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attractive apples with which I was unacquainted. I noted down 

 the names of the exhibitors and at the proper time, sent for scions. 

 I selected one large tree, and grafted the several kinds into differ- 

 ent parts of it. The}' all flourish and produce apples of the 

 several kinds just as well as though there were but one kind on the 

 tree. The tree bore at least nine kinds of apples the present 

 year." This tree was a curiosity indeed, and we can add nothing 

 to the simple statement just made. 



It would be useless to attempt descriptions of the various 

 kinds of apples as they can be found b}- referring to any good fruit 

 catalogue. To give an idea how numerous are the varieties of 

 apples, we may mention that in the second edition of the London 

 Horticultural Society's Catalogue of Fruits, published in 1831, no 

 fewer than fourteen hundred were enumerated ; man}^ of them, 

 doubtless, not well identified, but about one hundred and seventy- 

 five were pronounced excellent sorts. The varieties of apples 

 have been classed in at least three divisions, — Table, Dessert, and 

 Kitchen. It would be a great task to designate under the differ- 

 ent headings the kinds best adapted to each use. Perhaps some of 

 the growers will do this hereafter. An orchardist well known to 

 most of us, said to the writer a few 3'ears ago that he considered 

 apples a good paying crop at one dollar a barrel sold on the place. 



Apples are a necessary commodity in every well ordered house, 

 and certainly a very health}- fruit. Many would no more think 

 of being without them, than without potatoes or flour, and is it 

 not a part of our mission to give a little more stimulus to the 

 cultivation of this fruit which seems so well adapted to our New Eng- 

 land climate? Many a barren field could be made into a product- 

 ive and profitable one, and at a comparatively small cost, if apple 

 trees were planted and properly cared for. 



Mr. Hartwell has cultivated Plums quite largely, and recom- 

 mends as the best varieties the 



Blue Imperial, Pond's Seedling, 



Bradshaw, Reine Claude, 



Coe's Golden Drop, Shropshire Damson, 



Jefferson, Smith's Orleans, 



Lombard, Victoria, 



Moore's Arctic, Washington. 

 Niagara, 



