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Fall — Five Maiden's Blush and five Wealthy, five Mother, five 

 Bailey's Sweet. 



Winter — Sixty Ben Davis, forty Minkler, twenty -Jonathan, 

 ten Grimes' Golden, ten Red Canada, ten Willow Twig, ten Paradise 

 Winter Sweet. 



Red Astrachan is our most popular summer apple, beautiful in 

 appearance and fair in quality; but, notwithstanding its Russian 

 origin, the trees are failing at twenty years of age; but I would still 

 plant it. Sops of Wine is a hardy, vigorous tree, and bears annual 

 crops, but is only second rate in quality. Benoni is a pretty little 

 tree that yields good crops of superior fruit, and is a variety that 

 should be found in every orchard. 



Maiden's Blush is one of our best known and popular apples, 

 and should head the list of fall varieties. Wealthy should be better 

 known and more generally planted. It originated on the banks of 

 Lake Miunetonka, and comes the nearest to being an "iron-clad " of 

 anything I am acquainted with. The fruit is large, handsome and 

 excellent in quality, and should be in every collection. Mother is a 

 small, slow-growing tree, that bears a heavy crop every other year. 

 It is so beautiful in appearance and good in quality that it should 

 be planted in every orchard. Bailey's Sweet is, all things considered, 

 the best fall sweet apple that we have. It is only moderately pro- 

 ductive, but excellent in quality. 



Coming to winter apples we find it more difficult to make a 

 selection, and it will be asked why continue to plant Ben Davis 

 when it is well known that seventy-five per cent, of this variety have 

 died within the past three years? The reply will be that these trees 

 have borne much more heavily than others, but have not received 

 the extra cultivation and fertilizing that their over-bearing de- 

 manded, and were, therefore, unprepared to withstand the unfavor- 

 able climatic influences with which they were overtaken. It is safe 

 to say that under the sam.e circumstances the Ben Davis will endure 

 as low a temperature as anything grown in our climate, not except- 

 ing the Russians. I would therefore plant liberally of Ben Davis. 



Minkler is an apple of good (quality and appearance and one of 

 the best keepers, and should be found in every farmer's orchard. 

 Jonathan and Grimes' Golden are early winter apples. They ripen 

 and drop early, but are so good in quality that we cannot afford to 

 give them up. 



Red Canada is a slow-growing, hardy tree, but somewhat varia- 

 ble on different soils. The fruit is handsome and good, and one of 

 the best for family use. 



Paradise Winter Sweet is one of the best long-keeping, sweet 

 apples, and should be more generally planted. 



Having made a selection of and planted the proper varieties, the 

 question of cultivation will next recjuire attention, and upon this, 

 more than anything else, depends future success. The great diffi- 



