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However select, then, a list may be, every cultivator 

 must exercise his own judgment in adapting it to his own 

 circumstances. 



SUMMER APPLES. 



1. Carolina June. — ^This is identical with the Red June 

 of the principal nurseries ; but many inferior varieties scat- 

 tered through the country, called Red June, are to be dis- 

 criminated from it. 



The tree is upright with slender wood, which, when 

 loaded with fruit, droops like a willow. • It is a healthy 

 tree, ripens its wood early in the fall, and is not subject to 

 frost-blight. It comes early into bearing, is productive and 

 bears every year. The fruit is of medium size though 

 specimens grow large ; the flavor is sprightly, subacid, the 

 flesh tender. It has flourished well on sand-loams, common 

 clays, and on strong limestone clay. Ripens from the first 

 to the twentieth of July. A valuable market fruit. Four 

 trees, in one county, sent eighty dollars^ worth to mar- 

 ket in one season. Not mentioned by eastern writers, nor 

 found in eastern catalogues, but described at the West by 

 Hampton and Plummer, and found in Ohio and Indiana 

 nurseries. 



2. Sweet June. — Tree upright, wood moderately strong ; 

 ripens its wood early in fall ; not subject to frost-blight ; 

 flourishes on all soils, even if quite wet ; bears very young, 

 often while in nursery rows ; bears every year and abun- 

 dantly. The fruit is of medium size ; color a pale yellow ; 

 form globular ; flavor sweet and pleasant. Ripens at same 

 time as the Carolina June. 



3. KiKKBRiDGE Whitb. — Not fouud in any catalogues 

 but those of Western nurseries. Tree upright, wood 

 strong and stubbed ; grows slow while young, but vigor- 

 ously when fully established; ripens its wood early in 

 autumn ; not subject to frost-blight ; bears moderately 



