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The third is called the "Loy," and was found at the county fair 

 at West Plains, Howell county, Missouri, in October, 1885, and obtained 

 through Mr. E. F. Hynes, of that place. This apple resembles the 

 Willow Twii!;, is a medium to lari>;3, extra g^iod quality, i;ood keeper, 

 and tree said to be hardy and productive, very valuable annual bearer^ 

 This apple took the premium as the best new apple at New Orleans, 

 although the ''Rankins" and it were on a tie for some time and only 

 received the premium by one point; well worthy propagation, and I 

 believe will become very valuable to our State. I took this apple with 

 a collection made at West Plains to New Orleans, because I thought 

 it a worthy apple, as a also took the Rankins because I thought it wor- 

 thy. On my return, I wrote to Mr. E. F. Hynes relating the fact and 

 asking hi.ii to give me a history of the apple. If favorable I wanted 

 to distribute through the society. 



(This has been just exclusively in the hands of Mr. M. J. Round- 

 tree, of Springfield, and will be sold by him as soon as trees can be 

 grown.) 



Another new apple called the "Shackleford" seems to be a very val- 

 uable one, perhaps as much so as the others. It is a very handsome, 

 large apple, good bearer, good keeper, tree hardy and early bearer, ex- 

 cellent quality and highlj'^ flavored. A cut of this is shown, and I hope 

 to have one for each of the other apples if possible for the nex.t report. 

 Some of these new apples may be worth thousands upon thousands of 

 dollars to our State, and it shall be one of the missions of this society 

 to bring them into notice and test them. (Apples from F. Harlan, Can- 

 ton, Mo.) 



These apples should be tested this year in different parts of the 

 State. Prices are not high for this, and let us test them. 



[From the Report of the Committee on New Fruits, Illinois State HorticulturaL 



Society, 1885.] 



But what of "new fruits, trees and plants?" This: We have trav- 

 elled some hundreds of miles in making our observations ; we have 

 seen and examined hundreds of specimens ; we have personally tested 

 a great many, and yet we have found a very small percent, of the new 

 fruits which are being hawked about the country to be really worth 

 the ground which they occupy. 



But perhaps the most promising new apple before the public is the 

 *'Shackleford," a seedling from Clark county, Missouri. The tree is a 

 good grower, either in the nursery or orchard; is hardy and prolific^ 

 bearing very young, and has the reputation of producing large and an- 

 nual crops. Four of these trees, planted in 1880, were visited by us in 

 October, 1884. We found them in the finest possible condition, and 

 loaded with large, showy fruit of good quality and flavor, the yield be- 



