This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...here. Hawley is very large, beautiful and excellent, but the fruit deteriorates quickly after ripening. Jefferis is beautiful and excellent. No family orchard or village or city fruit garden should be without it. Jersey Sweet is the prince among baking sweet apples, for early September. Jonathan deserves far more ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...here. Hawley is very large, beautiful and excellent, but the fruit deteriorates quickly after ripening. Jefferis is beautiful and excellent. No family orchard or village or city fruit garden should be without it. Jersey Sweet is the prince among baking sweet apples, for early September. Jonathan deserves far more attention than it has received thus far, in Michigan, as an excellent winter apple, for both the home plantation and the market. It is popular throughout the west. Louise, a Canadian seedling, named for Princess Louise, of England. In Yankee land it loses its aristocratic prefix. It is a beautiful and promising fruit. Lowell is large, productive and profitable. McLellan is an excellent and very beautiful fruit, and the tree vigorous and productive. Minkler is old, an early bearer and productive. It is a western variety. North Star and Quaker are crabs, originating at the Northwest and claimed to be hardy enough for the extreme north. Both are culinary varieties. Ontario is a seedling by the late Charles Arnold, of Ontario, and is already quite popular in that province. Ramsdell Sweet (English Sweet) is among the very best dessert and culinary sweet apples for late autumn and early winter. Red Canada, so long erroneously known throughout Michigan as Steele's Red Winter, is, more recently, losing its former popularity, on account of its feeble habit of growth, as well as increased liability to the attacks of fungi. Red Russet, though usually more or less russeted, is much like Baldwin in both tree and fruit, though of superior flavor, and perhaps less productive. Rhode Island is the old well known Greening. There are now so many Greenings that the word is no longer distinctive, and is omitted from this in the interest of brevity. Roxbury, though an e...
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