summer 
resort, and there is a market for plums in 
August only, at good prices. How about the 
Climax plum also? I have a small apple 
orchard just set. (Spring. 1905) on hill over¬ 
looking valley 200 feet above, which I wish 
to set In peaches as fillers; soil is light 
loam overlaying shale. It is under culti¬ 
vation ; will not seed down. I shaljl need 
about 100 trees. I wish one-half to he early 
(ripening in August here) and others later. 
Name best varieties; cold I think no greater 
here than in western New York; coldest 
here by my registering thermometer 25 be¬ 
low zero. I set a few Flberta trees Spring 
of 1904, went through Winter of 1904-05 
without harming a single bud and are full 
of fruit buds now (they are in sod) which 
I think will open by February 10 if this 
warm weather continues, rendering them 
liable to bo caught by the light frosts which 
we get occasionally. w. m. k. 
Sharon Springs. N. Y. 
I once top-worked Abundance to Climax, 
but changed hack because the fruit cracked 
open year after year. Red June needs more 
petting in the way of culture than It will 
receive in the poultry yard; better substitute 
Burbank, although later. I would not invest 
money In peach trees in your latitude. Some 
years crops can no doubt be had from Tri¬ 
umph, Flberta, Crosby and Smock, but the 
Triumph has virtually no good quality out¬ 
side of hardiness. Plant nothing of the 
Crawford type. r. l. h. 
Fruit for Vermont. 
Please suggest 12 apples and six each, 
pears, plums and cherries that would make 
(he most satisfactory orchard for family 
use in the climate of Vermont. Last Winter 
we had 40 degrees below zero. How should 
high sandy soil he prepared for their plant 
ing, and when should they he set out? 
Bellows Falls, Vt. A. F. B. 
High snnd.v soil will probably not be satis 
factory for the fruit trees mentioned. If it 
Is very high and sandy no encouragement 
should be given for planting there. If it is 
only moderately exposed, and if the sand 
is not too light, something can probably be 
done. The ground can ho improved by the 
addition of well-sifted coal ashes; and some 
improvement can be made by growing beans, 
peas, buckwheat and clover and turning them 
under. The trees should be set in the Spring. 
The following varieties are most likel.v, to 
succeed, although it is not feasible to plant 
as many as six varieties of pears or cherries. 
Apples: Astrachan, Yellow Transparent. 
Wealthy, Williams, Fall Pippin. Baldwin, 
Northern Spy, R. I. Greening, McIntosh. 
Fameuse, Sutton Beauty, Shiawassee Beauty. 
Pears; Bartlett, Seokel. Vermont Beauty 
Anjou. Plums: Burbank. Abundance, Lorn 
bard, Bavay, Bradshaw, Apple. Cherries 
Richmond, Montmorency, Morello. 
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1906 
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