Winter Meeting. 287 



APPLES AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. 



(J. C. Evans, Harlem, Mo.) 



The recent World's Fair presented a fine opportunity to make com- 

 parison from the various states and from different sections of some of 

 the states. Take, for instance, one apple of a certain variety from each 

 state and you have about four different and distinct types 

 which show each its own peculiarity in size, shape, color, texture and 

 quality. A committee from the American Pomological Society took up 

 one by one all the leading varieties and made notes on their variations. 

 These notes will be published in the next report of that Society. From 

 that report some valuable lessons may be learned as to what varieties 

 to plant in the different localities, etc. We have seen by this great 

 exhibit that apples of some kind or other may be grown most everywhere 

 in the United States and some in Canada, but not everywhere are they 

 profitable as a commercial crop. Some of the Northern states, since the 

 introduction of some of the better Russian varieties, are producing some 

 very fine apples and not a few of them. Of course, they have not the 

 high quality of the standard varieties grown in the Middle states, nor do 

 they keep as well. They made a fine exhibit on the tables. 



The Pacific coast arid mountain states are producing some very fine 

 apples, and will doubtless ere long be felt in the commercial world. 

 Their apples, especially from the mountain states, are comparatively free 

 from insect marks and are large and well colored, and were very attractive 

 on the tables. 



The Southern states' do not pretend to grow apples commercially 

 to any great extent, but some of them made a very creditable showing 

 of fair size, good quality and well colored fruit. 



Canada was very well represented, but like our Northern states her 

 apples all carry more or less Russian blood, and as a rule are smaller 

 than the same varieties grown farther south. New England and the 

 eastern middle states were in evidence, but the more western middle 

 states made such exhibits as to show at a glance that the commercial 

 orchards of America are just west of the center of population. The 

 peculiar characteristics of varieties from the different sections are not 

 described here because the report of the American Pomological Society 

 committee will give it more fully than can be done in a short paper. 

 In that report a complete description of each, giving size, form, color, 

 texture, quality, etc., with a photograph of one whole and one-half of 

 each variety, will be given. By this report we will be able to judge 



