The Garden Magazine, July, 1924 
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THE APPLE TREE HAS AN AIR OF COMFORTABLE DOMESTICITY 
“There is more to trees than leaves, branches, bark, and roots. Through the ages man has attached to them a significance that 
is not the product of chance.” Says Mr. Mark Daniels in his delightful essay on the spirit of trees (“Green Symbols,” pages 
364-368, August 1921 Garden Magazine). “Appreciation of the individuality of trees is the key to the interpretation of what 
they express, and the interpretation of tree and floral expression is the soul of landscape architecture. It is not only through an 
association of ideas, but sometimes through a deeper, hidden sense that some people experience radically dissimilar emotions in 
the environment of different kinds of trees. Most of the nut and flowering fruit trees are in harmony with the garden.” Home 
of Mr. Richard U. Sherman at Utica, N. Y.; Clement R. Newkirk, Architect; William Pitkin, Jr., Landscape Architect 
matic, and richly flavored. Porter, on the other hand, is 
one of the “old stand-bys,” an apple that fifty years ago 
held the chief place in the Boston markets and that is still 
a splendid variety for the non-commercial orchard. Here 
we have a rather large yellow apple faintly tinged with 
red, that in preserving loses hardly anything of its natural 
beauty and palatability. It may be called a rather late 
“early variety” and several pickings are needed in order to 
get all the fruit at its best, which again is often an asset for 
the housekeeper. 
F ROM a strong, hardy, and resistant variety such as Spy or 
Baldwin, 'top worked with Primate cions, you can get: 
first, an almost annual, usually heavy, crop; second a medium 
sized, unattractive yellow-green fruit; third, a flavor that is 
brisk, stimulating, and luscious in the extreme. It has all the 
pleasing traits of the Chenango, with an additional spicy acidity, 
which to some will be its chief delight. 
We are often willing to sacrifice a possibility of unusual excel¬ 
lence in favor of less startling qualities that are fairly good but 
undoubtedly reliable and enduring. 1 n this frame of mind plant 
Summer Rose —a small apple, pale yellow, splashed and striped 
with red; of a flavor not rich, but eminently pleasing; a slow 
grower, of only medium productivity, but hardy, bearing at an 
early age, and a steady, reliable cropper. In July it is ready for 
cooking purposes, and by August has mellowed to the state when 
it can grace the fruit dish, to contrast with the rich warm red of 
Benoni or Livland Raspberry. 
The principal rival of Early I harvest for the first laurels of the 
season is Yellow Transparent, splendidly described by its 
name. It is often a little earlier than the above mentioned 
variety, and a heavier, more reliable bearer. But the quality, 
while very good is not quite perfection, and unless thinned the 
fruit is liable to be crowded and small. Coming from Russia it is 
inherently hardy, but in the West it occasionally shows touches 
of twig blight. Its delicate tenderness is reflected in its poor 
handling qualities, but, withal, it is well up among the first class 
varieties of the early apple season. 
