332               THE WISCONSIN FARMER.

         Three Long-Keeping Apples.         white, rather coarse, juicy,
very mild subacid,
              IFui ROMANITE.                almost sweet; in use from mid-winter
into
  SYN. (;Ipin Carthousc. S,,all Rornani.   spring. Valuable as a market variety.
  An old variety from  Virginia, and though; (Ci MiU. O.. July, 18"3
 A. G. IANFORD.
not of very good flavor, Iy reason of the many
good qualities of tree and fruit, has become           Ripening f Fruift.
very popular in the West.                      We see everywhere around us
numbers of
  Tile tree is a good grower, very hardy, and excellent practitioners of
the horticultural art
                                            u   stripping their vines of
foliage to "let in the
uniformly productive: fruit ot medium size, Fsun and air to ripen the fruit,"
and if there
roundish oblong. smooth. tair and handsome: i is one spot on the ground more
sunny and ex-
color, deep red on cellow ground: tI "es, vel- posed "nto the air"
than another, that spot
                                          -  they are sure to select for
some apricot or
lowish, firm, juicy: at' excellent cidet a ple, I choice fruit that they
particularly value.
and in spring becoen"s telnder and good for  It seems to be forgotten
that fruit ripening
eating: may be kept a year.                  is in the main a vital process.
Chemical ao-
  In passing thiough MNiflw-aukee thke middle tion is of course essential
to it; but it is de-
                                             pendent on vegetable life. 
This vitality is
of last month (June) we observed this apple maintained by well developed
and healthy fo-
for sale at the fruit stores, nicely colored, liage, and this is again dependent
on the gen-
sound and fresh. dealers paying $1 75 per eral health of the plant.
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  A seedling ot Perry county, (tbio. Tree is
a fine vigorous, upright growe, very hardy,
an annual bearer and exceedingly productive.
(The original tree has produced forty bushels
of picked fruit in a season.)
  Fruit, medium size, round, flattened: skin
dull green becoming yellow as it ripens, with
a slight brownish blush; very iniform, fair,
smooth and handsome; flesh, white, juicy, mild
subacid flavor. In use from April to midsum-
mer-and will keep a year, retaining its
juiciness beyond most long keepers.
  It was first exhibited at the Ohio Fruit Grow-
ers' Convention in 1847. Its resemblance to
the Tewksbury Winter Blush was so striking
that it was deemed by the Convention iden-
tical. In 1864 it received the first premium
on Seedlings at the Ohio State Fair.
   On several occasions fruit of two seasons
has been on exhibition at the alame time. Like
the Romanite it is also a good cider apple.
                   STARK.
   From Delaware county, Ohio    Tree is a
 strong handsome grower, very productive
 fruit, large, roundish oblique; color, greenish
 striped and splashed with crimson and red,
 covered with fine dots, always fair and very
     .    _ . at.. in si .-. flesh. vellnwiah
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the general health of the tree. Winter prun-
i-nv or suer nrining- the effect is the same.



Pruning is but a compromise. To gain a great
object we sacrifice small advantages.  In
pruning that sacrifice is drawn from general
health.  We break off a strong shoot while
green or Succulent, that it may not rob a weak-
Dr one below; or we shorten a weak shoot in
winter that it may push stronger next season.
Here we gain desired advantages, but the vi-
tal force receives a shock. The more severely
we pursue this course the more we perceive
the shock, till, as is well known, we can take
of leaves or shoots enough to utterly destroy
the life of a tree.  We prune trees at trans-
planting, just as we would cut off a man's
leg; not because the tree likes pruning, or
that amputation is a peculiarly pleasing oper-
ation, but as a part ot that system of compen-
sation which nature demands for broken limbs
and broken laws. We gain an advantage but
with a permanent loss.
  Men like to deal with aphorisms.  It is ea-
sier to follow a rule than to understand the
reasoning; so if we tell a child to "take care
of the pence and the pounds will take care of
themselves," it will be more likely to be eco-
nomical than if we read it a long homily on
the reasons therefor.  So we shall, perhaps,
be more generally understood if we reduce all
we have said to this, "take care of the leaves
and the fruits will take care of themselves."
  If we go into a dense wood, where the grape
vine never knew the gardener's knife, and see
the vine in its massiness of foliage, ambling
over bushes and trees, in dells or ravines and
where the sun's direct light never shines, our
"sun and light" friends will expect to see
green and unripe grapes; yet no enraptured
poet ever dwelt with more pleasure on "the



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