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Summer ^ueen — I have found it profitable ; good size ; skin tough, 

 and stands handling well; tree a spreading grower; good bearer and 

 hardy. 



FALL VARIETIES. 



Kes-vick Codlin — Fruit good size; quite tart; one of the best for 

 cooking; very salable; tree an upright grower, and an abundant bearer, 

 even while quite young. 



Ratnbo — Good dessert apple; salable; tree not the hardiest, but a 

 good bearer. 



Lozvell — A choice apple ; good size ; sells well in the market ; tree 

 hardy ; a good bearer. 



Fall Winesap — How it should get this name, I do not know. There 

 is no red about it, and it should be classed among the white apples. It 

 comes in avery good season, just before the Fameuse; a good apple; 

 tree hardy. 



Cayuga Red Streak — This is one of the good, large apples; I have 

 found it very profitable; the tree is a good grower, and hardy. 



WINTER VARIETIES. 



yonatha?i — An excellent apple; profitable; tree spreading, slow 

 grower, and hardy. 



English Golden Russet — A good apple ; should be kept in the dark ; 

 tree large, spreading, good bearer, hardy. 



Domine — Good fruit; sells well; tree a good bearer; open gi-ovver, 

 and not the hardiest. 



Winesap — Good from December to May ; has the longest season of 

 any apple that I grow ; good for dessert and culinary purposes ; sells well ; 

 tree hardy. 



Tellow BellJJxnver — No discount on the fruit. It succeeds well 

 with me on clay sub-soil, but is generally understood not to do well on 

 gravelly sub-soil. 



Minkler — I will say nothing about this variety, lest you may think I 

 am "blowing my own horn."* 



Ben Davis — Not the best-flavored fruit; of good uniform size; a 

 good late keeper ; tree very hardy ; an enormous bearer and a very hand- 

 some grower. 



Willow — The longest keeper; good size; salable late in the season; 

 tree a good bearer, and one of the hardiest. 



I would mention that the Rhode Island Greening and Esopus Spitz- 

 enburg have done veiy well with me. The trees are not very hardy. 



*N0TE.— This variety is acknowledsjedby all knowing it, within the territory named by Mr. M., 

 to be one of the most profitable. The tree is verj- hardy, forms a large, spreading head, and bears 

 regularly good crops of fair, red apples of a medium quality, which keep well into spring— 5ee- 

 rtlary. 



