40 TKANS ACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



Mr. M. L. Dunlap — I had a splendid crop this year. 



Eawles' Janet.— Mr. Shephard— By inquiry I find that others 

 have observed two varieties of this apple. I have seen it as large 

 as a Domine, and I have seen it much smaller. I would ask 

 whether that is the common apple. I have frequently been asked 

 whether that was Eawles' Janet. 



The President — In reply to the inquiry^ I think that any one who 

 has had any experience with the Janet, knows that it will sometimes 

 produce very fine fruit, when not too old. It might do so on a well 

 grown tree, when it had rested for a few years. At other times they 

 would be inferior apples. 



Mr. Francis — I am very glad this has been brought up. We have 

 Janets grown from young trees, which are called uncommonly large,, 

 and I suppose that is all the difference. I took some to the house 

 that was selling apples for us, and the proprietor told me that the 

 Janets he was selling were still larger, and different from them; he 

 was certain there was another variety. 



Mr. Freeman — I think in the Southern part of the State it grows 

 larger than it does in the Northern part. 



Mr. Baldwin — I have observed two distinct varieties of the Janet. 

 One is larger than the other, and a little redder — I think in conse- 

 quence of being a little longer. The smaller one I do not think is 

 quite as crisp and good an apple, but it keeps longer. There is no 

 difference in the trees. 



Mr. Brown — The Janet is a very common apple in Kentucky. 

 This variation in size was so common there that it was commonly 

 remarked that there were two varieties. The difference of the fruit, 

 I think, arises from the condition of the trees. Now, of Pryor's Red 

 in my county, a man whom I know says he has three distinct varie- 

 ties, and they are so much unlike that a man unacquainted with them 

 would say they were not the same fruit. 



Mr. Francis — May it not be the case that one of these is a seedling 

 from the original Janet ? 



