SELECT LISTS OF VARIETIES. 40? 



Miami, Wine, Winesap, Brabant Bellefleur, and four sweet 

 apples, viz : Bough, Jersey Sweeting, Golden Sweet- 

 ing, Ladies' Sweeting. If the soil be a rich clay loam, sub- 

 stitute Green and Yellow Newtown Pippin for Swaar and 

 Winesap. 



Strawberries, in the order of productiveness Old Hud- 

 son and Willey, Dundee, Hovey's Seedling. 



LISTS by A. J. DOWNING, chiefly copied from the Horticul* 

 turist. 



Profitable Pears Bartlett, Buffum, Flemish Beauty, 

 Louise Bonne de Jersey on quince, Vicar of Winkfield, 

 Lawrence, Beurre d'Aremberg. 



Most productive PLUMS on light soils Lombard, Cruger's 

 Scarlet, Smith's Orleans, White Damson. 



Best PLUMS for heavy soils Early, Imperial Ottoman, 

 I ? ellow Gage; medium, Bleecker's Gage, Jefferson; late, 

 Coe's Golden Drop, Frost Gage. 



Three best PEACHES. Serrate Early York, George IV. 

 Oldmixon Free. 



The following list of apples, as proved in northern Illinois 

 and the adjacent region, is furnished mostly from the de- 

 cisions of the Princeton Fruit Convention, in connexion with 

 valuable notes from Dr. KENNICOTT and F. K. PHOENIX 



PRODUCTIVE SORTS. 



Carolina Red June, rather acid ; Sweet June, best early 

 sweet ; American Summer Pearmain, " best," great bearer, 

 growth feeble ; Maiderfs Blush, good and fair ; Keswick 

 Codlin, highly productive, for cooking only; Early Pennock, 

 good ; Fall Wine, highly popular, very good ; Rambo, high- 

 ly recommended, but tender north ; Vandevere, few if any 

 superior; White and Yellow Bellflotver, both highly com- 

 mended ; Rawle's Jannet, very good ; Esopus Spitzenburgh, 

 tree tender and liable to blight ; Red Astrachan, excellent 

 for cooking; Winesap, productive ; Swaar, "best;" Domine, 

 of great value ; Duchess of Oldenburgh, bears large crops 

 of fair fruit. 



