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bearer. Red June — upright grower and good bearer; Red Astrican 

 — bore this year, for the first ; Early Strawberry — ditto ; Kirkbridge — 

 good bearer, but fruit small ; Cooper's Early White — good bearer and 

 apples large and fine ; Sweet June — poor tree and fruit small ; Emma's 

 Favorite — hardy tree, annual bearer, fruit good size, smooth and best 

 quality. 



Fall : Bailee's Sweet — fruit large, and fine and good bearer ; Ful- 

 ton, fourteen years planted — first fruit this year ; Rambo — slow coming 

 into bearing, but very full this year and quality very good ; Fall Pip- 

 pin — not come into bearing yet ; Fameuse — fruit small and irregular y 

 Maiden's Blush — good grower, good bearer and fruit unsurpassed by 

 any; Pennsylvania Red Streak — not desirable and fruit uneven; Fos- 

 ter — the prettiest tree I have in the orchard ; fruit large, uniform in 

 size and best quality ; Ben Davis — splendid grower under any and all 

 circumstances, free from borers, early and annual bearer, fruit large 

 and showy and commands the highest market price ; Baldwin — poor 

 grower, no good ; Yellow Bellflower— ditto ; Nonesuch — worse and 

 worse ; Fallawater — tree winter kills and is a shy bearer ; Huntsman 

 — poor bearer ; Jonathan — good grower, good bearer and fruit best 

 quality; King of Tompkins County — poor grower and worse bearer; 

 Lawyer — good tree, but poor bearer; Missouri Pippin — one of the first 

 to bear, wood brittle, with tendency to overbear; Milam — poor grower; 

 Northern Spy — no good; Pry'or's Red — all dead; Rome Beauty — win- 

 ter kills badly ; Rhode Island Greening — good grower, but poor bearer ; 

 Rawles Janet — tree winter kills, cannot recommend it ; Roman Stem — 

 good grower and good fruit, but not a late keeper; White Pippin — 

 fine tree, large apple and fine flavor ; Willow Twig — not a success ; 

 White Winter Pearmain — sickly tree ; a rabbit will go five miles to get 

 a chance to peel one of them ; Wine Sap — tree good grower, fruit 

 small and not salable. 



Now in conclusion : If the society expects me to recommend a 

 list for planting, I would say for summer, Early Harvest, Red June^ 

 Benoni and Cooper's Early White. For fall — Foster, Maiden's Blush, 

 Rambo and Bailey's Sweet. For winter — Ben. Davis, Jonathan, Grimes' 

 Golden and Lansingburg Pippin. 



