294 ReEporT OF THE HortICULTURAL DEPARTMENT OF THE 
In the Station tests apples of the crops of 1896 and ’97 were 
stored. The mean dates were October 21 for storing; June 1 for 
average life; and July 28 when the last fruit went out. The 
results were quite uniform for both tests. There was no loss till 
toward spring and the rate of loss did not rise very high before 
May. On the first of May there remained 65 per cent. of sound 
fruit in one case and in the other over 75 per cent. 
In the Department cold storage tests, No. 1 fruit from this 
Station, stored October 21, was too green for use in March; May 1 
it was still hard and free from decay but slightly scalded. 
Storage men doubtless sometimes fail to distinguish between 
this and the Yellow Newtown for they report its season in cellar 
storage as extending variously until December or February and 
in chemical cold storage until March or April. The true Green 
Newtown keeps longer than the Yellow Newtown. It is reported 
to stand heat well before going into storage and to go down 
gradually with liability to scald. 
GREENVILLE (Downing Winter Maiden Blush). At the Station, 
apples from the crops of 1885, ’96 and ’97 were tested. The 
average number under test was 78. The mean dates were October 
3 for storing; for average life February 19; and for discarding 
last fruit May 19. There is a moderate rate of loss through the 
early part of the winter. About the first of February the rate of 
loss begins to increase quite rapidly. Apparently the commercial 
limit is January. 
In the Department cold storage tests, large, finely colored, No. 1 
fruit from this Station, stored October 21, was in excellent com- 
mercial condition till February 1 when scald began to develop. 
The fruit was one-third scalded March 14. 
Grimes (Grimes Golden). Ranks about with Hubbardston as 
a keeper. 
At the Station apples from the crops of 1895, ’96 and ’97 
were stored. The average number tested was 80. The mean 
dates were October 6 for storing; February 23 for average life; 
and May 25 when the last fruit went out. The rate of loss was 
high in November, low in December and January and high through 
the remainder of the season, except that the crop of ’97 showed 
only a very low rate of loss before the first of February. Com- 
mercial season extends to December or January. 
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