. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. tsfrom Ontario, Canada, indicate a poor crop,with the exception of Russian varieties likeDuchess, Alexander, etc. In this vicinityApples are so scarce that common fall vari-eties bring one dollar per bushel at thegroceries. Yet in the Russian experimentalorchard on the college farm dozens of vari-eties have been laden with large, smoothand handsome fruit. This orchard gave usfully 600 bushels last year and about .300 thisyear, but the shortage this year came fromthe fact that the extre
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. tsfrom Ontario, Canada, indicate a poor crop,with the exception of Russian varieties likeDuchess, Alexander, etc. In this vicinityApples are so scarce that common fall vari-eties bring one dollar per bushel at thegroceries. Yet in the Russian experimentalorchard on the college farm dozens of vari-eties have been laden with large, smoothand handsome fruit. This orchard gave usfully 600 bushels last year and about .300 thisyear, but the shortage this year came fromthe fact that the extreme drought of the pastthree years prevented varieties heavily ladenlast year from fruiting this season. Eventhe Duchess trees that were full in 1889 didnot show a specimen in 1890. This is stated inconfirmation of the fact, that the best Rus-sian Apples, Pears, Cherries and Plums, arehardier in fruit buds and blossoms than thewest European fruits or their Americanseedlings. On page Prof. Goff makessome statements in regard toRussianAppleswhich may probably be extended. 24 POPULAR GARDENING. November,. Liable to Blight. He correctly states:Many Russian varieties that resist coldsuffer severely by blight in summer. Thisis founded on Wisconsin experience with theearlier varieties imported from St. Peters-burg. Yet of these it may be said that manyblight as seriously as the Siberian Crabs,and many others in the most unfavorablepositions blight as little as Duchess or anyone of the so-called AmericanApples. Groundsin Iowa wherethe YellowTransparentcannot be profit-ably grown onaccount of itstendency toblight, we havebearing trees ofover 70 varietiesfrom St. Peters-burgh thatblight as littleas the Duchess,and some thathave as yet nevershown a trace ofthe disease. Again, the var-ieties from theVolga Provin-ces, as a rule, areless subject toblight than anyof the west Eu-ropean sorts ortheir Americanseedlings. Not of High Quality. Prof. Goff says: Few of them are of high quality. On
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