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ive and excellent variety ; the Maiden's Blush, is a handsome 

 yellow apple, with a blush, rather above medium size, and 

 productive ; Wine, or Hays, a large striped handsome apple, 

 of excellent flavor, 1 have found one of the best and most 

 productive of late Autumn varieties, and it would command 

 the highest price in any market. 



For Winter, in addition to the Baldwin and Greening, 

 already mentioned, the Spitzenberg, where it succeeds well, 

 is a good variety and meets with ready sale ; it is a long time 

 coming into full bearing, but, when once established, is a good 

 uniform bearer ; the Tompkin's County King is bearing the 

 test of experience very well, and bids fair to take a high rank 

 among Winter apples ; the Peck's Pleasant, a green apple, 

 becoming yellow, with a red cheek, as it ripens, is a good and 

 productive variety for late Winter. 



The above varieties would form a very good selection for 

 Western New York, and with a few variations would be well 

 adapted to many other parts of our country. 



PEARS— OLD WORTHLESS TREES. 



We have thus far spoken only of apples, yet nearly every 

 old orchard or fruit yard has a number of old worthless pear 

 trees, producing either bitter, astringent, natural fruit, or un- 

 profitable grafted varieties. How many trees of the once 

 unsurpassed Virgaliere are left standing about the country, 

 producing from year to year nothing but miserable cracked 

 fruit. Man has not yet become wise enough to devise a 

 remedy for this disease which affects several of our better 

 pears ; so I suppose there is no other way than to substitute 

 some other varieties for those so diseased. Happily, our list 

 of good pears is becoming quite extensive, and there is no 

 excuse for retaining an old favorite that has become worthless. 

 In Summer we can enjoy such varieties as Doyenne d'Ete, 

 Dearborn's Seedling, Tyson, Rostiezer, and Beurre Gifford ; 

 in Autumn, the Bartlett, Flemish Beauty, Seckel, Belle 

 Lucrative, Duchess d'Angouleme, Louise Bonne, Sheldon, 

 Beurre d'Anjou, Beurre Diel, Beurre Clairgean, and Law- 



