aman to grow. Now, here is one of the lowest, the Cornish Gilly-flower. The Gilly- 
flower for dessert purposes is rated 1. If it were put in as a dessert apple it would be 
worth more than the Alexander, but for cooking purposes it is worth 0, for the home 
market 1, and for the foreign market 2; so its total value is only 4. If we take the Nor- 
thern Spy we give it 10 under each head ; so it would be worth 40. You would need 
to have a great many apples on the table of the Cornish Gilly-flower’s qualities to compete 
with one only of the Northern Spy. 
KING OF TOMPKINS COUNTY. 
Mr. WiLxrnsoy.—How have you rated the King of Tompkins County ? 
Mr. Beaty.—The rating is under the four headings respectively, 8, 8, 10 and 10. 
The SecreTary.—I should be almost inclined to place that at 10 for cooking ; it is 
one of the best. 
Mr. Wixxkinson.—I have always thought the King of Tompkins County one of the 
best that could be raised. 
Mr. Drempsey.—Some feel like putting it at 10 for dessert. For my part I think 8 
is high enough ; when you compare the King of Tompkins with the Pomme Grise or 
Cox’s Orange Pippin the King of Tompkins is very imperfect, and if you are going to 
give it 10 for cooking purposes I think it should be reduced in some other way, so that 
it will not count any more in the aggregate than it does now. 
Mr. Witxinson.—I think the King of Tompkins is rather inferior as a dessert 
apple. 
The SecreTary.—I move that the King of Tompkins be raised to 10 for cooking 
purposes. 
The Presipent.—It is moved and seconded that the King of Tompkins be raised 
to 10 for cooking purposes. Oarried. 
Mr. Dempsry.—I move that the King of Tompkins County be given 6 as a dessert 
apple. A perfect apple in every particular will only receive 40 points, and as it is left 
at present the King of Tompkins gets 38 points, and it is not worthy of it. We should 
reduce it as a dessert apple as much as we have raised it for cooking purposes. 
The Secretary.—I agree with Mr. Dempsey: it is too high for a dessert apple 
at 8. 
Mr. A. McD. Attan.—We considered in making this list what was the popular 
opinion, to some extent. We know that the King of Tompkins County in a strict 
ruling is not a dessert apple, but I have some doubt whether the time has yet come 
when we should fix the rating by the strictest rules. We have followed the popular 
sentiment to some extent, and hence we have given this apple a rating higher than we 
could in strictness. 
Mr. Exuiorr.—I raise a good many King of Tompkins, but I know most of my 
boys when they go down the cellar for an apple bring up a Northern Spy. Now, the 
Northern Spy is only good as a dessert apple for a certain season of the year, whereas 
the King of Tompkins is good as soon as it is ripe. 
Prof. SaunpERs.—I am enough of a boy myself to prefer the King of Tumpkins to 
almost any other apple, and I hardly like to see it put as low as 6 for dessert purposes ; 
I would rather take off somewhere else. I believe something should be taken off on 
account of its tendency to blow off the trees in stormy weather, but I do not like the 
idea of taking that much off it as a dessert apple because it would show unfairly when 
compared with other apples of perhaps inferior quality from your standpoint. I think 
the King of Tompkins Oounty is one of the best apples that one can get to eat—one 
