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do US uu good, when considering our own miglil bcueflt ourselves 

 and fellowmen. It is a mistake to have too many varieties of ap- 

 ples in an orchard for home use or market. We want to have a se- 

 lection of high grade varieties that will suit our locality and mar- 

 ket. We don't want a low grade, mean, flat apple for home use or 

 for market, when we can just as well have good apples. 



SELECTION OP VARIETIES. 



1 will not have time in this paper to tell of my mistakes in select- 

 ing varieties. I will give you a list of the varieties, and the number 

 of each, that I would plant now, after some thirty years experience, 

 and this list will be different in a few cases from what it would have 

 been ten years ago. Taking 100 trees for a basis, we will say E'arly 

 Harvest, Ked Astrakhan and Early Strawberry or Summer Queen, 

 each two trees, making six for summer apples; Maiden Blush eight. 

 Fall Pippii two trees, making ten for autumn apples; Baldwin thir- 

 ty, Northern Spy, Winter Maiden Blush and Rambo each ten, Rox- 

 berry Russet, Newtown Pippin, White Pippin, Greening, Smoke- 

 house and York Imperial each two. If you can get the Rosier, 

 Grimes Golden and King grafted up, we will say four of each; other- 

 wise they will not last to pay for planting and we will then add to 

 the Northern Spy and Winter Maiden Blush each five, and to the 

 Rambo two, making the 100 with 84 winter apples. This selection 

 of summer and autumn are all fine sauce and cooking apples; the 

 Maiden Blush is the best bearer and sauce apple in the orchard. 



The Baldwin is still at the head of the list as a grower, bearer, 

 keeper and for home use or market. It is uniform in size, high color 

 and you pick more from the tree than almost any other. It has 

 more good qualities than any other, not as fine flavored as the Nor- 

 thern Spy, yet a good, high grr.de apple. We never get too many 

 Baldwins. The Belleflower is rich, only too rare an apple. We 

 have given it up entirely. The Northern Spy is the finest flavored 

 apple we have from mid-winter until spring; the tree is a good grower 

 and hardy, and fairly good bearer. Tlie apples rot much the first few 

 months in the fall. The Winter Maiden Blush I don't have; yet 

 from what I know about it, I think it would be one of the four best 

 winter varieties for home use or market. The Rambo has not been 

 doing well for some six or eight years, until this year it appeared 

 to come back to its old place, as the apple above every other apple 

 as an eating apple in its season from fall to February; the tree is 

 a strong grower, inclined to height, and a great bearer. To my 

 mind the Rambo is not surpassed by the Seckle pear or Crawford's 

 Early peach. Roxburry Russet is the only russet I would think 

 of planting; have had the Golden and English. Rosier or Fall- 

 water was our beat bearer and keeper, l^nt like the King and Grimes 



