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merit. There is an excellent little russet sweet, but the tree is a 

 light bearer and blights badly. There are two or three early fall 

 varieties — one of about the season of the Duchess, a fine-grained 

 apple, very good for dessert and when fully mature quite yellow in 

 color ; another, much smaller, striped with red, a little later in season, 

 also an agreeable dessert apple. Coming at the season when there 

 are many hardy varieties to choose from, these apples have received 



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little attention. There are two, however, that deserve more notice. 

 One took the second premium at the Wisconsin State Horticultural 

 Society in February, 1902. Its season is late fall to early winter. 

 It is a large and quite attractive apple, being somewhat elongated 

 from stem to blow and heavily striped with bright red on a light 

 green background. The flesh is firm and white, and it is a sprightly 

 subacid in flavor. The tree is, as a rule, a good bearer and but little 

 troubled by blight. 



