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own consumption, and in ten years a full supply. If properly 

 cared for, for ten years, you may safely calculate on fifty years 

 of productiveness, and we have seen twenty bushels of apples 

 gathered from a tree one hunderd and thirty years old. 



To aid you in the selection of varieties we give a list of the 

 best and most successfully cultivated, as collated from the re- 

 ports of the various Pomological Societies of the country. 

 The month named after each variety shows the average time of 

 ripening. Best varieties for the whole country: Eed Astra- 

 chan, August ; American Summer Pearmain, September ; Early 

 Harvest, July, August; Gravenstein, October, November; 

 Baldwin, late fall ; Khode Island Greening, late fall. {Fig. 135.) 



Select varieties for the North Eastern States in addition to 

 above. Golden Sweet, August ; AYilliam's Favorite, August ; 

 Sops of Wine, August ; Early Joe, August, September ; Porter, 

 September ; Fall Pippin, November ; Hubbardston Nonesuch, 

 December ; Ribston Pippin, Eoxbury Russet, late ; Fameuse, 

 November; Tallman's Sweet, November; Northern Spy, about 

 Noveml»er ; Rambo, late ; Westfield Seek No Farther, Novem- 

 ber, December. Select varieties of the Middle States: Early 

 Harvest, Red Astrachan, Early Joe, Primate, August; Sweet 

 Bough, August ; Jersey Sweet, September, October ; Porter, Fall 

 Pippin, Gravenstein, Belmont, November ; Twenty Ounce Pip- 

 jiin, (for market,) November; Rhode Island Greening, King of 

 Touipkinji County, November; Fameuse, Mother, November; 

 Tillman's Sweet, Ladies' Sweet, Baldwin, Northern Spy, Roxbury 

 Russet, late fall. 



Select varieties of apples for Northern Indiana, Illinois, 

 Northern and Central Ohio, etc. Summer Apples ; Early Har- 

 vest, Carolina Red June, Benoni, Early Pennock, High Top 

 Sweet, Red Astrachan, Keswick Codlin, Hocking. Autum:n 

 Apples: Autumn Strawberry, Bailey's Sweet, Dyer, Haskell 



