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Perhaps its only drawback is its more than average sensitiveness to 

 the spring snnshine, which makes it about the first to push its leaves, 

 and an early bloomer. Hence a crop of Lawrence will sometimes be 

 partially destroyed by frosts which a Bartlett will endure unharmed. 

 In favorable seasons it bears heavy crops, which require thinning. 



Sept. 10, 1870. 



GARDEN APPLES. 



How many persons have made a careful selection of the best varie- 

 ties of apples, pears, peaches, cherries, and small fruits for their small 

 suburban gardens, and in a few years have found, to their surprise and 

 annoyance, after all their careful study and elaborate plans, a few apple 

 trees so overshadowing their ground as to render it worthless for anything 

 else, or, perhaps, the whole has been monopolized by a single giant. 



Now, to save others from such a disappointment, we advise them to 

 exclude these trees from small gardens altogether. Such strong-grow- 

 ing apples as the Baldwin, Greening, etc., are entirely unfit for small 

 gardens, and should never be planted in them. There are, however, 

 other varieties of so small, or at least moderate, growth, that they may 

 properly be styled " garden apples." First among these we place the 

 Garden Royal. The tree is of small, upright growth, and the fruit is 

 undoubtedly the finest desseit apple of its season (August and Septem- 

 brr) ; so that it is most admirably suited for garden culture. The 

 Tetofsky is a still earlier variety, beaming very young, and making a 

 small tree, whose stout, upright limbs are thickly covered with its deli- 

 cate, waxen fruit. The American Summer Pearmain, Summer Rose, 

 Early Strawberry, Red Astrachan, and Large Yellow Bough are all 

 early apples, of fine quality, and make only small or moderate-sized 

 trees. Of later kinds, that delicate little fruit, the Lady apple, is borne 

 on a tree of upright growth, occupying but little room, and is every 

 way proper for the garden. The Aunt Hannah is a vei'y high-flavored 

 apple, allied to the Newtown Pippin, and the tree is of small growth. 

 The Golden Russets and the Hunt Russet are apples of the highest 

 quality, and the trees attain only a moderate size. The Sam Young, 

 an English variety, is a favorite of ours, being very high flavored, and 

 a small grower. Of autumn apples, the Fameuse, Mother, and Jefl'eries 

 are all of the highest excellence, and moderate growers. These are, 

 with few exceptions, amateur apples, and not fitted for the orchard. 



But some may wish to plant in their garden trees of smaller size than 

 the kinds we have named, and others to include favorite varieties of 



