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Mr. President and Gentlemen: 



We ■will make two classes of apples, those planted for iridi- 

 vidual use and those planted for market or shipping purposes. 

 For the grower's own use we recommend the following vari- 

 eties : 



For Summer Use — Early Harvest, Early Strawberry, Wil- 

 liams' Favorite, Eed Astrachan. 



For Autumn — Porter, Jersey Sweet, Maiden's Blush, 

 Gravenstein, Eambo. 



For Winter — Baldwin, Steele's Red Winter, Yf agener, Rhode 

 Island Greening, Swaar, Esopus Spitzenburg, Peck's Pleasant, 

 Tall man Sweeting. 



For Market Purposes — Steele's Red, Baldwin, Rhode Island 

 Greening, and Wagener, the red predominating, as they gen- 

 erally sell the best, though the Greening sells full as well. 

 The Wagener is a comparatively new apple, and is not very 

 well known, but receives high commendation from all quar- 

 ters. The best apple for market should combine the following 

 qualities: The tree should be hardy, — do well on any moder- 

 ately fertile soil, and should be long-lived, free from disease, 

 and an annual bearer. The fruit should be of good size, not 

 too large or too small, skin thick (to bear handling), red or 

 bright, lively color, flesh fine grained, tender, crisp, sub-acid 

 in flavor. The apple should hang well on the tree, bear early, 

 fruit without spots. Fruit should be in good condition for 

 eating from December until May. An apple with all the 

 above qualifications can hardly be found. Get one as nearly 

 like it as possible. Such an apple will pay the best. 



In regard to the Wagener apple presented by Mr. Husted, 

 the sample before us is light red, indistinctly striped and 

 splashed with dark red, stem inserted in a deep cavity, calyx 

 nearly closed and set in a rather shallow basin, juicy, sound to 

 the core (April 12th), flesh white, somewhat tough, skin 

 tough, mild sub-acid flavor. Judging by this sample the 

 Wagener is certainly a good keeper. 



