Biff Apples

An Oregon visitor at the Farmers' Club, New York city, lately stated in a meeting of that august body, that he had gathered a basket full of apples from one short limb of an apple tree in Oregon, the united weight of the whole, exclusive of the basket, being twenty-four pounds. Upon counting them he found but twelve, the average weight being but two pounds each, and he left still larger on the tree. Kansas, where are thy laurels now!

A Big Apple Crop

Mr. John Morse, of Cayuga, N. Y., has realized $8,000 from a single apple crop within the past year.

Big Asparagus

Shirley Hibberd, in the London Gardener's Magazine, thinks that all the Giant and Colossal character in asparagus comes simply from "difference in culture, rather than difference in seed." Wide planting will undoubtedly give large shoots and more of them from each hill; but how is it that when two beds are put out side by side, one will be large and fit for cutting a year before the other ? This is the way Conover's Colossal acts here, near New York.

Big Beet Crop

The famous "Winchell" Nursery at San Jose, California, has raised Sugar Beets at the rate of over 50 tons per acre, and Dr. J. 0. Cobb, of the same place, has raised 60 tons per acre. They must have grown straight up and down and all round each other; this is 3 lbs. to every square foot of surface.

A Big Best

Preston Hodges, Esq., of Stamford, has sent us a Mangold Wurtzel weighing upward of twenty-five pounds. It is almost large enough for a meal for an elephant.

Big Poach Crops

The large Peach shipments of 161,968 packages of Peaches from St. Joseph, Mich., during the season of 1870, hare been quoted by Western papers, and also some foreign ones, as the "largest known to the present generation." We must give better credit to little Delaware, by saying, that from one station alone, on a railroad 175 miles long, there were shipped from Middletown, Del., last year, 175,000 baskets and packages of Peaches, and from the town of Dover, there were shipped, both by railroad and steamer, the enormous amount of 460,000 baskets. The produce of the entire Peninsula of Maryland and Delaware was 3,000,000 baskets, and the value net to the growers about $1,200,000. Is there any other seotion of the world that can make as favorable an exhibit as this ?

Big Shipments Of Grapes

In one month, Vineland, N. J., shipped, in round numbers, 336,000 pounds of grapes.

The Biggest Fruit-Trees In The United States

The inhabitants of San Buenaventure, California, claim to have the largest pear, palm, English walnut and olive trees in the United States.

In the old Mission orchard are three date palms seven to nine feet in circumference, and from forty to fifty feet high. Pear trees eight feet in circumference, and olives seven. Three English walnuts, the largest six feet in circumference, about thirty feet in height, and a spread of top of sixty feet.

The Big Grape was measured by Dr. Logan, who states in the Rural Press, he found it to be four feet three inches in circumference, four and a half feet from the ground at the point of beginning of the first branch. This vine, still healthy and vigorous, was planted from a cutting some forty odd years ago, and its branches now spread over a trellis seventy-six feet long and sixty-one feet wide, which they completely cover. It produces from 12,000 to 15,000 pounds of fruit annually, some of the clusters weighing five pounds.