The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-10-01


Il. b. Jordan, Of Rochester, MINI.
says in the Prairie Farmer
xviii the Standard apple do well top
grated on the Transceudent and other
fast growing crabs? We, in Minnesota,
got perfect mania for top working the
Soulard crab few years since | was
referred to Mr.. futile, of Galena ILL.,, as
having large orchard top worked on
the Soulard. Last fall | went and saw
Mr.. Tuttle's trees or orchard, and found
that out of some 30 or 40 kinds worked
on the Soulard--in all l should think
500 trees-nothiug was success unless
1t could be said that the Carolina Red
June was, it being the only kind that
approximated in that direction. | have
now some 500 trees top worked on the
Transcendent and other fast growing
Siberians, which are doing finely. In
looking over my orchard where | had
grated the center branch ola Transcend
ent with an apple which the first year
grew finely, find last year it did not
grow much, and looked about ready to
tumble off at the point Of grating, which
reminds me SO much of Mr.. Tuttle's
Souards that l begin to feel not a little
shaky on the subject, as l am preparing
to set an orchard Of 1000 trees top work.
ed on the Transcendent. 1t would con-
fer great favor on many fruit growers
In Minnesota to hear from you and also
from those who have had long experience
Of the same kind"
These warnings, together with the
striking fact that though apples worked
on the crab have been largely sold in
Northern Vermont and the Eastern
Townships for twenty years, there is not
now, so far as can be learned, one sue
cessful orchard of that sort, while there
are very profitable ones on free stocks,
should lead judicious men to pause before
investing largely in what is as yet mere
experiment So far as an expression OF
our judgment and experience may be of
value to our readers we freely give it, to
The effect that the use Of the crab for
stock Is wholly unnecessary for any pur-
pose, and likely to prove an entire failure
as regards practical results or profit.
We clip the foregoing from the Yer.
mont Farmer, but presume people will
still continue to buy trees worked on crab
apples. when offered by plausible, smooth
talking agents. Why people will buy
these trees, with Hyslop, Transcendeut,
and other crabs, and Russians, and paw
one dollar each, or twelve for ten dollars,
when we will sell any or all kinds of them,
at less than forty cents, we cannot con-
ceive. unless for tn, same reason that the
youth had when he wanted to see the
folly Of dancing too.
These varieties are represented by
many Of these dealers, as something new,
while these Russian varieties nearly all
OF them have been in this country for q
long time, and have not oeen universally
known. simply because good judges Of
fruit, and growers of the greatest expert.
ence, have generally condemned them, as
inferior in quality and profit, to good re-
liable, standard, old kinds, with such new
native kinds as are occasionally being
brought forward.
Another great reason why people buy
great many Of these trees is, because
they are represented as being raised in
Vermont, and are therefore better suited
tor this climate. We do not know any
reason why, in general way Vermont
grown trees should not be quite as good
Tor this climate as any, provided, they
are raised by good reliable nurserymen,
and fruit growers, but simply bringing
trees, land culls at that from Western
New York, and healing them in a Few
days, or even few months, at Essex
junction, Randolph, or elsewhere, does
not make them Vernon. grown trees
These Russian varieties including Tetop-
sky' Duchess Aldenburgh, Emperor
Alexander, as well as Transceudent,
Hyslop, Soulard, and other crabs, are sold
by nurserymen that are reliable by the
wholesale, at rates, quite as low as good
standard kinds, and the reason why we
can sell them AS low as other kinds, is
simply because we can buy them quite as
low, and in the case of some of them,
lower. Perhaps if We were to represent
them as something new, harder, and
better than standard kinds, and charge
three or four times as much for them, we
could sell good many, and make more
money, but all fruit men OF experience in
this county as elsewhere, do not recon-
mend them, and our own opinion is that
1t is thing that will soon play out, and
Will be the occasion Of reproach against
those engaged in selling them.
We would not wish to be understood
rs being opposed to trees actually grown
IN Vermont, but so long as fifty thousand
comparatively poor trees are brought from
New York or elsewhere out of the state,
taken to Essex Junction, and from thence
distributed through the country as being
grown In Vermont, all Vermont nursery
men Will have to suffer, and we take great
pleasure In naming few nurserymen, we
know from personal acquaintance, as
being engaged in really growing trees in
Vermont, aud from whom any one wish.
ing to purchase can buy, knowing and
feeling, that they will be honestly treated.
Robert >. White Of Shelburne Point, c..
U. Prindle Of Charlotte, aud Dr.. II ii.
Hoskins OF Newport, are all reliable men,
and engaged In legitimate business, we
have visited their nurseries, and know
whereof we speak.
10 any who cannot visit these nurseries
In person, we will undertake to furnish
trees as we have already from two of
them. There may be others, but we
have not visited them, and are not per.
sonally acquainted with their business.
IL any one wishes trees grown on crab
stocks Bryant & Elder OF Derby, VI.
have been engaged in growing them there
Tor years. and are not obliged to go out
OF the state for their stock to fill orders
for such trees.