Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-10-24
yss.s :. R..sa. a.l Haray Apis.

ystes - Rsssan anl Hardy Apis.
An Horticultural exchange asks why
people continue to call the '-Oiden.
burRh' apple Duchess Of Osdenburgh.'
Force Of habit. probably. The Amen
can Pathological Society several years
| ago undertook to change Or modify the
old and popular names Of 8 large number
Of fruits; but, as We said when this
work was proposed, the society need NOT
expect Ii to be an easy task. In roofing
out such names az the sHognose Pip
pin. and few other coarse and uncoufn
names, the society did well; bat we think
il doubtful whether il did as wen, or
will be as successful in other changes
especially those indicating season, use,
and locality Of origin.
As TO Oidenburgb, however, the oid
name WA longer than necessary, out
that was not the greatest nb}ection-h -
not the true name OF the apple IL Is
Russian apple; but Professor Budd
found nobody la Russia who knew II oy
that name, aud it ia probablethat it
wa, renamed 10 England, when intro
duced there early In the present CEN
tury. Its Russian name. according 10
Professor Budd, ia Boroviisky; and an
effort should be made, we think. 70 re
store this name. which Is not, Ike some
Russian names. difficult TO speak cor
rectly.
Regarding Russian apples generally,
there il az little occasion TO proclaim or
defend their merits as there Is use in
nurserymen. with hundreds Of acres OF
other kinds on their hands. to decry
either the Russian or the native iron clad
fruits. A few years ago these nursery
men couId food the cold North with
their semi hardy old kinds, which sur
viyed but few years at poor dying
rate. and gave these men a peri etual
market. and their deluded customers
perpetual disappointment. Everybody
should know that there are now more
than a hundred varieties of excellent
tree fruits just a. hardy In northern
New England aud Canada as the older
sorts are to the southwark. Ii any
reader has doubts Oh that subject, let
him do a. many others have done-take
an excursion train to Lake MemphreDa
cog, any time next summer, and halt II
nile north. of the Newport station he
will find our orchards Of apples. pears,
plum and cherry trees in bearing, and as
thrifty in every respect as any In the
country. Yet where these are growing
il il impossible for Baldwin, Greenlng
or any popular apple CT southern New
England or western New \ ork. TO sue
coed as it would be for au orange ana
lemon orchard to thrive in Connecticut
some of the Russian apples have long
been and now are grown, and are popu-
lar. In southern New England AS these
are all early fruit the nurserymen above
referred to take advantage OF that fast
TO make buyers believe that all Russian
APPLES are of thac character. Perhaps
some Of them believe what they say
but IL they do it is because they are not
so well informed in their trade as they
should be We shipped three carloads,
mostly Of winter apples. from our Or
chard, last year, to Worcester. Mass
and the commission house which han
died them wrote us, under date of No
vember IS, 1890: ''If others were one
half as honorable as you are, and have
been, with us, we would have no diff
Guilty in dealing with them. Your fruit
has been very satisfactory to us, and al
so TO all parties to whom We have sold,
and all say they are honest goods
Perhaps We ought rot to copy this
conmendation, We consider it mere
business sense and worldly wisdom to
give good value, and TO take pains to
please those we sell to. But We wish to
show the many farmers, and others who
read these columns, that there are good
and salable fruits among the iron clads
Russian and others We have been
embarrassed in years past to speak OF
these matters here because we were then
growing these fruit trees for sale; but
now we are not, and so we can be frank
and free in telling our readers what we
know about them.
We understand that all this is of little
value, unless he Is told where he can get
these iron-clad fruit trees 1t would e
we'll il a few nurserymen who grow
them would advertise the fact more in
Vermont Some Of them have good
stocks of iron clad apples; but the Rus
sian pears. plums and cherries are of
such recent importation that nursery
men have no trees large enough for sale
But they will no doubt soon have them,
and our readers can be supplied. We
always advise buying direct from the
grower, for even the honest grower
cannot send man to your house to sell,
and another to deliver nursery stock,
Without UelDg well paul ioi lHo .louo Z
If orders are sent directly to the nur-
sery. all the additional cost is the
expressage or freight. which is now
pretty reasonable on nursery stock.
You can usually buy four times as many
fruit trees for the money at nursery rs
you can of an agent; and If the nursery
Is a square ote you are much safer from
errors and mistakes in selection and
packing DIR. T. II Hoskins in Vermont
Waterman.