Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-09

l as fall apple and esteemed only as such. confess it's record for keeping qualities is l not as good here as it was once, but it's size, beauty, flavor and fine bearing quali,. ties render it a general faYorite notwith.
 standing.
 The universally popular Rhode Island Greening is still 8 great favorite. but it
 does not grow as smooth generally as the Baldwin. Neither does the tree grow as well. Its reputation ss keeper is also on the wane; and this will apply to all of our apples once famous for long keeping. It was not unusual years ago for farmers to have generous supply of apples in April and May, thing now very rare indeed. The cause or causes contributing to this changed condition give rise to much spec ulation, but no conclusion that is generally accepted has yet been reached. Possibly new varieties may be developed in the fu- ture that will occupy the positions in this respect once held by our old time favorites. Smiths Cider is very popular winter apple in Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. The apple is of fair size, the trees
 bear young and when grown are immensely productive. The fruit is of fine quality and keeps well. It promises to do we'll in this section of the State. One of the best winter apples I am ac- quainted with is Peck's Pleasant. High favored, productive and good keeper, it very well fills the place once occupied by the famous Newtown pippin, variety long since superseded by others better adapted to our locality.
 Northern Spy is also fine, high favored winter apple, but the tree is rather tardy in ] bearing, and the fruit is very liable to grow imperfect, and rots to such an extent as to impair it's value.
 iG O Iarua anpJa v0unO and abundant bearer; very popular in some por- tions of Pennsylvania, but of late I hear complaints that the teees fail early. The fruit is not of first rate quality Ben Davis, popular apple in the west, gives good promise here of early productive ness. The fruit is fair, handsome. of good size and keeps we'll, but the quality of the fruit is far below that of the varieties al- ready named.
 Winesap, beautiful red apple of excel- lent quality, of medium size, has proved one of the best keepers.
 Yellow bellfower is also fine looking and good keeping winter sort. It seems among winter apples what the orange is among au- tumn ones, the chief objection to it being it's large core.
 Wagener stands near the head of all the ! winter apples am acquainted with for qual- ity; of medium size, with 8 tender, crisp, | fine grained flesh.
 In southern New Jersey the Roman Stem ' is great favorite, an apple the farmers al- | ways keep for their own use. At the Mount Holly fair two years ago there were about | fifty plates of this apple on exhibition, en- \ tered for the prize offered for the best plate, l which shows how extensively it is grown f there I am not aware of it's trial in this section.
 For sweet winter apple which is wanted | for baking Talman Sweet is probably as good as any; but the winter sweet apple of this region is the old time Garfield, the standard ] winter apple of our fathers and grandfathers
 8 very prolific sort, and one that will stand
 1 more rough handling than any other. 4
 bruise on the Garfield will dry up; on any
 other it will not This apple still holds itf
 I place in the affections of the farmer, though | it is a poor apple for dessert or cooking. Iti great merit is for cider. It's old time con sort, the Harrison, once so popular, and the
 richest of all apples, has failed so complete l ly of late years that a tree of it is e great
 rarity. Its present status affords fit an. swer to the question, Do varieties run out ol degenerates These two apples were the | foundation in years gone by of New Jerseys | well earned reputation for 'fNeWark cider, , | vast quantities of these apples being crushed | together and distributed widely through the | Newark market. There was cider mill or
 every third or fourth farm, but nearly all od them long ago fell into decay.