SUMMER APPLES 
Yellow Transparent--Mcdium, pale yellow, tender, juicy, sub- 
acid. Hears very young, often the third or fourth year. 
Early Harvest — Large, pale yellow, fine flavor. Good bearer. 
Red Astrachan— Large, crimson, rather acid, juicy, fine for 
cooking. Tree hardy, free grower and good bearer. Highly 
esteemed for its fine appearance, earliness and hardiness. 
Sweet Bomrh— Large, pale yellow, sweet, juicy. An abundant 
bearer. 
Golden Sweet — A yellow apple, very sweet, juicy. An abun- 
dant bearer. 
Gravenstein— Large in size, striped' with red. One of the 
best in quality of any of the summer apples and is considered 
in New England a valuable market variety, particularly abo^it 
Boston. 
Duchess of Oldenburg— Large, streaked with red and yellow, 
juicy, sub-acid. Tree a vigorous grower and a youn^ and 
abundant bearer. 
Williams' Early Red— Medium size, dark red, sometim'-s yellow- 
splashed : flesh crisp, tender, juicy, and sub-acid. Ready for 
market when people are growing hungry for new Apples in 
August. Especially popular in New England, and in the Boston 
markets ; it brings a good price. 
AUTUMN APPLES 
Alexander — A Russian Apple of very large size, with beauti- 
fully striped or stained red skin and white, crisp flesh, tender, 
juicy and sub-acid. Tree is large and vigorous, bearing heavy 
crops. 
Fameuse or Snow— Medium size, deep crimson, flesh snowy 
white, tender, high-fiavored. Very hardy, productive and 
popular. 
Fall Pippin Tiarge. yellow skin, flesh tender and of splendid 
quality- -every home should have a tree of this variety — but is 
not considered as valuable commercially as it formerly was. 
Hubbardston Nonsuch- Large, striped yellow and red. Good 
grower and bearer. 
Maiden's Blush— Of uniformly large size, smooth, round, 
beautifully flushed with red on creamy yellow ground ; flesh 
tender, of pleasant but not hi^h flavor. 
Mcintosh Red —Large, dark red. of Fameuse type. A hand- 
some apple of fine (luality. Tree vigorous and hardy. 
Opalescent -Color light, shading to very dark crimson with 
many yellow dot i ; skin smooth, susceptible of a very high pol- 
ish. It is not inly a beauty but is right as to size, quality 
and productiven ^ss — a combination rarely found in a single 
variety. 
Pound Sweet— Large, yellow, sweet and rich; valuable. 
Rambo- Mediun to large in size, greenish yellow, mottled and 
striped with red ; season fall or early winter. 
Wealthy An American apple that is becoming very popular 
on account of iis handsome appearance and early fruiting. 
Hardy and productive. Fruit large size, roundish, skin smooth, 
splashed with dark red ; flesh white, tender. 
Wolf River — ^Large, handsome red : flesh white and fine qual- 
ity, sub-acid. Tre? very hardy and productive. 
WINTER APPLES 
Baldwin— Too well known and popular to need description, 
Bellflower -Largo, yellow, with pale blush, very tender and 
juicy. November to April. 
Ben Davis -Fruit medium to large ; skin striped and almost 
covered with red. 
Delicious— No new variety has ever so quickly gained popu- 
larity in so many different apple sections of our country. Fruit 
large, nearly covered with brilliant dark red, flesh fine grained, 
crisp and melting, juicy with a delightful aroma; of very high- 
est quality. A splendid keeper and shipper. Tree one of the 
hardiest. 
Fallawater — Very large, handsome, yellow with red cheek, 
miM, sub-acid. Tre* a strong grower and an abundant bearer 
at an early age. 
Gano— Very hardy. A half-brother to Ben Davis, though of 
"better (luality. Very richly colored, uniform in size ; keeps 
until March. 
Golden Russot-~Medium dull russet, juicy and high flavored. 
Hardy and good bearer. 
Grimes' Golden— An apple of the highest quality, medium to 
large size. Rich golden yellow. 
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