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■WINTER VAErETIBS. 



It may be bewildering to make a selection 

 from the long list of winter kinds, but the 

 prevailing rule for a hundred trees for the 

 orchardist (99 of Baldwin and 1 of — Bald- 

 win") may assist in the decision. This uni- 

 versally known variety has unquestionably 

 more points of merit than any other, and is 

 so far in advance that the foregoing rule will 

 apply to many sections, for market purposes. 

 Yet otlier kinds are superior to it in quality, 

 and its tendency to overbear and exhaust it- 

 self to barrenness in the odd year creates 

 such a fluctuation in the quantity of the crop 

 and in the price, that it is specially desirable 

 to have more uniformly productive kinds, and 

 of higher quality. 



Usopus Spitzenherg. — This variety is scarcely 

 equaled in rich and high flavor ; fruit round, 

 slightly conical ; color high, rich red, faintly 

 striped ; flesh yellow, firm, crisp, spicy, brisk 

 acid, superior ; moderately productive. In 

 some sections it is shy in fruiting, but where 

 it flourishes it will rank as best. 



Northern Spy. — Large, roundish-conical ; 

 pale yellow, slightly striped with dark red; 

 flesh white, tender, fine, sprightly sub-acid. 



