American Pomology Part 97

Abram, Baltimore Pippin, Bowling Sweet, Brooke's Pippin, Carter, Garden, Gloucester White, Green Newtown Pippin, Hollady, Ladies' Favorite, Leather Coat, Limbertwig, Milam, Ogleby, Pryor's Red, Rawle's Janet, Red Cathead, Roberson's White, Russet (?), Spice (Va.), Strawn's Seedling, Summer Cheese, Summer Golden Pippin, Vandervere, Waugh's Crab, Winesap, Winter Cheese, Winter Queen.

Daniel K. Underwood, Michigan, gives the following extended catalogue:

SUMMER.

Early Harvest, Early Joe, Early Strawberry, Golden Sweet, Maiden's Blush, Red Astrachan, Sweet Bough, Sine-qua-non, Summer Queen, Summer Rose.

AUTUMN.

Alexander, Daniel, d.u.c.h.ess of Oldenburgh, Dyer, Fall Pippin, Fameuse, Gravenstein, Hawley, Jersey Sweet, Keswick Codling, Late Strawberry, Porter, Rambo, Cayuga Red Streak, Fall Wine.

WINTER.

Baldwin, Belmont, Black Detroit, Blue Pearmain, Bourra.s.sa, Cornish Gilliflower, Domine, English Russet, Esopus, Green Newtown, Golden Russet, Herefords.h.i.+re, Hubbardston, Jonathan, Ladies' Sweeting, Lady, Northern Spy, Peck's Pleasant, Red Canada, Rawle's Janet, Roxbury, Swaar, Stone, Twenty Ounce Pippin, Rhode Island Greening, Vandervere (Newtown Spitzenberg), Westfield, Yellow Bellflower.

J.D.G. Nelson, President of the Indiana State Society, an extensive orchardist at Fort Wayne, presented the following list as the result of long experience in Northern Indiana:

SUMMER.

Red Astrachan, less profitable.

Early Harvest, less profitable.

d.u.c.h.ess of Oldenburgh, more profitable.

Keswick Codling, more profitable.

Sweet Bough.

High-top Sweet, for profit.

FALL.

Maiden's Blush, Porter, Rambo, Trenton Early, Dyer, Lowell, Hawley, _Golden Sweet._

WINTER APPLES FOR EXTENSIVE CULTIVATION FOR MARKET.

DARK.--Ben Davis, 500 trees.

Smith's Cider, 300 trees.

Jersey Black, 200 trees.

LIGHT.--Belmont, need careful handling Wagener, need careful handling Yellow Bellflower, need careful handling

SWEET.--Bentley Sweet, keeps well.

London Sweet, keeps well.

Talman Sweet, keeps well.

AMATEUR LIST.

American Summer Pearmain, American Golden Russet, Evening Party, King of Tompkins County, Swaar, Newtown Pippin.

Dr. Cornett, of Versailles, Indiana, advised to plant

American Summer Pearmain, Bohanon, Carolina Red June, Cooper, Early Harvest, Fall Pippin, Fall Wine, Golden Russet (American?), Newtown Pippin, Pryor's Red, Rambo, Rawle's Janet, Winesap, Yellow Bellflower.

Messrs. Lawyer, of South Pa.s.s, Union County, Illinois, recommends of 1,000 trees for profit:

250 Ben Davis, 100 Early Harvest, 50 Nickajack, 50 Pryor's Red, 150 Rawle's Janet, 150 Red Astrachan, 50 Rome Beauty, 50 Smith's Cider, 50 White Pippin, 100 Winesap.

Parker Earle, President of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, an intelligent fruit cultivator in the Southern portion of that State (called Egypt), recommends the following list as being well adapted for profit:

Ben Davis, Buckingham, Carolina Red June, Early Harvest, Golden Sweet, Jonathan, Keswick Codling, Newtown Pippin, Rambo, Rawle's Janet, Red Astrachan, White Pippin, White Winter Pearmain, Winesap, Yellow Bellflower.

Wm. C. Hampton, Hardin County, Ohio, recommends for a select list of winter apples:

Broadwell, Hubbardston, Michael Henry, Ortley, Rome Beauty, Seedling Jersey Sweet, Yellow Bellflower, Yellow Newtown Pippin.

H.B. Spencer, of Rockport, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, recommends the following:

Baldwin, Baltimore, Belmont, Esopus Spitzenberg, Peck's Pleasant, Red Canada, Roxbury Russet.

Mr. G.W. Dean, of Welshfield, Geauga County, Ohio, gives the following list of ten:

Baldwin, Baltimore, Canada Red, Hubbardston, Ladies' Sweeting, Peck's Pleasant, Rambo, Rhode Island Greening, Swaar, Westfield Seek-no-further.

Recommended by M.B. Bateham, Secretary Ohio Pomological Society, for the Central and Southern portion of the State:

SUMMER.

American Summer Pearmain, Bough, Early Harvest, Early Pennock, Early Strawberry, Golden Sweeting, High-top Sweet, Keswick Codling, Red Astrachan, Summer Queen, Tetofski.

AUTUMN.

Cooper, Fall Pippin, Gravenstein, Jersey Sweet, Lowell, Maiden's Blush, Ohio Nonpareil, Orange Sweet, Rambo, Smokehouse.

WINTER.

Bullock's Pippin, Domine, Fallawater, London Sweet, Milam, Mount Pleasant Sweet, Newtown Spitzenberg, Pryor's Red, Rawle's Janet, Rome Beauty, Smith's Cider, Tallman, Western Spy, White Pippin, Willow, Winesap, Yellow Bellflower.

Select lists from H.N. Gillett for Southern Ohio, Western Virginia and Kentucky:

SUMMER VARIETIES.

Benoni, Early Harvest, Early Chandler, Primate, Pound Royal, Red Astrachan, Summer Rose, Summer Queen, Summer Seek-no-further, Sine-qua-non.

FALL VARIETIES.

Corse's Favorite, Cooper, Favorite, Fall Pippin, Fall Wine, Fallawater, Gravenstein, Maiden's Blush, King of Pippins, Porter.

WINTER VARIETIES.

Ben Davis, Black Coal, Broadwell, Buckingham [Autumn], Bullock's Pippin, Carolina Red [Nickajack?], Defiance, Harrison, Hewes' Crab, Lady, Pryor's Red, Rawle's Janet, Red Cedar, Rolen's Keeper, Rome Beauty, Roxbury Russet, Smith's Cider, Winesap, Yellow Bellflower.

By Henry Hefflebower, an extensive orchardist at Montclovia, Lucas County, Ohio: