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season August; St. Lawrence, Fall Stripe and Summer Pen- 
nock—September; Fall Orange, Fall Wine, Bailey Sweet and 
Perry Russet—October; Blue Pearmain, Willow, Utter’s Red 
and Tallman Sweet—November; Westfield Seek-no-further 
Northern Spy, Ben Davis, Yellow Bellflower and Sweet Win¬ 
ter Wine—December; Rawle’s Jennet, Romanite, Winter Wine 
Sap, Green Everlasting and Walbridge—January. 
Half Hardy .—Carolina Red June, Early Harvest and Sum¬ 
mer Rose, season, July; Golden Sweet, Sweet Bough, Sum¬ 
mer Queen and Jersey Sweet, August; Hawley, Lowell, Fall 
Strawberry, Porter and Maiden Blush, September; Cayuga 
Red Streak, Fall Greening, Colvert, Gravenstein and Twenty- 
Ounce Pippin, October; Rambo, Milam, Newtown Spitzen- 
burg, Dominie, Rome Beauty and Pryor’s Red, November; 
Baltimore, Bethlemite, Jonathan, Red Winter, Pennock and 
Wagner, December; Green Newtown Pippin, Black Gillflower 
and Grimes’ Golden Pippin, January. 
Nearly all apples ripening in January will, with proper care, 
keep until June, and those ripening in December will keep 
into February and March. 
If varieties in the hardy list are desired, they should be 
double-worked on iron clad varieties; in this way they will 
become a No. 1 stock, which will stand all the freezing in this 
latitude. The varieties in the half hardy list will do well 
where top worked on iron-clad and hardy trees. 
In favorable locations, some of the old, eastern favorites, 
hitherto regarded as too tender for our climate, will do well if 
top worked on our iron clads. Of these I will mention the 
following: Baldwin, Esopus Spitzenburg, Rhode Island 
Greening, Roxbury Russet, King of Tompkins County and 
Ortly. 
Selecting Trees. —Great pains should be taken in selecting 
the trees, as success in a great degree depends upon getting those 
of the first quality. For this reason we would advise those 
wishing to buy trees, to go to the nearest nursery, or to send to 
a reliable dealer who raises his own stock and is located in a 
