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the low trees; and in these days, when we either have, or 

 must soon expect to have, the San Jose scale in our orchard, 

 we cannot afford to neglect any measure which will help us 

 in the fight. 



I am aware that in discussing the question of varieties I 

 am taking up a very personal matter, — one on which men 

 differ as radically as they do in politics; but it is also one 

 in which everybody is deeply interested, and on the proper 

 decision of which depends, to a great extent, the success of 

 the plantation. In what I shall say I am not pretending to 

 dictate or even advise any one else, but am merely giving my 

 personal views and experiences, as I have in the other mat- 

 ters discussed. 



I believe, first and foremost, as I have already suggested, 

 that varieties for setting here in ISTew England ought to be 

 of high quality. I do not believe that we should set any- 

 thing poorer in quality than a Baldwin or a Greening, and 

 I wish that a great many trees of varieties better in quality 

 might be set. But in saying this I am quite well aware that 

 under present conditions, and with present methods of grow- 

 ing and handling apples, the Baldwin, and even the Ben 

 Davis, may be the most profitable varieties to grow; for a 

 Mcintosh or a Spy will not stand the treatment that the great 

 bulk of the apples grown here receive. This is an unfortu- 

 nate condition of affairs, and ought to be remedied, but at 

 present I believe the statement accurately depicts the sit- 

 uation. 



As to the number of varieties which a man should set, that 

 depende very largely on the type of market for which he is 

 working. If for the general market, then the fewer varieties 

 he has, the better. Two or three, say Baldwin, Greening 

 and Hubbardston, would be the limit ; and many men think 

 that they make more money out of a single variety, especially 

 if that variety is Baldwin. I am inclined to believe, how- 

 ever, that for the sake of cross-pollination there should be at 

 least a few rows in the orchard of some other varieties, even 

 in orchards which are catering to the general market; by 

 which is meant, of course, where the owner sells his crop 

 at the orchard to a buyer, or ships it to a commission man. 



