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HARRISON'S NURSERTES, BERLIN. MD. 



♦Bailey's Sweet— Fruit large, round, mottled and 

 striped deep red: flesh yellow and tender, witha mild, 

 rich, sweet flavor; slow. September. 



Duchess (Oldenberg)— A Russian variety of re- 

 markable beauty, and one of the most hardy produc- 

 tive varieties under cultivation. Does especially well 

 In sections that are too cold for ordinary varieties. 

 Tree is a vigorous grower, and it requires little or no 

 proning, producing an abundance of fruit very even 

 In size. Smooth skin, finely washed and streaked 

 with red on a golden ground. Flesh juicy and sub- 

 acid. September. 



Red Bietigheimer— A rare German variety re- 

 cently introduced. Fruit large to very large; skin 

 peie green, mostly covered with purplish crimson; 

 flesh white, firm sub-acid, with a brisk, pleasant 

 Savor. Tree a fine grower and abundant bearer. 

 This is one of the largest and handsomest of Apples, 

 and promises to be extensively cultivated. September 

 ana October, 



Twenty Ounce Pippin — Very large, nearly round; 

 yellow, striijed with red; quality good; vigorous and 

 K<9od bearer; popular as a market variety. November. 



Porter — t ruit rather large ; ridi yellow ; tree 



grower. Produces good crops of rich yellow applea. 

 Flesh fine grained, full of juice, sprightly, agr^aMe, 

 sub-acid. Continues long in use. Those that have the 

 true Porter always praise it. September and October. 

 Widely and extensively grown, especially in Indiana. 

 Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. 



Piumb's Cider— An early bearer and productive! 

 fruit medium, roundish, slightly conical; skin green- 

 ish yellow, shaded and rather obscurely strips and 

 splashed with dull red; flesh whitish, tender, juicy 

 and mild, sub- acid; vigorous. September. 



Utter 's Red — Large, round, whitish and striped, 

 very beautiful and excellent, sub-acid; tree vigorous, 

 hardy, productive, requires dry soil; of great valac 

 north. September and October. 



Vandevere Pippin— Largeto very large, roundish, 

 flattened at both ends, and very deep cavity ; greexiisii 

 yellow , covered with stripes and blotches of dull red, 

 good flavor, juicy and rich. Tree forms a round head; 

 vigorous and productive. October and November. 



Wagener — Medium to large, deep red in the ana, 

 flesh firm, sub-acid and excellent, very pn^HCti'Vl^ 

 bears very young, October to December. 



WINTER APPLES, 



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BEN DAVIS. 



Ben Davis — Fruit medium to large; roundish , skin yellowisli, splashed and striped and 

 ■Imost covered with red; flesh white, tender, juicy and sub-acid, of good quality; a popular 

 kind and a good keeping variety and should be in every orchard. The tree is very haray, a 

 free grower, comes into bearing early, and very productive. It blooms late in the spring* 

 thereby often escaping the late spring frosts. "^ Very popular in the West and Southwe^ 

 Mid- winter. 



