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from the Baldwins and they bring a great deal better results. This 

 is practical experience. 



A Member, — Do you take care of the orchard yourself? 



DR. GUMP. — 1 look after it and help to see that it is done right. 

 As to the cultivation I thing he is perfectly right, and there is no 

 doubt that to cultivate every year makes them too tender and they 

 tall too soon. That is the best evidence that it is not best to culti- 

 vate them too often after they are 14 or lo years old. 



MR. CREASY. — After you live in a locality and determine what 

 are the best varieties to plant, by observing the various varieties in 

 that locality, your experience will teach you your market and what 

 variety will best succeed. On my farm I plant Baldwins because I 

 think it is the best variety for that locality. I do not wish to convey 

 the impression that if I lived somewhere else I would plant Bald- 

 wins for I might not do it. With the kind of soil I have on my farm, 

 I am confident that I will succeed best in growing Baldwin apples, 

 and therefor I plant Baldwins. However, I don't say that, that 

 would be the best variety to plant in some locality. Perhai.s if I 

 were living in some other locality I might plant York Imperials. 

 You must find out by experience what is the best variety for your 

 locality and your market. I am glad the Doctor spoke about this. 



MR. ATKIXSOX. — I would like to help the gentleman from South- 

 ern Penn.sylvania because I was induced to jjlant a great many Bald- 

 wins too and found they would not answer for me. I am in Mont- 

 gomery county, which is about the same latitude as Harrisburg, 

 and I found the Baldwins would not do for winter apples. I ex- 

 pected to grow them and keep them through the winter and found 

 I could not do that. So I picked my Baldwins in September and put 

 them on the market immediately, and I think, if the gentleman 

 down in Pennsylvania will inf^ his Baldwins the latter part of 

 August and put them in nice shape in barrels, and send them to the 

 Philadelphia market he will get a good x>rice for them, and perhaps, 

 will get as much out of them as he does out of his York Imperials, 

 and he will get more out of them by shipping them to the Philadel- 

 delphia market than Mr. Creasy will get out of his while he is 

 walking around watching his Baldwins grow red, because I don't 

 think he will get any more for them, at the time he speaks of pick- 

 ing them, than he would earlier in the fall. 



THE PRESIDENT.— Mr. Creasy is about to leave the room and w^e 

 will take, up another phase of this subject. 



VARIETIES. 



By PROF. GEO. C. BCTZ 



I don't laiow of any other subject that is more difficult 

 to talk on than this subject of varieties of fruits and yet. I 

 am apj!f al'-d to almost every day by persons writing to State College 

 to know what variety they ought to plant, and sometimes they will 



