FRUIT OEPARTMENT. 
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Sutton Beauty. Fruit large, roundish ; skin waxen yellow, striped with 
crimson ; flesh tender, sub acid, good. Tree a free grower and productive ; 
a valuable apple. December and January. 
Talman's Sweet. Medium size, pale whitish yellow, with a soft blush on 
one side and generally a line running from stem to calyx ; flesh quite 
white, rather firm, fine grained, with a rich, sweet flavor. December 
to April. 
Winesap. Fruit medium size, rather oblong ; skin smooth, of a fine dark 
red, with a few streaks ; flesh yellow, firm, crisp. Tree a poor grower in 
the nursery. December to April. 
Wag'ener. Fruit medium to large size, flattened ; skin light yellow, shaded 
with red ; flesh firm, sub-acid, with an excellent flavor. Tree thrifty, very 
upright, and early bearer. Fruit improved by thinning. December to 
March . 
"Wolf River. Skin greenish yellow, shaded with crimson ; flesh white, juicy, 
tender, with a peculiar, pleasant, mild sub-acid flavor. Tree a strong, 
stout grower, a great bearer, and very hardy. January and February. 
Yellow Bellflower. Fruit large, oblong, irregular ; skin pale lemon-yellow, 
sometimes with a blush ; flesh tender, juicy, with a sprightly acid flavor. 
November to February. 
York Imperial (Johnson's Fine Winter). A native of York County, Pa. 
Medium to large; white, heavily .shaded with dark crimson; flesh firm, 
crisp, juicy, and sub-acid. Tree an early and abundant bearer. Decem- 
ber to February. 
Special List, No. i. 
EXTRA HARDY APPLES. In the northern portion of the United 
States it is necessary to plant extra hardy varieties of apples, in order to make 
their cultivation a success. Years ago there were but one or two sorts which 
could be grown in the extreme North with any degree of satisfaction to the 
planter.. Now, however, we have quite a list of Russian varieties and North- 
ern seedlings, which will thrive and bear abundantly in any section where we 
send agents. They are as hardy as the Duchess of Oldenburg or Wealthy, 
while we consider the fruit of many of them of better quality than the Baldwin. 
Against each variety we note the sea,son of ripening in Northern New Eng- 
land, Northern New York, Wisconsin, and Minnesota: — 
Yellow Sweet, • . . July and August. 
Yellow Transparent, . July and Aug. 
Duchess of Oldenburg, . September. 
Wealthy, Nov. and Dec. 
Gideon Nov. to Jan. 
Mcintosh Red, Nov. to Jan. 
Wolf River, Jan. and Feb. 
Longfield Jan. to March. 
Pewaukee, Jan. to April. 
Boiken Feb. to May. 
Special List, No. 2. 
HARDY APPLES. The following list of varieties we rate as hardy, in 
comparison with the Baldwin. They will grow in sections like that along the 
St. Lawrence River and Central Maine, New Hampshire and \'ermont, vvhere 
the Baldwin either winter kills outright or leads a very precarious existence. 
