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Eramosa, it may be said to attain a monstrous size. In flavor it is 

 faultless, and however large in size retains its shapely and symmetrical 

 appearance, beauty in shape going hand in hand with excellence of 

 flavor. Owing to the extent of our country, its season of ripening 

 greatly varies. About Windsor, Mr. Dougall tells us it becomes a late 

 fall variety. In the neighborhood of Owen Sound it retains its normal 

 and winter period of ripening. Like all good, first-class apples, it is 

 easily known : " Fruit of medium size, roundish, greenish yellow, 

 mixed with a little russet near the stalk, and clouded with dull red 

 on the sunny side." It is crisp, juicy, and sprightly. It fully ranks 

 with any variety yet mentioned in these brief suggestive papers, and 

 will amply repay the care of the husbandman. No collection, how- 

 ever small, should fail in having it represented. 



The Eoxbury Eusset is an American Apple of the greatest excel- 

 lence and value. It is often called the Boston Eusset, and is a native 

 of Massachusetts. While there may not be millions in it, yet it is 

 most valuable as a market variety. It will yield as much money 

 value as any known variety of apple. Its popularity is undoubted 

 as it is unbounded. EUwauger & Barry say that "its great popularity 

 is owing to its productiveness and long keeping." It may be brought 

 to market in June. The fruit is large, surface rough, greenish, covered 

 with russet ; the flesh is greenish white, moderately juicy, with a rich 

 sub-acid flavor. Like its accompanying fellow-apple, the Eibston 

 Pippin, it cooks well, and as well as it serves for winter dessert. In 

 some portions of Canada, in the south and west of the United States, 

 it too loses its season, and appears as a late autumn apple ; mostly in 

 our country, however, it retains its parental instincts, and delights the 

 cultivator with its rich prices, almost within reach of the Early Har- 

 vest. Our duty to our fruit growers induces us to strongly recommend 

 the cultivation of these two varieties. In all competitive tournaments 

 they hold a first place, and woe betide the wight who has not secured 

 their representation among his 10, 20, or 30 varieties. Few apples are 

 more diffused, and few deserve diffusion more, than the Eoxbury Eusset. 



Mrs. E. H. writes, " I have a fine young Orange Tree, two feet high, 

 three years old, grown from seed. Will it bear flowers and fruit ; if 

 so, when ?" It will, but no one can say when, save that it wiU when 

 the tree has attained sufficient age or arrived at its maturity. 



