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the most satisfactory apple we grow. It has some weakness- 

 es, it is subject to cedar rust. And I think if you good Con- 

 necticut people have never seen an orchard badly infected 

 with cedar rust, you have something to learn. We see whole 

 acres practically defoliated with cedar rust, and it is a very 

 serious problem with us. A good many of us are planting 

 some of the varieties of fancy box apples. 



At the recent State Horticultural Show at Roanoke, was 

 a box of Virginia Delicious, and the originator of that apple, 

 who was at the show, bought a Ijox of Delicious and sent it 

 back to Oregon, as an example of what the apple would do 

 grown in the East. I presume he was expecting, first of all, 

 to undertake to show that it was satisfactory over a wide 

 extent of country. 



We are growing Jonathan to some extent, although it de- 

 velops two bad faults, it drops early and doesn't keep. It de- 

 velops what some people call the Baldwin spot, but it is more 

 serious than that. The Winesap is not grown extensively on 

 the west side of the mountains, but is grown on the east side. 

 The Albemarle Pippin in Virginia, is nothing more than the 

 old Newtown Pippin, or the Hudson River Newtown Pippin, 

 which is known in the European market. If you will go into 

 the question, you will find it originated as the Hudson River 

 or Virginia Newtown Pippin, or the Albemarle Pippin, as it 

 is called dow^n there. It is the great apple that we grow at 

 Winchester, but I don't think it excels the New York apple of 

 the same name, although a trifle bit more shiny. It does not 

 excel the New York Pippin in flavor. 



When I came up from Virginia this week, I thought I 

 brought with me four boxes of Newtown Albemarle Pippins, 

 as we call them, but I found when I got up here that my man 

 had made a mistake and I had got only three boxes of Pippins 

 and oiie box of Ben Davis. Of course, I am not going to 

 ofifer you a sample of Virginia Ben Davis this afternoon, but 

 I am going to ask your officers to have a table placed in 

 front of the platform here, and put these three boxes of Al- 

 bemarle or \'irginia Newtown Pippins down on the table, and 



