A Select List of Apples, 165 



furnish the grower with good fruit for the table and kitchen, 

 in connection with the R. I. Greening, from August to Feb- 

 ruary, inclusive; thus combining more useful properties, than 

 if the Baldwin, next in order, had been placed with No. 1. 



Baldwin. — Notwithstanding I have placed this variety as 

 No. 3, yet I am ready to admit that it is, as a table fruit, su- 

 perior to any other variety grown in Massachusetts. It gen- 

 erally bears large crops every alternate year, and may be said 

 to be the best fruit for the table, from November to April. 



Eay^ly Harvest. — This variety bears early, and produces 

 large crops. On highly cultivated soils, it is exceedingly rich 

 and fair, but in low, or sterile lands, it is often small in size, 

 and very much disfigured, and often injured by spots of mil- 

 dew ; should the weather prove wet when it is nearly ripe, 

 the fruit cracks and becomes insipid. But its sprightly flavor, 

 and the early period of its maturity, (July,) give it a high 

 rank in the list of apples. The Early Strawberry apple will 

 prove a good substitute. 



Nonsuch. — This is an apple of great merit, but it requires 

 good cultivation, and is apt to overbear. If one half of the 

 crop was early taken from the tree, and a top-dressing of 

 bone dust and wood ashes given to it every other year, with 

 occasionally a small quantity of air-slacked lime, this variety 

 would, I think, vie with the best table fruit, from November 

 to February. 



Porter. — A variety so well known, that description is un- 

 necessary — good cultivation will ensure fine specimens. 



Minister. — Fine specimens of this variety, if well kept, are 

 very excellent in November, December, and January. 



Tolmaiib s Siveeting. — For baking, this variety has no su^ 

 perior; for the table^ it is scarcely worthy of cultivation. 



Large Yellow Bough. — Persons who are fond of sweet ap- 

 ples will cultivate this variety in preference to the Early 

 Harvest. 



Roxbury Russet. — This variety is one of the best late apples. 



Williams. — This is one of, if not the highest colored apples 

 in cultivation — to produce fine specimens, the tree must be ta- 

 ken care of, the soil well tilled, and manured. The fruit 

 falls from the tree before it is fully ripe — salt hay. or 

 some other soft material, should be placed round the tree 

 to prevent the fruit being injured. 



