100 TEANSACTIONS OP THE ILLINOIS 



of water and no Paris Green. The only marketable fail and winter 

 fruit that I had came from these sprayed trees and, late as it was, 

 and light as the crop promised to be, I am sure that it would have 

 been worth at least $400 had I completed the work, but was com- 

 pelled to quit to pick strawberries." 



It may be that some of my experiments with a number of the 

 comparatively new varieties of apples may be of interest: 



Wythe — Tree hardy and productive. Fruit large and good in 

 quality. Not valuable for market, but excellent for home use. 



Salome — Tree perfectly hardy and productive, but fruit rather 

 small and a favorite with the Curculio. Valuable for a high lati- 

 tude. 



Stark — A hardy, good-growing tree. Fruit large and good, but 

 rather an uncertain bearer. 



Petvaukee — Tree hardy and vigorous. Fruit large, but in Cen- 

 tral Illinois is a late fall apple, and therefore of little value. 



Walhridge — One of the hardiest and best trees in the orchard. 

 Fruit small, imperfect and poor in quality. Unworthy of cultiva- 

 tion in Illinois. 



Utter'' s Red — This variety in my orchard is utterly worthless. 



Wealthy — This is one of the most satisfactory trees in the 

 orchard. Fruit handsome and good, but in Central Illinois is a Sep- 

 tember apple. It should be planted in every family orchard. 



McClellan — Tree moderately hardy and a handsome, upright 

 grower. Fruit very handsome, perfect and good. It is, however, a 

 late fall apple, which makes it unworthy of being planted in large 

 numbers. 



Hass — Tree a good grower and apparently hardy, but fruit poor 

 in quality and ripens in September. 



Porter — This is an old eastern variety, but little grown in the 

 west, but should be more extensively planted, as the tree is hardy 

 and a regular bearer. Fruit nearly always large and smooth. 



Celestia — A round-headed, slow-growing tree, and appears to be 

 perfectly hardy. Fruit good size, very handsome and best in quality. 

 Season October. It should be in every family orchard. 



The Biissians — What shall I say of them? I have tested many 

 of them, and find that they grow well till they come into bearing, 

 when they almost invariably blight and die. 



Even were it possible to grow the trees, the fruit, as I have 

 grown it, is too poor to be of much value. In the hyperborean north 

 they may be grown to advantage, but south of the forty-second de- 

 gree of latitude they are not wanted. 



A number of seedlings that I had collected, and were very prom- 

 ising in both tree and fruit, have proved to be tender, and go down 

 before the winters' blasts, disproving the theory that seedlings pos- 

 sess a greater degree of innate hardiness than grafted trees. 



