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thorough trial to commend itself to all painstaking fruit growers. 

 Many who acknowledge that the crop after thinning will sell for 

 more money per tree than if not thinned are still unwilling to admit 

 that the gain will pay for the extra labor involved. Well, about 

 how much for time is required to remove 500 apples, pears or peaches 

 in June and 500 more in October, than would be occupied in picking 

 the entire 1,000 in October? 



Further than this, it is a well-known fact that the production of 

 the seed of a fruit causes by far the greater draft upon the vitality 

 of the tree than the formation of the pulp surrounding it ; also that 

 1,000 small apples will contain nearly twice the weight of seeds 

 found in 500 specimens double their size of the same variety-, and 

 thus be much more exhaustive to the tree. An incidental benefit 

 which may result from thinning of fruit: The horticulturist ma}', in 

 thinning the fruit, notice many young shoots that by pruning-time 

 next spring will become stout limbs to be cut off; whereas now they 

 may be easily rubbed off, while the plant-food required for the forma- 

 tion will be saved for the tree and fruit. — Popular Gardening. 



TOO MANY KINDS OF APPLES. 

 The mistake that most every orchardist or fruit-grower makes is that 

 of setting out too many kinds of fruits. It is well to have different 

 kinds enough to supply a succession of fruit throughout the year 

 for home use ; but for maiket purpos'^s the varieties should be few, 

 and those of the best and most salable kinds. The greater part of 

 the different kinds of apples raised in any one locality might be 

 termed local varieties, not well known to the trade. The Baldwin, 

 Ehode Island Greening, Roxbury Russet, Northern Spy, Fameuse 

 and a few others, are the best known to the trade generall}', and in 

 localities where they flourish, are safe to raise. The Baldwin, for 

 productiveness, profitableness and salability, stands at the head of 

 market varieties. In sections where it thrives, more money can be 

 made from it than from any other apple. Baldwin trees will pro- 

 duce more apples, with fewer of second quality, than any other 

 variety. Two or three varieties are sufficient for a large market 

 orchaid. — Exchange. 



