The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-08-20
Around the Orchard.
FANCY MARKET FRUIT.


to selling their apples at from one to
two dollars barrel, and think the last
a paying price, have little conception
of the money that may be got out of
apple-growing. The growers of choice
dessert apples in England think little
of getting from siXpence TO a shilling
each for their fine fruits. There is no
risk in saying that, let them do their
best, we can here in America grow
finer apples at much less cost than
the most careful orchardst in the COM
paratively sunless mother country. For
those who are looking for an uncrowded
field of labor in horticulture, it seems
to us that here is a rather desirable
opening. Not that the field is entirely
unoccupied, but that it is yet, and for
some time to come will be, good and
profitable one. There is always room,
up high"
Perfectly flawless apples, of our best
and most beautiful dessert sorts, if put
upon the right market at the moment of
their greatest perfection, can be easily
sold at from ten to twenty dollars bar
rel. Instead of being a high this is a
low estimate. Apples of medium size
run about 500 TO the barrel, and at twenty
dollars barrel would be only four cents
apiece. But this class of apples should
never be barreled. They should be
handled like eggs; and really the best
case for shipping such fruit is made
upon the same plan as the cellular egg
cases. In these fancy Canadian ap-
Piles are now being successfully shipped
to England, and have netted the grow
ers about three dollars bushel.
SOME SELECT VARIETIES.
The dessert apple grower wants to
produce fruit for all seasons, and with
the help of cold storage he can easily
supply the tables of his customers With
choice apples, in prime order for eat
ing, every day in the year. The list
from which selections may be made is
sufficiently long, but just the right
choice for given locality requires a
knowledge of local adaptations. Some
of our best apples are very local in this
respect, not succeeding at all outside of
limited area of country. Perfect
form, beauty of color, aroma, delicate
flavor and mellow flesh are requisites.
Freedom from all fungoid DETACHMENT
is also essential, but this can now gen.
orally be secured by fungicide spraying.
The following is perhaps a sufficiently
full list for the northern half of the
country:
Summer Apples. Yellow Trans
parent, Early Harvest, Early Joe, Pri-
mate, American Summer Pearmain,
Red Astrachan, Maiden's Blush, Sum,
mer Rose.
autumn Apples. Favorite
Fameuse, Princess Louise, Fameuse
Sucree, Peach of Montreal, Craven
stein, Dyer, Garden Royal, Fall Pip.
pin, Fall Wine, Porter.
Winter Apples. Golden
Pippin, Mcintosh Red, Baltimore, Bel
mont, Buckingham, Esopus Spitzen,
burgh, Grimes Golden, Hubbardton
Nonesuch, Hunts Russet, Jewett's
Fine Red, Wealthy, Jonathan, Mon.
mouth Pippin, Northern Spy, Pryor's
Red, Rambo, Red Canada, Westfeld
Seek-no- Further, Yellow Bellflower
Striped Winter Pearmain, Swaar
Mother, Wagner.
CULTURE OF CHOICE APPLES.
If one is going into the cultivation OF
this class of apples, with view to max
ing paying business of it, he will seek a
convenient location, not too far from his
market. A deep, rich soil (either nat
urally or artficially SOY is essential to the
best results, and garden culture must be
given from the start. In order not tC
wait too long, and also because we
often get much finer specimens in this
, way, it is advisable TO set out large
proportion of dwarf and half dwarf
trees. AS these, particularly the
, former, are short-lived, they may BIZ
t set between the standard trees, and will
be removed before one will encroacl
5 upon the other. Not all varieties arr
5 adapted to dwarfing, but some of the
A kinds late in coming to bearing ar,
r much fastened as dwarfs or semi
D dwarfs. In addition to Paradise ant
e Doucain stocks we can, from expert
. ence, strongly recommend The TIE
4 tofsky as a stock for this purpose.
Y Clean surface culture, AMI liberia
mulching, are both required. Dee
y blowing in an orchard, after the frs
!, five or six years, is not desirable. Al