FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 
II 
SPECIAL LIST NO. 1. 
Extra Hardy Apples. — In the Nortliom portions of the United States and ad- 
joining provinces of Canada, the feeling lias prevailed until recently that nothing in the 
shape of apples could be grown except crabs. While this is true as regards many of the 
old varieties, a few Russian apples and Northern Seedlings have been introduced, which 
though they may require better care than that under which tlie crabs will thrive, have 
proved themselves equally as hardy. In proof of this, we would point to the Duchess 
of Oldenburgh, growing on the highlands of Oneida and Lewis Counties, and in 
Northern New Hampshire and Maine. Tlie following list we rate as hardy as Duchess 
of Oldenburgh, and consider the fruit of many of them of better quality than the Bald- 
win. Against each variety we give the season of ripening at the North. 
Yellow Transparent July and Aug. 
Tetofsky August . 
Duchess of Oldenburgh.'. .September. 
Red Bietigheimer Sept. to Oct. 
Peach Oct. to Nov. 
Clark's Orange Nov. to Feb. 
Plumb's Cider Nov. to Feb. 
Wealthy .Nov. to Feb. 
Bethel Dec. to Feb. 
Haas Dec. to Mar. 
Mcintosh Red Nov. to April. 
Wolf River .Tan. to Feb. 
Milding Jan. to Feb. 
Pewaukee Jan. to April. 
Walbridge March to June. 
SPECIAL LIST No. 2. 
Hardy Apples. — The following list of varieties we rate as hardy, in comparisoq 
with the Baldwin. They will grow in sections like that along the St. Lawrence river 
and Central 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. 
.Last of July. 
Tetofsky 
Duchess of Oldenburgh. . 
.September. 
Alexander . . 
. . Sept. to Oct. 
.Sept. to Oct. 
..Oct. to Dec. 
Bethel December to February- 
Plumb's Cider Early Winter. 
Golden Russet Late Winter & Spring. 
Grimes' Golden. . ..Winter. 
Haas Winter. 
Clark's Orange. . • • Winter. 
Northern Spy Late Winter. 
Pewaukee Late Winter. 
Talman Sweet. . ••. .Late Winter. 
Yellow Belleflower. Winter. 
Mcintosh Red Winter. 
Mann Late Winter. 
Sutton Beauty Winter. 
