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good cooking and good-looking, as well as good selling, but 

 rather short-lived. Of early fall, the Gravenstein js our par- 

 ticular favorite, being of handsome color as well as a beautiful 

 eating apple, and for cooking seems to us to be unsurpassed. 

 We had some thirty-seven bushels from our little orchard this 

 year, and they would sell in market when others would hardly 

 get a passing glance. They are very free bearers, and we 

 think they are the fall apple. 



The Hubbardston is a fine large apple, also a very free 

 bearer. What it lacks in richness of color it makes up in 

 size; finds a ready market and cooks well. This year ours 

 have been uncommonly good. Williams Favorite is as 

 bright an apple as one would wish to see, and is good to eat, 

 too, but needs to be eaten raw. Danvers Sweets are, ac- 

 cording to our judgment, good as any, but sweet apples never 

 seem to be very profitable. People do not seem to have any 

 idea what a variety of uses can be made of them in cooking. 



Of winter apples, we are still old-fashioned enough to cling 

 to the Baldwin, which seems to me to be an apple that one 

 does not tire of as we do of many of the newer sorts. 



To speak lastly of a good winter eating apple, none is in 

 such favor in our immediate vicinity as the Hunt Russet, — 

 a smallish russet apple, smooth and fair, and very uniform in 

 size. It will keep good until apples "come in the summer. 

 This kind cannot be too highly spoken of. It sells as readily 

 as bakers' turnovers at a cattle show, — which is saying a good 

 deal for an apple. Of the ten varieties, I should say, Astra- 

 chans, Williams Favorites, Gravensteins, Hubbardstons, Dan- 

 vers Sweets, Fall Harveys, Sweet Baldwins, Baldwins, Rox- 

 bury Russets, Hunt Russets, Greenings. 



These seem to us to be the leading kinds, but there are 

 hosts of others with which I am not familiar, that may be bet- 

 ter than many of those I have spoken of; but I think I was 

 only asked to tell what I knew, so I think my duty is done. 



Statement of Francis S. Lovett, of Beverly. 



I have sixty-five trees. Fifty are young, on light land, 

 with sand or gravelly subsoil. Fifteen old trees are on a 

 rocky piece of land. I have thirteen kinds ; have not ma- 



