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being beautiful — fine red color covered with bloom, fine white 

 flesh of pleasant flavor — we should say almost "best." The 

 Switzer, Green Selonka, Titovka and Three Hundred and Sixty- 

 three are all good sorts, which anyone can eat with satisfaction, 

 the Green Selonka and Titovka being large* highly colored 

 varieties. 



In size Titovka, Green Selonka, Zolatoreff, Beautiful Arkad, 

 Anisette, Barloff and Arabian are large, Three Hundred and 

 Sixty-three and Switzer are medium, Easpberry is small. All 

 are as hardy as Duchess. Zolatoretf being hardier. Blight has 

 infested Switzer, Barlolf, Green Selonka, Zolatorett". and to a 

 greater degree, Titovka. 



The summer list in the order of earliness includes among 

 others, Early Champagne, Sour Turnip, Yellow Transparent, 

 Lowland Easpberry. In quality these rank, Lowland Easpberry, 

 Yellow Transparent, Early Champaign, Sour Turnip. In size 

 Yellow Transparent is large, Lowland Easpberry medium, Early 

 Champaign and Sour Turnip are small. All of these are as 

 hardy as Duchess, and only Yellow Transparent blights. 



It must be remembered that the items of blight and hardiness 

 are given lus observed by Mr. Tuttle at his home in central 

 Wisconsin. Due allowance should be made for the fact that the 

 further west and north trees are taken,*the more intense is the 

 cold and blight conditions. 



[We append, in this connection, the following from the 

 Farm, Stock and' Home. — Secretary.] 



"An examination of the Eussians, exhibited by the well 

 known, industrious and patient horticulturist, A. G. Tuttle, 

 almost, if not quite, forced the conviction^ that the eagerly 

 sought for and long delayed solution of the problem of apple 

 growing in the Northwest had at last bsen triumphantly solved. 

 Mr. Tuttle had seventy-five varieties on exhibition, embracing 

 many desirable sorts, from those maturing in early fall to those 

 which appear to be able to keep till apples come again. Many 

 of these were "first fruits," and their quality, keeping and other 

 desirable points are yet to be demonstrated; others again have 

 been fruited before and their value is well known. Taken all in 

 all, this show of apples justifies Mr. Tuttle in the evident pride 

 and satisfaction he feels in it. and warrants the people of the 

 Xorthwest in congratulating themselves on the assurance that 

 but a few years more will pass before the Xorthwestern apple 

 will take its place among the other products which have made 



