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Missouri. This variety has been extensively planted in Southern 

 Minnesota, and succeeded well up to ] 884 and 1885. Is improving 

 again. 



TALLMAN SWEET. 



Size medium, color pale, whitish yellow, form roundish; flesh 

 firm, rich and sweet; a great favorite for cooking. Tree a strong 

 grower, very productive, and the fruit keeps well into the winter. 

 The trees mature their growth rather late in the fall, and are some- 

 what subject to bark burst. One of the most valuable of the old 

 varieties for high and dry situations; is not being replanted since 

 1885. 



WESTFIELD SEEK NO FARTHER. 



Fruit large, regular, round, tapering a little towards the eye; skin 

 a pale or dull red, over a pale clouded green ground, the red 

 sprinkled with russety yellow dots; stem slender, inserted in an 

 even cavity; calyx closed, and set in an even basin of moderate 

 depth; flesh white, fine grained, tender, with a rich pearmain flavor; 

 quality best. Season early winter. So far as I know, has fruited 

 only in Houston and Winona counties. Tree tender. 



TETOFSKY. 



Fruit of medium size, oblate conic, sometimes nearly round; 

 skin smooth with a yellow ground, handsomely striped with red, 

 and covered with a whitish bloom. The flesh is white and juicy, 

 with a sprightly and agreeable flavor. Season August; origin 

 Russia. 



The tree is a close very upright grower, making it well adapted 

 for the garden and limited grounds; is hardy and doing very well 

 over a considerable portion of the Northwest. One of its great- 

 est drawbacks is that the fruit is very periehable and will not bear 

 rough handling. It was first sold in this state by the Beaver Dam 

 Nurseries of Wisconsin as Russian Crab, and travelling tree tramps 

 took up the cue and sold to our people thousands of trees of the 

 most worthless of the crab family. 



WILLOW TWIG. 



Fruit medium to large, roundish, slightly conic, sometimes ob- 

 late; color of skin, light yellow, shaded and marbled with dull red, 

 and sprinkled with numerous russet dots; stem rather short and 

 slender; cavity narrow, and frequently lipped; calyx partially 

 closed, basin, abrupt corrugated. The flesh is not very tender, nor 

 the quality very good. Its value is as a long keeper, and it is too 

 tender in tree, for any part of Minnesota. 



PERRY RUSSET. 



Fruit, medium to large; form, round-conical; color, light green, 

 overspread with russet; flesh, fine grained, crisp, subacid, good; 

 season winter. Tree grows into a thick, compact head and is 

 nearly hardy. Very shy bearer. 



