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A few of the best standard varieties of the tree fruits are 

 mentioned below, but if you intend to plant any number 

 you will do well to get the advice of your state experiment 

 station as to varieties best adapted to your particular 

 locality. 



APPLES. Summer: Early Harvest, Red Astrachan. Au- 

 tumn: Gravenstein, Mclntosh Red, Porter. Late autumn: 

 Snow, Hubbardston, Pound Sweet, Wealthy. Winter: 

 Spitzenberg, Delicious, Winesap, Jonathan, Baldwin, Rox- 

 bury Russet. 



PEARS. Among the best of the pears are Wilder, Clapp 

 Favorite, Bartlett, Seckel, Winter Nelis. 



PEACHES. Greensboro and Mayflower are good extra 

 early sorts, and Champion, Elberta, Ray and Late Crawford 

 are standard medium-to-late varieties. 



PLUMS. Of the native sorts, Milton, Early, Wildgoose, 

 Whitaker and Wayland, late, are good. Bradshaw, Reine 

 Claude and Damson are good European sorts. Of the Jap- 

 anese plums, Abundance, Burbank and Wickson are all very 

 fine. The Japanese plums, though giving quicker and 

 better results at first, are likely to be much shorter lived 

 than the native of European sorts. 



CHERRIES. There are two classes, sweet and sour, the 

 latter being somewhat hardier, especially in the North. Of 

 the sweet, Black Eagle, Black Tartarian, Windsor, Governor 

 Wood, and Yellow Spanish are among the best. Of the sour, 

 Early Richmond, Montmorency and English Morello will 

 give a succession of fruit. 



Buying Fruit Trees and Plants 



In buying fruits for the home garden, where quick returns 

 are appreciated and only a comparatively small number of 

 trees will be wanted, it will pay to get first-quality stock. 

 And you should get it from the most reliable source you 

 know of. 



Before the frost is all out of the ground in the shady spots, 

 the impatient gardener whose frames are already getting 



