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VARIETIES OF APPLES FOE MASSACHUSETTS 

 ORCHARDS.' 



F. C. SEARS, PROFESSOR OF POMOLOGY, MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL 



COLLEGE. 



I wish to disclaim at the outset any notion that the follow- 

 ing list comprises all the varieties of apples which ought to 

 be grown in Massachusetts. There are doubtless many others 

 M'hich might be added and no doubt some people will think 

 that some which have been included might be omitted in 

 favor of some which are left out. But, in general, I believe 

 the list includes most of those varieties which are most suit- 

 able either for commercial plantations or for private or- 

 chards within the State. Arranged in approximately the 

 order of their ripening, the list which I propose to discuss is 

 as follows: Yellow Transparent, Red Astrachan, Williams 

 Early, Oldenburg, Gravenstein, Wealthy, Fall Pippin, Mc- 

 intosh, Hubbardston, Westfield, Blue Pearmain, Palmer 

 Greening, Sutton, Wagener, Rhode Island Greening, Bald- 

 win, Spy, Roxbury. Arranged as nearly as may be in the 

 order of their commercial value in the State, they would 

 stand as follows: Baldwin, Mcintosh, Rhode Island Green- 

 ing, Wealthy, Hubbardston, Williams, Oldenburg, Roxbury, 

 Wagener, Red Astrachan, Sutton, Gravenstein, Fall Pippin, 

 Westfield, Spy, Yellow Transparent, Blue Pearmain. 



Before taking up this discussion of special varieties, I 

 should like to call attention to some general points or princi- 

 ples on the subject which I think ought to be carefully con- 

 sidered by the intending planter before he makes his selec- 

 tions. If the orchards are to be grown for commercial 

 purposes, the precise type of market to which it is the inten- 

 tion to cater ought to be considered and its demands studied, 



' Agriculture of Massachusetts, 1909. 



