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THE APPLE CULTURIST. 



TETOF8KY. 



The fruit is of a medium size, oblate-conic, frequently round, or nearly so, and 

 smooth, with a yellow ground beautifully striped with red, covered with a light- 

 colored bloom, beneath which is a shining skin. The flesh is white and juicy, 

 sprightly acid, fragrant and agreeable ; season usually, at the North, August and 

 September. The tree is an upright and spreading grower, a good bearer, arid 

 produces fair crops of fruit when only a few years old. It is usually a very hardy 

 variety, and the leaves are large and heavy. 



wish to do before you touch the tree. A general vague 

 conviction that fruit-trees need pruning, or thinning out 

 to keep an open head, by removing weak and conflicting 

 branches, constitutes the whole stock of information with 

 which most persons commence the yearly attack upon the 

 orchard. There is no careful study of the habit and pecu- 

 liarities of each species of tree ; no thought of what each 

 individual tree has done in the past, or is expected to do in 

 the future, whether it is prematurely forming fruit buds, 

 or running to wood too luxuriantly; no special care for a 



