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enough for our locality. Under favorable circumstances some of 

 them might live, but my advice is, leave them alone. Then most 

 catalogues give us long lists of so called hardy apples, (too many to 

 mention), that are worthless here ; I'll pass them over, and name 

 some of those I have tried, and have no hesitation in recommending. 

 As to Summer apples I can say little, as, excepting a few for family use^ 

 I don't consider them profitable. Eed and White Astracan, and Brock- 

 ville Beauty are good kinds. Tetofsky and Early Harvest are well 

 recommended. Autumn apples; Fameuse or Snow, St. Lawrence, and 

 Duchess of Oldenburg, are quite reliable, and deserve all the praise 

 they get. Seek-no-Further is a good apple, "but I have found the tree 

 short lived. Emperor Alexander is well spoken of. Winter apples ; 

 here my list will be small, but I think reliable : Talman's Sweet, 

 Pomme Grise, American Golden Eusset, and Mcintosh Eed. Of the 

 latter variety it is said in the Canada Farmer for 1875, p. 125 : "The 

 parent tree originated where it now stands, in Matilda, Dundas Co. 

 Ont., some seventy years ago, and has borne every yeaF since the oldest 

 inhabitants can remember, and is still perfectly hardy, the apple also 

 being good in every respect. It has been propagated from, and dis- 

 tributed in the neighborhood, and evidence is given of the most posi- 

 tive character, as to the hardiness, productiveness, and longevity of the- 

 tree, and the quality, size and keeping properties of the apple." I have 

 not had this variety long enough in my orchard to speak positively of 

 its bearing qualities, but the few apples I have had, are equal to the 

 description, and my trees are healthy and hardy. I planted in faith 

 sixty trees last Springy, and ten some years agO; I would be inclined 

 to try a few of the Baxter and Peach Apples, both Winter kinds, and 

 well spoken of.- 



Many of your readers, when they come to the end of my list, \A'ill 

 say (and they are right,) the number of Winter apples, the good long- 

 keeping fellows we like to have in the Spring, are reduced to very few.. 

 I don't pretend to say the above are all the good Winter apples that 

 will succeed here, but it is all I have found to succeed, and I will feel 

 under obligation to any one in these counties who will name one or 

 more other kinds faithfully tried and found good. Although my list 

 is small, there is in it enough to have a good supply of apples nearly 

 the year round, for home consumption and the market. When speaking 



