16 INTRODUCTION. 



to-morrow. The choice varieties of apples are now so ex- 

 tensive that, by proper management, in our latitude New 

 York city any family that will appropriate only a part of 

 one acre to a few trees of good varieties which will mature 

 in succession may begin to gather crude, ripe apples about 

 the first of July, while they may still have in the cellar a 

 small supply of old apples. When on the farm, we fre- 

 quently ate new apples of the Early Harvest variety and 

 Roxbury Russets on the same day, even when we had no 

 facilities for keeping apples, except a good cellar beneath 

 the dwelling. "We give herewith the names of a few vari- 

 eties which will furnish a succession from the middle of 

 July of one season, to the same period or even later 

 of the following season : Early Harvest, Tallman Sweeting, 

 Early-Sweet Bough, Fall Orange, Early Chandler, Williams, 

 Garden Royal, Porter, Gravenstein, Mother, Hubbardston's 

 Nonsuch, Rhode Island Greening, Ladies' Sweet, Peck's 

 Pleasant, Baldwin, Roxbury Russet, Early Joe, American 

 Summer Pearmain, Benoni, Early Strawberry, Red Astra- 

 chan, Summer Pippin, Duchess of Oldenburgh, Twenty- 

 Ounce, Hawley, Tompkins County King. 



One tree of each of the foregoing varieties, if properly 

 cultivated, would supply a small family with all the fruit 

 they would need during the year, before the trees are half- 

 grown. Those persons who desire extensive orchards can 

 add other varieties to suit locality or the market. By re- 

 ferring to the voluminous treatise, " Downing's Fruit and 

 Fruit-trees of America," the reader will find a description 

 of almost every known variety of apples, a list of which it 

 is impracticable to give in this small work. 



The man who desires to have a good apple-orchard has 

 only to avail himself of the facilities within his reach on 

 any soil between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, where 

 it is practicable to raise fair crops of cereal grain ; and ap- 



