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or May. It is more juicy and has a thinner skin than the Janet, and 

 hence greater care is necessary in assorting, as a rotting apple is more 

 likely to affect those in contact with it than is the case with thick-skinned 

 fruit. 



This fruit has been placed upon the tables of this Society and com- 

 mended by our committees on fruits for several successive winters, and 

 is now here in competition for the best variety not in general cultivation. 

 Should it succeed as well upon the prairies as at home upon the Loess and 

 timber lands of Hancock county it will be an advance in the right 

 direction. 



Triumph. — Samples of this fruit have also been upon our tables and 

 been favorably noticed by the Society. The tree is a seedling grown 

 from seed by J. W. Ridings, of Grundy county. It has thus far proved 

 quite hardy and productive, having not failed of producing a fair crop 

 since its first fruiting — some eight years since. The fruit is uniformly 

 above medium size, regular, smooth, pale yellow, mostly covered with a 

 rather dull red ; flesh rich sub-acid ; a good dessert and baking apple, but 

 not sufficiently acid to rank as first-class for cooking. It keeps well into 

 spring and has been kept in fair condition till July. A peculiarity of 

 this seedling tree is that however heavy its crop may be all the fruit is of 

 good size — no small ones can be found. 



Salome. — The history of this most excellent new variety was pub- 

 lished in vol. 12, page 133, of the reports of this Society, and need not 

 be given here. The original tree stands upon the grounds of Mr. E. C. 

 Hatheway, of LaSalle county; it is entirely hardy, bears large crops of 

 fruit, which is all large and fair, and of excellent quality, having a pecu- 

 liar, and to nearly all tastes agreeable, slightly spicy flavor ; color, yellow, 

 nearly overspread with red. It keeps as long as it is desirable to keep 

 any apples, having been kept in a tight barrel entirely sound for a whole 

 year. A most valuable characteristic of this fruit 'is that it ripens into 

 fine condition in winter and remains fresh, plump and juicy until summer, 

 retaining its flavor till its final consumption. Is not this "the coming 

 apple" for the prairies of Illinois? A few more years will determine. 

 In the mean time we consider it the duty of Mr. Hatheway to rob the 

 tree of nearly all its blossom buds or young fruit in spring, so as to 

 induce a growth of shoots for grafting; as we understand that it bears so 

 heavily as to produce no wood of sufficient size for cions. 



Siberian Apples. — Quite a number of seedling Siberian apples have 

 appeared within a few years, for which the originators claim superior 

 merits. Among these, perhaps the most prominent Illinois seedling is 

 Whitney's No. 20, raised and disseminated by A. R. Whitney, of Frank- 

 lin Grove. The tree is symmetrical in growth, and the fruit fully up to 

 the Transcendent in size. By some it is preferred to this standard variety. 



A new seedling, not yet disseminated, stands in the yard of Mr. 

 Jameson, of this, McLean county, the fruit of which is large, yellow and 

 of a rich flavor. From the single specimen tasted, I judge it to be 

 superior in flavor to Transcendent. The originator says of it, "The 

 average size is one-and-a-half long by one-and-a-quarter inches in diameter, 



