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is it not time for such people to get together, agree on some good variety 

 or a few 2"ood varieties, and plant them to the exclusion of everything 

 else? No't until this is done can it be hoped to compete with sections 

 such as those already named. 



Educational Value of the Show. 



The thousands of visitors who went through the exhibit tent must 

 surely have carried away with them something in the way of new 

 ideas. Exhibit after exhibit of well selected Gravensteins ; carefully 

 prepared and expensive feature displays made from the same kind of 

 apples, must have brought to them the significant fact that the Graven- 

 stein made the show possible. To the orchardists, even those who had 

 been successful from a financial standpoint, there were many lessons. 

 It was said that never before has so good a pack been seen at the 

 Sebastopol show. Fruit must be well cared for in the orchard, well 

 selected and well packed, to receive a perfect score at the hands of 

 competent judges. Such fruit was on exhibition this year, indicating 

 that some had learned the lesson that worm-specked, scabby, poorly 

 packed fruit, lacking in color and uniformity, would not score well 

 and could never gain a premium in competition with well selected, well 

 packed fruit free from blemishes, such as is shown in Figs. 366 and 367. 



Lesson in Better Care of Orchards. 



The effect of such a show relative to the general care of the orchard 

 can scarcely be estimated. Pruning, cultivating, spraying, and thin- 

 ning are all necessary for the best development of apples. Show fruit, 

 such as was seen at" Sebastopol, can only be grown when the proper 

 attention has been given to some of these important phases of orchard 

 management. A discount of 40 points for a wormy apple made it 

 necessary for very careful selection of the fruit, in order that none of 

 it might" be found infested with the codling moth. While some may 

 look upon such a discount as unjust, it is certainly valuable in that it 

 teaches the lesson that wormy fruit is undesirable; that the buyer, 

 when he goes through a box of extra fancy stock, does not want to find 

 a single worm.. Codling moth can be controlled effectively by proper 

 attention to spraying, and such being the case, there is little excuse 

 for wormy fruit l"3eing exhibited. Greater uniformity and better color 

 will result from proper pruning and thinning. Cultivation along with 

 spraying should practically eliminate scab. All these things were no 

 doubt brought to the mind of the orchardist who looked over the exhibit 

 and who would make the most out of his fruit. 



Sebastopol deserves to be congratulated upon the splendid showing 

 made. From an advertising standpoint she has been eminently suc- 

 cessful ; the educational value can never be estimated, but it is safe to 

 say that the future will profit greatly because of the quality of the 

 exhibits and the care exercised in their display. From an [esthetic 

 point of view there was much to charm. Fig. 368 gives some idea of 

 the amount of work that was necessary to prepare the feature exhibits 

 which were a credit to any community. 



