156 AGRICULTUEAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



From Wni. A. Broion, Benton Harbor, Berrien County. — The question 

 of five apples for profit depends much upon location, facilities for marketing, 

 adaptability, etc. The location of Berrien county enables us to grow and 

 market the early varieties more successfully than later and more isolated 

 locations. Without giving the subject the fullest consideration, I should 

 name Oldenburgh, Orange Pippin, Brown Pippin, Hubbardston, Baldwin,. 

 Ben Davis. In naming the list I am governed more by productiveness and 

 resistance to fungous blight than by quality of the apple. In fact, I have 

 named but one good dessert apple, the Hubbardston. The Orange Pippin is 

 not generally known. Brown Pippin is the local name of a fine, large red 

 apple ripening in September. This name may be a synonym, but we have 

 not been able to determine it yet. 



From Geo. W. Lawton, Laiuton, Van Buren County. — I should select 

 Northern Spy, Baldwin, Red Astrachan, Canada Ked, Henrick's Sweet, — all 

 red apples, which sell better than any other. They are also of such size as to 

 be acceptable for table use. Of course this is not the limit of valuable apples, 

 raised here. 



From President T. I. Lyon, South Haven, Van Buren County. — I doubt 

 the relative profitableness of the summer and autumn apples, and therefore 

 will name Baldwin,- Northern Spy, Ehode Island Greening, Golden Kusset 

 and Stark. Baldwin is hardy enough with us. If omitted for lack of hardi- 

 ness, I should add Hubbardston at the foot of the list. 



From L. H. Bailey, South Haven, Van Buren County. — Baldwin, Stark, 

 Northern Spy, Ben Davis, Flushing Spitzenburg. There are several profitable 

 fall varieties, of which the Oldenburgh is probably the best. The Mann, 

 much recommended of late, grows well and bears well, but is the wormiest, 

 of all my apples. The color is also bad. I have grafted most of mine to 

 Baldwin and Flushing Spitzenburg. 



From James F. laylor, Douglas, Allegan County. — I will speak only of 

 varieties which I have in bearing, as follows: Baldwin, Rhode Island Green- 

 ing, Talman Sweet, Maiden's Blush, Red Astrachan. The Baldwin tree is 

 not entirely hardy in some localities, but near the lake, as I am, it never: 

 winterkills. 



From B. Hathaway, Little Prairie Ronde, Cass County. — The Northern^ 

 Spy, the Red Canada and the Baldwin are the three kinds that I should 

 name, and in this order. Most men would place the Baldwin first, and I 

 should if it were hardy in tree; but it is not. It is liable to fail anywhere, 

 and sure to fail on our strong lands so far south as this. Properly grown, 

 and planted on suitable soil, it is probably the most profitable apple we yet 

 have. The fourth in the list as it seems to me (and it would be first if as 

 good a keeper as the others), is the Hubbardston [Nonesuch]. This, for 

 evaporating purposes, is one of the best, as it is a profuse, constant bearer on 

 strong land, always fair, and ripe enough in the fall to make nice fruit, and 

 is uniform in size, of good shape and quality. The fifth sort I cannot so- 

 well name. If I put in a fall apple it would be the Maiden's Blush, — not a 

 good apple, but good to sell and to evaporate. 



From Graham Bros., Grand Eajnds. — We would give these as our choices 

 of the best five market apples for this place: Northern Spy, Baldwin^ 

 Oldenburgh, Rhode Island Greening, Thompkin's King. 



Fro77i J. W. Stearns, Kalamazoo. — My choice for best five apples for profit 

 would be Baldwin, Hubbardston, Maiden's Blush, Oldenburgh, and Wagener 



