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NORTHERN SEEDLING APPLES. 



By J. C. PLUMB. 



The great demand for a more hardy race of apples for the north 

 is a great stimulus to those interested to bring to the front every- 

 thing that promises to add to our list of hardy varieties. Each 

 locality has its candidates for popular favor, and hundreds of new 

 seedlings are undergoing the test of climate and cultivation in dif- 

 ferent localities, very few of which, even the most promising, can 

 attain and hold a place in the recommended list of this society. 



Fig. 24. Wolf River. 

 It is a wise provision of our premium list, which requires that 

 any new variety, before it can receive the highest award and com- 

 mendation of the society, shall have been " exhibited three years, 

 and cions furnished for testing in different localities, and that it 

 must have more desirable qualities than any novi on the recom- 

 mended list.'''' Yet it is the work of this society to encourage the 

 production of new and promising varieties, by describing and illus- 

 trating them from year to year, in the volume of its reports. 



