No. 4.] VARIETIES OF APPLES. 63 



better adapted to that tlian the Williams ; it will carry splen- 

 didly if picked early, and is a splendid-colored apple when 

 picked in its season. 



Secretary Ellsworth. There is one variety Professor 

 Sears reconiniended very highh', — the Eoxbnry Russet. I 

 have quite a number of trees, and I think I have got the least 

 out of the Roxbury Russet of any variety I grow, and they 

 are the last variety I should think of setting out. I think 

 that since we have had the improved storage facilities there is 

 less demand for them. 



Professor Seaes. Of course there is considerable in that. 

 Still, my experience has been that any good apple you have 

 along the last of March and first of April will bring you a 

 good price. There are few apples that rank ahead of the 

 Roxbury Russet for shipping. 



]\Ir. . The German people are very fond of Russets. 



I have handled quite a few, and have no trouble in selling 

 Russets in Philadelphia ; can sell a whole carload even early 

 in the season. 



The Chaiemax. The Chicago market will take any num- 

 ber of Bellflowers, and pay a good price for them. I know a 

 man in Maine who grows the Bellflower almost entirely, sell- 

 ing them wholly in Chicago, and last year he realized better 

 than $5 a barrel for them. There are varieties that we have 

 to ship to diiferent places. In western Massachusetts apples 

 seem to grow as naturally as weeds, and the people there, in- 

 stead of planting orchards and cultivating them, go out into 

 the pasture and gTaft these natural seedlings, and get splen- 

 did apples from them. We would like to have Mr. Gerrett 

 of Greenfield tell us something about that. 



Mr. Feaxk Geeeett. We were pleasantly disappointed 

 in our section this year ; we had a much better crop than we 

 expected, and received much higher prices. I hope Professor 

 Sears will have good success with the early varieties he is 

 setting out; but I live in a town of 10,000 people, and early 

 varieties are simply a nuisance with us. We give them away 

 to any one who wants them ; the stores will not take them, 

 even hand-picked from the tree, and half of them go to waste. 

 There are years that you cannot sell them in Boston for 



