In ascertaining the habits of growth of various trees of the several popular varieties of apples that are largely cultivating in the neighborhood of Cincinnati, we have taken our own experience as a starting point, and then added to this such additional information as we have been able to obtain from other members of this Society. The result of our labors is the following classification: - Of an Upright Conical Growth - Benom, Early Strawberry, Golden Russet, Early Sweet Bough, Lady Apple, Prior's Red, Northern Spy, Talman's Sweeting. Upright Growth, but with a Round Head - Red Astrachan, White Pippin, Alexander Kaighn's Spitzenberg, Michael Henry Pipping Drop D'or Bohanan, Belmont, Rawle's Janette, Fall Wine, Rambo, Rome Beauty, Summer Rose, High Top Sweet, Myer's Nonpariel, Fall Pippin and Porter. Spreading Dimbsy and Round Head - Smith's Cider, Maiden Blush, Baldwin, Roxbury Russet, Newton Pippin, Tulehocken, Winesap, Broadwell's Sweet, Gravenstein, Jersey Sweeting, Hubbardstown Nonsuch, Belmont Vandevere. Drooping, Pendant Form: Head Symmetrical - Yellow Bellefluer, Pennock, Rhode Island Greening, Newark Pippin, and Fall Pippin. Pendant Drooping Form: Head Loose or Straggling and Open - Ortley, White Winter, Pearmain, and Newton Spitzenberg. Of the above, we would particularly refer to Smith's Cider, Yellow Bellefluer, White Pippin, Rome Beauty, and Rawle's Janette, as trees of a marked vigorous growth and healthy, hearty habit.

The Benoni, Winesap and Summer Rose are of only moderate growth, but appear perfectly hardy. The Early Sweet Bough, Newton Pippin, and Ortley, (or White Bellefluer, ) appear to possess a less vigorous and somewhat unhealthy constitution. - Selected by a Committee of the Cincinnati Agricultural Society.