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and ripening dates of particular varieties in most of the important 

 fruit districts of the country are being made by several hundred 

 volunteer observers, with a view to securing accurate information 

 on points connected with the selection of varieties for mixed planting 

 when cross fertilization is necessary and for ascertaining the dura- 

 tion and exact time of the blossoming periods for use in those por- 

 tions of the country where the relation of these phenomena to the 

 average date of last killing frost is important. A report upon this 

 subject covering the South Atlantic states is already in manuscript 

 and will soon be published. 



MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS. 



Under this head investigations of the cultural varieties of the 

 pecan and other nuts are in progress and of the peach and other 

 fruits. A special study of the summer apple industry of the Chesa- 

 peake Peninsula has been nearly completed, and an investigation of 

 the apple evaporating industry as it exists in the East, both of which 

 are about ready for publication and distribution. 



ME. McKAY. — I would like to ask Prof. Taylor as to the standing 

 of "Winesap" in the foreign market. 



PROF. TAYLOR.— We have reports that "Winesap" is not a 

 desirable apple in the Glasgow market. In London and Hamburg 

 it seems very popular. During the last two years the foreign mar- 

 kets have been taking "Golden Russets'' at higher prices than they 

 paid for red fruit. "Grimes' Golden" and "Jonathan" are generally 

 exported at a loss. "York Imperial" is an excellent export apple 

 especially in German markets, but it is sometimes liable to scald. 

 This tendency is more marked however on fruit from young trees. 



The following paper was read by S. Morris Jones, Westgrove, Pa.: 



WHY NOT MORE ROSES? 



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By S. MORKIS JONES, Westgrove, Pa. 



There are many beautiful flowers, but I believe the rose holds now 

 as it has held in the past, its place as Queen of the Flower King- 

 dom. Her supremacy is recognized by all classes of our people; 

 her beauty is held as an emblem for comparison, as the highest 

 standard of beauty; anything as sweet-scented is recognized as pos- 

 sessing the height of fragrance. 



Almost by intuition it would seem, the minds of the boys and girls 

 who live in the flowerless sections of our great cities are impressed 

 with the idea that the rose is the most beautiful as well as the most 

 desirable of flowers. I have been told by members of the Flower 

 Missions that these children go wild over rose buds and frequently 

 have to be repressed when they are being distributed to them, and 

 that they will choose and be much better satisfied with one or two 

 roses than much larger bunches of other kinds of flowers. 



The Flower Missions are doing a noble work — the flowers they 

 distribute carry with them much joy and pleasure and undoubtedly 

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