The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-09-12
VARIETIES OF APPLES TO PLANT.

A correspondent of the SOUTHERN
PLANTER AND FARMER, j. f. w., of
Appomattox county, Va, recommends
the following varieties for his section:
For 100 trees, beginning with earliest
and closing with the best keepers, ripen-
ing in succession, he names-Summer
. June, 3 early Harvest, 3 Lippincott
(Summer Rose), 3 Bough (sweet), 4
keswick Goblin. Fall and early Win
ter-2 Gravenstein, 4 Fall Pippin, 2
Smoke House, 2 Domino, Rome Beau
ty, 2 Paradise Winter Sweet. Winter
-6 Cannon Pearmain, 8 Timber Twig,
Rawles Janet, so Wine Sap.
For 200 trees, be would double the
above numbers.
For 800, IL Cannon Pearmain, l6
Timber Twig, IL Rawles Janet, 200
Wine Sap.
The June Apple is only desirable as
the earliest, as the flavor is poor. The
earl y Harvest is the best early apple,
following the June. The Lippincott
follows the last, better and much more
beautiful fruit. The Keswick Goblin is
the next, which for early and regular
bearing (every Year,, prolonged almost
two months till LIST of October or later
for eating or cooking, l consider it
superior to any Summer apple known
to me-in fact, to all combined The
flavor may not suit some, though l
think it equal in that respect to any
named, and it may be little too acid
for some palates. The Bough (sweet)
ripens a little after the early Harvest
and just before the Lippincott The
Gravenstein is next. The Fall Pippin
and Smoke-House are in season about
the same time-the former, with which
| am better acquainted, | think the bet
ter These are followed by the Domino
"a prodigious bearer (every year)--a
large and choice apple, going into late
Fall or early Winter The Rome
Beauty-the great apple of the Kama
wha Valley and of the Cincinnati mar
ket-a very beautifully growing and
early bearing tree, and the fruit of ex-
cellent taste and large-succeeds, and
with it perhaps little earlier, the
Paradise Winter Sweet-the character
indicated by the name The Winter l
will not name in the exact order of
maturity. The Cannon Pearmain is an
excellent apple and good keeper, and its
reputation here good; but l have not
found the variety equal to its character,
as the tree does not seem to be very
healthy or early, or abundant in bear
ing, though erect and handsome. The
Timber Twig, though not BEST, eats
well, and it should be cultivated for it's
good keeping qualities. Rawles Janet
| think well suited to our section, and
is of good reputation. But the Wine
Sap is the paragon of apples, far sur
passing all and every kind of it's season,
and but for its color, we might regard
it as of the golden apples which grew
in the Garden of the Hesperides. The
tree bears very early and is of the most
healthy of all fruit trees, and the fruit
is not equalled in all the characteristics
of the BEST apple. The Keswick Cod
lin and the Wine sap, my experience
teaches me, surpass all other varieties
combined, with which am acquainted.
In fact, these two would make super
ior orchard, if you will wait a little in
Summer and in late Fall. If any per-
son shall need Fall and early Winter
apples in greater variety, let him plant
few Rambo, Esopus, Spitzenburg, and
Fallawater-all most excellent, and
ripening in the order named