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trained fruit grower who has been engaged in orchard 

 work in the Kootenays for ten years has compiled a 

 list of thoroughly choice varieties which do succeed 

 in that district. They are Yellow Transparent, Red 

 Astrakhan, Wealthy, Gravenstein, Mcintosh Red, 

 Spitzenberg, Jonathan, Wagner, and Rome Beauty. 

 As good commercial varieties, the following have 

 been recommended by a grower of considerable 

 experience in the State of Oregon : — Winesap (not 

 Stayman Winesap), Red Cheek Pippin, Cox's 

 Orange Pippin, Yellow Newtown, Rome Beauty, 

 Northern Spy, Wagner, and Jonathan. To these 

 other authorities, equally entitled to attention, would 

 add Delicious and Fameuse or Snow. Taking all 

 these recommendations into account, we get a revised 

 table as follows, every variety in which is a good 

 commercial variety; but of these varieties, only those 

 printed in italics have been sufficiently tested in the 

 Kootenays : — 



Early. — Yellow Transparent, Duchess of Olden- 

 burg. 

 Mid-Season. — Gravenstein, Wealthy, Snow or 

 Fameuse, Mcintosh Red, Cox^s Orange 

 Pippin. 

 Winter. — Jonathan, Spitzenberg, Yellow New- 

 town Pippin, Red Cheek Pippin, Rome 

 Beauty, Northern Spy, Baldwin, Wagner, 

 Delicious, Winesap. 

 Now, this list may be still further curtailed. Of 

 the two " early *' varieties one only need be planted, 

 so that the other becomes superfluous, and neither 

 should be planted in large numbers. For main crop 

 varieties, both these, therefore, may be disregarded. 



