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year's experience has been that the foreign demand has been in favor 

 of Russets and Hubbardstons. I would never set a King under any con- 

 sideration. King for a time was one of the best apples we had. It is a 

 nice selling apple, but I find that the older orchards of Kings through 

 the state, and it is so all over this state, are dying, showing that the 

 vitality of King is not strong and that it is a weak tree constitutionally. 



A Member: What do you say about Oldenburgh? 



Mr. Sherwood : That is a summer apple. It is A No. 1. 



A Member: What is the matter with Grimes Golden? 



Mr. Sherwood : It is a yellow apple. 



Mr. Cook: It is a good one, though. 



The President: There are some new kinds coming on with great 

 promise. Very few of us know much about them. It seems to me if I 

 were setting an orchard I should have a few Sutton Beauty and a few 

 more that are coming with such fine recommendations. 



A Member: How about Belflower? 



Mr. Cook: It is an iron-clad, it is good that way; it is not prolific. 



A Member: Take Wagener. 



The President: That is all right from Grand Rapids north, but not 

 south of that point. It is all right for 1896, but you will wait ten years 

 perhaps before you will see it south of here. 



The best five summer apples f 



The President: Now, Mr. Sherwood, what do you say about summer 

 apples? 



Mr. Sherwood: That is a hard question to answer. There is a gen- 

 tleman here who says Red Astrachan. Last year it was not that way, 

 and perhaps it will not be so next year. I think there is no doubt but 

 Oldenburgh is considered to be one of the very best, and there are some 

 new varieties of summer apple that I am not acquainted with, but Old- 

 enburgh, Astrachan, and Alexander are all good. 



The President: Alexander did remarkably well this year. 



Mr. Sherwood: Yes, remarkably well, but Early Joe did very well 

 with me. It is not a good, clear apple, but it is a regular bearer with 

 me and I like it. It is a little of the color of the St. Lawrence. It has a 

 purplish stripe, a purplish cast. It seems to be a cross between Olden- 

 burgh and Red Astrachan, as near as I can describe it. I think you all 

 know it, it is a summer apple; and Primate is a very fine apple, but it is 

 a poor shipper. 



Mr. Slayton: It is the best family apple in the world. 



The President: Has any one had any experience with Yellow Trans- 

 parent? In fruit, I mean. 



Mr. Wilde: I have had it fruited now three years, young trees. It is 

 not a red apple, it is yellow, and it is very nice. In town here they call 

 it the white apple, it is so light. It takes well for home consumption, here 

 in town, but I have never shipped it and know nothing about that quality 

 of it. It is the best Russian apple I ever tasted. 



Mr. Riehl: With us in southern Illinois we have that apple. It comes 

 into bearing very early and bears well. It is a nice apple, a good apple, 

 but you can not ship it in barrels, you have to ship it just like peaches. 



