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recommended for extensive planting. The first of these, Mcintosh 

 Red, will bear all that can be said in its favor for excellence of 

 qualit}', beautv and productiveness, and where it does not spot it will 

 be a great acquisition. The tree is not "iron clad," but is hardier 

 than Fameuse, and a good though rather slender grower. The fruit 

 aA'erages with AVealthy or Baldwin in size. Its chief defect is 

 spotting and cracking, wliich I fear will make it unprofitable in 

 many places. 



The Mann apple, which is being strongly pushed and wideh' 

 advertised, is b}- no means an "iron clad," or even a commonly 

 hardy tree. It winter-kills badh' with me, even worse than Pewau- 

 kee, which has also been highly extolled, but will not do for hard 

 places. In appearance and quality the Mann is an inferior R. I. 

 Greening, mucli inferior, but a considerably better keeper. I think 

 this postscript mav perhaps be worth as much to those now about to 

 set new, or increase old orchards, as all the rest of the paper. 



NOMENCLATURE OF RUSSETS. 



There is, perhaps, no variety of apple about which there has been 

 so much doubt and confusion as the various kinds of russet. During 

 the past winter, I was engaged in a quadrilateral coi'respondence on 

 the subject, and the result may be of interest to fruit growers, 

 though I regret I did not publish it at the time, when the subject 

 was fresh. 



I think the con-espondence originated in this wa}'. I received a 

 letter from Mr. Charles G. Atkins, requesting some scions of Amer- 

 ican Golden Russet. I answ^ered that I did not think I had ever 

 seen an American Golden Russet, and I doubted if it could be found 

 in Maine. INIr Atkins would not give the matter up, and at last 

 obtained scions of the real American Golden Russet from West 

 Chester, Pa., and kindly sent me some. It is known there and in 

 New Jersey under the name given b}' Coxe, Sheepnose^ and else- 

 where as BuIlocTc's Pippin. Hon. Henry Ingalls, at all our exhibi- 

 tions, has maintained that an apple he exhibited was the American 

 Golden Russet. Hiram Pope of Gardiner, raises a delicious russet 

 which came from Massachusetts, and which he called the American 

 Golden. I sent a specimen of these to Mr. Atkins and also to Mr. 



