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The Maiden Blush is generally known, and needs no detailed descrip- 

 tion here. It covers three or four weeks' period in ripening, and is highly 

 valued as a family and market fruit. 



The Wealthy ripens pretty much the same time as the Maiden Blush. 

 Tree very hardy, an early bearer, productive, fruit large striped with 

 bright red, a good cooking apple, and a very pleasant apple to eat when 

 fully ripened. 



For a fall apple of superior quality, probably there is nothing better 

 than the Gravenstein, and for a late fall apple we have also found the 

 Pewaukee desirable. The tree is hardy, bears well, fruit of good size, 

 striped with dull red, cooks well, and sells well. 



As to pears for southern Indiana, the list is necessarily very much 

 restricted, as on the light soils of southern Indiana the pear blight is much 

 more destructive than in the heavy clay soils of the central portion of the 

 State. I suppose there has never been much profit in pears in southern 

 Indiana until the Kieffer came in; this variety has been very extensively 

 planted, and has proven profitable wherever planted.* Even in the central 

 part of the State we find varieties like Clapp's Favorite, Flemish Beauty, 

 Bartlett and others blighting badly; in fact, we can no longer recommend 

 Clapp's Favorite on account of its tendency to blight. 



Of the older sorts of those planted on our place in the central part 

 of the State twenty-six years ago, the Tyson and Buerre d' Anjou have 

 proven freest fi-om blight; in fact, the Tyson have not blighted at all. 

 This is a remarl^ably hardy, fine tree, bearing a medium-sized gi-eenish 

 yellow pear of the highest quality, ripening the last of July. The Tyson 

 trees are the largest and healthiest trees in our orchai'd. The Anjou, 

 while it blights but little, has the fault of shedding its foliage early in the 

 summer and not properly ripening up the fruit on this account. It is 

 also very tardy in coming into bearing, and we do not expect a good crop 

 of fruit off of the Anjou under fifteen years. 



With us the Duchess Dwarf has been the most profitable among the 

 dwarf pears. We have trees of this variety that were planted twenty-six 

 years ago that are still healthy and bearing good crops of fruit. They 

 were planted eight to ten inches below the union of the quince stock. 



We have also found the Louise Bonne to be profitable as a dwarf 

 pear. 



" The Kieffer is bettinning to blight some along the Ohio river and occasionally farther 

 north. 



