OF FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES, &c. 
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APRICOTS. 
A delicious fruit of the plum species, valuable for its earliness, at is liable to be attacked by curculio, 
and requires the same treatment as the pkira » k beats immense crops ; ripens in July and August. 
HABIT 
OF 
GROWTH 
NAME AND DESCRIPTION. 
SEASON . 
Free. 
Vig. 
Vig. 
Free. 
Vig. 
Vig. 
Vig. 
Vig. 
Free. 
Breda - Small, dull orange, manced with red • juicy, rich and vinous ; productive and 
hardy. 
Early Golden (Dubois)— Small, pale orange ; juicy and sweet ; hardy and produc- 
tive. 
Hemskirke— Large ; bright orange, with a red cheek ; juicy, rich and luscious ; large 
and remarkably handsome English variety, and one of the very best. 
Large Early— Medium ; orange, with a red cheek ; sweet, rich and juicy ; one of the 
best early sorts. 
Moorpark— One of the largest ; orange, with a red cheek : firm, juicy, with a rich fla- 
vor ; very productive. 
Peach— Very large ; orange, with a dark cheek ; juicy and high flavored ; similar to 
Moorpark. 
Roman— A remarkably hardy and prolific apricot, producing good crops where none 
others succeed ; flesh rather dry. 
Royal- Large ; yellow, with an orange cheek ; juicy, rich and delicious ; a very fine 
variety, and well deserving a place in collections. 
Russian Apricot (Prunus Siberica)— Described as the hardiest of all the apricots, 
having stood 30 0 below zero without injury, while the Moorpark and Breda were 
frozen to the ground. Remarkably frce'from diseases, worms and insects. In 
Kansas and Nebraska, where they have been planted quite largely by the Mcn- 
nonites, it is said not an unhealthy tree can be found. Fruit medium size and of 
the best quality. 
St. Ambrosia— A new variety; large, oblong; very sugary and rich ; a vigorous 
J grower and very productive. 
First of 
Aug. 
First of 
July. 
End of 
July. 
Middle 
of July. 
August. 
August 
End of 
July. 
End of 
July. 
Middle 
ol Aug. 
QUINCES. 
The Quince is attracting a great deal of attention as a market fruit. Scarcely any fruit will pay better 
in tnc orchard. The tree is hardy and compact in growth, requires but little space, productive, gives 
regular crops, and comes early into bearing. The fruit is much sought after for canning for winter use. 
When put up in the proportion of about one quart of quinces to four of other fruit, it imparts to them a 
most delicious flavor. 
It flourishes in any good garden soil, which should be kept mellow and wen enriched. Prune off all 
the dead and surplus branches, and thin out the fruit if bearing too freely. 
HABIT 
OF 
GROWTH 
NAME AND DESCRIPTION. 
SEASON. 
Free. 
Apple or Orange Large, roundish ; bright golden yellow ; cooks tender and is ol 
very excellent flavor. Valuable for preserves or flavoring ; very productive ; the 
most popular and extensively cultivated variety. 
Oct. 
Vig. 
Angers— Somewhat later than the preceding ; fruit rather more acid, but cooka well ; 
an abundant bearer. 
Oct. 
Vig. 
Champion— A new variety originated in Connecticut. The tree is a prolific and con- 
stant bearer ; fruit averaging larger than the Orange, more oval in shape, quainy 
equally fine, and a longer keeper. 
Oct. <S 
Nov. 
Free. 
Rea’s Mammoth— A seedling of the Orange Quince ; one-third larger; of the same 
form and color ; fair, handsome, equally as good ad productive. 
Oct- 
