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as the Duchess, and in quality they are the best of all the named 

 apples we have in Minnesota. No, 138 Borovinka; fruit ripens a 

 little later than Duchess, but the trees are more hardy and don't 

 blight. No. 22 Blushed Calville; they blight more, but a very heavy 

 bearer of good quality. 



"Fall Apples. No. 378 Hibernal, 240 Leiby, are just the same, can't 

 see any difference, and No. 599 Romna is* just the same in quality 

 and hardiness, but the trees grow in better shape. No, 385 Bode is 

 the hardiest tree of all the Russians, a good bearer, but the fruit is a 

 little sour to eat from the hand. No. 317 White Pigeon is a hardy 

 tree, and the fruit is good. 



"Winter varieties. 310 Christmas; tree don't blight and keeps un- 

 til Christmas; of a nice red color, of middling size. 316 Red Queen; 

 a large, showy fruit, good in quality, keeps until July. 18 Anismo- 

 ka; a nice red apple, sells best of all in the market; keeps until 

 March. 413 Cross; a large apple of good quality and keeps until 

 Christmas, 105 Russian Gravenstein; of good quality; tree is hardy. 

 No. 5 Royal Table; the longest keeper of all the Russians. Wolf's 

 Seedling; in tree, leaves and shape, it is like Rawles Janet, but in 

 color and quality it is like the Fameuse, and the fruit keeps until 

 May. They are the best of my winter apples. Patten's Greening; I 

 like them very much; blight a little when young, but not now; of 

 nice shape with broad top, so it protects itself from sun scald; fruit 

 keeps until the last part of January." 



C.G. Patten. "I would plant the orchard as follows: 400 Green- 

 ing, 400 Wealthy, 200 Good Peasant." 



Wm. Somerville thinks Wealth)' top-worked on Hibernal or Trans- 

 cendent crab would be asuccess. 



E. H. S. Dartt. "If I were to set an orchard of 1,000 trees, I would 

 like to experiment with the following: 200 Wealthy, 200 Anisim, 200 

 Hibernal, 100 Duchess, 100 Patten's Greening, 50 Borovinka, 50 Oka- 

 bena, 50 Dartt crab, 50 Gideon No.'.O." 



J. P. Andrews. "My old orchard was planted twenty years ago 

 next spring. The standards were Duchess and Wealthy, and the 

 Duchess have paid much better than'the Wealthy, and the Wealthy 

 have played out much faster than Duchess, Notwithstanding this^ 

 we planted last fall twice as many Wealthy as Duchess," 



John S. Harris. "For a commercial orchard of 1,000 trees I should 

 plant 200 root-grafts of Wealthyiand 200 stocks of some kind to be 

 top-worked to Wealthy^(at present^ Hibernal preferred), 50 Patten, 

 50 Anisim, 100 Borovinka or Duchess, 50 Longfield, top-grafted,;and 

 50 root-grafts, 50 Okabena, 100 Virginia and other crabs to be worked 

 on if not wanted for their fruit, and 50 trees of some very early vari- 

 ety. Yellow Transparent would be my choice, if it did not blight 

 badly, Breskovka is better if it is early enough. The extra hundred 

 crabs can be saved for some nicething that survives the next test 

 winter," 



W. E. Haverland, Fort Dodge, la. I place so much value upon 

 the answer to the questions put, I will quote entire letter. "We have 

 twenty-five acres of Wealthy ,'fifteen acres of mixed varieties. First, 

 Duchess is not a No. 1 apple for cold storage, but with special care 

 season can be extended. Second, the Wealthy stores well. Third, 



