The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-11
Editorial NOtings.

of Laban G. Rollins. Mr.. Rollins
named it, for his daughter, the Ma
linda; and his son, j. w. Rollins, en-
igra ing to Elgin, Wabasha county,
Minnesota, in 1860, took trees or scions
to that locality, where it has proved an
iron-clad, "equal to Oldenburgh, and
as productive" This apple is yellow,
with occasionally pale blush on the
sunny side. In size it is medium, conf
cal in form, with very shallow,
wrinkled "basin " on "blow end" In
flavor it is pure sweet, without bit
terness, or unpleasant after-taste. Can
any reader of this department give us
more information about this apple? 1t
is likely to prove very valuable where
the Tolman Sweet fails in hardness,
and Professor Budd of the Iowa Agri-
cultural College, who sends us sample,
wishes to learn all he can about it, as
he thinks it of great value, being 80
hardy, and long keeper.
The adaptation OF tree fruits, and
especially of apples, to localities is
rarely very wide. The Baldwin is of
little value outside of southern New
England and New York; the King of
Tompkins is worthless as far west as
Ohio; the Roxbury Russell loses its
long keeping west of New York and
south of New England; Hubbardston
is little grown out of New England;
Yellow Bellhower is fine only near the
banks of river; Newtown Pippin sue
ceeds only on the lower Hudson and on
the Susquehanna river-and in fact no
American apple is of wide distribution
over the continent except Ben Davis,
and this, though hardy, is almost worth
less outside of the Ohio and Missouri
valleys. -
BUT, very queerly, the Russian APP
pies, so far as tried, seem to succeed
everywhere. The Red Astrachan does
as we'll in Louisiana and Texas as in
New England and the West, and stands
at the head in its season for twenty-six
states, west of the Rockies, according
to the American Pathological Society's
list, while Oldenburgh on the same list
is also "double starred" in nineteen
states. Yet these are only early APP
pies. There is reason to believe that
where the later-keeping Russian APP
pies become better known they will be
equally popular over wide territory.
Every year reveals their merits more
and more. AS successor in season
to Oldenburgh we can highly recon-
mend Switzer and Prolific Sweeting.
They are very fine apples from Septem-
Der to December, and profusely pro-
ductive in good soil, These heavy
bearers all require good treatment to
develop their full value.
A VERY interesting thing in fruit
trees is what is known as bud varia-
ton THE growing of limb which
produces an entirely different fruit from
the rest of the tree. Sometimes this
difference is external only, or internal
only, as in change of color, or a
change of flavor. One Rhode Island
Greening branch has been known to
produce highly colored apples without
change of flavor, while another branch
ION another tree) has produced perfect
Greetings, that were sweet. By graft
ing, these bud variations may be per-
petuated.
The sun is great detective, and its
pictorial power over the human coun-
tenance reveals character wonderfully,
when exercised unconsciously to the
victim. The american I'rotter has the
following item: 1.-The position of the
crowd as painted by the sun at the fin
ish of some of the heats at the indie
pendence races show the excitement,
and are in some cases ludicrous in the
extreme. The mental and physical
strain exhibited by many of the specta-
tors shows plainly in their distorted
faces and figures. Some were standing
on one foot, the other drawn up to the
knee. Others bending sideways, nearly
double, and in other unnatural pos.
lures, as if their anxiety might helr
their favorites to greater Efforts
Other accounts of similar sun-pictures
taken at races, in which almost demonia1
features were revealed among the
losers, illustrates in a remarkable man
ner the demoralizing effect of the gam
bling which has become so great fea
ture of 80 many agricultural exhibit
tions.
THE desire to get something fo
nothing-to get money without earning
it's horrible and dangerous feature