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Early, Chenango, Early Harvest, Esopus, Fameuse, Jonathan, July, On- 

 tario, Rhode Island Greening, Smith Cider, Smokehouse, Twenty-Ounce, 

 White Pearmain, Wine and Yellow Transparent. With many of the 

 varieties in this list not more than one blossom in a hundred sets fruit 

 when self-fertilized. With scarcely any was a good crop secured, and 

 in nearly every instance the fruit has been smaller and less desirable 

 than cross-pollinated fruit. The conclusion seems inevitable that large 

 blocks of a single variety of apples should never be planted. Varieties 

 should be intimately mixed in the orchard to insure cross-pollination. 

 These varieties should be such as will blossom about the same time and 

 capable of cross-fertilizing each other. 



With respect to the latter point, Jonathan, Huntsman and Cooper 

 Early proved especially valuable as pollenizers at the Kansas Experiment 

 Station. Prof. G. H. Powell, at the Delaware station, found Paragon, 

 Staymen, Winesap and Lily of Kent, all weak pollen bearers except the 

 latter, to be intersterile, and they should therefore never be planted 

 together in commercial orchards for the purpose of cross-pollination. 

 Further work along these lines, to determine what varieties bloom together 

 and are most suitable for pollenizing each other, is very desirable. And 

 since varieties behave differently toward each other in different sections 

 of the country, these data should be determined in many different locali- 

 ties. — U. S. Department of Agriculture. — Prairie Farmer. 



DONT'S FOR APPLE PACKERS. 



Harold Hume of the North Carolina Experiment Station gives these 

 dont's for apple packers : 



Don't mix varieties, apples of different shapes and colors, in one 

 package. 



Don't mix windfalls with hand-picked apples. 



Don't pack bruised, badly worm-eaten or partly decayed fruit. Con- 

 sign it to the cuU-heap; it will pay better there; it will do more for the 

 reputation of the region there than it will in the market. 



Don't put up a snide package. 



Don't put all the good apples in the ends of the barrels and poor fruit 

 in the centres. The buyer is not fooled, or at least not more than once, 

 by this practice. 



Don't put your name on inferior packages. 



Don't handle apples as though they were made of stones. Instead, 

 handle them as eggs. — American Cultivator. 



