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There being no apparent occasion for modifying the lists for planting 

 recommended last year they are reproduced as follows: 



For a succesion of varieties of high quality, named as nearly as possi- 

 ble in the order of their ripening: Summer Doyenne, GifPard, Bloodgood, 

 Tyson, Rostiezer, Clapp Favorite, Howell. Bosc, Anjou, Winter Nelis, 

 Dana, Hovey, and Pound; the last for culinary use only. 



For smaller plantations, the following will afford a partial succession of 

 vigorous, productive varieties of fair quality: Summer Doyenne, Clapp 

 Favorite, Bartlett, Sheldon, Howell, Onondaga, Bosc, Anjou, and Lawrence. 



For a market list, with succession: Summer Doyenne, Tyson, Sterling, 

 Clapp Favorite, Bartlett, Howell, Onondaga, Bosc, Anjou, Lawrence. 



These varieties have all been so long before the public, that descriptions 

 are not deemed necessary. 



APPLES. -Pj/rMS malus. 



To the one hundred and forty vai-ieties of apple, previously in orchard, 

 forty-eight varieties were added the past spring; making one hundred and 

 eighty-eight varieties now upon the place; aside from which, there are in 

 orchard, twenty-two young trees, intended to be topworked, with such 

 varieties as shall be received in the scion. 



Prior to last spring's season of almost continuous rain, apple trees were 

 apparently in excellent condition. How far the continuous saturation of 

 the soil with water may have affected their health it may be difficult to 

 determine; but between this and the rapid development of fungi, under the 

 then existing conditions, the foliage was nearly ruined; and growth so 

 effectually stopped that, in most cases, no considerable renewal occurred 

 during the season; rendering it possible, not to say probable, that with 

 trees of bearing age, the lack of vigor may, in more or less cases, have pre- 

 vented the development of the fruit buds, needful as the preparation for a 

 next year's crop. 



Of insects, the destruction of the foliage has left the Aphis mali so 

 nearly destitute of feeding ground, that its depredations have scarely been 

 noticeable. 



Nine varieties showed more or lesss bloom last spring, of which one only, 

 the Keswick, produced fruit; though this was ruined by curculio or the 

 larva of the codling moth, before maturity. 



Until the fruiting, identitication and characterization or varieties, tabu- 

 lation is of little apparent use, and is therefore omitted. 



Select lists of apples for orchard planting have in former reports been 

 based upon previous knowledge of the varieties named; and seeing no good 

 reason to modify those of last year, they are reproduced here. 



For a family orchard, to sujjply dessert, culinary, and sweet apples, 

 throughout the usual season of this fruit: 



Early Harvest (or Yellow Transparent), Early Strawberry, Primate, 

 Chenango, Sweet Bough, Garden Royal, Jersey Sweet, Jefferis, Keswick, 

 St. Lawrence, Rhode Island Greening, Jonathan, Munson Sweet, Dyer, 

 Shiawassee, Hubbardston, Talman Sweet, Northern Spy, Lady Sweet, 

 Golden Russet (N. Y.), Roxbury Russet. 



For a local market, for a similar period: 



Early Harvest, Red Astrachan, Oldenburg, Maiden Blush, Lowell, Shia- 

 wassee, Hubbardston, Jonathan, Rhode Island Greening, Baldwin, Red 

 Canada (topgrafted), Roxbury Russet. 



