The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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THE SCARLET PIPPIN. 



HEN paying an official visit to Mr. Harold Tones, fruit 

 experimenter for the St. Lawrence district, last year, we 

 were shown an apple of great beauty which originated at 

 this station, and which seemed to possess promise of great 

 value. Mr. Jones himself has proved it most valuable for 

 export as a high class dessert apple, free from scab to 

 which the Fameuse is subject, and almost equal to this 

 famous apple in quality. Mr. Jones showed some beauti- 

 ful samples of this apple at the winter meeting of our 

 Association at Woodstock, and now Mr. Craig, of the 

 Central Experimental Farm, at Ottawa, has had his atten- 

 tion also drawn to this apple. ^Ir. Craig has forwarded two samples to the 

 writer, and writes : 



Sir, — I sent you on Saturday a package containing some specimens of an 

 apple called the " Crimson Pippin " sent to me by Mr. Harold Jones, apple 

 experimenter at Maitland, Ont. I send this to you in order to draw the atten- 

 tion of the readers of the Horticulturist to a family of exceedingly interesting, 

 and what I think will prove valuable apples, which seem to have originated in 

 or about Brockville. I say family of apples because from the character of the 

 flesh and judging by its 

 quality and general ap- 

 pearance I believe this 

 Scarlet Pippin to be a 

 relative of or to have orig- 

 inated from the same strain 

 of seed as that which pro- 

 duced the Mcintosh Red. 

 A number of seedlings of 

 the same character have 

 been sent to me from the 

 St. Lawrence district about 

 Brockville. Only two days 

 ago some specimens were 

 sent in here which were 

 grown from seed obtained Fig. 1013. — Secttion of Crimson Scarlet Pippin. 

 from that region about 18 years ago. This latter sample would easily pass for 

 a Mcintosh Red, but was firmer in flesh and slightly more acid. I merely 

 mention this fact in order to show what is being done in a hap-hazard way in 

 plant breeding and to emphasize what might be done if a carefully thought out 

 line of action were decided upon and carried to completion. 



