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RELATION BETWEEN SEASONAL DIFFERENCES AND KEEPING QUALITY. 
It is well known that apples vary much in keeping quality in 
different seasons. It is also a common observation that they 
keep much better if the month of October is cool than if it is 
warm. This fact is often remarked, especially by Fenton, Howes 
and Graham. Fenton remarks that Baldwins keep four to six 
weeks longer in cellar storage if the month of October is 
cool than if it is warm. Similarly Northern Spy keeps a month 
longer. 
Howes remarks that apples keep better after a dry season 
than a wet one. “But,” he continues, “the season of 1902 
was a wet one and still apples kept as well as any season. This 
of course refers only to apples not affected by any disease.” 
Beckwith remarks that the best growing season for apples is 
a rather cool summer with plenty of rain the first part of the 
season and dry, even weather the latter part, as in 1903. Apples 
grown such seasons keep best. 
Some varieties, such as Hubbardston, Northern Spy and 
Twenty Ounce do not color up well some seasons and Russets 
may not become well russeted. In both cases the result is the 
Same as when fruit is picked too green and put into storage. 
Its keeping quality is very much lessened. But Morgan 
remarks that highly colored Hubbardstons go to pieces in stor- 
age quicker than those not so highly colored; and Beckwith 
observes that, contrary to general experience, Roxburys were as 
good in quality in 1903 as usual though they were very green. 
Some varieties, as Maiden Blush, vary greatly in time of matur- 
ing in different seasons. The earlier the fruit matures, the less 
satisfactory it is as a keeper. (Howes.) 
