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hesitation has been between the nearly similar sorts of the Yellow- 

 Transparent family, including the White Transparent, Grand 

 Sultan, Charlottenhaler, Sweet Pear and several others. On the 

 whole, I now think that I prefer the Yellow Transparent, though 

 Oharlottenhaler is somewhat larger, and White Transparent of 

 rather better quality. The Yellow Transparent is the most vigor- 

 ous tree, and the fruit, in good land, is large enough to sell well. 

 The season of all of them here, is the last week in August. Picked 

 just before coloring, they ship and keep well for a summer apple. 

 Tetofsky comes in the week after Yellow Transparent, and is ob- 

 jectionable only because it drops badly before ripening, shows 

 bruises, and does not keep so well. Next we have the Duchess of 

 Oldenburgh. I say next, but in fact the Duchess is our first 

 market apple, the windfalls being large enough for pies, by the 

 first of August, and its market season extending from then to the 

 third week in September. The second week in September, Peach 

 of Montreal comes in, a profuse bearer of an elegant looking apple 

 of good size and first-class dessert quality when fully ripe. But 

 alas, when fully ripe will not ship, and it is therefore valuable 

 chiefly for a near market. It is also somewhat subject to spotting, 

 not being nearly so fair as the Russian apples, although Prof. 

 Budd thinks it is a Russian. Is is certainly as hardy and thrifty, 

 and productive as any of them. 



Among the later fall Russians, I am strongly attracted to the 

 Switzer, It is as large and handsome (though not so dark a red) 

 as Red Astrachan, and far more hardy, equaling the Wealthy in 

 that respect. The only fault I have yet found in it is, that it is 

 sometimes slightly attacked by twig blight, yet it only loses a 

 few twigs when crabs near it are wholly killed. The fruit ships 

 well, and keeps several weeks after maturity. 



Succeeding Switzer comes the Canadian apple, St. Lawrence. 

 This, except the Peach apple, is the hardiest Canadian I have ever 

 found. It is late in coming to bearing, and requires a good soil, 

 but is productive when it gets to it, and fills a gap between Switzer 

 and Fameuse, keeping well nearly through November. The fruit 

 is as large as Duchess, more flattened, and heavily striped with a 

 darker red. It cracks and spots, in some seasons badly. The tree 

 is pretty nearly as hardy as Wealthy. 



Of about the same season as St. Lawrence is a Russian which 

 came to me from the Department at Washington as the Gulden 

 White. Excepting perhaps, Plumb's Cider, this is the most vigor- 

 ous tree in my orchard. The leaves are large and thick, with a 



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