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It has come into bearing within three years — a very good tree, 

 bark hard and smooth, but when the apples get partly grown they 

 drop, although they remain pretty well on my tree. I don't know 

 whether this dropping is peculiar to the variety or not. The apple 

 is, I think, desirable. 



The President. Does anybody ever have heavily laden trees 

 growing Winthrop Greenings ? 

 Several Members. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Taylor. I have raised it, and upon the same trees that I 

 have grafted the Winthrop Greening I could have taken four times 

 the profit had they borne some other kinds of fruit. This apple is 

 a shy bearer. I know this to be so, for I have done everything I 

 could and I could not get a good crop from it. 



Mr. Smith. I have found that cutting back in June is of great 

 benefit. I learned that from grafting. I noticed that when I cut 

 a tree in the manner I have spoken of, the limbs which I left 

 would fill and hang full of apples. It would make the fruit hang 

 better. 



A Member. In our experience during a number of years with 

 this apple, we find that it drops and that the wind will take it off 

 very easily, and we have to gather them before they are fully ripe 

 if we* wish to save them ; that is the fault with them, they drop 

 too easily, and I do not consider it a very profitable kind to raise 

 on that account. 



Mr. Cabr. I consider them excellent apples, as good perhaps 

 as any raised in the State. They will bring a good price at all 

 times, simply because people will have them. It is really a good 

 bearer and bears every year, too. I have been called upon for 

 scions, and have sent them quite a number of times to people in 

 other sections, and I never knew a person who had them once but 

 wanted them again. 



Mr. Stetson of Greene. They drop off and are watery. 



The President. The quality of the fruit? 



Mr. Stetson. The quality is very good, if you can save them. 



Mr. M. J. Metcalf of Monmouth. I consider it a most excel- 

 lent fruit, and I think that it should not be dropped from the list. 

 It is a shy bearer, as we say, but tolerably reliable. 



Mr. A. W. TiNKHAM. I have had some experience in growing 

 the Winthrop Greening. My father engrafted a tree with it many 

 years ago and it has outlived every other tree in the vicinity, and 

 the tree to-day is as vigorous as it was forty years ago. I have 



