REPORT OF MR. THOMAS A. SHARPE. 401 



Waaxn. — Medium in size, handsome and a good keeper. Season, January and 

 February. 



Wellington. — Above medium, handsome, good keeper, acid. Season, February. 



Wolf River. — Very handsome ; only three apples this year. 



Stark. — Above medium, handsome and said to be a very good keeper. 



Warner's King, — Vigorous grower ; fruit very large, a good cooking apple. Two 

 of the largest this year weighed, one 25^ oz., and the other 25|- oz. respectively. Season, 

 November. 



The following is a list of the varieties received this year, bringing the collection of 

 apples up to over 500 : — 



Allen's Russet, Antonovka, No. 236, 26 M., Arabka Summer, Atkinson, Aport 252, 

 Almond Reinette, Aport 23 M., Anisim 18 M., Arabka, (Budd and Gibb,) Arabka 257, 

 Anisovka 185, Alaska Crab, Avenarius, Borsdorf No. 19, Belle Pippin, Baraboo, Basil 

 the Great, Beautiful Arkad 453, Bethel, Barloff, Belmont, Brightwater, Bostic Queen, 

 Buncomb, Bloomless, Beauty of Kentucky, Cinnamon Pine, Chase's Jelly Crab, Cranberry 

 Winter, Charlottenthaler, Charlamoft, Court Pendu Plat, Cross, 15 M., Chickasaw Crab, 

 Cove, Crawford Pippin, Cranberry Pippin, Dartmouth Crab, Dickinson, Extra Early 

 Margaret, Early Sweet, Enormous, Early May, Eikhorn, English Golden Russet, Excelsior, 

 Florence Crab, Franklin Sweet, Flat Voronesh, Golden White, Good Peasant, Gideons 

 No. 10, Gipsy Girl, Grandmother, Green Crimean, Green Stripe, Golden Ball, Gideons 

 Best, (Peter,) Gideons 20, Gracie, Gells Beauty, Golden Beauty Crab, Gideons 30, 

 Grindstone, Hatcher's Seedling, Hebbel White, Hare Pipka, Headly, Holman, Hughes' 

 Virginia Crab, Hennipin, Hy-fill, Hibernal, Haskells Sweet, Indiana, Jones' Seedling, 

 Kentucky Red Crab, Kossuth, Kentucky Longstem, Kentucky Streak, Kirkbridge, 

 Kara Synap (Niemetz.) Kremer's Glass, Knievskoe, Kurskaya, Karabovka 21 M., Lady 

 Elgin Crab, Lankford, North Carolina Limber-twig, Lord Nelson, Late Duchess, Lady 

 Finger, Little's Red Winter, Lyman's Red Seedling, Long Arcade, Landsburg, Lubsk 

 Queen, Ledenetz, Large Anis, Little Hat, Mann Pippin of Arkansas, Martha Washington, 

 Maxey, Magnum Bonum, Missouri Red Winter, Mother, Melonen, McAffee, No. 3 Sweet, 

 (Gideon) Newton, Orel 980, Orel 6, Orel 5, Orel 27, Ogilvie's Crab, Orel 1, Ostrakoff 

 Glass, (Fisk) Ostrakoff, (Beadle) Oblong, Ohio Nonpareil, Ozark, Palouse, Pyles Red 

 Winter, Pound Sweet, Peach Crab, Pickards, Palmer, Pewaukee Russet, Pointed Pipka, 

 Prior's Red, Persian Bogdanoff, Pauls Imperial Crab, Quaker Beauty Crab, Queen's 

 Choice Crab, Romenskoe, Repka Aport, Rambour Reinette, Rosy Voronesh, Rosy 

 Repka, Red Queen (316), Red Streak, Reinette Gris (28), Romna (599), Red Subluck, 

 Repolovka 1 M, Red Aport, Russian Preserve, Round Borsdorf, Red Russet, Red 

 Limbertwig, Raspberry, Ragan's Yellow, Red Belleflower, Red Siberian Crab, Red Queen, 

 Rutledge, Ridge Pippin, Red Cider, Stephens Red, Striped July, Stuart's Golden, 

 Sweeting, Stone's Eureka, Simbirsk No. 5, Simbirsk No. 3, Simbirsk No. 2, Simbirsk 

 No. 10. Simbirsk No. 4, Suislep No. 19, Skirsch (Cross Vor.), Sweet Borovinka (Beadle), 

 Sambo, Tulpenhocken, Taffet Winter, Ukraine (Gibb,) Voronesh No. 9, Voronesh 

 Reinette, Virginia Greening, Virginia Queen, Wandering Spy, Winter Sweet Paradise, 

 Windsor Chief, Winter May, Winter Green, White Rambour, Watterson's No. 4, White 

 Pigeon, White Borovinka, Watterson, Williams Favorite, No. 585, No. 20 (M), No. 569, 

 Yellow Horse, Julian, Newells Winter. 



Pears. 



Only a few of the pears fruited this year, although many of the young trees 

 blossomed. 



Margaret. — A medium sized handsome, russet red pear of very fine quality. Ripe 

 Aug. 14th. 



Seckel. — One tree produced a few of these delicious little pears. Ripe Oct. 6th. 



Gliva Kurskaya. — Fruit medium sized, regular in form. Golden russet colour, and 

 very pleasant flavor. Ripe September 6th. 



Vicar of Winkfield. — Above medium in size, poor quality. Ripe Nov. 11th. 

 8c— 26 



