carrying off of potash in the fruit crop is very heavy, much heavier than 
in the case of grain fields. There is no better application that can be 
made to an orchard than hardwood ashes. Raw-bone meal is also an ex¬ 
cellent dressing for the orchard, and the best application probably that 
can be used as an annual dressing is 400 pounds per acre of equal parts 
of bone meal and kainit. 
WHAT VARIETIES OF APPLES SHALL WE PLANT? 
This is about the first question a man is apt to ask when about to 
plant an orchard, and is about the hardest one to answer for all localities. 
If the orchard is designed fot family use, then one will want a greater 
variety than if it is intended for growing apples for market. Apples like 
the red Limbertwig are certain bearers and heavy bearers, but people do 
not want them when they can get better apples. True, the market will 
take a very inferior apple, like the Ben Davis, when it is handsome and 
a good keeper, and Ben Davis being both, has come to be grown more 
largely than most other apples. 
The following list comprises only those that have been found adapted 
to our section: 
SUMMER APPLES. 
Carolina Red June.—A bright red and handsome apple, and salable 
as a market fruit. 
Early Harvest.—Larger than the last, and bright yellow in color. One 
of the best. 
Hames.—A large and fine looking Georgia apple, ripening among the 
earliest. 
Red Astrakan.—Large, deep red, and one of the most salable early 
apples. 
May Yellow.—The earliest apple grown. Small in size and yellow 
in color. 
Hunge.—One of the finest late summer or early autumn apples. 
Horse.—One of the most popular late summer apples in all parts 
o f the State. 
Yellow Transparent.—This yellow apple promises to be the leading 
early apple. It is of good size and quality, and is one of the earliest 
bearers. The trees being naturally of small size makes it valuable for 
small home grounds. 
Summer Pearmain.—One of the finest quality of apples of its season. 
Ripe in August and very good indeed. 
FALL APPLES. 
Bonum.—Known all over the State as Magnum Bonum, but the rules 
of the American Pomological Society have , cut it shorter as to name. 
Mr. T. T. Lyons, a noted fruit-grower of Michigan, once said to the 
writer: “Your North Carolina Bonum apple is the best fall apple in 
the United States.” While we did not fully agree with him, we do con¬ 
sider the Bonum as one of the best fall apples, and one better suited to 
all parts of the State than any other apple. 
Buckingham.—A very large and showy apple, and of good quality 
ripening in September. 
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