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moth Black Twig. To this list are being added 
some very excellent varieties, originated in the 
Southwest. You will observe that a few of the 
varieties named thrive from the extreme North to 
the extreme South. 
All these lists do not include some of the grand- 
est apples in the world, partly because we do not 
yet quite understand how generally some of them 
will thrive, and again we do know that some apples 
are very local in their attachment. Among the 
most promising new varieties, the Delicious and the 
Senator are two from the Ozark Mountain region. 
Wismer’s Dessert is a new Canada apple of extra- 
ordinary beauty, and very hardy. The tree is a 
good grower, and I suggest that you do not over- 
look it. Stuart’s Golden is a medium-sized apple 
— delicious, digestible, and a long keeper; good for 
eating from November till the last of April. The 
best new sweet apple that I have recently met with 
is Danchy’s Sweet; and a close second is Sconon- 
doah. We are just entering the apple age, and 
new varieties will hereafter multiply with great 
rapidity, although we shall probably never give 
up a few of the older sorts, such as Spitzenburg, 
Baldwin, Hubbardston, and Northern Spy — a 
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