This is generally known as "Golden Sweeting" in Central New York. It is more of a greenish yellow than golden yellow. It is so old that it is attributed to the old Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. Its exact history I have never learned. It is also called "Summer Sweet" and other names. It is a roundish apple, a little shorter from stem. to calyx than in horizontal diameter. Slender, longish stem, has sparsely scattered white specks, and often a few minute black specks on its sides. It is very sweet, tender, and a constant bearer; tastes better than the Sweet Bough and cooks better. It is popular where known, but I have never seen it largely for sale in city and other markets, and it is unknown to many people.

Rostiezer Pear - In shape it resembles the Summer Bell, a pear which sells well in city markets, because so prolific and so cheap, yet the Rostiezer is in every way a better pear. It is an early autumn pear in the northern states, with long stem and a dark greenish, yellow color, except when reddened on their cheeks by the sun; said to have been originated on the river Rhine, in Germany. It is easily known, as it is so near pear-shaped as the common Bell Pear, and ripens but a few days after that pear.

Summer St. Germain. - This is another delicious summer pear when grown on dry, loose soil. On hard clay and in damp situations it is apt to be too juicy and second rate in flavor. Summer pears need clean, moderately rich soil, annually manured at the roots of the trees; a quick airy soil with warm exposure. Thus cultivated, no summer pear can please us much beyond the St. Germain. Like the Bloodgood and Rostiezer, it is medium in size, as are most summer pears; it is juicy, tender and with just flavor enough to suit every one when well ripened. It is obovate, or like Sheldon in shape; light green, stem an inch or a little over long.

There are a few fruits that have pleased me this season so far. As to apples, the Early Strawberry and the Red Astrican are becoming our early market apples, to the exclusion of the Yellow June-eating or Golden Tart Harvest, and the Sweet Bough. Why a yellow apple was the favorite a few years ago, and the red is now in preference, is not so easily explained. Yet for health in its of eating and pleasure as a baked apple, I know no apple so good as the Golden Summer Sweet I have just spoken of. Let us at least be wise enough to know that there are other good pears besides the popular rage for Bartletts and Seckles. Said an extensive dealer to me the other day, "I sell ten to one of these two, Bartletts and Seckles." You must educate especially young married housekeepers to the value of other kinds. So I have said a word to the wise.