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mands. In doing tbis we find those four named varieties sell readily, 

 separately or together. Any surplus that we may grow does not re- 

 quire to be peddled or hawlied about. They will find ready sale in any 

 large market, by the barrel, car lot or train load. Not only this, but let 

 it be known that large quantities of these apples are gi-own and for sale 

 in any locality in Northern Indiana, and buyers from Chicago, Buffalo 

 and New York will be in our midst, bidding for the fruit, just as they 

 now are here buying other staple products of the farm. 



VARIETIES OF APPLES RECOMMENDED FOR COMMERCIAL 

 PLANTATIONS IN NORTHERN INDIANA. 



BY J. C. GROSSMAN, WOLCOTTVILLE. 



Apples.— Northern. For a commercial orchard of apples in Northern 

 Indiana we would recommend the following varieties in the order of their 

 ripening, viz.: Yellow Transparent, Duchess of Oldenburg, Wealthy, 

 Grimes Golden, Smith Cider, Jonathan, Ben Davis and York Imperial. 

 Some persons might object to Smith Cider, but in our locality it bears 

 every year, and in alternate years extra heavy. The quality is much 

 better than Ben Davis, and we do not know of an apple that sticks to 

 the tree better than Smith. There are many other varieties that are de- 

 servedly vei-y popular in the northern district, many of which, in center 

 localities would, or could, be included in a commercial list. Among the 

 best are these, in order of ripening: Red Astrachan, Sweet Bough, Maid- 

 en Blush, Rambo, Fameuse or Snow, Fink, Northern Spy, Talman Sweet, 

 Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening, Roxbury Russet, etc. Of crabs the 

 Hyslop, Ttanscendent and Whiting are best, and most generally planted. 



VARIETIES OF APPLES FOR NORTHERN INDIANA. 



BY CHAS. M'CLUE, ANGOLA. 



Thirty years ago no finer apples were raised anywhere than in Steu- 

 ben County, Indiana. Buyers were attracted here from all directions, but 

 now not enough apples are raised to attract a single buyer. The old 

 orchards have all gone to decay. Just why this is so is not entirely plain, 

 for many of these orchards should be in a healthy condition yet. 



No doubt the day of raising apples here by the old careless methods 

 has gone by, for,^as our bird friends have decreased, our insect enemies 

 have increased. The apple gi-ower wiU have to overcome, by artificial 



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