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rieties, one can select a good assortment for the home 

 garden : 



Summer. Early Joe, Primate, Garden Royal, Summer 

 Pearmain, Early Harvest, Summer Rose, Sweet Bough, Sum- 

 mer Queen, Early Strawberry, Williams Favorite. 



Fall. Chenango, Dyer, Jefferis, Jersey Sweet, Maiden 

 Blush, Gravenstein, Fall Pippin, Mother (late fall to winter), 

 Twenty Ounce. 



Winter.. Newtown Pippin, Golden Russet, Bellflower, 

 Belmont, King (late fall S. of N. Y.), Grimes Golden, Melon, 

 Hubbardston (Nonesuch), Northern Spy, Jonathan, Fameuse 

 or Snow, Lady, Rambo, Canada Red, York Imperial, Pomme 

 Gris, Esopus Spitzenburg, Swaar, Peck Pleasant, Rhode 

 Island Greening, Tallman Sweet, Sutton Beauty, Wagener, 

 Seek-no-further. 



Apricot. This fruit, usually thought to be too 

 tender for the winters in the latitude of New York, has 

 proved as hardy as the peach. Given the right conditions 

 as to soil and exposure, it will yield abundant crops, ripen- 

 ing its fruits about three weeks in advance of early peaches. 

 It would seem that more attention should be given to its 

 cultivation. In western New York commercial orchards are 

 now producing crops of as fine fruit as that brought from 

 California. The introduction of the Russian varieties, a few 

 years ago, added to the list several desirable kinds that have 

 proved hardier and a little later in blooming than the old 

 kinds. The fruits of the Russian varieties, while not as 

 large as the other varieties, fully equal many of them in 

 flavor, and they are very productive. The soil for Apricots 

 should be rather dry ; especially should the subsoil be 

 such that no water may stand around the roots. The expo- 

 sure should be to the north or west to retard the blooming 

 period, as the one great drawback to their successful fruiting 

 is the early blooming and subsequent freezing of the flowers 

 or small fruits. 



The two serious difficulties in the growing of Apricots 



