How to use This Apple Ripening Chart 
This ‘Apple Ripening Chart” is a handy 
guide to help you to select the best varieties of 
certain ripening seasons, which you should plant, 
and to impress upon you the importance and the 
desirability of having some apples ripening all the 
time, from the earliest to the latest. 
CAUTION: Remember that this ‘Apple 
Ripening Chart’’ does not give correct propor- 
tionate size or accurate shape, color and detail. 
It is simply a visual order of ripening list to 
enable you to easily pick out a number of early 
apples following each other, a number of Summer 
apples following each other, and a number of Fall 
apples following each other. Also America’s best 
Winter apples are listed in the order in which 
they ripen, and should be picked. All the Winter 
apples are good keepers—they will usually keep 
until end of Winter. The Late Keepers are 
6. ***Lodi Early Golden 
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even better keeping sorts, apples that will usually 
keep all through the Winter and through the 
early Spring, almost until new apples come. 
If you already have trees planted, this Chart 
will enable you quickly to select varieties ripen- 
ing before or after the varieties you a 
growing, 
lready have 
Ripening Order of Other Fruits 
The selection of other fruit trees for contin- 
uous, successive, ripening from early to late is 
especially important in your selection of peaches 
(see Page 32 
other fruits. Ripening 
fruits is given on the pages which describe them 
See Index page 3. For better crops plant several 
varieties for cross pollination. 
), also plums, cherries, pears, and 
information for other 
Arranged In Order of Their Ripening Seasons 
5. **June Wealthy 
7. *Sweet Bough 8. *Early McIntosh 

. **Stark Jon-Grimes 17. **Stark Florence Crab 
*Giant RamboImperial 18. **Virginia Crab 
19. **Stark Gold Crab 
20. *Dolgo Crab 

26. 
26b. 

***JONARED 
26a. *** YOUNG-BEAR- 
ING JONATHAN 
Jonathan 

27. ***Stark King David 28. 

*Baldwin, Double 29. *Cortland 
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28a. **Northern Spy, 
Double-Red 
35. ***Scarlet Staymared 36. **Black Ben 37. **Turley Winesap 38. **Winesap, Virginia 
35a. ***Dark-Red Staymared 37a. *Paragon Winesap Strain 
35b. Stayman Winesap 37b. *Mam. Black Twig 38a. Winesap 
16. STARK JON-GRIMES. New. Sure bearer. Large, 1. EARLY RED BIRD. Earliest of all apples. (Except Stark 
high quality late summer apple. 
Regular and heavy bearer 
Excellent for eating and cooking. See Page 25. 2. 
26a. YOUNG-BEARING JONATHAN. New, quick-bear- Re 
ing strain that bears younger. See Page 21. 6. 
23. GRIMES GOLDEN, Double-Life, Hardy Tree. Allur- 
ing Spicy Sweet Flavor. See Page 26. 
27. STARK KING DAVID. Very young 
bearer. Spicy 
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flavor. Heavy, regular bearer. See Page 27. ie 
31. 
Rome. 
32. YORK-A-RED. Solid Red 
Heavy Bearer. Young Bearer. See Page 28. 
ROME BEAUTY, Double-Red. Improved Solid Red 
fine baker. See Page 19. 
Good quality, 
Improvement of York. 
Earliest.) Fine Cooker. Money 
Larger, Better. 
10. WILSON RED JUNE. Enormous Size for Early Apple, 
$5 a bushel. Hardy. See Page 24. 
- SUMMER CHAMPION. Larvest, Most Beautiful, Best 
Quality Summer Apple. See Page 24. 
15. WEALTHY, Double-Red. Best Fall Apple. Extra 
Hardy. Bears Young. See Page 25. 
Maker. See Page 22 
HENRY CLAY. Earliest Yellow Apple. Large. Hardy. 
gular Bearer. See Page 22. 
LODI, EARLY GOLDEN. Improved Yellow Trans. 
3ore at 2 yrs. See Page 23. 


and Apple Inde: 
Numbers to the left of name—1, 2, 3, etc. 
—show the numerical order in which the dif- 
ferent varieties ripen—from the earliest No. 
1, to the latest, No. 38. 
The Catalog page numbers to the right 
of Variety names in Index show where to 
find complete oe scriptions and 
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8 *Early McIntosh on 2. 
SUMMER 
9: **Double-Red Duchess...... 24 
9a. Duchess (Oldenburg) 
10. Ee Wilson) Red) June ses sae 24 
11> ***Summer Champion....... 24 
12. **Jefferis Red, ‘‘Ever- 
bearing) ee acs 24 
FALL 
13. eWViaiienvs lis hier 25 
14. **Gravenstein, Crimson....25 
l4a. Gravenstein 
15. ***Wealthy, Double Red...... 25 
15a. Wealthy 
16. **Stark Jon-Grimes......... 25 
l6a. Rambo Giant Imperial... .25 
7s **Stark Florence Crab..... 24 
18. ob Web patabey (Green osogoqaeeo- 24 
19. a? Stark GolduCGra bees 24 
20. ZDolvolGrabn see ieee 24 
WINTER 
Zils ve VMelntoshiRed sia ante 26 
Zia. *Fameuse (Snow)........- 
7a *Northwest Greening.......27 
22a. Rhode Island Greening 26 
235 **Grimes Golden, Double- 

Life, hardy tree 26 
24. **Banana, New Red Cheek.. . 26 
24a. Banana, Winter 
20 DO tarkhed Golden seat 16-17 
26. DONARED Ieee 20-21 
26a. ***YOUNG-BEARING 
JONATHAN ress eee 21 
26b. Jonathan 
De otarks win oe avid eer reer, 
28. *Baldwin, Double-Red... vedi 
28a. **Northern Spy, Dbl. Red 27 

29. ‘Cortland eae ioe 28 
LATE WINTER 
30M > LARK INGeRe reece 12-16 
S0aq- ea otarice WeliciouSes1em care cen 29 
31. **Rome Beauty, 
Double-Redise a... eee 19 
3la. Rome Beauty 
32. EtV ork=A-ReEd garerstctateoretelet ae 28 
32a. York Imperial 
Dos *Giant Jeniton......... Se rds 
33a. *Red Willow Twig.......... 28 
33b. Willow Twig 
34, ***STARK GOLDEN 
DELICIOUS ist 6-11 
35. ***SCARLET STAY- 
MARED.. 18-19 
35a. ***DARK RED STAYMARED |. 19 
35b. **Stayman Winesap. 

36. Black Ben ae 29 
wile Turley Wi in esap, 29 
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