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most readily known from its peculiar light slioots and its brisk 

 rich flavor. 



CONCLUSION. 



Gentlemen" — I have thus given you my opinion about the 

 apple orcharding in this section. I have not aimed to be sen- 

 timental, learned, or nice, but have endeavored to present a 

 practical question in a practical manner. I am convinced that 

 nntil some of these suggestions are adopted, our apple orchard- 

 ing will not amount to much. We want concentration of 

 varieties. I want to hear of and see an orchard of one thou- 

 sand Wagener apples ; another one of five hundred Baldwins ; 

 another one of five hundred Ehode Island Greenings ; another 

 one of two hundred Eed Astrachans; one of two hundred 

 Eed Canada, or Steele's Red; one of three hundred Maiden's 

 Blush, or an equal number of the Fall Pippin ; another one 

 of two hundred Tompkins County King; another one of a 

 thousand of the Roxbury, or Golden or English Eusset, and 

 one of five hundred Snow. When such orchards are estab- 

 lished, fruit buyers will be attracted here, and it will not be 

 necessary for any man to "' peddle " apples from his orchard. 

 I would not advise that over ten varieties be cultivated in the 

 Fruit Belt, and would not recommend any one man to culti- 

 vate more than two summer varieties, two fall or autumn 

 kinds, and not over three winter sorts. Indeed, I am con- 

 vinced that three varieties would be better for one orchard 

 than a larger number. The demand is for marketable apples, 

 apples that will bear transport, and apples that will keep. 

 What is known as the Fruit Belt ought very soon to produce 

 and market half a milllion bushels of apples per annum. It 

 can be done by systematized orcharding. 



