ORCHARDS. 



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APPLE KEPORT. 



Abstract of a Report of the Comparative Flavor, Thrifty Growth, Reg- 

 ular Bearing. Early Bearing, Hardiness, and Productiveness of Or- 

 chard in Hannibal County, and another in Cameron County, Missouri. 

 The first by 0. H. Lear, and the second by John C. McCarthy. Por- 

 tions of each selected and arranged as follows : 



Table — Scale of Ten. 



No. 10. the best. No. 7, medium, No. 1. 

 poorest. 



SUMMER APPLES. 



American Summer Pearmain 



Benoni 



Prince's Yellow Harvest 



Sweet June 



Red June 



Summer Queen 



AUTUMN APPLES. 



Fall Wine 



Fall Queen, or Turner's Queen 



Porter 



Rambo 



Gravenstein 



King of Tompkins County 



Maiden's Blush 



WINTER APPLES. 



Ortley, or White Bellefleur, always in de 



mand 



Rawles' Genet, standard 



Wine Sap, standard 



White Winter Pearmain, very saleable 



Yellow Bellefleur, fine, when you get it. 



Smith's Cider 



Fallawater 



Ben Davis 



Northern Spy 



Pryor's Red 



Baldwin 



Dominie 



13 



W 



9 

 10 



9 

 10 



9 

 10 



8 



8 



4 



10 



10 



10 



10 



10 



10 



10 



10 



10 



6 



10 



10 



9 



5 



10 



a 





10 



8 



' 9 



10 



9 



5 



5 



10 



10 

 10 



5 



7 



7 



8 



5 



7 



7 



10 



10 



3 



2 



5 



10 



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8 

 8 

 5 



10 



10 



5 



10 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 2 



10 

 10 



10 



