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WILLIAMS' FAVORITE OR WILLIMS' EARLr RED 



It does not seem proper to pass without calling favor- 

 able attention to this wonderful variety. I consider it won- 

 derful when we can grow so large and so handsome an ap- 

 ple at such an early date. It is, when well grown, a very 

 beautiful, long, large, dark red apple of the first dessert 

 type. A prime fruit-stand apple, and for table decoratij.'i 

 unsurpassed, but is not a cooking fruit. 



Williams' Favorite is very popular in Boston, in fact 

 quite at home, for it originated within its present corporate 

 limits. If this is not the market-gardener's apple, it is the 

 apple for the market-gardener's soil, for it revels in a rich 

 mellow humus filled soil. 



This apple seldom sets heavy enough to require thin- 

 ning. 



OLDENBURG OR DUCHESS OF OLDENBURG 



One of the best of the Russian apples and a successful 

 apple East or West, 



Forms a broad, very open head, causing little worry a- 

 bout pruning. An early and prolific bearer, and a variety 

 which will require heavy thinning, although the tree will 

 make a wonderful effort to mature an excessive set of fruit. 

 Fruit somewhat flattened and has a beautiful bright red 

 stripe on a yellow ground. Flesh, crisp and very acid, hence 

 valuable for cooking but of doubtful quality to eat from the 

 hand. 



This is a commercial apple and a valuable filler variety. 

 Its keeping quality is good for the season (late August) and 

 far superior to Red Astrachan in this respect. Practice suc- 

 cession picking for best results. The first picking of this 

 variety in 1911 was August 9th. 



MAIDEN BLUSH 

 It seems improper to pass this valuable culinary variety 

 by without mention. Tree a strong robust but homely grow- 

 er while young. Comes rather early into bearing. Fruit 

 very beautiful fine waxy yellow skin with a full crimson 

 cheek often extending over the full lower or Calyx half. 

 Flesh is very white and very fine quality. This variety fur- 

 nishes the choicest evaporating stock in Western New York. 



GRAVENSTEIN 



This old and valuable variety is very popular in all New 



