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recommended for extensive planting. The first of these, Mcintosh 

 Red, will bear all that can be said in its favor for excellence of 

 quality, beauty and productiveness, and where it does not spot it will 

 be a great acquisition. The tree is not "iron clad," but is hardier 

 than Fameuse, and a good though rather slender grower. The fruit 

 averages with Wealth}^ or Baldwin in size. Its chief defect is 

 spotting and cracking, which I fear will make it unprofitable la 

 many places. 



The Mann apple, which is licing strongly pushed and widelj* 

 advertised, is b^' no means an "iron clad," or even a commonly 

 hardy tree. It winter-kills badly with me, even worse than Pewau- 

 kee, which has also been highh' extolled, but will not do for hard 

 places. In appearance and qualit}' the Mann is an inferior R. I. 

 Greening, much inferior, but a considerably better keeper. I think 

 this postscript may perhaps be worth as much to those now about to 

 set new, or increase old orchards, as all the rest of the paper. 



NOMENCLATURE OF RUSSETS. 



There is, perhaps, no variety of apple about which there has been 

 so much doubt and confusion as the various kinds of russet. During 

 the past winter, I was engaged in a quadrilateral correspondence on 

 the subject, and the result may be of interest to fruit growers, 

 though I regret I did not pulilish it at the time, when the subject 

 was fresh. 



I tliink the correspoudouce origiuated in this way. I received a 

 letter from Mr. Charles G. Atkins, requesting some scions of Amer- 

 ican Golden Russet. I answered that I did not think I had ever 

 seen an American Golden Russet, and I doubted if it could be found 

 in Maine. Mr. Atkins would not give the matter up, and at last 

 obtained scions of the real American Golden Russet from West 

 Chester, Pa., and kindly sent me some. It is known there and in 

 New Jersey under the name given b}' Coxe, Sheepnose, and else- 

 where as Bullock's Pippin. Hon. Hemy Ingalls, at all our exhibi- 

 tions, has maintained that an apple he exhibited was tlie American 

 Golden Russet. Hiram Pope of Gardiner, raises a delicious russet 

 which came from Massachusetts, and which he called the American 

 Golden. I sent a specimen of these to Mr. Atkins and also to Mr. 



