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Imperial, Jonathan, Grimes Golden and I certainly would plant the 

 Ingram. While we have not had the experience in North Missouri 

 that they have had in Central or South Missouri, it is certainly a grand 

 apple and I should plant it. 



Mr. Long. — I would like to ask Mr. Gano about the health of the 

 Gano tree. Judge Woodside says it is not healthy. I think we ought 

 to have something on record. 



Mr. Gano. — I have not observed any difference in the character 

 of the two trees. We scarcely can tell them apart in the nursery, and 

 the foliage is almost identical. It is a very thick leathery leaf. The 

 apple is very similar, scarcely any difference, only just in color, and 

 why it should be more susceptible to Codling Moth I can't understand, 

 for I never have observed it to be such. I get just as fine Gano as I can 

 grow Ben Davis. While I have seen some orchards where there has 

 been a few rows planted and neglected that have not been profitable, 

 my theory is that nothing else would have been profitable there, and 

 just why it should be more susceptible to the insects I cannot under- 

 stand. The apples are identical almost in flavor, and in every way 

 except color. The tree is identical and I think the Gano is just as 

 profitable and as perfect in ever}^ similar respect as the Ben Davis. 



A quetsion : I should like to ask if the Gano will pollenate as suc- 

 cessfully with the Ben Davis as some others. They are so similar and 

 so much alike. Do you think they will pollenate as well as some other 

 kind? My apples are almost all Ben Davis, 



Mr. Tippin. — I wish to state with reference to what I said about 

 the Gano that the statement was made on my observation in packing 

 apples. Now it may have been that because m.ost of our Gano orchards 

 are young and there was but few apples on the trees that a larger per 

 cent, of them were affected with the CodHng Moth ; I know a large 

 per cent, of them were discarded on account of being wormy. We can 

 only judge those things by the size of the cull pile, you know, when 

 we pack apples. I don't wish to be unjust toward any apple or any 

 one. 



Mr. Murray, President. — I would like to hear from Mr. Flournoy 

 concerning the pollenization, whether the Ben Davis or Gano need any 

 poUenization, or whether they can grow in large tracts or separate from 

 any other variety and succeed just as well. What is you experience, 

 Mr. Flournoy? 



Mr. Flournoy. — I can't tell any difference from my observations. 

 In fact, they have too many fruits on the tree in every year I have grown 

 except 1898, and I have seen Ben Davis and Gano on the same tree; 

 that is, it was so pronounced by growers that were good judges. 



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