FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 
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tral Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, where the Baldwin either winter kills outright 
or leads a very precarious existence. We include in the list the "Extra Hardy " varieties, 
which are equally valuable for all sections. 
Yellow Transparent Last of July . 
Tetofeky August. 
Eed Astrachan August. 
Golden Sweet Aug. to Sept. 
Duchess of Oldenburg September. 
Stump Sept. to Oct. 
Alexander Sept. to Oct. 
St. Lawrence Sept. to Oct. 
Fameuse Nov. to Dec. 
Gideon Nov. to Jan. 
Wolf River Jan. to Feb. 
Longfield Jan. to March. 
Walbridge Late Winter. 
Golden Russet. . . .Late Winter and Spring. 
Grimes' Golden Winter. 
Haas Winter. 
Northern Spy Late Winter. 
Pewaukee Late Winter. 
Talman Sweet Late Winter. 
Yellow Bellflower Winter. 
Mcintosh Red .Winter. 
Mann Late Winter. 
Sutton Beauty Early Winter. 
Salome March to June. 
SOUTHERN WINTER APPLES. 
The selection of varieties is a matter of paramount importance, particularly so with 
Southern planters, in making up their list of winter apples. Great disappointment has 
resulted from planting varieties of Northern origin, like Baldwin, King and Greening, 
which in their warmer climate and longer seasons have proved to be fall apples. The 
result is an impression in the public mind that the cause of these sorts ripening in the fall 
was consequent to the trees having been grown in Northern nurseries, and herein lies the 
danger of the great and vital importance of the selection of proper varieties being again 
overlooked. 
The particular spot where the tree may happen to have been propagated has nothing 
to do with its season of ripening, but the place of origin of the variety has everything to do 
with it. For example, take a tree of the King apple from a nursery in Georgia, and another 
from a nursery in New England, plant the two trees, side by side, in Delaware, and 
both will produce apples ripening in October. Plant the same trees in Western New York 
and the product will be a good winter apple. Hence the importance and necessity of 
Southern planters selecting for their winter apples varieties of Southern origin. The 
South has already produced a few valuable winter apples, and is no longer dependent on 
the varieties that have so signally failed there. 
The following varieties are those that have proved themselves late keepers in the South, 
most of them having originated there. The season of ripening given is when they mature 
in Southern Pennsylvania and Maryland: 
Winter Queen Nov. to Jan. 
Smith's Cider Nov. to Feb 
York Imperial Dec. to Feb. 
Ben Davis Dec. to March. 
Nickajack Jan. to April. 
Grimes' Golden December. 
Dickinson Jan. to March. 
Stark Jan. to May. 
Cooper's Market Jan. to April. 
Winesap Dec. to April. 
Rawle's Janet. Jan. to May. 
Lankford Jan. to March. 
Ohio Beauty Jan. to April. 
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