APPLES BEST ADAPTED TO SOUTHERN MINNESOTA. 147 

 APPLES BEST ADAPTED TO SOUTHERN MINNESOTA. 



WM. SOMERVILLE, VIOIvA. 



In making this selection I do it from our own orchard of nearly 

 two thousand trees, with more than one hundred varieties. In mak- 

 ing a selection of some twelve varieties, taking into consideration 

 the hardiness of wood, the productiveness of fruit, quality for mar- 

 ket and home use, I would select the following varieties : Red Duck, 

 as received from the Department at Washington, a red apple of 

 medium size, good quality, ten to fifteen days earlier than Duchess ; 

 Glass Green, the best of the Duchess family ; Gilbert, my best fall 

 apple; Patten Greening, large and fair quality ; Wealthy, fine, needs 

 no comment ; Longfield, fruit medium in size, but of good quality ; 

 Shylonka, late fall, large red, good quality ; Rollin's Prolific, win- 

 ter, good quality; Brett No. i, fruit large, fair quality; Anisim, 

 fruit small, good quality, red ; Repka IMalenka, good keeper, fruit 

 fair; Malinda, the best keeper we have, fruit rather poor but good 

 when other fruit is gone. 



In this selection of twelve varieties I do not wish to be under- 

 stood that these are the only varieties worthy of cultivation. There 

 are a number of the Thompson Seedlings which I believe will do well 

 in the southeastern part of the state. McMahon's White, White 

 Transparent, Hibernal, Okabena and a number of other varieties 

 may be planted and grown successful!}' in the southern part of the 

 state, and perhaps man}^ other varieties. 



APPLES FOR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA. 



F. W. CHAPMAN, PLAINVIEW. 



I will speak of these varieties in order as they ripen. The early 

 summer apples which succeed well with us are Yellow Transparent 

 and Tetofsky, both Russian varieties. They both ripen at about the 

 same time. The trees are hardy and early bearers and produce a 

 fine quality of fruit. 



Late summer and early autumn apples. We always include the 

 Duchess in this list, and we would feel safe to recommend the 

 Longfield and Wealthy. The first named is a Russian variety of 

 recognized merit, a hardy tree, an early bearer and usually carries a 

 fine crop each season. The Wealthy is coming into favor each year, 

 as people become acquainted with it. We hear expressions like 

 these: "It is an elegant apple;" 'Tt is a dandy;" "It is perfectly 

 splendid." 



I will now mention three winter varieties, the Hibernal, North- 

 western Greening and Alalinda, all of which succeed in our locality. 



