The Planting of the Fruit-Farm 87 



light. Only unsuccessful orchardists put out sixty- 

 foot apple trees. ^ 



Pear trees flourish in moist, rich, well-drained 

 soil. They are usually short-lived and subject to 

 many diseases. Of these the blight and the scale 

 are familiar, making pear cultiire uncertain and 

 unprofitable. Yet the orchardist who can control 

 these diseases and raise pears has a profitable crop.* 



* The variety of apples as displayed at the annual exhibit of the 

 Pomological Section of the Horticultural Society of the State is bewilder- 

 ing and each kind seems best. A general consensus of opinion indicates 

 that for the States of the North and East, the best eariy or summer 

 apples are Yellow Transparent, Early Harvest, Primate, Early Joe, Red 

 Astrachan, Golden Sweet, Oldenburg, Summer Permain, Chenango, 

 Bough (sweet), Gravenstein, Jefferis, Porter. 



The best autumn, — Maiden's Blush, Bailey (sweet), Fameuse, Fall 

 Pippin, Wealthy, and Mother. 



Winter, — Jonathan, Hubbardson, Grimes's Golden, Tompkins's King, 

 Wagener, Baldwin, Yellow Bellflower, Rhode Island Greening, Talman, 

 Northern Spy, Red Canada, Roxbury Russet. 



For the South and Southwest: 



Early summer, — Red June, Yellow Transparent, Red Astrachan, 

 Summer Queen, Benoni, Oldenburg, Gravenstein. 



Autumn, — Haas, Late Strawberry, Maiden's Blush, Oconee, Rambo, 

 Peck's Pleasant, Roman Beauty, Carter's Blue. 



Winter, — Paragon, Shockley, Smith's Cider, Hubbardson, Hoover, 

 Horse, Grimes's Golden, Buckingham, Jonathan, Winesap, Kinnaird, 

 Ben Davis, York Imperial, Romanite, Rail's Genet, Limber Twig. 



In the Northwest, extremely hardy varieties: 



Early, — Yellow Transparent, Tetofski. 



Autumn, — Oldenburg, Fameuse, Longfield, Wealthy, McMahan. 



Winter, — Wolf River, Hibernal, Northwestern Greening, Pewaukee, 

 Switzer, Golden Russet. 



' Of varieties as early pears, — Clapp, Bloodgood, and Summer Do- 

 yenne; as autumn pears, — Bartlett, Boussock, Flemish Beauty, Buffum, 

 Howell, Seckel, Louise Bonne, Duchess (d'Angoulfime) ; for winter, — 

 Anjou, Sheldon, Clairgeau, Lawrence, Kieffer, Winter Nellis, and East 

 Beurre. At the North the Keifer tends to grow small, coarse, and 

 stringy, and of poor flavor; it is better at the South. 



