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Cider, a good lato iiiU sort from Wisconsin, proved hardy. Tlic 

 Alexander, another Russian, came to me from Canada. The 

 St. Lawrence was yet another hard}' sort received from my i)r()vin- 

 cial neiohbors. Both of these are fall fruits, the latter l>i'ing an 

 October, and the former a November apple. These were the few 

 successes among many failures. At last I found two genuine 

 winter apples near home, which had come up and grown to suc- 

 cessful bearing along the western shore of our lake. I have had 

 the honor of naming and of l)eing the first to propagate both of 

 these. One, the Magog Red Streak, is in season from January to 

 April, and the other from March to July. From just over the 

 " divide" to the south came to me my first successful early winter 

 sweet, known as the St. Johnsbury Sweet. Later, among our 

 native seedlings on the lake shore, I have found a late keeper of the 

 same class, which has received the name of Newport Sweet. From a 

 friend in the Champlain valley came a small but excellent September 

 sweet apple, called the Pringle Sweet. Among recent importations 

 from Russia that have succeeded with me, are a fall sweet called 

 the Prolific Sweeting. From the same importation came my best 

 early apple, the Yellow Transpai-ent, which is eating all thi-ough 

 August. But probably the most valuable of all my acquisitions has 

 come from northern Minnesota, in the form of the Wealthy, an 

 early winter sort (sometimes keeping until April) of high quality, 

 good size, great beaut}- and bountiful productiveness. 



Thus I ma}' say that in apples I have now about all that I could 

 wish, and far more than I could reasonably have expected in so 

 short a time. More than a hundred other varieties, many of them 

 very promising, have come to me and are under trial. Probably 

 there are some among them that will more profitably replace vari- 

 eties named above. If life is spared to me I shall not fail to report 

 their merits to my friends in IVIaine. 



A little more particular description of the best varieties named 

 above, with others, such as form a succession for all seasons, will 

 no doubt be acceptable to readers in northern Maine, who have not 

 yet found success in orcharding with varieties known to them. I 

 will therefore now name and describe them in order, as follows : 



Summer Apples. 

 Telofslcy. — Tree a slow, upriglit grower, with strong, rigid 

 branches. Fruit borne upon stout spurs, after the manner of most 



