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sometimes. The fruit cannot stand long shipment, and must be consumed 

 as soon as ripe; yet its excellence insures its ready sale and consumption 

 within the distance of its shipping limit. Should the supply of peaches be 

 largely increased, shipping facilities will be improved, which will insure their 

 shipment to more distant markets. Plums and quinces are grown to ad- 

 vantage upon ground adapted to them, and large sums of money are received 

 annually by those who grow them to any extent. 



A. D. Botsford : I read the reports of these meetings. I see that the 

 fruit growers are not all agreed upon the best varieties of apple for market. 

 Most of the kinds named were good but some of them certainly could not be 

 grown with profit as market apples. The location, soil, and taste of the person 

 all may have some influence in the statements made by these different persons. 



Mr. Phelps: In my experience the Baldwin is among the best. The R. I. 

 Greening is one of the best of the long and well known varieties in quality, 

 and where the conditions are right with proper management can be made 

 reasonably productive. 



The Jonathan has many good points. The tree is a fair grower and hardy 

 and certainly productive ; for family use it is among the best. Apples should 

 be hand picked when ripe or ready to gathei', and placed where they can be 

 kept dry and cool. Later on they should be sorted carefully, placing sound 

 apples in barrels which are to be kept late into the winter and until even late 

 in spring. By this careful method of sorting and packing late in the season 

 one may have apples the year round. Apples for last of winter and spring 

 use should be kept in cellar as near the freezing point as possible. In this 

 way one can have fresh, crisp apples till late spring. 



Samuel Webster: The Baldwin is a good bearer, but the quality is not the 

 best, and it is sometimes affected with dry rot. Red Canada is of excellent 

 quality and keeps well and bears about as heavily as most varieties. Any 

 apple which will retain its freshness and flavor for a long time has one good 

 point in its favor. 



M. N. Hart once had some apples which were packed in barrels badly 

 frozen. He placed them in a cool cellar and let them thaw slowly. They 

 came out all right. Buyers complain that apples often rot on their hands 

 before they can dispose of them, consequently they dare not pay high prices 

 for them. I think from my experience that very much of this is the result of 

 dishonest packing or ignorance of what constitutes a good merchantable 

 apple. The grower, the commission man, and the consumer all suffer loss 

 through improper packing. If we grow good varieties of apple and put them 

 on the market in good sound condition, well graded, we are almost certain of 

 good paying prices. I will name four good apples which have done well with 

 me: Baldwin, Northern Spy, Jonathan, Red Canada. 



John Keniston : I think the Baldwin one of the best. The Northern Spy 

 is a good apple, but it takes a long time to come to bearing. 



Mr. Phelps : Is there any method by which we can secure a crop of apples 

 annually from same trees? Had heard one man say that he could secure a 

 crop of apples every year. 



J. F. Brest: I have observed that in a given number of apple trees of the 

 same variety standing on ground of like quality and location, part of the 

 trees bear much more regularly than the others. I have found this to be 

 so in many other orchards besides my own. By taking scions from the best 

 bearers and grafting into other trees, found that the result was to secure more 



