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would experiment with new kinds, but with caution, certainly not 

 with those, without a recommendation better that of some un- 

 known tree peddler from some unknown nursery, telling of some 

 unknown somebody who said he had grown them and knew them 

 to be very hardy and great bearers of splendid fruit, price $1.00 

 each. This tells the whole story, and humbug can be seen as 

 plainly as the nose on your face, and still how many bite at this 

 bare hook. On the basis of of one hundred trees I would want 

 twenty-five summer, twenty-five autumn and fifty winter. I 

 would set a succession in regard to time of ripening so that I 

 might have apples all the year through, or certainly from the first 

 of August and as long as Golden Russet can be kept. Quality and 

 productiveness would influence in this selection, commencing with 

 the earliest and naming them in the order of ripening. I would 

 set five Tetofsky, because they are early and hardy ; I think but 

 little of their quality, five Red Astrachan, early, hardy and of 

 good quality, but with me very shy bearers; some top grafted are 

 more productive; five Sops of Wine— I have found them profit- 

 able; ten Duchess of Oldenburg, or, if one wishes a sweet apple, 

 five Sweet June and five Duchess. The Sweet June is a very fine 

 deserts apple ; the children always visit these trees. I have them 

 bearing now that were set in I860; five Saxton or Fall Stripe; five 

 St. Lawrence's, Plumb's cider, Fall Orange and Utters ; for a sweet 

 fall apple the Sweet Pear; it is not as delicious as the Sweet June, 

 but a better grower and more hardy. Ten Fameuse. and ten Tall man 

 Sweet. These two are thebest of all. Twenty-five bushels of Tal- 

 mans is none too many where there is a family of children. They 

 will carry them to school, and eat them baked in their bread and 

 milk upon their return. They are good for pickles and preserves, 

 and best of ail the tree will live where other hardy kinds die. 

 The Fameuse is equally desirable. Every body likes them. 

 Everybody eats them. They are productive and though usually 

 classed as a fall apple, will keep till nearly spring, if picked early 

 and handled with care. Twenty-five bushels is none too many to 

 put in the cellar for winter's use; ten Seeknofurther; ten Perry 

 Russett and ten Golden Russett. This makes the one hundred. If 

 one wished to set more, they should consist largely of Duchess, 



