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exhibited under the names of the owners of the farms on which they 

 were grown. The Niagara grape was exhibited under a half dozen 

 names. So with the Duchesse, Lawrence and other pears. Some 

 fruits are known by various names and i)rominent varieties are 

 given local appellations. The Golden Pippin, it may be remarked, 

 has thirteen, the Canada Reinette ten and the Twenty-ounce apple 

 eight names. There are also different types of the same fruit, as, 

 for example, the Baldwin apple, of which at least three types are 

 known. It would be well to have colored plates or lithographs 

 of leading varieties displayed at all exhibitions for purposes of 

 comparison. 



FRUITS OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



The native fruits of Pennsylvania are many, and some of them 

 are of great excellence, superior in productiveness and hardiness 

 to varieties brought from elsewhere. Northern varieties of apples 

 mature earlier in Pennsylvania than where they originated, and 

 such as the Baldwin and Nortliern Spy, which, in New York, are 

 winter apples, become fall varieties here. The varieties most pro- 

 ductive in Pennsylvania are native to the State, and the work of 

 collating such varieties and ascertaining the history of each should 

 be undertaken. There is no showier nor more salable apple than 

 the York Imperial, which had its origin in York county. It is also 

 one of the best keepers. Lancaster county is the home of the 

 Smokehouse, one of the most desirable of all apples, coming early 

 into use and having a long season. Other natives of Lancaster 

 county are the Agnes, Barbour, Belmont, Breneman, Harnish, Hess, 

 Klaproth, Paradise, Reist and Lancaster Greening. 



The Fallawater, or Pound, known also locally as the Tulpehocken, 

 is of disputed origin, both Berks and Montgomery counties claiming 

 it, but the fact that it has been long known as the Tulpehocken 

 (after the stream of that name in Berks county), rather gives Berks 

 the right to it. This apple is such a reliable bearer in Eastern 

 Pennsylvania that no orchardist in that section of the State would 

 think of doing without it, and one enthusiastic admirer of it stated 

 at a fruit growers' meeting that if he was to set out an orchard 

 of 100 trees, every tree would be a Fallawater. The most profitable 

 apples of Berks county are the Baer (spelled also Bare), Keim and 

 Krauser, because of bearing large crops every year. They origin- 

 ated in the county, as did also the Berks Mammoth, Doctor, Evening 

 Party, Gewiss Good, Haas, Hain, Hepler, Host, Hughes, Kelsey, 

 Kuser, Long Stem, Marks, Meister, Neversink, Schwarzbach, Stable, 

 Staudt, Sweet Bambo, White Doctor, Yost and a number of others. 



In the adjoining county of Lehigh the Kocher and Lehigh Green- 

 ing are the favorite locals. Chester county has given us such ex- 



