DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON APPLES. 
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DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON APPLES. 
BY 0. S, WILLEY, OF JANESVILLE, 
Of the numerous varieties in cultivation at the West, 
it may be truly ^said, “many are called but few are chosen 
so few, indeed, that many have abandoned the idea of cul¬ 
tivating fruit at all. We fare satisfied that when a suffi¬ 
cient degree of experience has been brought to bear on the 
choice of varieties, location and modes of cultivation, we at the 
West can grow fruit enough for our own use, and to spare.— 
Fruit-growing here has its difficulties and drawbacks, and those 
of a very serious character. 
The Borer, the Bark Louse, and, betimes, the blight, seem to 
lay hold on every thing. The richness of our prairie soils, the 
extremes of cold and heat, the unreasonable preferences of 
planters for trees with high heads (“to plow under ”), render 
the fruit trees of the West fit subjects for the attacks of count¬ 
less insects, the cracking of the bark, and other evils. But 
there are no obstacles so great, that the lover of the good and 
the beautiful should be ^.deterred one moment from planting good 
and valuable kinds. 
I send a list of those which may be confidently relied on for 
the open prairie: 
G-olden Russet , (of N.JT .)—Tree perfectly hardy, healthy, 
productive, and early bearer, [somewhat irregular in growth, 
with speckled, slender shoots ; fruit slightly tart, best. Sea¬ 
son, December to March. 
Rozbury Russet. —Hardy, medium grower, irregular and 
spreading"; often crooked when young ; moderately juicy ; 
sub-acid. Origin, Massachusetts’; season, January to June. 
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