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vou mav start a number of branches for each, one taken off. It is 

 evident that yon should remove only the more serious offenders. A 

 little deep plowing to break a few roots and hold up the forced feeding 

 would be profitable for such a tree. So far as attempting to reform 

 an ill shaped tree by heavy pnming, it would better not be done, unless 

 disorder from insufficient root vigor is apj)arent. It will only make 

 a bad matter worse. This abnormal condition of root and branch does 

 not exist unless there has been some interference with the normal de- 

 velopment of the plant. This interference may come through causes 

 over which we have no control, but more commonly from injudicious 

 use of the knife. We believe that quack surgery is the worst pest 

 known to the fruit industry. 



Eecitation by Miss Cora Brantley. 

 Song. — Male Quartette. 



SOME ^EW AEKANSAS SEEDLIA^G APPLES. 



By Prof. J. T. Stinson, Fayetteville, Ark. 

 I have for several years been interested in the new seedling apples 

 of northern Arkansas. Our country seems noted for originating new 

 apples. There are several reasons for this. The soil and the climate 

 are very favorable. In the early settlement of the country many seed- 

 ling orchards were planted ; as there were no nurseries then, and it was 

 far from transportation lines by which to ship trees from older sections 

 of the country. I have found and worked over one hundred new 

 apples. The valuable ones you might count on your fingers, perhaps 

 of one hand. The parentage of most of them is Ben Davis, Winesap, 

 or Limbertwig. Among those of Ben Davis origin we found one called 

 "White Ben Davis. This was found in several orchards, with trees 

 and fruit the same. When one man finds a good kind in his orchard 

 his neighbors will get scions and graft them into their own orchards. 

 So we often find the same new kind in several orchards. 



