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mutually advantageous to arrange exchanges 

 of apples with other teachers of pomology 

 in other states. During the months of Octo- 

 ber, November, and December, 1902, the De- 

 partment of Horticulture in the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College was able to place 

 at the disposal of its students collections of 

 apples from Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ottawa 

 (Ontario), New Hampshire, Western New 

 York, Michigan, Kansas, and Virginia, be- 

 sides many samples from different parts of 

 Massachusetts. No special effort or expense 

 was required to do this, and so this matter is 

 left with each individual instructor, in the con- 

 fidence that he will find some way of securing 

 fruits from abroad for the sake of widening 

 the experience of his pupils. 



When these fruits are secured they should 

 be critically compared with home-grown speci- 

 mens of the same varieties. If the collection 

 contains varieties not represented in the home 

 orchard, as it ought often to do, these new 

 varieties should be carefully studied, com- 

 paring the specimens with any available de- 

 scriptions, verifying names, making new de- 

 scriptions, and particularly investigating the 

 economic merits and demerits of the variety 



