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7. Wagener An American apple of finest quality ; an 



enormous bearer ; not much subject to American 

 blight ; adapted for small gardens as it makes but 

 little wood. 



8. Scarlet Nonpareil First-class dessert. 



.9. Wooling Favourite : a variety of Beauty of Kent 

 one of the most beautiful as well as profitable of 

 apples ; not easily shaken from the trees. 



10. Rome Beauty An American apple; a grand cropper, 



and good keeper ; with exceedingly showy fruit. 



11. Morgan's Seedling A good bearer; very suitable 



for small gardens. 



12. Boston Russet A heavy cropper. 



Dessert Apples. The same authority has selected the 

 following twelve varieties as of first quality all the year 

 round : Early Joe, Kerry Pippin, Mother, Ribston Pippin, 

 Cox's Orange, Melon, American Golden Russet, Wagener, 

 Marston's Red Winter, Romanite, Scarlet Nonpareil, Russet 

 Nonpareil, Newton Pippin, and London Pippin. 



Keeping Apples. The followinghave been selected: 

 Stone Pippin, Stephenson's Winter, Newtown Pippin, Winter 

 'Strawberry Pippin, Winter Greening, Rushock Pearmain, 

 Kentucky Readstreak, Chronicle, Allen's Everlasting, Beefing, 

 -Cullasage, and Winter Peach. This last variety will keep 

 good for twelve months. 



The largest apples are Mobb's Royal, Gloria Mundi, 

 Twenty Ounce, Warner's King, Emperor Alexander, Peas- 

 good's Nonsuch, Lady Hennicker, Lord Nelson, Beauty of 

 Kent, Carter's Blue, Waltham Abbey Seedling, and Yellow 

 Bellefleur, all of which are splendid exhibition apples, and 

 in sheltered places most of them will be found profitable. 

 Adam's Birthday, a fine dessert apple ; Baron Ward, a long 

 keeper ; Norfolk Bearer, almost blight proof ; Cornish 

 Aromatic, a very showy apple ; Rawles Janet, and Shockly, 

 two popular American apples, are remarkable for holding 

 their fruit through the strongest winds. 



Planting". Choose well-formed, young trees, two or 

 three years old ; insist on having them on blight proof stocks, 

 which means that the roots should be free from blight 

 .(such as the Northern Spy), that blight proof scions 

 ishould be grafted on the blight proof roots, and that 



