This question has often been asked. We especially allude to the apple. Probably not one person in ten knows how nice it is when one's home is well supplied with choice fruits that will last not only through the summer, but also throughout nearly the whole year. There are, it is true, several drawbacks to fruit culture. Some of the nurserymen substitute so much. The label is right, but the fruit turns out different. Oftentimes you set a small and worthless yellow apple where a red and first-class one was ordered or vice versa. Another drawback is that eight out of ten men are too indolent to attend the few trees that they do plant. I here give a list of apples for family and market use which I know from experience to be excellent.

Summer, Family

Early Harvest, Early Joe, Summer Rose, Primate, Fanny, Garden Royal, Golden Sweet.

Summer, Market

Red Astrachan, Yellow Transparent, Keswick Codlin, Williams' Favorite, Summer Pippin.

Fall, Family

Gravenstein, Porter, Chenango Strawberry, Fameuse, Jefferies, Fall Wine, Pomme Royal, Summer Rambo, Haskell Sweet, Fall Pippin, Red Beitigheimer.

Fall, Market

Maiden's. Blush, Duchess of Oldenburg, St. Lawrence, Twenty Ounce, Washington Strawberry, Lowell, Holland Pippin, Late Strawberry, Jersey Sweet, Stump Hurlbut.

Winter, Family

Mother, Melon, Wagner, Belmont, Monmouth Pippin, King of Tompkins County, Peck's Pleasant, Jonathan, Smokehouse, Hubbardston Nonsuch, Golden Russet, Grimes' Golden, Newtown Pippin, York Imperial, Esopus Spitzenburg, Ladies' Sweet.

Winter, Market

Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening, Roxbury Russett, Smith's Cider, Ben Davis, Yellow Bell-flower, Domine, Wealthy, Coopers Market, Talman Sweet

P. D. Keiser, Carbon Co., Pa.