The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-05-20
.RUlT TREES-BEST KINDS FOR THIS LO-
CALITY.

.rtng out trees in general let now consider
4uc ol The best kinds for cultivation.
fmf APPLE. Taken in all It's aspects, no fruit
.rhaps excfcds This none certainly more renown-
.I IN history for the forbidden fruit of Eden. and
.l, golden fruit Of Hesperus, guarded by Sleep
,-> dragon, were apples according to old legends.
And while it is the child of the temperate zones
.,arywhcre, there is place where it seems so
mcl Ill nome, where il attains to SO much excel
n,e a> in the middle and northern portions of the
juilcd States.
SoIL AND SITUATION The apple will grow on
great variety of soils; but on very dry or very
wet il seldom does well. A deep, strong. eravelly
or elayey oam if well drained, is perhaps the best
tnt we know an orchard in Prospect which pro-
IucfS abundanlly the best Baldwins we have ever
-.ru raised in Maine, where the projecting clay
-le rocks yielded scarcely soil enough to hold the
tees i'll place. If you have a spot where either
qanite or limestone prevails, there is the place for
,u orchard The situation is of some account; for
# TOO warm a southern exposure, i'll warm days the
latter part of winter the sap will start, which, recz-
ug, separates the bark and Kills the tree. If too
H,,rhern an aspect the wood does not ripcn and so
untrr-kills II too high an elevation, they are
-haAen and torn by the winds; foo low late frosts
1,ll XIII the blossoms and render fruit impossible
ID that inst medium in nh these things is the true
ltt.
Br~I KINDS. Some years ago, preparing 10 set
alt a small orchard, we took much pains to ascer
r,l from the highest authorities the best kinds of
apples for family use, all the way from the earliest
ft the latest varieties; and found the following the
,psI recommended: Summer: Bells Early; Early
lf.ryest Sweet Bough; Red Asracan Autumn
Williams Fayorte; Autumn Pearmain; Beauty of
Kent; Gravenstein; Kham Hill; Nonsuch; Por-
ul,t Winter: Baldwin; Black Apple; yellow Belle
-Four; Hubbardston Nonsuch; Newtown Pippin
Golden Pppin; Northern Spy Rhode Island Green
log RibStonc Pppm; Golden Russet; Roybury
to.,et.
Most of these we have tried and find them to
eNe good satisfaction We have supplied gratu-
1euslV, frs. and Inst, many hundred seions from
Them, and now supply some to such OF our
readers as may want them and will apply immedi-
tciy
some remarks necessary. We have found
h1l taking one of each kind, of the summer and
lJll sorts. makes too many for family use; as ripen-
near together, TOO many are ready at and
spoil. Some of them, particularly the Red AS
raran, so fine an apple at its prime. in 4 week or
$50 turn mealy, and worthless. True, this
utrrpuS may be sold but as, from their perishable
Hure, they bring but little in the market il is more
rolitabe TO raise winter fruit which commands,
bu>he for bnshel, two or three times as much as
tuc others, so, finding this out too late we are now
hanging our trees, by grating, into winter fruit.
Hence, from our experience, we would say TO be-
-imner> for carly apples, take Early Harvest
ma one Red Asffacan; for autumn one Williams
Fayore, one Beauty Of Kent, cne kilham II one
Non Such, one Porter; for winter as many as pos
-ie Of the varieties named and of other sorts which
,ua know to be good. Yet we will state that in our
.}u experience for thirty years, and from what we
in the experience of other persons the very best
ugle apple. one evcTyway good for use--one to
s. the most money out of,--because the trees are
81. hardy, but little attacked by insects, bearing
agely every year, is raised abundantly in this
-egon, having several names--Greening. Golden
rippin, and is probably the Newark Pippin, as de-
s'rihed by Downing. 1t is in its prime by Dee
md Jan, losing its fine acid flavor after this. Next
tp this early winter apple, rather more Juicy
nd acid, and not productive, is the yellow Belle
fleur. For late winter and spring apples, we know
nothing superior TO the Northern Spy, Baldwin and
itoXhury Russet. AS TO the Baldwin, however,
here are these objections without better manage
nent than most cutivaors give to it it is every
lther-year bearer, and in Maine never has the true
baldwin Mass flavor, though some raised in this
city. As elsewhere in the county, are very far-but
10 our taste always savorng of the unrpe.
There are doubtless many other and perhaps bet
t1, varieties abroad with which, we had hoped,
lnpir owners would have made us acquainted; but
ting in this give only such information rs our
uvn practice, aided by such light as our most emil
nent writers on pomologica subjects, can afford.
et, we Think many fruit raisers miss ii in seeking
tor tnr-tetched and high-sounding sorts. For it is
@th fruit as with everything else, like the dog in
The fable who dropped his bone TO catch its refee-
lion in the water, may lose the substance and
r,tch the shadow! Both with fruit and everything
r>e if we have a thing good enough il is unwisc to
ueglect il for a faneied better one
Of one thing we are certain both from reason and
inch observation, that the nearer the locality where
fruit trees are raised TO the one where they are o
row into trees the better.
Thousands of dollars have we known utterly
thrown away by buying New York fruit trees, and
rom other distant southern localities, for this cold
er latitude. Fruit-tree peddlers-especially the ap-
pie sorts-ire pest to be summed; not so much
because they are dishonest fellows, but because
heir goods are so poorly adapted to particular mar
hetS. Our advice is to raise from seed your own
-locks or, if you cannot wait, to purchase them
from some nursery near at hand 10 SET them out as
We directed in recent article and the following
spring TO graft into them such scions as you know
10 be valuable sorts. In this way you secure hardy
ihrny trees, and know what they are.
Another thing too often lost sight of; large trees
ike the apple, must have room. Many set them 10
or Is feet apart; by bearing time their limbs will
touch; when fhlly grown they viii mesh together
like forest keeping out the light, and chafng one
another to death Never set standard apple trees
nearer together than 80 feet and two rods is better
Ater young trees are set, cultivate the ground
with root crops for several years; this keeps the
gras> down, the soil light and properly enriched for
Tree growth. Wash young trees, spring, summer
and fall, 10 the very tip Of the branches, with wash
made of soft soap and strong tobacco WATER to kill
bark lice which ruin more trees than all other causes
toeether--of which, the borer, &c. we shall speak
in a future No.
Finally, don't fail to raise all the apples you can
Nothing pays better. Most people with farm or a
garden, if they had Government bonds for $500, or
had that amount in bank stock would feel and be
Substantially, rich :-receiving the income of which
how inspiring! Yet every tree that bears net i'll
ONE of fruit yearly is much money capital, is
worth as much, as so much bonds or stocks that
Weld the same amount A tree therefore which