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preserve in ordinary storage, may now be kept in cool stores for a 

 sufficieutlv long period to meet all domestic requirements. 



The blooms of the Yates are highly self-fertile, and as they also 

 exercise a beneficial influence upon those of other varieties partly lack- 

 ing in this respect, and growing near it, notably the Jonathan, the 

 Yates is frequently iuterplanted with varieties wliich show sterility to. 

 insure cross pollination. 



Plate 63. — Same Tree as in Plate 62, pruned. 



Its partial immunity from bitter pit also enhances the value of the 

 Yates, and possibly when it is thoroughly tested as intermediate stocks 

 of various lengths to act as a kind of filter for the sap of the varieties 

 most subject to this disease it may prove somewhat efficacious. 



The Yates thrives best and yields its heaviest crops of fruit when 

 cultivated on rich, moist, but well-drained soils, and in the localities 

 where fairly cool climatic conditions prevail. The large trees produced 

 under these conditions rarely come into bearing early, except when the 

 fruiting habit is developed by systematic pruning. When this object is 



