The following is his selection: "Cuthbert, Turner,
and Marlboro." The Hon. Marshall P. Wilder's choice: "Brinckle's
Orange, Franconia, Cuthbert, Herstine, Shaffer." The Hon. Norman
J. Colman, Commissioner of Agriculture: "Turner, Marlboro,
Cuthbert." P. J. Berckmans, of Georgia: "Cuthbert, Hansel, Lost
Rubies, Imperial Red." A. S. Fuller: "Turner, Cuthbert, Hansel."
In analyzing this list we find three distinctly foreign kinds
named: the Orange, Franconia, and Herstine. If the last is not
wholly of foreign origin, the element of our native species enters
into it so slightly that it will not endure winters in our
latitude, or the summer sun of the South. For excellence, however,
it is unsurpassed.
In the Cuthbert, Marlboro, and Lost Rubies we have hybrids of the
foreign and our native species, forming the second class referred
to; in the Turner and Hansel, examples of our native species
unmixed. To each of these classes might be added a score of other
varieties which have been more or less popular, but they would
serve only to distract the reader's attention. I have tested forty
or fifty kinds side by side at one time, only to be shown that
four or five varieties would answer all practical purposes. I can
assure the reader, however, that it will be scarcely possible to
find a soil or climate where some of these approved sorts will not
thrive abundantly and at slight outlay.
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