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Tompkins King. 

 The Tompkins King is fully as exacting as Northern Spy 

 in soil adaptation. The tree, with its straggling tendency of 

 growth, does not develop satisfactorily on sandy soils, but 

 succeeds best on a moist yet well-drained soil, i.e., the light 

 Rhode Island Greening soils, — a soil capable of maintain- 

 ing such supply of moisture that the tree receives no check at 

 the approach of drought. But the fruit grown on soils so 

 heavy lacks clearness of skin, and the appearance of the apple 

 is marred by the greenish look extending far up the sides 

 from the blossom end, and the lack of well-developed color, 

 which makes this fruit at its best very attractive. Hence the 

 problem is to balance these two opposite tendencies as well as 

 possible, and the soil of the following description seems best 

 to do this : light, mellow loam, the sand content thereof being 

 medium rather than fine, thus constituting an open-textured 

 loam rather than a fine loam. The subsoil should be either 

 of the same texture or only slightly heavier, in no case being 

 heavier than a very light, plastic, clay loam. The soil must 

 be brought to a productive condition. Subsoils inclining 

 toward stiffness in structure should be carefully avoided. 



Fall Pippin. 

 Soils adapted to the Fall Pippin are somewhat wider in 

 range than those described for ISTorthern Spy and Tompkins 

 King. In fact, this variety may be very successfully grown 

 on the soils described for both the Tompkins King and the 

 IsTorthern Spy. It is preferable, however, that the surface 

 soil be a fine loam rather than the open-texture loam de- 

 scribed for the Tompkins King. 



Gkimes Golden. 

 The Grimes is so similar to the Rhode Island Greening in 

 soil adaptation that a separate description of the soils best 

 for this variety will not be given. The Grimes has been so 

 profitable in some districts under certain conditions of soil 

 and climate, however, that its desirability for general plant- 



