ORCHARDS. ' 175 



and (Tvevit bearer ; one of the most valuable of Southern "Win- 

 ter apples. 



Wall. Large, fine ; Winter. 



Yopps Favorite. Large, fine quality ; Autumn. 



North Carolina Red June. Not the Virginia long stem, 

 nor the striped June of some localities ; conical, crimson, 

 short stem, stands first among Southern early apples ; market 

 fruit. 



Early Harvest. Perhaps the next best; fine for market. 



Red Astrachan. Highly recommended ; all uses. 



Early Sweet Bough, Red Margaret, Early Joe, Bucking- 

 ham, Large Summer Queen, Summer Rose, May Apple; all 

 fine.* 



MISSOURI APPLES. 



List of Apples adopted at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the 

 Missouri State Horticultural Society, January 1868, ayid 

 Recommended hy the Society. 



^ Summer, for mai^ket. Early Harves;, Red June, Red As- 

 trachan, Sops of Wine. 



For Family. Same, adding Benoni, Sweet June, Ameri- 

 can Summer, Pearmain, Early Strawberry, Summer Queen. 



Fall, for 7narket. Maiden's Blush, Rambo, Hubbardston, 

 Nonesuch, Famuese, Ramsdell Sweet. 



Early Winter. Wine, or Pennsylvania Red Streak, Smith's 

 Cider, Porter, Fall Queen, Prior's Red, Rome Beauty, Moore's 

 Sweet. 



For family. Yellow Bellefleur, Peck's Pleasant, Rhode 

 Island Greening, American Golden Russet, Jonathan, New- 

 town Pippin, Spitzenburg, Wagener, Fallawater. 



Late Winter, for market. Rawles' Genet, Newtown Pip- 

 pin, (on limestone soils,) Willow Twig, Wine Sap, Gilpin Ben 

 Davis, Ladies' Sweet, AYhite Winter Pearmain. 



For Oider. Wine Sap, Gilpin, Rawles' Genet. 



Advice. — We deem it not inappropriate, at this place, 

 again to warn farmers and those who intend going into fruit- 



■^The last ten varieties are highly re.com mended for Middle North 

 Carolina, by Col. J. B. Zollicoffer, who is an experienced orchardist. 



