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nual bearer of large, well formed greenish yellow apples of not the 

 best, but good quahty. A good keeper, as I have kept them with 

 ordinary care until April 15th without decay. 



Third — Nelson. This apple is a seedling that came up with 

 about one hundred others in the village garden of Andrew Nelson, 

 in Spring Valley, about eighteen years ago, where it stands today. 

 For hardiness it is the equal of the Duchess, Hibernal or Virginia 

 crab and the greatest wood maker that I have. It never has shown 

 any blight whatever. A heavy and annual fruiter of good sized 

 apples, somewhat resembling the Duchess in color and of a quality 

 for a dessert apple that beats the catalogue for Minnesota apples as 

 far as I am familiar with them. Its season is about two weeks later 

 than Duchess, and it will keep with reasonable care from four to six 

 weeks. The only fault of the Nelson is that it is rather tardy in 

 coming into bearing. 



Fourth^Duchess of Oldenberg. This variety is too well 

 known to need any comments. It has been the standby of the nur- 

 serymen, the small fruit grower, the farmer; has, in fact, been ev- 

 erybody's apple for a good many years and has filled a very useful 

 place in the pomology of the state at large. 



Fifth — Malinda. The method that I have employed in growing 

 this apple is to graft them onto Virginia crab stock at the point 

 where I wish to start the head, or forks, of the tree. They are more 

 hardy and come into fruiting sooner than when grown upon their 

 own stock. My trees grown in this way bore one and one-half 

 bushels to the tree this past season after being set in the orchard 

 six years. In regard to the quality of its fruit the Malinda does 

 not stand very high, but away long in April and May and often in 

 June, when all other apples that we have petted and nursed in order 

 to keep them with us as long as possible have faded away, we have 

 the Malinda still with us — for it beats them all as a keeper. 



Sixth — Patten Greening. This is a quick growing, hardy vari- 

 ety and is not subject to blight, so far as I know. It is. an early and 

 prolific fruiter of very large yellow apples, but of low quality, and 

 as a keeping apple with me it is a failure. I shall top-work a part of 

 mine to something else. 



There may be six other varieties of apples in the state that are 

 just as worthy as some of those mentioned above, but I have had 

 no experience with them. I have endeavored to give both good 

 and bad qualities of varieties mentioned from the best standpoint 

 of my observation. 



The best four varieties of native plums: 



