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time that the work is done without hurry or risk. 

 When we add to these considerations the intrin- 

 sic value of the apple for domestic purposes, and 

 of its juice for vinegar or for boiling to a syrup 

 for culinary use, we must readily admit that it 

 easily takes the front rank. Yet it does not fol- 

 low that it is to be planted freely upon country 

 places of limited extent. The various insects 

 which injure the fruit are more readily destroyed 

 in an orchard, by systematic attention, than upon 

 a few scattering trees. Moreover, the price of 

 the fruit is usually low, the trees are spreading 

 and require space. Our land may be too valua- 

 ble and precious to allow them more than the 

 corners or an odd angle. But the best early and 

 autumn varieties we must have for our own 

 family supply, and if our space will not admit 

 the winter kinds, we can rest assured the market 

 will be well supplied with such at moderate cost. 

 With such moderate wants we shall be troubled 

 in selecting from so many hundred candidates. 

 We will make an extremely limited list. 



Early Harvest. One of the earliest ; bright 

 straw color, mild* acid, oblate, stock rather short 

 and slender, flesh nearly white, quality fine, but 

 liable to be wormy; few perfect specimens. 

 July and August. 



Early Sweet Bough. Large, oblong-ovate, 



