SELECT LISTS OF VARIETIES. 40? 



Miami, Wine, Winesap, Brabant Bellefleur, and four sweet 

 apples, viz : — Bough, Jersey Sweeting-, Golden Sweet- 

 ing, Ladies' Sweeting. If the soil be a rich clay loam, sub- 

 stitute Green and Yellow Newtown Pippin for Swaar and 

 Winesap. 



Strawberries, in the order of productiveness — Old Hud- 

 son and Willey, Dundee, Hovey's Seedling. 



Lists by A. J. Downing, chiefly copied from the Horlicul" 

 turist. 



Profitable Pears — Bartlett, BufFum, Flemish Beauty, 

 Louise Bonne de Jersey on quince, Vicar of Winkfield, 

 Lawrence, Beurre d'Aremberg. 



Most 'productive Plums on light soils — Lombard, Cruger's 

 Scarlet, Smith's Orleans, White Damson. 



Best Plums for heavy soils — Early, — Imperial Ottoman, 

 Yellow Gage; medium, — Bleecker's Gage, Jefferson; late, 

 ■ — Coe's Golden Drop, Frost Gage. 



Three best Peaches. — Serrate Early York, George [V. 

 Oldmixon Free. 



The following list of apples, as proved in northern Illinois 

 and the adjacent region, is furnished mostly from the de- 

 cisions of the Princeton Fruit Convention, in connexion with 

 valuable notes from Dr. Kennicott and F. K. Phoenix 



productive sorts. 



Carolina Red Jime, rather acid ; Sweet Ju7ie, best early 

 sweet ; American Summer Pearmain, " best," great bearer, 

 growth feeble ; Maide7i^s Blush, good and fair ; Kesioick 

 Codlin, highly productive, for cooking only; Early Peiirwck, 

 good ; Fall Wiiie, highly popular, very good ; Rambo, high- 

 ly recommended, but tender north ; Vandevere, few if any 

 superior; White and Yellow Bellflower, both highly com- 

 mended ; Rawle^s Jannet, very good ; Esopus Spiizenburgh, 

 U^e tender and liable to blight ; Red Astrachan, excellent 

 for cooking ; Winesap, Tproduciive ; Swaar, "best;" Domine, 

 of gr^at value ; Duchess of Oldenburgh, bears large crops 



of faii fruit. 



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