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tree. Fruit size of the last; excellent for eating. Season, April 
and May. . ' ‘ 
4. Hutchinson’s Sweet—Tree a good grower, with slender twigs ; 
a moderate bearer. Fruit size of the last described; superior qual- 
ity ; keeping until April or May. 4: 
5. Quaker Beauty—A stronger grower than the Transcendent ; a 
biennial bearer. Fruit large, handsome and of excellent quality. 
April to May. 
CLASS THIRD—HARDY. 
1. Gen. Grant—A vigorous, erect and symmetrical tree; an an- 
nual and profuse bearer, fruiting in dense clusters. Fruit very large, 
dark red, nearly black when ripe, and in quality much like the 
Duchess. October and November. 
2. Hesper Blush—Tree among the handsomest and a good hearer. 
Fruit, a little smaller than the Gen. Grant; smooth, handsome, 
quality good. Season, November to January. 
8. Aikin’s Striped Winter—A fine tree, but the least hardy of the 
class; an annual and free bearer. Fruit good sized and valuable for 
eating, cooking or either. Season, mid-winter. 
Class four, except Green Winter, are too well known to need 
description. They are suitable for cooking and drying only. 
A few additional facts in regard to these Siberian varieties may 
not be without interest. The first class is slightly more hardy than 
the second, but both are regarded as sufficientiy so to warrant gen- 
eral planting. 
The third class is less hardy than the two preceding, but will 
probably succeed in all but the most trying situations. 
None of them are, as orchard trees, like the Transcendent, badly 
given to blighting, except Meader’s Winter and General Grant. 
In fruitfulness the several varieties differ greatly, but in the aggre- 
gate fruit younger and more profusely than the common kinds of 
apples. 
For eating, none are inferior to the Duchess, while several kinds 
are equal in this respect to any apple grown. 
As a harvest fruit the Early Strawberry is more valuable than the 
Tetofsky, the fruit being as good in quality, and the tree more vig- 
orous and hardy and adapted to all kinds of soils. > 
The Orange is unquestionably more valuable for general culltiva- 
tion than the Duchess of Oldenburg. The tree is even more hardy, 
not less productive, the fruit less perishable, lasting several months, 
and perfectly adapted to every use to which an apple can be applied, 
eating, cooking, or the manufacture of cider. 
As an early winter apple there are none of the common sorts that 
have come to public notice that in hardiness of tree, size, quality and 
beauty of fruit are equal to the Minnesota, the largest of Siberian 
seedlings. 
The only unsettled question on which the value of this variety 
measurably depends, is its productiveness. 
