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light yellow fruit, with pink cheek, but rather 

 poor quality. Tree grows with slender, strag- 

 gling branches, like the crab-apple, which it 

 resembles also in hardiness ; growing in exposed 

 situations, or clayey soils, where other apples 

 will not thrive. A good bearer. September and 

 October. 



ffawkin's Pippin. — Very largo ; pale whitish 

 green ; extremely tender and good ; tree a very 

 sti'ong, stocky, upright grower, and early bearer; 

 is one of the very best esaDwarf on the Doucin 

 stock, as it is a perfect picture of beauty, cover- 

 «jd with its enormously large fine truit ; not gene- 

 rally" known. October and November. 



Canada Reinette. — Large, greenish yellow, 

 crisp, tender, rich and juicy; very vigorous 

 grower. January to April. 



Domine. — Medium to large, flat, greenish yel- 

 low, with bright red stripes ; very juicy, tender, 

 not very high flavored, but will keep fresh and 

 fine till May. Tree a very vigorous grower when 

 young, but as it is one of the earliest and most 

 enormous bearers, it is apt to get stunted when 

 old ; the branches have very few twigs, and 

 bear the fruit more like strings of onions than 

 anything else ; to have large fine fruit, fully half 

 the crop should be thinned out when small. 

 This variety would do to plant in intermediate 

 spaces, like Hawthornden and Keswick Codlin. 

 December to May, or even June. 



Dutch Jliffnonne.— Large, orange, marked with 

 russet, and faint, dull, red stripes ; fine-flavored, 

 tender, subacid, and aromatic ; tree upright and 

 very strong grower, making one of the largest 

 trees of the orchard. November to March. 

 Does not ripen completely in Lower Canada. 



Golden Russet. — Medium, dull russet, with a" 

 tinge of red on exposed side ; flesh greenish, crisp, 

 high flavored ; tree fine grower, with light-colored 

 speckled shoots, by which it is easily known ; 

 bears well, and is extensively grown. Novem- 

 ber to April. 



Kinff (of Tompkins county). — A large hand- 

 some fruit, yellow striped, and splashed with 

 crimson; flesh yellowish, coarse, juicy, and ten- 

 der, with a rich vinous, aromatic flavor ; tree an 

 exceedingly fast and vigorous grower ; no apple 



has been in such demand fur planting orchards 

 as this has been of late years ; but whether on 

 further proof it will sustain its present high 

 character is yet to be seen. Nursery-men will 

 be apt to praise it. as it grows as much in two 

 years as any other almost will grow in three. 

 December to March. 



Feck's Pleasant. — Large, pale yellow, with a 

 brown cheek ; very smooth, and flesh firm and 

 rich, approaching the flavor of the celebrated 

 Newton Pippin, and succeeds well where that 

 apple will not thrive, as in the greater part of 

 Canada ; tree strong grower and fine bearer. 

 November to April. 



Roxbury, or Boston i?«»se<.— -Medium to large ; 

 surface rough, greenish, covered with russet ; 

 flavor inferior. Its popularity is caused by its 

 productiveness and long-keeping ; tree hardy, 

 but not a straight, handsome grower when 

 young. December to June. 



Swaar. — Large, pale lemon-yellow, with dark 

 dots ; flesh tender, rich, and spicy ; tree a mode- 

 rat grower, with dark shoots and large gray 

 buds. With good culture, it is one of the best 

 of apples. November to May. 



Westfield Seck-no-further. — Medium to large, 

 striped with dark red ; flesh tender, rich, and 

 excellent ; tree good bearer and fruit always fair. 

 November to February. 



DWABF APPLES. 



List of Apples most suitable for culture as 

 Dwarfs ou the Doucin Stock, the Paradise stock 

 being unsuitable to this climate : — 



American Summer Pearmain, Astrachan Red, 

 Bough, Early Harvest, Early Joe, Garden Royal, 

 Keswick Codlin, Alexander, Gravenstein, Haw- 

 kins Pippin, Hawthornden, Hawley, St. Law- 

 rence, BcUefleur Yellow, Hubbardston Nonsuch, 

 Jonathan, Melon, Red Canada, and Wagener. 



NoTK. — The dates of ripening given above re- 

 fer to Windsor, C . W. As you go farther north the 

 date will becoiK a little later. The latest varie- 

 ties only ripen i^ *he house in Canada, and it is 

 doubtful if some oc them would attain suflScient 

 maturity in Canada East to do so. 



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