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selection of varieties. 

 In making a selection of varieties, for domestic use only, those 

 which are hest are to be chosen. But where sale in market is to be 

 the chief object, good, well known, and popular fruits, must consti- 

 tute the chief part. It is hardly necessary to speak of the importance 

 of selecting good bearers, as a tree yielding six bushels a year must 

 be of twice the profit of one yielding only three. The advantages 

 of long keepers for spring market is also obvious, as a bushel of good 

 apples picked from two bushels in a state of partial decay, must cost 

 doubre the bushel of entirely sound ones. Uniformly smooth and fair 

 fruit are also decidedly preferable to those liable to scrubbiness and 

 mildew. 



Summer Jipples. — The Yellow Harvest is probably the very best 

 early apple cultivated. It ripens with our wheat harvest, is an abun- 

 dant bearer, of good acid flavor, of a generally smooth and fair skin, 

 excellent for table or culinary use, and valuable and well known in 

 market. The Summer Rose, or Woolman's Striped Harvest, is an 

 apple of excellent flavor and fine texture, beginning to ripen with the 

 Yellow Harvest, though inferior to it in size and productiveness. 

 Sine Qua JYon, though a slow growing tree, is an excellent fruit, as 

 large as the Yellow Harvest, and decidedly superior to it in flavor 

 and texture, and an abundant bearer. It commences ripening about 

 two weeks later than the two former. The Sweet Bough is a large 

 and beautiful fruit, a good and uniform bearer, and probably the best 

 early sweet apple we have. Benoni, William's Red, and Red Astra- 

 chan, are very fine early varieties, though very little known as yet in 

 the orchards and gardens of our State. The Summer Pearmain and 

 Red Juneating are also valuable, and Bevans^ Favorite is said to be 

 eminently so. ' 



Autumn Apples. — In addition to a part of the preceding, the latter 

 part of the crops of which extend into autumn, there are some fine 

 varieties. The Strawberry, a fruit which appears to have originated 

 in western New-York, possesses uncommon excellence of flavor and 

 texture, and is a great bearer, and usually a beautiful and fair apple. 

 It commences ripening early in autumn, and often continues till win- 

 ter. The Summer Queen stands pre-eminent as a fruit for cooking, 

 possessing an uncommonly rich, acid, and spicy flavor j its liability 

 to become scrubby appears to be its only defect. The Duchess of 



