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Another view of the Tonoloway Orchard, Hancock, Md. Kieffer Pear trees from 
Harrison’s Nurseries. 
APPLES, continued 
This holds true in New England and New York, Pensylvania, Maryland, 
Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia. The Apples that are bringing in 
the cash are York Imperial, Baldwin, Yellow Transparent and Stayman’s. 
York is at present the biggest money- maker south of central Pennsylvania, 
and Baldwin the greatest moneymaker north of central Pennsylvania. 
Yellow Transparent succeeds equally well both north and south; it is the 
early Apple that always is profitable. 
Just to bring the idea home to you plainly we will tell you this: Waynes- 
boro, Pa., and neighboring stations probably shipped more than five 
hundred cars of Apples last fall; Martinsburg, West Virginia, two thousand; 
Winchester, Virginia, two thousand; Waynesboro, Virginia, five hundred, 
and Crozet, Virginia, six hundred. These are representative sections— 
five out of half a hundred that could be named off-hand. The shipments 
from all totaled almost six thousand cars of Apples. We are entirely safe 
in saying that four thousand of these cars were York Imperials. 
If we would take five northern towns, we would find Baldwin Apples 
leading in about the same proportion. Because Yellow Transparent ripens 
early, and is sold mostly in the local markets, or shipped in hampers in 
iced cars or boats, figures on total production are not obtainable, but we 
have learned that the money which it brings in is not far below the revenue 
produced by either of the three winter varieties. Of course there are other 
good sorts, which we shall name presently, but not nearly so many trees 
of them have been planted as of the four kinds named. If you plant these 
four kinds, you are certain of large yields and well-established markets. 
You need do no pioneering. 
York Imperial bears when very young. We often get a bushel from each 
tree when they are four years old. They will begin to bear at three years. 
We always expect each tree to produce a barrel of fruit in the fifth or sixth 
year. Baldwin does not bear quite so soon, but is only about one year 
behind the York Imperial. These statements regarding the bearing age 
of trees are made with the understanding that the orchard is given good 
treatment. While both of these two varieties are known as biennial bear- 
ers—that is, bearing a worth-while crop every two years—proper pruning 
and thinning will make them bear heavily every season. Yellow Trans- 
parent bears earlier and more abundantly than the others. It will give 
you a bushel to a tree the fourth year if you care for it properly. 
One-year trees are best. They will be as big in five seasons as two- or 
three-year trees planted at the same time, and will bear as early. They 
may be headed as they should be, and finally, they usually cost you less. 
4 Harrison’s Nurseries. 
