JOS.H BLACK.,SON 6 CO. 
HIGHTSTOWN.N. J. 
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Descriptions of the host varieties. 
List of varieties is arranged in order of ripening. 
Red Bird.-The earliest of all red apples,medium size,very attractive 
and fair quality,a good market variety. 
Yellow Transparent.-A very early yellow apple that must be thinned 
to get size. Every home garden should have one or two. 
Starr•-Early,profitable as a market apple,is large to very large, 
a splendid cooking apple. Is a good keeper and shipper, color 
greenish yellow. Ripens over a 
long season, 
in July, 
splendid quality and 
Early McIntosh.-A McIntosh that ripens^ 
very attractive with the lie intosh flavor. 
Summer Yellow Delicious. —Mas the appearance and quali oy oi j.ello\/ 
Delicious, ripens in the summer. 
English Codling.-A very large green apple that the pie makers are us¬ 
ing almost exclusively during the two weeks of its season. 
Red Codling.-(Monmouth Beauty).-Ripens just ahead of healthy, fruit 
large to very large; color is "beautiful, red stripings and 
splashings over a yellow ground. _ - 
Twenty Ounce.-It is sold as a pie apple j us o as soon as it reaches 
a good size as its quality for cooking is Letter than later 
v/hen it "becomes a red apple and less juicy. 
Y/eal thy. - Rail, almost entirely covered with red, skin v«ry smooth, 
flesh v/hite , large ,f ine quality for any purpose, iree upright 
and is an early and heavy "bearer on all soils out gi'ves fineoo 
color on lighter soils. . 
McIntosh.-This great favorite in the market is a fall apple, lts^color 
is purplish red overlaying the yellow green ground. Quality ^he 
.very highest, size medium to quite large. 
Cortland.-A McIntosh seedling that is more attractive in color, larg¬ 
er and less liaole to spray injury, we like it. 
Reddest Delicious.-The original Delicious has been dropped because 
this is so much better.Solid red all over,conical,a very popular 
dessert apple. Flavor,quality and color superior to Deliciouo, 
Macoun.-A true McIntosh type of deep red coloring ripening later. 
They are as largo as McIntosh and on heavy clay loam, had splen¬ 
did coloring .and showed no russetting, oe tter keeper tnan Me In co oil. 
Baldwin. -This apple in Jersey is usually classed as a fall apple.it 
bears young, if properly thinned will bear a fine crop oi very 
large apples, red all over and good quality. 
Yellow Delicious,-A high quality apple that bears well every year and 
commands a good price in the market. It is superior m quality to 
Delicious and does well everywhere. It o^ars every year. 
Rome Beauty. -As an early winter apple ior Mew Jersey ehis has proven 
to be the most proiioaole. los 
fine appearance and size always 
attracts the buyer. Color is bright red over a beautiful yel¬ 
low ground,large to very large size;quality good both for cook¬ 
ing and eating. Tree large, spreading, gets the best color on 
light or gravelly ground, ...... 
Red Rome (fkxes),-Red,all over ,large,good keeper, tree identical to 
Rome Beauty. Quality equal to and by some considered superior 
to Romo Beauty. Coxes Red Rome is, we think, a becoer variety 
than Rome Beauty for the orchard planted on heavy soil. ^ 
Staymans.- (3 toymans Y/inosap ). -It is the very best oi all winder 
apples for market, home use and quality. We na\c found turn to 
be our best profitable and reliable orchard varioey. 
, i to cj + -it bps nroven to be superior m c-ll-over color 
B a °in-’ onMYVy’soil. 'lt is much "better than the original strain m 
coloring onMll soils, in every other way it is absolutely the 
Tn-riev” 0 ! seedling of Staymans that is very red all-over. It is largo 
to’vory large land doei not crack, of high quality and does no o 
scald in Ltd storage. Vo believe that when it is better known 
it will supplant Staymans. heavy bearer every year, 
porop-on -It is more solid than Staymans,a brighter co-ox -nd k.cpo 
very Mato in the ordinary cellar, a heavy cropper. 
