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tion of the committee the following summary is made : In the year 1838, 

 Ely Jacks came from Kentucky to Howard county, Missouri. He broug-ht 

 with him seeds and perhaps young trees or scions of apples. These were 

 planted in Howard county. In 1839 he went to what is now Platte 

 county, Missouri, and the following year moved his young apple 

 trees there from Howard county, and planted them in what soon 

 became the largest orchard in that part of the State (ten or twelve 

 acres). About that time a traveling agent sold Mr. Jacks several 

 trees of what he called New York Pippin, which afterward proved to 

 be what is now known as Ben Davis. As the seedling trees brought 

 from Howard county began to bear fruit; all those that produced 

 fruit of fair size and quality were allowed to develop and those that 

 were of no promise were from time to time top-worked with the so- 

 called New York Pippin. These New York Pippin or Ben Davis 

 trees were said to haVe been the first trees of this variety from 

 which it began to be disseminated in that part of the State. 



In the early seventies attention was attracted to one tree in this 

 old Jacks orchard which had before that been regarded as a Ben 

 Davis, but which had fruit of much redder color. The question as 

 to whether or not it was really Ben Davis began to be discvtssed. 

 About this time fruit from it was exhibited at a meeting of the 

 horticultural society where Dr. Warder's attention was called to it. 

 He pronounced it a distinct variety. Specimens were also sent to 

 Downing and he agreed with Dr. Warder that it was distinct from 

 Ben Davis and suggested that it be given a name. In 1884 it was 

 named Gano, in honor of W. G. Gano. The earliest information 

 which Ave have of the Gano apple comes from this tree which was 

 started in the old Jacks orchard about 1840, or earlier. 



Since Gano has been named and has been disseminated as a dis- 

 tinct variety attention has frequently been called to old trees of this 

 variety, growing here and there in Missouri and adjoining states. 

 In some cases the old Jacks orchard has been definitely traced as the 

 source from which these trees came. In other cases where the source 

 from which the trees came cannot be definitely determined the or- 

 chards frequently contain Ben Davis and other varieties which were 

 being disseminated mainly from the old Jacks orchard at about the 

 time these trees must have been planted out. Two trees of Gano 

 have been definitely reported from an old orchard in Kearney, which 

 was planted out about 1840, the two Gano trees being apparently 01 

 the original planting. In ]\Ir. Mocks' old nursery, in Lafayette 

 county, several trees of Gano were located. Several trees of Gano 

 have been reported from old orchards in Cook county. An old tree. 



