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perfect in form. If sprayed, or in a dry season, they are 

 perfect, always bringing a high price in local markets. 

 They cannot be shipped unless very carefully packed. 



The Mann, coming from New York, is like the Rhode 

 Island Greening in form, always very perfect. It is a very 

 hard, thick-skinned apple ; a very late keeper, being fairly 

 good in May and June, but never of fine quality, though 

 perhaps better than the Ben Davis. 



For an apple for the local markets, the Crow's Egg or 

 Gilliflower will always sell if grown like these specimens. 

 They cannot be used for cooking. They are sold the same 

 way as the Williams in its season. 



For a sweet apple, the most beautiful and perhaps one of 

 the sweetest is the Jacob Sweet. It is very fair, very large 

 and very productive. 



The Beauty or Kent apple is a large, fair apple, of good 

 quality for cooking, bears regularly and is of fair quality. 

 The Spitzenberg is in demand if oflered in perfect condition. 

 It is not a great bearer, and can only be grown to perfection 

 with difficulty. 



The Wealthy apple is perfect in form, generally having 

 more color than the specimens shown. These were picked 

 too early. It is an apple that, while tender, is not easily 

 bruised and will stand shipping. It is an early bearer. 

 The trees are inclined to overbear. It is an apple that from 

 its beauty and fine quality Avill always sell, and will be 

 taken just as fast as it can be put in the market. I think 

 we can ship the Wealthy to England successfully. It does not 

 bruise easily, and may be put in the market in September. 

 If we can put the Wealthy into the European market in its 

 perfection, it will attract attention. We ship our Baldwins 

 before they are well colored and the market is injured. 

 While the English markets want a hard apple, they want 

 high color. The AVealthy, like the ]\IcIntosli Red, may be 

 kept into the early winter. The question as to the Mcintosh 

 Red is, whether it will prove productive and if we can pre- 

 vent its becoming scabby. It originated in Canada, and 

 there has the reputation of being attacked by the apple 

 scab and as being not very productive. I do not know 

 any variety that cannot be kept free from scab by spraying. 



