VARIOUS SPECIES OF FRUITS 109 



YELLOW TRANSPARENT. Medium sized, yellow, excellent for cooking 

 while immature, but too tart for eating until fully ripe. Tree remark- 

 ably precocious, fairly vigorous, hardy, healthy, but sometimes suffers 

 from fire blight. 



LATE SUMMER 



BENONI. Beautiful little red, high quality, dessert variety. Tree a 

 fairly precocious, biennial bearer. 



EARLY JOE. Small to medium, red striped, dessert variety. Tree slow 

 growing but rather precocious, fairly long lived; generally bears bi- 

 ennially. For an early variety the fruit hangs well on the tree. 



EARLY STRAWBERRY. Very beautiful, small, deep red, dessert variety, 

 useful also for cooking. Unless well managed often undersized and 

 imperfect. Tree precocious, almost annual bearer, hardy, healthy. 



RED ASTRACHAN. Beautiful red, medium sized, tart, culinary variety, 

 specially fine for pies and jelly; when fully ripe and well grown good for 

 dessert. Tree good grower, medium sized, long lived, precocious, 

 almost an annual bearer of good to heavy crops. Fruit hangs well till 

 ripe, but ripens unevenly. 



WILLIAMS. Beautiful red, medium to large, rather dry fleshed. Needs 

 thinning and several pickings. Tree only fairly sturdy, precocious and 

 a reliable, almost annual cropper, when well handled. 



EARLY FALL 

 CHENANGO (Sherwood's Favorite). Beautiful red striped, elongated. 



Unless well sprayed much subject to rotting on the tree. Trees bear 



young and annually. They are healthy ^ hardy and fairly long lived. 



Delicious dessert variety. 

 KESWICK (English Godlin). Medium to large, yellow, tart, cooking. 



Tree sturdy, vigorous, hardy, healthy, long lived, bears young; fair to 



very good; crops almost yearly. 

 OLDENBURG (Duchess). Handsome red striped, cooking. Ripens for 



several weeks. Tree wonderfully hardy, vigorous at first but rather 



slow growing when once in full bearing. Does well on clayey soils. 



Very precocious, reliable, biennial, often almost annual, cropper. Fruit 



hangs well on trees properly managed. 

 PORTER. Elongated, mostly yellow, rather tart dessert and culinary. 



Tree vigorous, hardy, compact, precocious, fairly regular biennial 



cropper. 



ST. LAWRENCE. Large, handsome red striped, very juicy, dessert. Pre- 

 cedes Fameuse which it somewhat resembles. Tree hardy, fairly 



strong grower, generally healthy, fairly long lived, reliable biennial, 



good to heavy cropper. 

 SUMMER RAMBO. A prominent southern Pennsylvania general purpose 



fruit. Tree strong grower, bears young, moderately to liberally and 



almost annually. 



MID-FALL 



BLENHEIM. Large to very large, red striped yellow, dessert or cooking 

 variety, mid-Fall to early Winter, sometimes later. Drops badly and 

 unless well managed produces many culls. 



