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‘Ihe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April o, 1919 
They 
Just 
WON’T 
Crack! 
Fruit Trees on Shallow Soil 
Around my buildings I have about an 
acre of land where ledge is from six 
inches to two feet below soil. Would it 
be advisable to plant fruit trees, cherry, 
pear, or apple, on this land? Would 
dwarf or standard trees be better? Of 
course this soil becomes very dry at times, 
but I have plenty of water. I also note 
oak, birch and maple grow to large size, 
and there are many apple trees that have 
sprung up, and one cherry that does nicely 
and bears a heavy crop. II. E. w. 
Waldoboro, Me. 
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Theory would prompt one to go slow on 
setting fruit trees on top of a ledge, but 
somehow experience is the only safe teach¬ 
er. So, if apple and cherry trees have 
done well, I should extend, seeking always 
for the location carrying the most soil. 
Personally I am not an ardent supporter 
of artificial watering, yet until trees get 
their root system well established, mois¬ 
ture will be necessary if the natural sup¬ 
ply is lacking. No, I should not try dwarf 
trees, but rely upon the very best stand¬ 
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to hardiness of stock and adaptability to 
locality, rather than big stories or flaring 
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tor and others. 1 have seen the fruit, I 
have seen the trees, in bearing and out. I 
am also rather familiar with conditions 
around Amenia and most of the Harlem 
Valley, and do not hesitate to say I would 
place the Newtown Pippin rather fat- 
down on the list of apples as a money 
maker.' 
As to top-working, I rather doubt the 
wisdom in this case. The advantages 
generally sought in top-working are a 
straight, strong, disease-resisting stem or 
trunk, and strong, disease-resisting frame¬ 
work. The Newtown Pippin tree is above 
the average in this respect in the Hudson 
Valley, provided the young trees are 
sprayed to keep the foliage in good con¬ 
dition. It is very subject to apple scab 
and other diseases that attack the foliage, 
which will materially check growth, and 
weaken the trees, if spraying is withheld 
until trees begin to bear. While not quite 
as desirable as some varieties we might 
buy, it may be much better than those 
we might get, especially if it were known 
you intended them for top-working. 
In top-working I prefer cleft-grafting 
after trees are five or six years grown. 
At that age we can be rather sure of our 
stock, and if it has superior resisting 
qualities, get the advantage of this in the 
inner framework, as well as the trunk. 
The most desirable varieties for stocks in 
this section would be Golden Sweet, Tol- 
man Sweet, Northwestern Greening, Hol¬ 
land Pippin and Fall Pippin, all prefer¬ 
able to the so-often recommended Spy, be¬ 
cause hardier, more disease resistant and 
of greater early spread of frame. 
The fine art of grafting is in placing 
the graft so the future tree will be well 
headed. Most people fail to work enough 
lower branches, and, in proper placing, to 
get the desired spread in grafted trees 
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in the center of the tree, and, the top be¬ 
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pictures. Agents are out to 
naturally push new varieties 
most numerous in the nursery. 
Waldoboro formerly produced a good 
variety of apples, so that selection for a 
new orchard can be greatly simplified by 
consulting old-time growers and getting 
their experience. Lying along the coast, 
it is not advisable to go very far afield 
after varieties not yet tested in your lo¬ 
cality. At the same time, there is live 
interest in trying out a few of the better 
class of varieties not yet proven. Per¬ 
sonal inspection of trees will reveal phys¬ 
ical defects, but, except with a few, the 
production of fruit is necessary to prove 
|a tree true to name; hence the impor¬ 
tance of a rigid guarantee, extending over 
a term of years long enough to establish 
the fact. g. M. TwrrcHKLL. 
orchard has been badly 
curculio. The trees run from 
Control of Curculio 
For several seasons the fruit crop in a 
part of our apple 
damaged by 
about eight to 12 years old. A part of 
these orchards was set with peach trees 
as fillers, which may bo partly the cause 
of this aggravated condition. The place 
seems polluted with the insects, and mod¬ 
erate applications of arsenical poison, 
such as will control the codling moth, 
seems to have not effect of the curuclio. 
What would you do? Advice is plentiful, 
but I would like to find someone who has 
had just such a condition and has been 
able to master it. Of course we have the 
life history of the insect, etc., and we 
know just how hard it is to hit this fellow 
because of the veru nature of the insect. 
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Growing Newtown Pippins 
I would like to grow Newtown Pippin 
apples, but the tree is a very slow grower 
in this locality. Would you advise setting 
some quick-growing tree, and later graft¬ 
ing on the Newtowns? What variety 
would you think best suited for this? The 
Newtown grows here very well after you 
get the tree. I have been setting a quan¬ 
tity of Baldwins,i and they do very well 
‘this locality, though the tree seems to 
short lived. J* B > 
Amenia, N. Y. 
It would seem one should decide first 
of all as to the advisability of growing the 
Newtown Pippin at all in New York 
State. Preferably the thing that should 
be given most consideration is the pre¬ 
vailing custom. It is many times desir- 
lable to try new varieties in certain local¬ 
ities, but seldom to try varieties that 
were once well established and later grad¬ 
ually crowded out by other varieties. 
Personally I am well aware of the ex¬ 
cellent Newtown Pippins grown in the 
The Farm Orchard 
Your articles on the subject of the farm 
orchard have been very interesting. I can¬ 
not agree with you, however, that the 
farm orchard should contain 100 trees. 1 
know of too many orchards of about that 
size, or even smaller, that have been sadly 
neglected because the farmer has not had 
time to give them sufficient attention. If 
the orchard had hut 20 or 25 trees, and 
these of the varieties that would furnish a 
succession of fruit from Summer to Fall, 
and then have an abundant supply to last 
throughout the Winter, the farmer’s wants 
for fruit should be well taken care of. 
With more trees than this the general 
farmer will not give them the care they 
should have; consequently 
get any fruit from a larger 
trees and space. 
Crown Point, Ind. 
It. N.-Y r .—We are not so much con¬ 
cerned about the number of trees, and 
they will not 
investment of 
V. A. PLACE. 
very likely the above is a fair statement. 
We do, however, want, an orchard on every 
farm. 
“I really cannot see you,” said ^ the 
busy man with some irritation. “Then 
it’s lucky I called," returned the intruder 
calmly, “i represent a firm of opticians.” 
—Boston Transcript. 
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