ORCHARD OF 1,000 TREES. 75 



using- short-piece apple roots, then a short graft of some very hardy 

 variety, a crab or Russian preferred, and on top of this a longscion 

 of the Wealthy, the grafts to be planted, leaving only the top bud 

 out of the ground, that the first and second scion may take roots ; 

 these trees to be transplanted into the orchard when two years old. 

 50 Borovinka, 35 Charlamoff, 15 Duchess, (all of these can be 

 marketed as Dachess),50 Patten's Greening (top- worked), 25 Hibernal, 

 25 Peter, 25 Anisim, 25 Longfield. 



This makes out the full complement of the commercial orchard. 

 In addition to this I should want an experiment orchardof 300 trees, 



at least, aa follows : 



RUSSIANS. 



Five Anismoka, 5 Antonovka, 5 Beautiful Arcade, 5 Blushed Cal- 

 ville, 5 No. 385 Bode, or Bade's, 5 Breskovka, 5 Cross, 5 Christmas, 5 

 Glass Green, 5 Lowland Raspberry, 5 Lubsk Queen, 5 4M Ostrekoff, 

 15 Repka Melenda, 10 Royal Table, 5 Russian Gravenstein, 5 Red 

 Queen, 5 Sandy Glass, 5 Silken Leaf, 5 White Pigeon, 5 Yellow 

 Sweet, 5 Yellow Transparent. 



SEEDLINGS AND AMERICAN VARIETIES. 



5 Brett No.l, 5 Fameuse, 5 Giant Swaar, 5 Gilbert, 5 Grimes' Golden, 

 5 Haas, 5 Lou, 5 McMahon, 5 Okabena, 5 Peerless, 5 Rollins' Prolififc, 

 10 Shockley, 5 Talman Sweet, 5 Utter, 5 Wolf River, 5 Wolf Seedlings, 

 5 No. 2 Lightly Seedling, 5 Oxfoi'd Orange, 5 Holtz, 5 Lord's L. Seed- 

 ling. 



CRAB APPLES. 



5 Dartt Seedling, 5 Florence, 5 Gideon No. 6, 5 Hyslop, 5 Martha, 5 

 Strawberry, 5 Sweet Russet, 5 Tonka, 5 Virginia, 5 Whitney, 5 Trans- 

 cendent. 



With this fine list of apples, when in full bearing, I,should expect 

 to take some of the prizes offered at the state fair, now taken by 

 Brothers Harris, Somerville and others. 



From eleven correspondents naming thirty-five varieties of apples' 

 the Wealthy is recommended by 10, Duchess by 8, Hibernal by 7, 

 Patten's Greening by 6, Anisim by 4, Charlamoff, Borovinka, Okabe- 

 na, each by 3; Malinda, Longfield, Peerless each by 2; Lou, Peter, 

 Blushed Calvelle, Lieby, Romna, Bode, White Pigeon, Christmas, 

 Red Queen, Anismoka, Cross, Russian Gravenstein, Royal Table 

 Wolf, Gideon No. 6, Breskovka, Silken Leaf, McMahon, Gilbert, Itasca 

 Euella, each by 1 — to be used as orchard trees or for stock on which 

 to top-work other varieties. I append extracts from these corre- 

 spondents that you may get their ideas as originally given and that 

 you may not be mislead by my opinions. 



VARIETIES. 



P. Mi Gideon. "The Wealthy leads the Duchess for profit. For a 

 commercial orchard in Minnesota, take Lou forj. early and Wealthy 

 and Peter for late, and you can sell in any market, no matter what 

 the glut is of other apples, and for crabs Martha, Florence and No. 9. 

 No others are ever in their way. No. 9 leads all; it's the world beater 

 of all small apples." 



Andrew Peterson' s list for planting. — 



''¥ir%i, Summer Apples. No. 262 Charlamoff; trees blight some 

 when young, but not when they get old. I call them just as hardy 



