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not be neglected. The Wealthy needs no comment from me. Then 

 follows the Minnesota crab. I think it should not be named a crab. 

 I think so highly of the tree that I moved three years ago to have 

 the name "crab" stricken from it. It has not been given the promi- 

 nence it deserves. I can dispose readily of them at our place. It is 

 a delightful apple that is good in November, and they are a heavy 

 bearer after once started. Then the Peterson's Charlamoff is an 

 apple that should not be neglected. The Longfield is an apple that 

 has the most merit of any apple I have, not in quality altogether, but 

 it is a free bearer, a heavy bearer, and probably as hardy as the 

 Wealthy. I have trees of the Longfield budded in the fall of 1894 

 (set in the spring of 1895 j, from which the entire top was elimi- 

 nated except a few spurs, and a new top was made since the spring of 

 1895, and this year some have had as much as a barrel of apples. It 

 has not missed a crop of fruit since two years old. The Patten 

 Greening is of large size, a good cooking and a fair eating apple, 

 perfectly hardy and free from blight. I am speaking of these 

 things as they happen on my ground. The Blushed Calville is a 

 delightful apple. An apple probably not much known is the Cresco 

 seedling, an apple that was originated by Mr. Mitchell. It is very 

 hardy, that is, on my grounds. It is what is called the Cresco seed- 

 ling. It is an apple that looks something like the Blushed Calville, 

 the same color and about the same quality. It is an apple well 

 worth looking up. As to the Yellow Transparent, spoken about in 

 the other paper, I would avoid it as I would any other blighting va- 

 riety. I only require to know that a tree is a blighter, and I will not 

 grow it. In the place I bought I had growing on the grounds two 

 large Transcendent trees, and I set out quite an orchard of trees in 

 a small way. I found them blighting badly, and knowing that the 

 Transcendent w^as a blighter I determined to cut them out and see 

 what the effect would be. I had other trees that I considered non- 

 blighters that blighted badly. In the winter of 1895-6 I cut those 

 two trees out, and in an orchard of six hundred trees I have not had 

 a twig of blight since I cut out those Transcendent trees. I believe 

 blight is as contagious as smallpox, and I would just as soon take 

 a smallpox patient into my family as I would a blighting tree into 

 my orchard. I do not believe I am entirely immune from blight; I 

 may have it yet, but I believe I made a great stride toward eliminat- 

 ing blight when I took out those Transcendents. That is the reason 

 I would not plant the Yellow Transparent. 



Those are the trees I would recommend for our section. I 

 would recommend those trees for the family orchard. When it 

 comes to the question of an orchard in our section of the country, in 

 which we are looking for commercial apples, I would plant Duchess, 

 Peterson's Charlamoff, Wealthy, Longfield, Patten Greening, and 

 I would put in a few Northwestern Greening, although I do not 

 think we have had sufficient experience yet to say whether they are 

 entirely hardy. I visited Mr. Philips' place in 1897, after the hard 

 winter, and his Northwestern Greening were looking remarkably 

 fine and stood the winter much better than I expected they would. 

 We know what the record of the Malinda is in point of hardiness. 



