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256. Elizabeth (Manning's). An excellent little 

 early pear, which maKes up in quality what it lacKs in 

 size. The tree is usually very productive 



the name of the variety in popular usage, but 

 which should be dropped as superfluous. ' 



Early Varieties: Benoni, Bough (Sweet), 

 Chenango, Early Harvest, Early Joe, Early 

 Strawberry, Garden Royal, Golden Sweet, 

 Ingrain, Jefferis, Maiden Blush, Porter, 

 Primate, Red Astrachan, Red June, Sops- 

 of-YVine, Summer Pearmain, Summer Rose, 

 Williams (Favorite), Yellow Transparent. 



Midseason Varieties: Dyer, Fall Pippin, 

 Fall Wine, Fameuse (Snow), Gravenstein, 

 Jersey Sweet, Oldenburg (Duchess of), 

 Palouse, Rambo, St. Lawrence, Shiawasse, 

 Wealthy. 



Late Varieties: Bailey (Sweet), Baldwin, 

 Esopus (Spitzenburg), Golden Russet, 

 Grimes (Golden), Hubbardston, Jacobs 

 Sweet, Jonathan, Lady Sweet, Mcintosh, 

 Mother, Northern Spy, Paragon, Peck Pleas- 

 ant, Pewaukee, Pomme Gris, Red Canada, 

 Rhode Island (Greening), Ribston, Roman 

 Stem, Roxbury, Stayman Winesap, Sutton, 

 Tolman (Sweet), Tompkins King, Wagener, 

 Westfield (Seek-no-further), White Pear- 



main, Winesap, Yellow Bellflower, Yellow 

 Newtown (Albemarle), York Imperial. 



APRICOTS 



Alexander, Early Golden, Moorpark, Royal. 



SWEET CHERRIES 



Early Varieties: Black Heart, Coe, Early 

 Purple (Guigne), Elton. 



Midseason Varieties : Downer, Napoleon 

 (Royal Ann), Rockport, Spanish (Yellow), 

 Black Tartarian, Governor Wood. 



Late Varieties: Bing, Republican (Black), 

 Windsor. 



SOUR CHERRIES 



Early Varieties: Choisy (Belle de), Eu- 

 genie (Empress), May Duke, Philippe (Louis). 



Midseason Varieties: Hortense (Reine), 

 Montmorencv Ordinaire, Ostheim. 



Late Varieties: Brusseler Braune, Late 

 Duke, Magnifique (Belle), Morello. 



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257. Bartlett is grown perhaps more than all 

 other pears combined. Succeeds nearly everywhere 

 and is uniformly productive of good fruit. Luscious 



258. Green Gage. The standard of excellence 

 for quality in plums. Medium size. Color green. 

 Flavor most luscious and aromatic. Very sweet 



PEACHES 



Early Varieties: Alexander, Amelia, 

 Early York, Fitzgerald, Hale, Mountain 

 Rose, Rivers, St. John, Triumph. . 



Midseason Varieties: Chairs (Choice), 

 Champion, Crosby, Early Crawford, Foster, 

 Late Rareripe, Lemon Cling, Muir, Old- 

 mixon Free, Reeves Favorite, Susquehanna, 



Late Varieties: Fox, Heath Cling, Late 

 Crawford, Lemon Free, Smock. 



Early Varieties: Bartlett, Bloodgood, 

 Clapps, Elizabeth (Manning's), Gifford, 

 Osband, Summer Doyenne, Wilder. 



Midseason Varieties: Angouleme, Anjou, 

 Bosc, Boussock, Cornice, Flemish (Beauty), 

 Gray Doyenne, Howell, Louise (Bonne de 

 Jersey), Lucrative, Seckel, Sheldon. 



Late Varieties: Danas Hovey, Glout 

 Morceau, Lawrence, Malines (Josephine de), 

 Patrick Barrv, Vermont (Beautv), Winter 

 Nelis. 



PLUMS 



Early Varieties: Abundance, Bradshaw, 

 Clyman, Columbia, Jefferson, McLaughlin, 

 Lombard, Red June, Wild Goose. 



259. Golden Prune is a plum of most delicious 

 flavor which should be grown in the home orchard 

 wherever it succeeds. Large. Yellow. Midseason 



Midseason Varieties: Bavay (Green Gage), 

 Burbank, German Prune, Golden Prune, 

 Hawkeye, Imperial Gage, Rockford, Shrop- 

 shire (Damson), Wolf. 



Late Varieties: Green Gage, Italian Prune 

 (Fellenburg), Grand Duke, Monarch, Miner. 



AN OFFICIAL LIST 



In the judgment of a competent committee 

 of the American Pomological Society, all 

 the very high quality varieties in this country 

 which are more commonly grown are in- 

 cluded in the following list, which includes 

 all varieties which have been marked by 

 this committee with nine or ten points on 

 a scale of ten. 



Apples: Jumbo, Stanstead (Rose of), 

 Belmont (Waxen), Belle Bonne, Benoni, 

 Bethel, Mrs. Bryan, Bullock (American 

 Golden Russet), Dyer (Pomme Royal), 

 Early Harvest, Early Joe, Esopus (Spitzen- 

 burg), Fall Pippin, Fall Wine, Fameuse 

 (Snow), Garden Royal, Garfield, Graven- 

 stein. Green Newtown, Grimes (Golden), 

 Hubbardston Ingram, Jefferis, Jonathan, 



260. Grand DuKe. A valuable plum in the home 

 orchard on account of its late season and very large 

 size of the fruit. Quality fair 



