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bright white, reddish sub-skin, tender and of an 

 agreeable sourish flavor. Another good early is 

 Chenango (Chenango Strawberry). It is not so 

 well known, nor so much appreciated as it should 

 be, for two of its characteristics have mitigated 

 against its commercial use, and these same char- 

 acteristics add to its value in a home orchard. First, 

 it does not attain a very large size; and second, it 

 is a ''successive" ripener, the maturing of its fruits 

 being stretched throughout September. In shape 

 it is oblong, not very regular; in color, yellow un- 

 derground, with attractive red, irregular stripes 

 overlaid. It is essentially an eating-apple, being too 

 mild for cooking purposes. 



Among the autumn group my preference is Por- 

 ter, for an early sort, handsome and regular in 

 shape, and of an attractive ripe yellow color. I 

 remember how the first windfalls from the two trees 

 in our orchard used to be prized in the daily hunts 

 after school, and very often, when no one was look- 

 ing from the house, the force of gravity seemed to 

 have a strangely selective action in the case of the 

 biggest fruits. Gravenstein is another early, well 

 and favorably known. For late autumn sorts, 

 Mcintosh Red is without an equal. The color is 

 one of the most tempting reds of any apple grown, 

 shading to dark velvet, overspread with a delicate 

 bloom, in form remarkably even and round. Its 



