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VARIETIES UF FRUITS FOR ..jiSSACKUSETTS 



I Apples 



Variety 



Lodi 



Piiritan 



Early Mcintosh 



Llilton 



Red Gravenstein 



Viiealthy 



Iv.clntosh 



Davey 



Kacoun 



Spartan 



Cortland 



Delicious 



Golden Delicious 



Kelrose 



Baldwin 



Galbraith Baldwin 



Red Spy 



Gallia 



Recommended For 



C 

 T 

 C 

 C 

 G 

 H 

 C 

 T 

 G 

 T 

 C 

 C 

 C 

 T 

 C 

 T 

 C 

 C 



•& H 

 & H 

 & H 



& H 



& H 



& H 



& H 



& H 



Harvesting Season 



Early August 

 Liid-August 

 Mid to late August 

 Late Aug.-Early Sept. 

 II II 11 II 



Early Sept. 



Mid-Sept. 



Late Sept, 



Late Sept, 



Late Sept. 



Early Oct, 



Early to Mid-Uct. 



Mid-Oct. 



Mid-Oct. 



Mid to Late Oct. 



II II M II 



Lodi 



Puritan 



Early hiclntosh 



Milton 



Red Gravenstein 



Wealthy 



..icintosh 



T = Trial 



H = Home Garden 



C = Commercial. Varieties so marked are not 



necessarily equally adapted to all sections 



of the state. 



Fruit yellow, fair quality, larger than Yellow Transparent. 

 Tree hardy, productive, tendency toward biennial bearing. 



New promising early red apple. Fruit attractive, good quality 

 for its season, tart. .Tree hardy, vigorous, tendency toward 

 biennial bearing, will pollinate Mcintosh. 



Leading commercial variety of its season. Fruit fairly 

 attractive, good quality, small if not thinned. Tree medium 

 vigor, poor structure, biennial. 



Fruit attractive and good quality although often ill-shaped 

 on young trees. Tree early and productive, tendency toward 

 biennial bearing. 



Fruit of good quality, excellent for pie. Tree vigorous but 

 often suffers from winter injury, usually biennial. 



Fruit medium in quality, often small and poorly colored. Tree 

 hardy and medium vigor, distinctly biennial, requires thinning. 



Leading commercial variety. Fruit attractive and of excellent 

 quality, tender, easily bruised. Tree vigorous, hardy, produc- 

 tive, annual, subject to scab. Rogers or dh ' equally'gdod . red 

 strain .is preferred. 



