Chapter 98
American Golden Russet, Baldwin, Bellflower, Belmont, Bough, Early Harvest, Fallawater, Fall Pippin, King of Tompkins, Maiden's Blush, Newtown Pippin, Newtown Spitzenberg, None Such, Porter, Primate, Rambo, Rawle's Janet, Red Astrachan, Seek-no-further, Smokehouse, Summer Queen, Summer Rose, Swaar, Sweet Bellflower, Tallow Pippin, Twenty Ounce.
HARDY AND TENDER.
After the sad experiences in many portions of the Northwest, where in some severe winters whole orchards of trees and extensive nurseries were ruined by the cold, it has become a most important question for planters to ask whether the varieties recommended are _hardy_. The testimony of some of our best observers has been collected, and will be of value, though it may be observed that there is some discrepancy as to certain sorts.
The following list of hardy and tender varieties was prepared by Reuben Ragan, Putnam County, Indiana, and has since been carefully revised. Soil a rich argillaceous loam on lime stone:
TENDER.
Baldwin, Bullock's Pippin, Early Harvest, Esopus, Fall Pippin, Gravenstein, Michael Henry, *Newtown Spitzenberg, Ortley, Pryor's Red, Rambo, Rawle's Janet, Rhode Island Greening, *Roxbury Russet, *Summer Queen.
* These suffered in the nursery especially.
HARDY.
American Summer Pearmain, Carolina June (Red), Carolina June (Striped), Chronicle, Danvers' Winter Sweet, Early Strawberry, Fall Queen, Fall Wine, Farley Red, Hannah, Hoops, Horse, Lewis (of Ragan), McAffee, Newtown Pippin, Northern Spy, Pennock, Pottinger, President, Priestley, Ragan's Red, Red Astrachan, Red Streak, Rome Beauty, Sine-qua-non, Transport, Vandervere Pippin, Winesap, Yellow Bellflower, Yellow Juneating.
A.L. Benedict, of Monroe County, has taken great pains in making out lists of those that were entirely destroyed, partially injured, and slightly affected by the terribly severe winter of 1855-6:
ENTIRELY DESTROYED.
Baldwin Sweet, Blue Pearmain, Cheeseboro Russet, Egg Top, English Russet, Esopus Spitzenberg, Fall Pippin, French Pippin, Lowre Queen, Newtown Spitzenberg, Red Juneating, Rhode Island Greening, Robinson, Romanite, Spice Sweeting, Wing Sweet, Yellow Vandervere.
PARTIALLY INJURED.
American Golden Russet, Belmont, Black, Bough, b.u.t.ter, Colvert, Detroit Black, Early Harvest, Fall Wine, Golden Sweet, Gray Vandervere, Hoops, Kaighn's Spitzenberg, London Winter Sweet, Newtown Pippin, Ortley, Peck's Pleasant, Pennock, Pine, Rambo, Raritan Sweet, Roxbury Russet, Scallop Gilliflower, Streaked Vandervere, Swaar, Sweet Gilliflower, Tift's Sweet, Tulpehocken, White Pippin, Winesap, Yellow Bellflower.
HARDY OR BUT SLIGHTLY INJURED.
Bethlemite, Black Gilliflower, Blockley, Gloria Mundi, Grindstone, Harrison (Newark King),
M.L. Comstock, of Iowa, gives the following list of apples that are found to be tender in that region:
Baldwin, Esopus Spitzenberg, Fall Pippin, Fameuse, Gravenstein, Golden Russet, Hubbardston, Jonathan, Ladies' Sweet, Newtown Spitzenberg, Peck's Pleasant, Pomme Grise, Rawle's Janet, Red Canada, Rhode Island Greening, White Winter Pearmain.
F.W. Landon, Janesville, Wisconsin, thinking the hardy list would be too long, gives the following as tender:
Autumn Strawberry, Baldwin, Cloth of Gold, Early Strawberry, Esopus Spitzenberg, Lady, Newtown Spitzenberg, Northern Spy, Norton's Melon, Westfield Seek-no-further.
J.C. Brayton, Azatlan, Wisconsin, gives the following list of hardy and valuable fruits for the rich lands in the western part of the State:
SUMMER.
American Summer Pearmain, Benoni, Early Harvest, Early Pennock, Early Red, Fall Stripe, High-top Sweet.
AUTUMN.
Bailey Sweet, Fall Orange, Fall Winesap, Fameuse, Late Strawberry, Red Streak, Roseau, Saint Lawrence, Sweet Pear, Trenton Early, Utter's Large, White Gilliflower.
WINTER.
Broadwell, Domine, Flus.h.i.+ng Spitzenberg, Golden Russet, Hoops?
Limbertwig, Northern Spy, Perry Russet, Rawle's Janet, Red Spitzenberg, Tallman's Sweet, Wagener, Westfield Seek-no-further, White Winter Pearmain, Winesap, Yellow Bellflower.
HARDY, IF TOP-GRAFTED.
Autumn Swaar, Belmont, English Russet, Fulton, Golden Sweet, Herefords.h.i.+re Pearmain, Jonathan, Lowell, Maiden's Blush, Red June, Sops of Wine.
SWEET APPLES FOR BAKING AND FOR STOCK FEEDING.
With many persons the consumption of sweet apples becomes an important item of household economy; for the feeding and fattening of stock sweet apples have deservedly attracted the attention of intelligent farmers, and they may yet be much more extensively planted in many places where the land is not well adapted to the production of grain and other staple crops for the support of man and the animals under his care.
With a view to aid the planter the following lists have been collated:
Sweet apples to be planted for stock feeding. Recommended by T.S.
Humrickhouse, of Coshocton, Ohio, in Ohio Cultivator, vol. VI, page 283:
SUMMER.
*Duling Sweet, Golden Sweet, *Jersey Sweet, Pumpkin Sweet, Red and Green Sweet, Summer Sweet, *Summer Sweet Paradise, *Sweet Bough.
* My friends write that they would have preferred more of these sorts, and that they planted such trees as were at hand at that time.
AUTUMN.
*Haskell Sweet, *Kinsey's Sweet, Lyman's Pumpkin, Ramsdell's, Spice Sweet, *Superb Sweet.
* My friends write that they would have preferred more of these sorts, and that they planted such trees as were at hand at that time.
WINTER.
Baldwin Sweet, Broadwell, b.u.t.ter Sweet, *Danvers' Winter, Honey Sweeting, *Ladies' Sweeting, Late Pound Sweet, May, McKay's Favorite, *Phillips' Sweeting, *Tallman's Sweeting, Wells' Sweeting, Winter Sweeting.
* My friends write that they would have preferred more of these sorts, and that they planted such trees as were at hand at that time.
ALSO, LESS KNOWN,
Acid Sweet, Akeson's Sweet, Beauty of the West, Cash Sweet, Charlotte Sweet, Climb Sweet, Ling Sweet, London Sweet, Merritt's Sweet, Mt. Pleasant Sweet, Morgan's Favorite, Red Sweet Pippin, Stone Sweet.
Planted by A.L. Benedict, Morrow County, Ohio, in a lot to be devoted to hogs. The numbers of each might be varied:
2 Bough, 3 Golden Sweet,*
6 Jersey Sweet,*
16 May of Myers, 10 Moore's Sweeting, 32 Pumpkin Sweet, 8 Raritan Sweet, 17 Spice Sweet, 1 Tift's Sweet, 19 Tallman Sweet, 30 Whitmore Sweet, 14 Wing Sweet.
* My friends write that they would have preferred more of these sorts, and that they planted such trees as were at hand at that time.