142 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



A CHOICE OF APPLES. 



Bj' Charles Downing. 



Apples are the most valuable of fruits, and the varieties named 



below are all good for family use. A tree or two of each kind, well 



cared for, will give a supply from July to June, and a month or two 



longer with a little extra pains : 



1 Early Harvest, 12 Rhode Island Greening, 



2 Red Astrachan, 13 Melon, 



3 Fanny, 1-1 Sutton Beauty, 



4 Primate, 15 Baldwin, 



5 Jersey Sweet, IG Grimes' Golden Pippin, 



6 Porter, 17 Jonathan, 



7 Peach- Pond Sweet, 18 Northern Sp}', 



8 Fall Pippin, 19 Newton Pippin, 



9 Mother, 20 Lady's Sweet, 



10 Hubbardston Nonsuch, 21 Red Russet. 



11 Bleheini Pippin, 



For those who raise especially for market, varieties should be se- 

 lected that succeed best in the locality, which may be ascertained by 

 inquirj' of those who make orcharding a business and know the kinds 

 most in demand in the markets they supply. Experienced growers 

 for market say that a few sorts rather than many give the most profit. 

 For small gardens a few varieties grown as dwarfs on the paradise 

 stock will supph' a moderate faraih^ during the summer and autumn, 

 for culinarj- uses and eating ; Nos. 1, 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are good va- 

 rieties for this purpose. Winter apples can generally be purchased 

 more readil}' than sumer and fall kinds. 



PLANTING APPLE TREES IN THE COLD NORTH. 



From a lengthy paper read before the Ontario Fruit Growers' 

 Association, b3- A. A. "Wright, of Renfrew, the following paragraphs 

 are taken, as bringing out a peculiarit}' of planting. The reader 

 will readil3' see what kind of soil he has to deal with : 



Doubtless it ma}- be considered useless to tell an}- one that it is 

 unwise to plant even a single tree, much less a large number, until 

 the ground has been thoroughly? drained and properly prepared for 

 their reception. 



