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and eating apple, a popular and salable fruit. Jonathan ripens here 

 as a fall apple ; but, as the tree is vigorous and productive, and the 

 fruit brilliant and high flavored, it sells well. Piyor's Red is one of 

 the most vigorous and enduring of our orchard trees, and has fruit of 

 very superior quality and uniform fairness. It is not very productive, 

 which is its only fault in my eyes. Ben Davis has a strong, vigorous 

 tree, and bears good crops of beautiful and fair fruit. Its quality is not 

 so good as could be desired, but it sells better than many superior 

 apples. Wine Sap has rather an ugly, though productive, tree ; but its 

 fruit is fair, high-colored, and very good. This year its foliage has 

 failed, and it has little fruit ; but, unless this should continue, the vari- 

 ety will remain one of our favorites. Newtown Pippin has a tree of 

 sufficient vigor and long life, and on our soil is productive ; but the 

 fruit is not so fair as desirable on our older trees. Taking its very fine 

 quality into consideration, however, I shall continue to grow it for 

 market. Rawle's Janet has proved my most profitable market apple, 

 of varieties thoroughly tried. The tree is rather short-lived, but very 

 productive ; the fruit generally fair and very good. It cracks in wet 

 seasons, and rots a good deal from bearing its fruit so much in clusters. 

 Gilpin, as our best keeping apple, and a productive variety, we must 

 grow, though the tree is short-lived, and the fruit only third rate. It is 

 to be hoped that a more desirable apple may replace it. 



Peaks. The following, from ratlier insufficient experience and ob- 

 servation, is the best list of pears for market that I can make at present 

 for this region : — 



100 Doyenne d'Ete, 100 Beurre d'Anjou, 



100 Bloodgood, 100 Beurre Bosc, 



400 Bartlett, 100 Onondaga, 



100 Belle Lucrative, 100 Howell, 



200 Seckel, 200 Lawrence, 



100 Louise Bonne of Jersey, 100 Glout Morceau, 



200 Duchesse d'Angouleme, 100 Easter Beurre. 



Doyenne d'Ete is here, as elsewhere, the best early pear I have seen, 

 and this year brought better prices than any pear I know of. Blood- 



