FRUITS 



A friend told me recently, that this year 

 he had gathered from one Baldwin apple 

 tree that had never received any care be- 

 beyond ordinary pruning and spraying, thir- 

 teen barrels of fine apples, which were sold 

 to the wholesale dealer for $1.50 per barrel. 



Each one may have his preference in the 

 matter of varieties, but six satisfactory 

 apples are: Baldwin, Northern Spy, Rhode 

 Island Greening, King, Seek-no-Further, 

 and the Sutton Beauty or the Russet. 



Cherries. The sweet cherry is another 

 long-lived fruit tree. It has a fine form, 

 retains its foliage until late in the Autumn, 

 like the apple tree, and is beautiful alike 

 when in blossom, in bearing time and 

 throughout the year. The two types of 

 cherries are the sweet and the sour. The 

 sweet cherry becomes in time a large tree, 

 while the sour remains small and low- 

 growing. 



Cherry trees will thrive and do well on 

 clayey soil when mixed with a little loam, 

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