64 THE APPLE. 



The best varieties of apples for market purposes are not 

 usually those of the highest flavor. Many things are required 

 in an apple to make it a profitable variety, and foremost among 

 these requisites is a showy appearance. This attractive appear- 

 ance is the result of good size, uniformity of shape, and bright 

 color. A red apple is more attractive and more saleable than a 

 green or yellow one. But it is also important that the tree 

 should be decidedly prolific, setting its fruit regularly throughout 

 the tree, and that the fruit should be of a uniform size. It is 

 much better that all the apples on the tree should be of one 

 medium size, than that there should be some very large and 

 many very small. 



In the descriptions of different varieties of apples which 

 follow, care will be taken to indicate those which have been 

 found to be profitable for market. Descriptions will be given 

 only of those varieties which have been found to be among the 

 most desirable for cultivation in the j)ominion. Many of these 

 are fruits of the highest excellence, while some of them, though 

 not attaining to the rank of " best " in flavor, possess, neverthe- 

 less, such qualities of hardihood of tree, or productiveness, or 

 beauty of appearance, combined with agreeable flavor, as to make 

 them worthy of attention. 



Dwarf apple trees are often desirable in small gardens, more 

 as an object of ornament than profit. They are very attractive, 

 both when covered with blossoms and when laden with fruit. 

 They come into bearing a little earlier than standard trees, and 

 may be of any desired variety. A truly dwarf apple tree is pro- 

 duced by budding or grafting a scion of such a variety as you 

 may wish upon the Paradise apple stock. This is a very dwarf- 

 growing variety of apple, rarely becoming much larger than 

 a black currant bush, and the variety of apple that is grafted 

 ■upon it is unable to attain its customary size of tree, but becomes 

 instead a mere shrub. Another stock has been used for dwarfing 

 the apple tree, known as the Doucin, but it does not lessen the 

 size of the tree nearly as much as the Paradise stock. 



