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Title: The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste
Year: 1846 (1840s)
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Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : Luthur Tucker
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d in 1S37, and had flowers of a sulphur-yellow color, above 5 inches in length,to the number of 5088. The stately appearance of the plant, with its gracefully-curved branches expanding like a beautiful candelabra, and sustaining such a num-ber of erect blossoms or buds, the flowers beautifully succeeding each other, pre-sented to the eye a spectacle highly gratifying. The Kiihicon Apple. IX the July number of your paper, I notice an illustration and description of anapple that originated in an adjoining county, with which I have had some ex-perience. And as I have reason to believe that it will not generally support thegood character thus given it, I will oflTer a few brief notes from my own observations.It is one of the greatest detriments to true progress in horticulture—this over-praising of new fruits. Yet it is a very common vice, and one from which the best-informed cultivators are not always exempt. The Rubicon apple—called also the Pawpaw and Western Baldwin—I have grown
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264 Pleasantries of Mitral Ziterature. in nursery, and have had in bearing in orchard for some fifteen years. It may dobetter on light soils—mine being a strong clay loam—but, so far, I can not speakgreatly in its favor. While a few specimens of the fruit will keep sound until July, and are very fine,the half of the crop will decay before the first of April; iu fact, there are none of theleading sorts that fail so badly with me—not excepting the Vandeveer Pippin. And,like it, it is afiected with black rot on heavy soil. It has a local reputation for long keeping in the vicinity of its origin, but is grownmostly, I think, on the sand, or soils comparatively light. The fruit is about the size of the Baldwin, with some abatement in the bestspecimens, while an undue proportion is small and inferior. It must require no little imagination to predict that it is bound to be the lead-ing market-apple in the West, in a region where the Baldwin succeeds so ad-mirably. And it certainly argu

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