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of late years so poor a grower that I have discarded it. 

 Sharpless makes a satisfactory growth of plant, is free from 

 rust, resists drouth and the alternate freezing and thawing of 

 winter better than most varieties, but with me its yield of fruit 

 is light. It will give a few kingly berries and a good many small 

 ones. I have grown it on land of ordinary fertility and on land 

 very rich, in matted rows and in hills. It is a poor cropper; 

 however it is a good fertilizer for many pistilate varieties. 

 Glendale, like Sharpless, gives a few large berries, (but of 

 poor flavor), and a good many small ones. Its foliage rusts 

 some. Its season is late. I regard it as being unprofitable in 

 this locality, but I think it a good fertilizer for Windsor Chief 

 and other late blooming pistilate varieties. Windsor Chief on 

 well fertilized heavy soil makes a satisfactory growth of plant 

 and yields an abundant supply of fruit, but on thin land it is a 

 poor grower and its yield of fruit is light. Its fruit is above the 

 average in size but of poor flavor. Considering it unprofit- 

 able I have long since ceased to grow it. Haverland. 

 This variety is a seedling of Crescent and is much like 

 it in plants and habit of growth. Last year during 

 the drouth, at and before fruiting time, on my trial bed 

 containing twelve varieties, Haverland stood the drouth best of 

 all. Like Crescent it is wonderfully productive. Its fruit aver- 

 ages larger and is more firm than Crescent. It continues a long 

 time in bearing. It is a pistilate variety. Its season is early to 

 medium. It sends out more fibrous roots and takes better hold 

 upon the soil than any variety with which I am acquainted and 

 of all varieties it is the least injured by the white grub. 



J. L. Zook spoke very highly of Bubach No. 5. He said it did 

 splendidly for him. Had planted on very rich soil and received 

 a large crop of very large handsome berries. 



The subject of apple orchards was then introduced by R. T. 

 Fry as follows : 



"The apple," says Downing, "is the world-renowned fruit of 

 temperate climates." The origin of the cultivated apple is un- 

 known, but was probably introduced into Britain by the Romans 

 in A. D. 59, to whom twenty-two varieties were known. In 1688 

 only eighty-seven varieties were known. At this time there are 

 not less than 5,000 varieties, with several hundred new varieties 

 coming to the front each year. We have quite enough varieties, 

 it would appear, and yet, perhaps, the universal and ideal apple 

 for market is yet to be originated. 



In a paper of this kind it is not expedient to try to cover any 

 considerable part of the subject, and I will only touch lightly 

 upon a few or the many interesting facts connected with apple 

 growing in our famous apple region. 



