M STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ant crops of extra-fine fruit each season. It also is almost entirely exempt 

 from blight. The Twenty-Ounce follows next in value. This gives some 

 excellent crops of very large and salable fruit. It is a heavy bearer, fine 

 grower in wood and foliage, and considered valuable. 



In any locality where these varieties have done well, the best treatment 

 of other sorts is to top-work or regraft all such which do not bear regu- 

 larly and are subject to blight, to these better kinds and some of the newer 

 varieties which I wish to mention. The method of cleft-grafting and 

 changing bearing trees is very simple. Any one who has ever seen a scion 

 set can do his own grafting and be successful. Trees treated in this way 

 will come into bearing much sooner than would a young orchard of 

 the same kinds. 



As to the newer varieties, or those of later introduction, there are a 

 number which I believe will soon prove very valuable for general orchard 

 planting, which will bear good crops of choice fruit, and which will bring 

 the money. Of those which have fruited and are worthy of general plant- 

 ing, I will first name the Yellow Transparent as the best summer apple. 

 It is a very tine and strong grower, free from blight, an early and abundant 

 bearer of extra-choice fruit, ripens from a week to ten days ahead of Early 

 Harvest, and is valuable fcr its season. The Wealthy is" a fine grower in 

 wood and foliage, and produces some very fine, high-colored, early 

 winter fruit. It begins to bear early and also seems to resist the blight. 

 Gideon's Winter is another one of great promise, This is one of the 

 strongest in growth of wood, with healthy foliage, comes into bearing very 

 young (at three or four years from planting), bears heavily of large, yel- 

 low fruit covered with a bright red blush on one side. Its keeping quali- 

 ties are good, and I consider it one of the coming apples. Sutton's Beauty 

 also is very promising in the growth of tree and for resisting blight. 



There are others which I might mention, but deem these sufficient for 

 the present. 



The future successful apple orchard will be the one of select and 

 improved varieties, and to succeed we must plant such varieties or regraft 

 the old orchards to those which do bear fruit; and by giving the proper 

 cultivation and using'the spray pump we may be able once more to grow 

 the king of fruits. 



