DESCRIPTION OF APPLES AND PEARS. 241 



an upright grower, resembling the Wealthy; hardi- 

 ness i to 2. Fruit, medium, roundish oblate; early 

 winter and will probably be late fall grown south 

 of latitude 42 or 43. Color, yellow, striped, 

 splashed and blushed carmine, very handsome. 

 Quality, good. Flesh, fine grained, tender and 

 juicy. Not sufficiently tested to warrant extended 

 planting but is promising. 



There is a very great variety of very excellent 

 and hardy seedlings that are being propagated 

 under different names, but it is not thought worth 

 while to describe, for however hardy these original 

 trees may be they do not transmit it to their 

 progeny by any known method of propagating. 

 For this reason it should urge upon the planter and 

 experimenter the advisability of planting these 

 seeds largely, for the regions where apple growing 

 is so difficult. 



While it is true that the young trees will in 

 nearly every case be very tender, they outgrow 

 this if properly handled the first two years. 



I would plant the seeds in drills, and the first fall 

 in November bend them over and cover quite 

 heavily with some mulch or litter. The next 

 summer carefully examine them and mark those 

 having heavy, good leaves and a freedom from thorns? 

 and at about the same time again in the fall take 

 them up carefully and cover root and branch 

 about a foot deep, and plant in orchard the next 

 spring. 



Where good trees from the nursery are sue- 



