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Red IMeti.nLeinier fruited for the first time; ripe early in August;. 

 large and showy; but in Missouri, we are accustomed at tliat' season,, 

 to better apples. Lady Henniker, a new apple, is evidently not an 

 early bearer since top-grafts, in bearing trees have shown no disposi- 

 tion to fruit, while Red Bietigheimer and other sorts are bearing under 

 same conditions. It is more difticult to propagate from root-grafts 

 than any variety we have ever grown. Illinois Imperial is a most 

 promising new apple from Adams county, Illinois ; it is a fine tree both 

 in nursery and orchards, and a good bearer of remarkable beautiful 

 apples, above medium in size, and of most excellent quality. Flesh,, 

 creamy white, fine, tender, subacid, with a peculiar and delightful per- 

 pume. Has true "all-summer," or i)erhap8 everbearing characteristics* 

 showing apples in the various stages of growth from the tiniest green, 

 to the fully ripe fruit, with clear waxen yellow skin, shaded and splashed 

 with bright red, and delicately striped and pencilled with dark red over 

 almost the entire surface. Begins ripening the last of July, and con- 

 tinues three months. 



Larimore, introduced by Messrs. Bagby & Son, New Haven, Mo., 

 iSgalso decidedly an "all-summer" variety; a seedling found on the 

 road side where some Kentuckians had cam])ed-; planted in Mr. Lari-^ 

 more's garden in 1820; the original tree is still healthy and vigorous; 

 a good grower, hardy, and bears annually; begins ripening first week 

 in July ; main crop ripe in August ; large, dark red, good. 



Tlie September and October apples are iriuch larger than the July 

 crop. Mr. B. says, the children and the birds are very fond of it, and 

 that on May 1, he found apples under a straw pile, that he remeinbered 

 placing there in October previous, sound and in good condition though,, 

 "a little mealy." 



Shackleford, not yet fruited ; specimens received, very like Ben 

 Davis, but appreciably better in (]uality ; tree a very dwarfish grower 

 in nursery ; about like Wythe. 



Spencer is an apple found in the oldest orchards in Howard 

 county, this State, where it is much esteemed. Mr. Kingsbury, a lead- 

 ing orchardist, says : It has outlived all other trees ; have never known 

 it to fail to bear and generally very full too ; a slow grower, (one of 

 the slowest growers we found it), but very hardy; blooms unusually 

 late; medium to large, bright red, ready for market latter part of 

 August, and brings the highest prices ; fills a vacancy, and in its season 

 popular, as Jonathan is later. 



Stuart's Golden, a winter apple of best -quality from Oliio, and 

 Sutton Beauty from Mass., recommended as superior to Hubbardston^ 



