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Cooper Marker. This is one of the latest-keeping varieties 
grown but is otherwise valuable principally on account of its 
productiveness and bright color late in the season. Some consider 
this one of the best commercial kinds to SED BS, the trade after 
the Baldwin season. 
In the Station tests apples of the crops of 1895, ’96 and ’97 
were stored. The mean dates were October 20 for storing, May 
2 for average life and August 6 when last fruit went out. Com- 
paratively little fruit went out before the middle of May after 
which it went down pretty rapidly although in one instance some 
specimens were kept till the first of September. The results were 
pretty uniform and in conformity with the known late keeping 
qualities of this variety. 
In the Department cold storage tests this variety from this 
Station, stored October 21, was still hard and sound May 1. 
Coid storage men report its season in cellar storage variously 
as extending to April 1 or July 1 and in chemical cold storage to 
May 1, July 1 or the year around. 
It stands heat before going into storage as well as any variety 
and goes down gradually without developing any undesirable 
qualities unless scald. Britton remarks, ‘““No other variety I have 
ever seen improves so much in color while in the barrel as Cooper 
Market.” Its natural color as picked is dark red but in common 
storage it takes on a bright red in May. In cold_storage this 
change does not take place but the fruit remains dark red. 
Cox Pomona (see Pomona). 
CRANBERRY Pippin. This variety as grown in western New York 
sometimes keeps through the winter but ranks rather below Bald- 
win in keeping quality. As grown in the Hudson Valley its season 
is one month to six weeks earlier than Hubbardston and Tompkins 
King. 
Season in cellar storage until December or January and in chem- 
ical cold storage until April. It stands heat fairly well before 
going into storage and goes down gradually after having lost in 
quality, softened, become mealy and the skin having become 
bitter. 
Crorrs. In the Station tests 104 apples were stored October 16, 
1897. The average life extended to January 28 and the last fruit 
was discarded June 30. It kept well till the first of February 
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