A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune says : Last week I spent half a day in the Chicago apple market. The result was that, out of more than 2,000 of known named varieties, two varieties stood prominent, nearly monopolizing the market; the Baldwin and Rhode Island Greening, or Greening for short. Esopus, Spitzenberg, Northern Spy and Roxbury Russett, came next. Five varieties composed the list. An occasional barrel of Fellow Bellflower, Black Giliiflower, etc., composed the entire collection ; not twenty in all. I did not see an Illinois grown apple in the market, Michigan and New York supplying the market. In those States the crop was an unusually good one the past season, while west of the lakes the crop was of an inferior quality, and has been used to supply the local demand. The prairie orchards would have shown Jonathan, Winesap, Ben Davis and Willow Twig. If the great apple regions of New York and Michigan can afford to grow only fine varieties for market, we can certainly be content with what we have, until others shall have been tested. The man who plants the new varieties, as a general thing, must buy his apples.

It is this mania for new varieties that has done more to ruin Western orchards than all other obstacles put together.