Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-06-27
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r II Huskius. we'll know authurIty on
/ fruit tolls readers OF "tar}en aud Forest
/ that ~ u tuin y :rui' tee shnuld h.- ID ,rrt,-
/ "a that will endure all Weathers IN ha rlace
where 1t Is planted. 1t must be hardy
enough to stand the test of winter; o her.
pise. just " hen the owner is 10 king for a
/ tr,t inil crop he ma, find only a dead tee.
/ Experience has proven that the fruit.tr-es
of western Europe aud their seedlings will
/ not. rs a rule. endure the winter cims.r
of similar ATTITUDES on the American
continent All OF Europe porth 81
Rome ia north of Boston. Boston is
nearly the extreme north limit Of the
peach. plum. ounce and apricot; and of the
apples and p"srs OF Northwestern Europe
very few rau b, planted with prot more than
one hundred miles north of Boston Seed
lngs from these do not, As rule, show more
resistance to cold than their parents. So
seldom 30 they that those OF US " no have had
mos, pxparie, ce at once suspect that such
Seeding IS an accidental cross It'll a harder
variety like those of Russia and Siberia.
The Russian trse-fruts are undoubtedly
Of hybrid origin Those of Poland and the
Baltic Provinces are much mixed. and less
of this blood is found and in The valley of
the Nolgs ami the steepe region the influence
of North Asia stock predOminate%. 1t > from
these trees that We get our most perfect
Iron clai, OF all the trce-fruts.
our northeastern states and provinces re-
quirv hardness agaiNst cold alone, but in the
prairie states this Is not enough. lnteHSe
summer II at and drought and the fatai sap
uiight must also be encountered there, and
trees tot shat r, gon aust thus be tripiy clsd
The fruits # the Russian ami Asiatic steppe~
furnish the best material to meet these con-
tingentits
4. Nv England hes mostly on the la'i-
tules OF Sou h.ru Europe. - Canada lies
mos Is on the laii'udgs Of Russia and Siberia.
No. only climate but the length Of seasons sni
of iays should be- con-iiered in esGnla;iug
the value of fruit trees Thu winter apples
of Russia are many but south of forty-dv
degrees the, are only early winter or
fall sorts Thi. lessons their value for our
northern stats; hut they can be growu
among our tender long keepers there IS
fair probability tia, irln-cad crosses can be
obtained gha, Will prove 10 : keepag bel, VI
latitude fort, FIVE dc1rte-
Urquesti0naoly mary European trees are.
IN their seedlings gradually adapting them
selves 10 the American climate rhe iaT of
the survival OF the tittest is all the time in
operation, and inter- sted parties are tHd.ng
along the northern limit of our orchard re-
giun land even within ~ seeding va.ietIes
hich show unusual resistance against colt
After irving several hundred of the hardest
spplcs Of southern Maine New Hampshire,
Vermont and Massachusetts in vain. and
after coming to believe that there were no
iron-clsds among Massachusetts apples. i;
was accidentally discovered { at the eenieH-
NAL, | believe) that an apple which had
received from Car ada u. the Strawberry of
Montreal is really the Fouadiing which
originated in Grotou, Mass. Nov that
an interest has been aroused hv the practical
successes already STAINED, hardy seedlings
are being sought out and tested all along our
northern borders and in Canada SCOTS
Winter is enc of the sppies thus obtained,
and though not an apple of high quality or
large size it is reliable keeper and US,
full frut-not only in itself, but as beacon
of hope.
As for the pears and stone fruits, the fu;- 1
ure is pretty secure. OF only from the ini- /
provement of our native species, but in the 4
importation of the highly satisfactory Rus
sian. Siberian, and North Chinese varieties
| see no reason to doubt that by discoveries
already made the orchard region on this
continent can be extended from TWO TO three
degrees of latitude nor.hward That this is
u wonderful gain. the result of scarcely
two decades of effort, is manifest, and there
Is more to came, for the work is scarcely
begun.