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is a Russian apple. Some of us have been led to believe it is a German 

 apple. 



A question: What about the Willow Twig? 



It is a very poor apple with us. Some gentleman from South- 

 western Missouri said that it was the worst apple to rot in the orchard, 

 and the same applies to us, and the tree blights very badly in our 

 prairie soils, although there are a few sections of Iowa where it does 

 very well. But the Wealthy we call that King because it is a cold 

 storage apple. It will keep in cold storage. I have quite a number 

 in cold storage. Mr. Haviland of Fort Dodge has sold his Wealthy at 

 Fort Dodge for a dollar a barrel more than he could sell the New York 

 apples, and has for years. When he had hundreds of barrels he 

 would take them out and get one dollar more than they got there 

 for the New York apples. The Wealthy is a great apple. 



Mr. Augustine of Illinois. — I hate to have this discussion of varie- 

 ties close without having something for or against the Missouri Pip- 

 pin. I am conscious of the fact that it is a poor rooted tree, but some 

 of us who have orchards further south on the line of the Fort Scott, 

 perhaps regard it as the quickest money maker that we have, and we 

 are top working it to avoid the trouble of a poor root. I am surprised 

 that we have not heard anything more in regard to it. It is a fine 

 looTcer and an abundant bearer; perhaps that might be a criticism. It 

 is a little like the Jenetan, it bears too much, but if there is anything 

 against it I would like to know it, because I have over six thousand 

 trees in an orchard, and I am replanting with the Missouri Pippin and 

 the Gano entirely. I don't plant anything at all except the Missouri 

 Pippin and the Gano in this orchard of thirty thousand trees, and I 

 plant the Gano because, (not that it bears more and better than the 

 Ijen Davis) but the Ben Davis grown north, as it was drawn out in this 

 discussion here this morning, as I have not heard it brought out 

 before in any society meeting, in some localities is not a desirable 

 apple, but when grown further south it is a desirable apple, and the 

 consequence is that the Ben Davis is getting a little too bad a reputa- 

 tion in some localities as good apple. 



I was up in Michigan attending the society there and I happened 

 to say something in favor of the Ben Davis and I was afraid I would 

 be mobbed. I was looking for a back door to escape, because they 

 have no sympathy with it whatever. The Gano on the other hand, as 

 I regard it, has all the good bearing qualities and its flavor is equally 

 as good, it has a better color and it has another name. Now I am 

 really anxious to know something about the Missouri Pippin ; that is 

 why I arose. 



