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generally as large as they are now, and some were a great deal 

 smaller, and for that reason if an apple is small, if it has hardiness, 

 productiveness and quality, do not discard it until you have given 

 it a thorough trial. The Patten's Greening was no larger than that 

 (exhibiting a small-sized apple) when first introduced, but today 

 we find them all over, and they are of good size. It simply shows 

 what possibilities lie in the proper development. 



Here is an apple — Mr. Philips here calls it a Shook — that was 

 originally a crab. If you can grow no better apple than that, it 

 is worth trying for. I have seen the time when we had the yellow 

 crab, and we thought we had a bonanza. 



MR. E. R. PERKINS IN HIS SEEDLING ORCHARD. 



This orchard came through the severe weather of the winter of 1903-4 with no material 



injury — a very satisfactory record. 



Here is the Avista. This in a splendid apple, a winter apple. 

 The only faults it has are a slight inclination to blight, and the tree 

 is a little shy in bearing. 



Here is one Mr. Philips sent here which he calls the Eureka, 

 and it shows what he needs to do. He wants to purchase a sprayer, 

 and then he wants to see that it is used. 



The great trouble with most of our people is that they buy a 

 sprayer and then put it in the toolhouse or workshop, and there it 

 remains. They say they are going to do this spraying some time, 

 but they do not improve the opportune time; they let the proper 

 time go by, and the consequence is they have scab and rot and 

 codling moth, and the whole category of diseases that infest the 

 apple. We have got to begin to do something for this condition 

 of things, and the time to begin is just the first time that the proper 

 time present itself. 



Now this is what he calls the Eureka. It is a very good apple; 

 it is a sweet apple. 



These are all Wealthy seedlings I hold in my hand. They come 

 from the Lyman orchard. Some are large, some are small, and 

 some are highlv colored. 



