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A Select List of Apples. 



best suited for the meridian of the New England States. I 

 have done this with two motives. First, to impart the httle, 

 but all the information I have, on this subject, and secondly, 

 with the hope that others, better informed than myself, may 

 correct the list I thus submit, add others thereto, and im- 

 part further information through the pages of your Magazine. 

 I have placed the varieties in the order in which I rank them 

 for cultivation, provided I had but one, two, three, or more 

 trees, that is, if J were confined to the cultivating of only 07ie 

 apple tree, I should plant No 1, the Rhode Island Green- 

 ing ; if two, then Nos. 1 and 2, and so on. 



LIST OF TWENTY-SIX VARIETIES OF APPLES. 



1. 



2. 

 3. 

 4. 



or the 



R. I. Greening. 

 Gravenstein. 

 Baldwin. 

 Early Harvest, 



Strawberry. 

 Nonsuch. 

 Porter. 

 Minister. 



8. Tolman's Sweeting, 



9. Large Yellow Bough. 



10. Roxbury Russet. 



11. Danvers Winter Sweet. 

 Pomme Royal. 

 Hubbardston Nonsuch. 



5. 

 6. 



7. 



12. 

 13. 

 14. 



15. Fameuse. 



16. Summer Pearmain. 



17. White Seek-no-Further. 

 IS. Benoni. 



19. Red Astrachan. 



20. Fall Harvey. 



21. WilHams's Favorite. 



22. Ladies' Sweeting. 



23. Jonathan. 



24. Peck's Pleasant. 



25. Ribstone Pippin, for New 



Hampshire and Maine. 



26. Esopus Spitzenberg, for 



Western Massachusetts. 



Fall Pippin. 



There are many others deserving of cultivation, as the Gar- 

 den Royal, Peck's Pleasant, Northern Spy, Westfield Seek- 

 No-Further, Herefordshire Pearmain, &c. &c. 



Feeling, as I do, that the above list is not perfect, and that 

 it may meet with many objections on the part of cultivators, 

 I wish to state, that I have placed the R. I. Greening at the 

 head of my list, from the fact that a good crop is generally 

 produced every season ; the tree is a free grower ; fruit, fair, 

 large, and handsome. A good table apple, but not first-rate. 

 For the kitchen, it has no superior, if an equal. These com- 

 bined good qualities have induced me to place it as No. 1. 



Gravenstein. — I have placed this variety next in order, be- 

 cause it is a summer and early autumn apple, and will 



