SEEDLING FRUITS, ANNUAL REPORT, I906 



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meeting. If there are any questions you would like to ask about 

 this fruit I would like to answer them now. 



Mr. Busse : I would like to get the names of those that kept 

 best under those conditions. 



"Almina," G. W. Coates' Seedling 



Mr. Elliot : I take them about in the order in which they were 

 judged, their value for commercial purposes, quality, size, color, 

 etc., taken into consideration. I consider the Perkins No. ^^2 the 

 finest apple in the lot. It has color, size and quality, and if it 

 stands up in further tests as well as it did last winter, I do not 

 see why it is not a variety worthy of propagation. 



The next best variety was the J. S. Decker winter seedling. 

 It is 'a green apple, turning yellow later in the season. It is not 



