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the variety best suited lor your soil, climate and markets. I would 

 be just as careful in selecting a good nursery before buying young 

 stock. Decide upon what varieties you want, and then write your 

 nearest reliable nursery, asking if they can furnish the varieties 

 desired, and at what price. State the number of trees of each va- 

 riety wanted, the age, and specify definitely that, under no condi- 

 tions, will diseased or insect-infected trees be accepted, nor will sub- 

 stitutions of varieties be countenanced. Save the bill of sale for 

 future reference, for the "Court of Appeals" in New York State 

 lias decided that nurser^anen may be sued for damages resulting 

 from the substitution of varieties. Go to the nursery yourself and 

 inspect the trees, and insist on getting the varieties you have selec- 

 ed. I prefer a well -grown, one-year-old budded tree. A one-y oar-old 

 budded tree may be headed low, and the first branches may be used 

 for the foundation branches, selecting those best placed. Further- 

 more, a one-year-old tree is cheaper than two-year-old. 



The Tonoloway Orchard Co., of Hancock, Md., of which I am 

 "field manager" of 350 acres, have 700 acres in apples or over 50,000 

 apple trees. 



The folowing are the varieties planted: 



1. Yellow Transparent, 3,000 



2. Duchess of Oldenburg, 3,500 



3. Wm. Early Red 1,000 



4. Red Astrachan , 600 



5. Summer Rambo *. 1,000 



6. Mcintosh , 300 



7. Wealthy, - 4,000 



8. Jonathan, 6,000 



9. Yellow Belleflower, 1,000 



10. Grimes Golden, 7,000 



11. Winesap, 2,000 



12. Stavman, 1,000 



13. Baldwin 4,000 



14. Ben Davis, 3,0f)0 



m Rome Beauty 1,000 



16. York Imperial, 12,000 



These varieties number sixteen, and even taking into considera- 

 tion the thousands of trees, and the large expanse of our orchards 

 we feel that by cutting the varieties down to eight or ten, adding 

 the number of trees on to them, the crop would be easier handled 

 and the company would receive better returns on the whole. All 

 sixteen of these varieties are of the best for a commercial orchard, 

 and so I shall make my selection from these which would be in the 

 order of ripening : 



Yellow Transparent ) tt- i o 



Wm. Early Red \ ^^'^^ ^"'"'°^'' 



Summer Rambo Late Summer. 



Wealthy ) 



Grimes Golden >■ Fall 



Jonathan ) 



Stayman Winesap ) 



Rome Beauty y Winter 



York Imperial ) 



I think that all of these varieties are adapted to your soils. The 

 Stayman Winesap that you grow over here are particularly fina 

 I have never seen any better Staymans anywhere. They are highly 

 colored, fine in size, and the quality is excellent. 



