190 State Horticultural Society. 



and does not hold up well in shipping, unless in iced cars ; But if yott 

 get it to market in good condition, you have an apple that will be in 

 demand, bring the highest price and will satisfy your customer. 



The Grimes Golden, however, I regard as a better apple for South 

 Missouri than the Jonathan. It can be gathered quite as early, and it 

 will hang a month later and bear equally as well. 



We have about two hundred Grimes Golden trees, set in the year 

 1892, not one of which has died from any cause, and they stood the 

 drouth of 1901 better than any apple in the orchard ; not one-tenth went 

 out as culls. The apples are clean, smooth and is the finest flavored 

 apple that is grown. I do not believe the market will ever be over- 

 stocked with Grimes Golden apples, and it will always command the 

 highest prices. I shipped a car load of apples in October to Minneapolis, 

 in which were a few Grimes Golden, and was informed by agent that if 

 they had all been Grimes Golden, they would have brought at least 

 one dollar more per barrel. 



The York Imperial seems to succeed well in South Missouri. It is 

 of a good size, good growing tree and healthy, the apples large and 

 of fine color and of excellent quality. We have not many York Impe- 

 rial trees, and there are not very many in this county, but every grower 

 who has them reports to me that they yield equal with Ben Davis, and 

 I consider it a profitable variety for South Missouri. 



The Gano is giving satisfaction here ; the color is equal to the 

 Jonathan, the flavor, I think, a little superior to Ben Davis, and the 

 indications are that it will be a good bearer, but I do not believe the tree 

 is quite as healthy as Ben Davis. 



I speak of Nixonite last, as it is an apple but little known, but 

 what few trees there are in this county have outclassed everything in 

 the way of bearing. The tree is longlived and a strong, vigorous grow- 

 er ; the apple larger than any in the list above named ; a bright yellow 

 collor, and the best keeper that I know of. I have no doubt but what 

 it is a coming apple for South Missouri. I know one tree that h.as 

 yielded to its ower as much as sixty bushels in one year. It is about 

 thirty years old, with not a dead or broken limb upon it. 



I overlooked the Ingram : its onlv fault is its small size, and -s'et 

 this year my Ingrams truned out more apples to the tree than any variety 

 I had, and I consider it a profitable apple for South ^Missouri. 



Discussion. 



Mr. Tippin of Springfield, Mo. — I, from experience, would cor- 

 roborate Judge Woodside's opinion as to the varieties, as far as I am 

 acquainted with those that he names, and I have no reason to believe 



