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peaches, prunes, plums, strawberries, blackberries, and other 

 small fruits. The principal vegetables raised are cauliflower, 

 celery, cabbage, tomato, squash, pumpkin, and potato. 

 Grapes of certain kinds, and canteloupe melons have also been 

 successfully raised. Green corn is also a paying crop. It is 

 a well-known fact amongst fruit-growers that the late varieties 

 of apples pay much better than early ones, but many like to 

 grow some early and fall varieties for market and they pay re- 

 markably well at a net price of 75 cents per bushel. The Red 

 Astrachan, which in some localities becomes a striped apple, 

 is a good annual and early variety. But Williams' Early Fa- 

 vorite, a very dark crimson and juicy apple, is probably the 

 best variety grown. Later the Gravenstein takes the first 

 rank as an early fall variety. It is a fine golden apple with 

 red stripes in the sun, very juicy, with a mild, subdued flavor, 

 of a large or medium size. It brings 75 cents to ^i a bushel, 

 net. The Twenty-Ounce apple is the next variety of an}^ great 

 value. It is a large, boldly striped apple of second-rate quali- 

 ties, but as it yields enormous crops every year it is much 

 cultivated. About 3,000 boxes of this apple were shipped this 

 year from East Sound alone, and brought an average price of 

 80 cents. The next varieties of any great value are Blue 

 Pearmain, a large, purplish apple, with a fine bloom, aro- 

 matic, but generally of a second-class order ; the Tompkins 

 King, a large, brilliant scarlet apple of first quahty, of which 

 there was an enormous yield this year, bringing from $\ to 

 $1.25 net, and those held to Christmas this year will probably 

 bring nearly double ; Canada Reinette, Blenheim (erroneously 

 called the Dutch Mignonne), Fallawater, Paradise Winter 

 Sweet, Ben Davis, Jersey Black, Rhode Island Greening, Gil- 

 pin (erroneously called Vandevere), Monstrous or Gloria 

 Mundi, a fine cooking apple,- Fall Pippin (erroneously called 

 the Golden Ball), and the Yellow Belleflower, a fine and most 

 profitable apple. After these come the longest keepers : the 

 Lansingburg, a small green inferior apple, which yields 

 heavily, and as it keeps till April, a very profitable variety ; 

 Peck's Pleasant, Monmouth, English Russet, Golden Russet, 

 Ortley, a small medium sweet, green apple similar to the Lan- 

 singburg and locally called the Imperial, which yields heavily 

 every year and keeps till April, and the Belmont, a good 

 apple, but not as valuable as Monmouth or Peck's Pleasant. 



