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Leaf Notches A Guide to Variety of Apples 



By L. M. Cox, Zillah, Washington. 



HAVING grown a setting of Wine- 

 saps till they began to bear — Ben 

 Davis — I foolishly joined the crowd in 

 laying all the blame on the nursery- 

 man and advocating a law that would 

 make it a penal offense to sell trees un- 

 true to name. But it occurred to me 

 that the nurseryman had the tree in his 

 possession only one or two years, while 

 the orchardist had it under closest 

 supervision for four or five years be- 

 fore it came into bearing. I decided 

 that if the grower would blame his own 

 ignorance and then learn to know his 

 own varieles, it would be a greater pro- 

 tection than any law, however drastic. 



^^'hen I was a boy, there was an in- 

 sect that so closely resembled a bumble- 

 bee that the only way I could tell the 

 difference was to catch it. 



I determined to find some distinguish- 

 ing characteristic of varieties that 

 would obviate the necessity of getting 

 "stung." I soon discovered that the 

 notches on the edges of the leaves of 

 certain varieties were very different. I 

 continued the investigation until I was 

 convinced that it was the best guide to 

 variety I had learned. In the mean- 

 time I had set seven acres to Wine- 

 saps with a question mark by each tree. 

 I lA'aited anxiously until the leaves 

 were mature enough to be typical; I 

 then took leaves from bearing Wine- 



saps and went over the seven acres tree 

 by tree, comparing the leaves known to 

 be Winesap with the ones I hoped 

 were. Result: In that block of five 

 hundred sixty-seven trees I found 

 sixty-three Ben Davis, thirty Stayman 

 Winesap and four unknown. I might 



extend this article indefinitely by giving 

 descriptions and drawings of leaves 

 from different varieties, but think the 

 ones given below will be adequate to 

 my purpose. 



I want to emphasize that each or- 

 chardist can learn and must learn to 

 know all the varieties he is growing or 

 expects to grow. Those who may use 

 this test are reminded that I have called 



ILLUSTRATIONS FOR LEAF NOTCHES A GULDE TO VARIETY OF APPLES 



No. 1— Winesap 



No. 2— Stayman Winesap 



No. 3— Winter Banana 



