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fancy. For the latitude of southern Pennsylvania (fortieth 
parallel) Early Ripe, Oldenburg, Williams (Williams Red 
or Williams Favorite), Primate, Summer Rambo, Smokehouse, 
Hubbardston (Hubbardston’s Nonesuch), Stayman (Stayman’s 
Winesap), York (York Imperial), and Rome (Rome Beauty) 
are recommended. 
Grimes (Grimes’ Golden) is in season with Smokehouse, 
but is short lived unless worked upon a healthier stock. Jona- 
than is a fine late autumn and early winter variety, but needs 
a warm soil. It may be planted instead of Hubbardston, if 
preferred. York and Rome are better keepers than Stayman 
but are valued chiefly for culinary purposes. For the latitude 
of New England select from Yellow Transparent, Red Astra- 
chan, Oldenburg, Primate, Wealthy, Twenty Ounce, Hubbard- 
ston, Rhode Island Greening, Northern Spy, and Baldwin. 
Tompkins King and Esopus (Spitzenburg) are varieties of 
high quality, but are unhealthy, exacting in their requirements, 
and not reliably productive, except under favorable conditions. 
There are of course other varieties that in suitable localities 
would be a desirable addition to any home orchard where quality 
is especially emphasized. 
Transcendent and Hyslop are both good varieties of Crab- 
apple. Black Tartarian, Windsor, and Dikeman are suitable 
early, mid-season, and late varieties of Sweet Cherry. Napoleon, 
often erroneously called Oxheart, is a good substitute for Wind- 
sor with which it is in season. Schmidt and Lambert are other 
good midseason varieties. Black Tartarian is an active pollina- 
tor and some of the other varieties are often self sterile. 
Row No. 5 which is thirty feet from row No. 4 has seven 
Pear and six Sour Cherry trees planted twenty feet apart. The 
blight makes the growing of Pears risky in some places. Those 
given in the list are, on the average, somewhat less susceptible to 
that disease than the general run of varieties. Tyson, Bartlett, 
Flemish Beauty, Howell, Seckel, Angouleme (Duchess), and 
Kieffer cover the season from August to late November. 
Suitable Sour Cherries are Dyehouse, Early Richmond (two 
trees), Montmorency (two trees), and English Morello. 
Row No. 6 contains thirteen Peach trees set twenty feet apart. 
The following varieties are satisfactory and succeed over a wide 
range of territory, Greensboro, Carman, Hiley, Belle of Georgia 
(two trees), Champion (two trees), Elberta (two trees), Fox, 
Smock, Krummel (two trees). Many varieties of high quality 
that have been omitted in this list may be substituted for some 
of those named; but too often such varieties lack in health, vigor, 
hardiness, or productiveness. 
Row No. 7 is fifteen feet distant from row No. 6 and consists 
of twenty-one Grape-vines planted eight feet apart and trained 
upon a wire trellis, and five Quince bushes planted twenty feet 
apart. The following varieties of Grapes cover the season well: 
Winchell (Green Mountain), white; Moore Early, black; Brigh- 
ton, red; Worden, black, (two vines) Delaware, red (three 
vines); Eclipse, black; Concord, black (four vines); Niagara, 
white (two vines); Caco, dark red; Pocklington, white; Salem, 
red; Catawba, red (three vines). Plant two bushes of Orange 
Quince and three of Champion. 
Row No. 8, fifteen feet from row No. 7 and eleven feet from 
the south boundary of the fruit garden, contains six Plum trees. 
Half of the space east of it is occupied by two Strawberry rows 
one hundred and thirty feet long. Beside them is a strip of land 
planted to cover crops, which will be plowed and planted to a 
cultivated crop, a year before a new Strawberry bed is needed, 
to put it in good condition. 
The European and Japanese Plums are usually preferred to 
our native varieties wherever they can be made to thrive. Any 
of the following list would be fairly safe to plant over most of 
the North, from the Great Lakes eastward: Red June (Japanese) 
Burbank (Japanese), Lombard (European), Bavay (European), 
Fillenburg or Italian Prune (European), and October (Japan- 
ese). There are also many varieties of high quality, such as 
Imperial Gage, desirable where they succeed well. Part of row 
No. 6 may be devoted to Plums and the list of varieties in- 
creased. 
It is hardly safe to give a list of Strawberries, as climatic and 
soil conditions play so big a part in the success of different 
varieties. The following are tentatively suggested. Progres- 
sive, perhaps the best everbearing variety, yields an autumn 
crop the year of planting and another crop early the next 
regular season, superior in quality to most very early kinds us- 
ually recommended. Senator Dunlap, Marshall, William Belt, 
and Gandy are all staminate. If the Strawberries are 
grown by the spaced row system, and the plants placed as they 
develop, strong plants set in early spring can, if placed two or in 
some cases even three feet apart, readily fill their portion of the 
row with runners in an average season. 
Spring planting is preferable to autumn setting in the colder 
parts of the North, though in much of it autumn planting is for 
most of the fruits mentioned fully as satisfactory. It is desirable 
to have orders placed well in advance of actual planting time, 
however, and to heel in any stock that may be delivered 
very early. 
THROUGH WINTER’S WINDOW 
L. M. BUSSEY 
When, by pale morning light the garden Then Sons of Ceres fain would gaze 
Looms through winter’s window Through frosty pane, and mark the forms 
And frost incrusted skeletons of trees and shrubs That link the Harvest with the Spring. 
Seem lifeless as they deck the snow, They foster memories of planting days 
The Spirit of the Garden still broods tnere And fancies that anticipate the call 
In Nature’s withered forms. To sally forth a partner with the Sun. 
In spite of Winter’s heritage, 
The roots that hibernate out there beneath the snow, 
The folded buds of favorite fruits and flowers 
Are eloquent with sentiment to those 
Whose hands conspire with Nature’s handiwork 
And fashion it to serve the needs of Man. 
