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Mr. Lyman : No, I have never sprayed the Champion 

 for rot, we have never lost a crop. We have had trees 

 fifteen years, and we never had a failure yet. We never 

 had so many but what we could handle them quickly. If 

 I saw danger from rot, I set my men to work picking the 

 Champions. We have saved a crop by picking a little green. 

 Some of our neighbors left them on, and they lost the 

 whole crop. 



Member: I would like to inquire if you ever tried the 

 Triumph for early peach? 



Mr. Lyman : No. 



Member: They rot badly, do they not? 



Mr. Lyman: I never have tried them. If I was a 

 man without experience, the first thing I should do would 

 be to go to a good peach grower that you could rely on, 

 one that knows your region where you are growing fruit, 

 and go to someone where you can see the fruit yourself. 

 Follow out all the varieties as they ripen during that year, 

 and see how they all fit into your conditions. Now you go 

 down to Maryland, and the Chairs Choice is one of the 

 most desirable peaches that you can raise. As you know, 

 or as everyone knows who has raised them, or that has 

 been in the business, it is one of the most delicious peaches 

 that grows. If we can raise them, it is a good variety. 



A Member : I have some, and I sold them for $2.50 a 

 basket. I had one hundred trees, and only had about eight 

 or ten baskets from those hundred trees. 



Mr. Lyman: Up to last year we got about that pro- 

 portion, — we got some for one or two years, but they were 

 the nicest fruit we had. Last year we had a crop, and it 

 was a magnificent crop. 



A Member: They are a very healthy tree, I think. 



Mr. Lyman : Our experience is not that way. They 

 are like some other varieties. We have found them some- 



