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It should be understood that the fruit trees at this Station are yet young, many 

 of the apple trees bearing their first crop of fruit this year, and that for this rea- 

 son the results noted may be modified as they come more fully into bearing. 



Babbitt comes to us from Missouri. Little can yet be said respecting it from 

 actual experience here. If valuable here it will probably be on account of color 

 or productiveness rather than for superior quality. 



Barty is a sweet apple whose first specimens here weigh eight and one half 

 ounces. In quality it grades 3 to 4, one being the highest. Should it prove pro- 

 ductive it may ranli as a desirable market variety. 



Blue Anis, Longfield, Red Dettmer, Kosenhager, Titovka, and Winter Streifling 

 are all of reputed Russian origin. Nearly all are of the J. L. Budd importation, 

 very subject to blight in the northwest, and most of them ripening in winter only 

 at the extreme north. So far they have been free from blight here, but nearly 

 all ripen in August and early September. 



Borovinka is also one of the Budd importations. If not identical with Olden- 

 burg it so closely resembles it both in tree and fruit that it is difficult to distin- 

 guish the one from the other. 



Bough, generally known as Sweet Bough, is our earliest good sweet apple. Its 

 chief fault is that it is a thin bearer. 



Chenango is well and favorably known as one of the numerous group of "straw- 

 berry" apples. When well grown it has few superiors as a dessert or family 

 apple. It is also esteemed for a near market. 



Colton is a comparatively new variety. Here, so far, it proves to be an early 

 and prolific bearer, specimens weighing six ounces and ripening the latter half 

 of July; quality 4, of the scale 1 to 10. Desirable for both home use and market. 



Cornell originated in Pennsylvania, and is successful in Michigan. Its most 

 serious fault is ripening in early September, when even the best apples are at a 

 discount, as compared with the more delicate peach and plum. 



Dartmouth, Excelsior, Florence, Gibb, Jelly, Lou, Martha, No. 2 New, and Tran- 

 scendent are all crabs of the Pyrus baccata type, ripening in August and early 

 September, varying more or less in quality, but all possessing the distinctive flavor 

 of the species. 



Gano has ripened its first crop of fruit here this season. The specimens are 

 beautifully colored, weighing ten and one half ounces, and ripening September 16. 

 It will rank as a market fruit if sufliciently productive. 



Gideon, October, and Peter are all seedlings by Peter M. Gideon of Minnesota, 

 as is also Wealthy. All are very hardy and adapted to the extreme northern 

 climate. They are claimed to be partially or wholly of crab parentage. 



Golden Russett (N. Y.) is too well known to require either description or char- 

 acterization. It lacks size, unless with good and rich cultivation, and must be kept 

 in tight packages to prevent shriveling. 



Grimes (Golden) is reputed to have originated in Virginia. It is one of the very 

 few varieties which maintain their quality when grown at the north. 



Jeffers is a native of Pennsylvania. It has few if any superiors as a beautiful 

 and excellent dessert fruit, for late August and early September. Specimens grown 

 here this year weighed seven and one half ounces. 



Jersey Sweet is perhaps the very best sweet dessert and baking apple for early 

 September. 



Jonathan is generally popular as a beautiful and excellent mid-winter apple, 

 for either dessert or market. Its chief defect for the market is lack of size, well- 

 grown specimens weighing scarcely more than five ounces. 



Keswick (Codlin) is one of the very best and most productive culinary apples. 

 Too acid for other uses, it cooks well even when half grown. 



Lawyer is a long keeper, of supposed western origin, of mild subacid flavor, 

 ranking as low as 6 or 7 in the scale of 1 to 10. Tree vigorous and hardy. 



Lowell is an old variety, ripe in early September. It is of fine appearance and 

 very productive. Weight, ten ounces. It is doubtless less popular on account of 

 the wealth of the more delicate fruits contemporaneous with it. 



Magog (Red Streak) is a western variety valued especially for its hardiness. It 

 is not yet sufi3ciently tested here. 



Mason Orange, received from Kansas, ripe here November to probably January 

 or February, weight eight ounces, is a roundish or slightly oblate, irregular fruit, 

 yellow, with a faint brownish blush; flavor, mild subacid; tree vigorous, spreading, 

 needs further trial here. 



