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tough and hardy, and a most beautiful sight to see it loaded with its 

 beautiful fruit, especially a year like this one when apples are nearly a 

 failure. 



The Jonathan, one of the best in the list, is a purely dessert apple, 

 but must be omitted from the list unless one has favorable ground for 

 planting it, which I will gladly give my ideas upon should any one 

 want to plant. This fancy apple is a seedling from one of the best 

 dessert apples ever known, the old Esopus Spitzenburg. If there is 

 an eastern or northern man within the sound of my voice, he will bear 

 me out in this assertion. 



The Grimes Golden is another fancy dessert apple, and by some 

 prized as highly as the Jonathan. The parentage of this fine apple is 

 unknown, but enough of the apple is known to give it a high place 

 with the horticulturists of this country. 



The Eobinson Pippin — This fine apple, its origin and parentage 

 unknown, has worked its way, unaided and alone, to the front in South 

 and Southwest Missouri. I pronounce it among the best — equal in 

 all respects as to flavor and quality to the famous old Newtown Pip- 

 pin, of the Hudson river, New York. The tree is a good, strong 

 grower in an orchard — not quite so handsome in the nursery as some 

 others, but no planter should leave it out of his list. 



The Babbitt — This beautiful apple has been before the public but 

 a short time, yet has gained a strong foot-hold among horticulturists 

 wherever planted and fruited, and is now being largely planted in the 

 northern part of the State. Its parentage is the famous Baldwin apple 

 of the East. This tree is a strong, vigorous grower of a somewhat differ- 

 ent formation from many other varieties, as you may note by examin- 

 ing the tree. 



The tenth and last, but not least, on the list is the Minkler. This 

 noted apple is another that claims the Little Ked Romanite for its pa- 

 rentage. This is a wonderful growing tree in the nursery as well as in 

 the orchard. The apples are fine for general family use, as well as 

 dessert, and are being extensively planted all over Southwest Missouri, 

 and will soon be one of the leaders. As I first stated, ten varieties 

 are too many to plant, as the true aim of all horticulturists should be 

 quality first and quantity second. And why not? The successful 

 stock-grower should use for his motto, " quality, quality!" And that 

 single word should be carved on every gate leading to the orchards 

 and to nurseries, and on the doors of every breeding establishment let 

 the motto be '■ quality." 



If my time were not limited, I would like to give you some ideas 

 picked up, not only at our exposition at home, but at the World's fair 



