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against the blight. The Buffum, Flemish Beauty, Seckel and Tyson are among those 

 least liable to be injured with blight ; yet these have been cut down and utterly 

 destroyed with that pestilence. I would therefore plant every good pear, so as by all 

 means to save some. 



QUINCES 



here are a total failure, as difficult to raise in this and more northern latitudes west of 

 Lake Michigan as the Orange. 



PEACHES 



have their favorite locations more southwardly, except protected by large bodies of 

 water, as in the lee of great lakes, yet occasionally a year when a straggling peach tree 

 is full of fruit — even here — and a few should be set in every fruit garden. 



III. By J. T. Little, Lee Co. 



APPLES. 



Autumnal Sweet Swaar — tender. 



Baldwin — tender, discarded. 



Belmont — not valuable. 



Bellcflower, yellow — unproductive. 



Bullocks Pippin — tender. 



Dyer or Pomme Royal — ought to be better known. 



Early Strawberry — small. 



Early Harvest — tender, unproductive, discarded. 



Fall Pippin— " ■ " " 



Fall Wine— " " tt 



Farneuse — very profitable. 



Fall Swaar of the West — profitable. 



Gravenstein — tender. 



Hawley — fine. 



Hawthornden — profitable. 



Hocking — a little tender. 



Jonathan — profitable. 



Kirkbridge White — small. 



Large Yellow Bough — unproductive. 



Lady Apple — worthless, 



Lowell — fine. 



Mav of Myers — valuable. 



Minkler — profitable. 



Newtown Pippin — unprofitable. 



Northern Sweet — profitable, No. 1 trees* 



Paradise Winter Sweet — fine. 



Pennock — not cultivated. 



Pomme Grise — too small. 



Pryor's Red — unprofitable. 



Rambo — tender. 



