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THE FAEM. 



solved in alcohol, of the consistence of paint, and applied with a brash. 

 It adheres firmly, keeps out the air, aids the perfect healing of the 

 wound, and can be easily and rapidly applied. 



THE DIFFERENT FRUITS TO CULTIVATE.— SELECT VARI- 

 ETIES AND MODE OF CULTURE. 



We shall not attempt here to name, much less to describe the 

 nine hundred varieties of the apple, to be found in our later and 

 larger fruit-books. Such a fbrmidable array of names would tend to 

 embarrass and confuse, rather than instruct and satisfy the great major- 

 ity of fruit cultivators. What they most need is a classification and de- 

 scription* of the best-known varieties of the diflferent fruits, adapted to 

 the different seasons and localities, and in suflScient number and variety 

 to meet the wants of cultivators generally. This has been our aim. 

 The list we give contains those fruits only which have been thoroughly 

 tested, and which are worthy of general cultivation. We adopt, by 

 permission, the description of fruits from the " American Fruit Culturist," 

 by J. J. Thomas, a work of superior excellence, and on which the fullest 

 reliance can be placed. It is the production of one who writes with the 

 largest practical experience and love of the pursuit, an exact and liberal 

 culture, and that fidelity and care in his statements which give them 

 paramount value. 



THE APPLE. SELECT VARIETIES. 



SUMMER APPLES.— Bough.— (5yn. large yellow bough, sweet bough, 

 early sweet bough.) Large, roundish, remotely conical-ovate, some- 

 times distinctly conical ; pale, greenish yellow, stock one-half to an inch 

 long, basin narrow, deep; flesh white, very tender, with an excellent 

 Bweet flavor. Ripens from the middle to the end of sunimer, A mod- 



