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LIST OF EAKLY BEARING VARIETIES. 



The following varieties are generally very early bearers, 

 and, in order to sustain vigorous growth in the young trees, 

 the fruit in many cases will have to be thinned out when a 

 little less than the size of a hickory nut : 



Juneating^ white, long stem, (earliest Va. apple) ; G-olden 

 Dixie — This is a new variety from seed, originated in the 

 seedling orchard of the author of this work. It is a large 

 bright yellow, crisp, juicy, sub-acid, tender apple, matures in 

 August, and will be propagated in the Nursery and Experi- 

 mental Orchards of the Hermitage Nurseries, Richmond, Ya., 

 by Mr. John M. Allan; Smith's Cider; Sweet Jime (or 

 High Top Sweet); Early Pennock; A. S, Pearmain; Fall 

 Wine; Fall Queen; Fameuse; Lowell; Monte Bello ; Ben. 

 Davis; Domine; Jonathan; Limbertwig; Ramanite ; Wine 

 Sap; Catline (Coxe, Thompson), G-regson Apple; Summer 

 Sweet Paradise (August and September) ; Ramsdell's Sweet- 

 ing (October to February). 



LIST OF APPLES FOR SANDY SOILS. 



Yellow Bellefleur, finest quality; Morris' Winter (Han- 

 over, Ya., new); American Summer Pearmain; Rambo (a 

 native of the banks of the Delaware); Winter Pearmain 

 (Coxe) ; Pearmain, Herfordshire ; Yandevere ; Wine Sap ; 

 Cooper's Russeting (cider); Minister; Peck's Pleasant; 

 Priestly (Coxe, Thompson). 



VARIETIES FOR SLATY SOILS. 



The following varieties originated in slaty soils, or are well 

 adapted to such soils : 



Roman Beauty — A good fall and early Winter apple ; large, 

 yellow and bright red, bears young and full and regularly, 

 one of the best, (Ohio) ; G-olden Dixie ; large, yellow Sum- 

 mer apple, best, (already described); Winter Pearmain (Coxe); 

 Herefordshire Pearmain, (Thompson) ; Wine Sap, (stand- 

 ard) ; Cooper 8 Russeting, (Coxe), cooking or cider. It makes 

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