THE ALMOND. 



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twenty different cultivators from the States of Ohio, Michigan, 

 Illinois, Indiana and eastern Iowa. 



Early Harvest. 



Carolina Red June. 



Red Astrachan. 



Large Sweet Bough. 



American Summer Pearmain. 



Sweet June. 



Summer Queen. 



Maiden's Blush. 



Keswick Codlin. 



Fall Wine. 



Rambo. 



Belmont. 



Fall Pippin. 



Fameuse. 



Jonathan. 



Tolman Sweet. 



Rome Beauty. 



Domine. 



Swaar. 



Westfield Seek-no-further. 



Ortley or White Bellflower. 



Broadwell. 



Vandevere of N. Y., or Newtown 



Spitzenburgh. 

 Yellow Bellflower. 

 White Pippin. 

 American Golden Russet. 

 Herefordshire Pearmain. 

 White Winter Pearmain. 

 Wine Sap. 

 Rawle's Janet. 

 Red Canada. 

 Willow Twig. 



Newtown Pippin does not generally succeed at the West, yet in some 

 localities they are very line. Rhode Island Greening and Baldwin gene- 

 rally fail in many sections, while in others they are excellent. 



A Selection of Apples for the South and South-we<*t. 



Early Harvest. 



Carolina June. 



Red Astrachan. 



Gravenstein. 



American Summer Pearmain. 



Julian. 



Mangum. 



Fall Pippin. 



Maiden's Blush. 



Summer Rose. 



Porter. 



Rambo. 



Large Early Bough. 



Fall Queen or Ladies' Favourite. 



Oconee Greening. 



Equinetely. 



Nickajack. 



Maverack's Sweet. 



Batchelor or King. 



Buff'. 



Shockley. 



Ben Davis. 



Hall. 



Mela Carle. 



Horse. 



Bonurn. 



Large Striped Pearmain. 



Rawle's Janet. 



Disharoon. 



Meigs. 



Cullasaga. 



Camack's Sweet. 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE ALMOND. 



Amygdalus communis, Dec. Rosacew, of botanists. 



Amandier, of the French ; Mandelbaum, German ; Mandorlo, Italian ; 

 Almendro, Spanish. 



THE Almond tree, which is a native of the north of Africa, 



