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ity the more will be the consumption and the greater of course 

 the demand. 



This demand for high quality and its effect on the consump- 

 tion of fruit when gratified is a matter that has been too much 

 neglected by fruit growers and too much overlooked bv conven- 

 tions. The Gravenstein comes as near an ideal apple in quality 

 probably as any kind we are growing. In this year of bounty 

 it has been selling in Boston market for $2.50 and upwards a 

 barrel, and at no time enough of them on the market. No year 

 is there enough of them to be had to meet the demands of the 

 consumers. Every year schooner cargoes of them are shipped 

 from Nova Scotia to our Portland and Boston markets. It is 

 quality that makes the demand for this variety. 



What was it years ago that built up the demand in Portland 

 market for the old Garden Royal? a variety so long neglected 

 as to be almost forgotten even by our gray-haired veterans and 

 which among the later growers in their scramble after fruit for 

 the shipping trade is entirely unknown. It was this same high 

 quality. 



The Nodhead is another illustration in the same line. No one 

 ever heard of any surplus of these deliciously rich and melting 

 apples which had to be shipped abroad to get clear of them. 

 Their quality makes a market here for all that are grown, and 

 always at a price above the common grades of fruit. Yet, since 

 the later planters have been running after shipping varieties sell- 

 ing for less money, little is heard of propagating this always sala- 

 ble variety. 



The case, I presume, was never known of a purchaser wishing 

 to exchange his barrel of that excellent old Yellow Bellflower for 

 any one of the later varieties so largely planted. Its quality 

 always satisfies the consumer, whether for eating or cooking. 



The Rhode Island Greening is a variety always wanted for 

 home consumption. Its rich quality gives it a welcome in every 

 family. 



The late David Briggs of Turner, whom we all remember as a 

 warm friend of the v/ork this society is laboring to foster, grew 

 n variety of russet apples, small in size, not attractive in appear- 

 ance, but which ripened up in mid-winter into an exceedingly 

 rich and delicious fruit, and he stated to me, when I was study- 

 ing up the russet apples a few years ago, that however plenty 



