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moderately vigorous grower, very apt to be crooked in the nursery, 

 and requires good cidtivation. We cannot recommend it for 

 general cultivation, though those who are so fortunate as to 

 possess a favorable soil and cHmate, will find it a fruit of great 

 excellence; deep rich golden yellow when ripe, with an exceed- 

 ingly rich, spicy flavor and perfume. In use in February and 

 March. 



Talman's Sweet. — This is the best sweet winter apple for 

 Canada that has been brought to oiur notice. The tree is very 

 hardy, thriving and fruiting in the colder, we had almost said 

 coldest, parts of the Dominion, keeping company with the Snow 

 Apple and the St. Lawrence. It is an upright, vigorous grower, 

 forms a large spreading head, and bears large crops. The fruit 

 is of medium size, greenish white in autumn, becoming pale straw 

 color at maturity, flesh white, fine grained, juicy, rich and very 

 sweet. A most valuable variety for baking, surpassing for this 

 purpose all other sweet winter apples that we have tried. May 

 be used from December to April. There is but a limited demand 

 for sweet apples in market ; consequently, notwithstanding the 

 hardihood of this tree, and its great productiveness, we do not 

 advise orchardists to plant it largely for market purposes. 



Tetofsky. — It is to be expected that this apple, which origi- 

 nated in Eussia, should be hardy in this cHmate, and such is the 

 case so far as it has been tested; and it has been found to flourish 

 in the equally cold cHmate of ^NTorthem Minnesota. We strongly 

 advise residents of the coldest sections to give this variety a care- 

 ful trial, in the expectation that it will prove to be more hardy 

 than the Eed Astrachan, and equally as valuable for summer use. 

 The tree grows erect and forms a spreading head, begins to bear 

 at two years from the bud, and produces large crops every year. 

 The leaves arc very large, of a hght glossy green, giving the tree 

 a very pleasing appearance. "Where the climate is too cold to 

 admit of the tree being grown as a standard, we beheve it Avould 

 answer admirably grown either as a half-standard or dwarf. 



The fruit is of medium size, roundish, beautifully striped with 



