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storage and goes down quickly. Its keeping quality is not so 
much affected by differences of season as is the case with many 
varieties. Some report that in going down it scalds, loses in 
quality and firmness, becomes mealy and bursts, but experiences 
are contradictory on all these points. It improves in color in 
storage. This variety must be handled very carefully because it is 
very easily bruised. 
YELLOW Forest. Fruit stored in 1895 showed an average life 
of April 22, with the last fruits going out July 24. There was a 
moderate rate of loss from November to May, after which: the 
fruit went down more rapidly. 
YELLOW Newtown (Albemarle Pippin). Usually equal to 
Baldwin as a keeper. Season in cellar storage is reported by 
storage men as extending to February and in chemical cold 
storage to April. Graham reports that it stands heat very well 
before going into storage and that it goes down gradually. But 
Newhall reports that it does not stand heat well. It appears 
that this variety is often confused with the Green Newtown but 
it is not so good a keeper as the Green Newtown. 
York Imperiau (Johnson Fine Winter). At the Station fruits 
of 1895, ’96 and ’97 were tested. The average number stored was 
95. The mean date of storing was October 18, of average life 
May 5 and of decay of last fruits July 7. The results all three 
Seasons were quite similar. The rate of loss is low till April or 
May then rises very rapidly. When it does not scald its com- 
mercial limit is March and season January to May as grown at 
Geneva. 
In the Department cold storage tests, medium to small, light- 
colored, very hard fruit from this Station, stored October 21, 
1901, began to scald February 15, 1902, and a month later three- 
fourths of the fruit was lightly scalded on the green side. The 
fruit remained firm throughout the season. Commercial limit 
February 15 to March 15. 
Storage men give its season in cellar storage as extending to 
December and in chemical cold storage to February. It stands 
heat fairly well before going into storage but goes down rather 
quickly, scalding, losing in color and the skin becoming bitter. 
ZurDEL (White Zurdel). Fruit stored in 1897 showed an aver- 
age life of May 30, the last fruits going out July 18. There was no 
loss still February and no considerable Joss till April. 
