and it is for you to lay down the law to your trees and 

 make them obey. If other sorts are altogether too loose 

 and careless, flinging their branches around, remember that 

 peculiarity against them when the pruning season comes 

 round, and conversely let the apical bud to which you cut 

 point inwards. No grower should go through a strange 

 orchard without mentally taking stock of the trees and the 

 way they have been treated. The general habit of each 

 kind, new to him, should be carefully noted and remem- 

 bered. Such and such being its mature aspect, it follows 

 that when you get it as a graftling of a year for yourself, 

 you can recall what you have seen, and knowing what it 

 should grow into, prune it accordingly. And when such 

 experience enlarges, and you begin to feel able to rely upon 

 it and to produce the exact effects you wish, you have 

 taken the first step into the inner circle of gardening. 

 You are no longer an outside philistine amateur, nor even 

 an apprentice, but a passed- master of the craft. 



Sorts of Apples recommended. 



In giving the names of apples for choice there is great 

 difficulty because of the utterly different conditions of east 

 and west, coast and upland. 



Apples. 



SORTS. DESCRIPTION. 



ADAMS' PEARMAIN. One of the finest dessert apples, a good exporting 

 variety . Pale yellow tinged with green, 

 covered with russet on shaded side, but deep 

 yellow streaked with red on sunny side. 



BLENHEIM ORANGE. A good dessert and keeping apple. Fruit large, 

 roundish oblate, yellowish, becoming deep 

 orange, stained on sunny side with dull dark 

 red stripes. 



B*N DAVIS. A handsome popular American variety, a dessert 



apple recommended for export. Yellowish, 

 striped and splashed with two shades of red, 

 with areolar spots. 



BISMARCK. A large handsome showy cooking apple. Rich 



yellow, speckled all over, rich broken streaks 

 of crimson on sunny side. 



BEAUTY OF KENT. A showy and juicy kitchen apple of strong- 

 growing habit. Fruit very large and roundish, 

 but flat at the base and narrowing to the 

 ribbed eye, greenish yellow with stripes of 

 purplish red. 



