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ably the Baldwin succeeds on more varieties of soils than any 

 other. That apple is particularly adapted, or seems to be, 

 to its eastern environment. An apple like that can be gen- 

 erally recommended. Take the grape. Now people grow 

 grapes, and many are learning to grow them very success- 

 fully. A great many like grapes. I do. Yet we do not have 

 many varieties that will succeed here on account of the great 

 variety of soil. The Concord comes closest to it of any that 

 I can mention. When a man comes to the question of the 

 variety he is going to choose, he must first ask himself if it 

 is adapted to the market in which he expects to sell it. Now, 

 as an illustration of this, I am going to say this. Suppose you 

 were engaged in the greenhouse business, forcing vegetables. 

 A man can grow green leaf lettuce to maturity a number of 

 days sooner than he can grow the head lettuce. But the 

 man who can mature his crop of lettuce, and get it early, is 

 the man that will reap the profit, provided he can sell it after 

 he gets it. Any man, however, who was furnishing the Bos- 

 ton, New York or Providence market, or any of the New 

 England markets that I might mention, would have to be 

 governed by what his market demanded. Would you advise 

 the planting of green leaf lettuce, or loose lettuce, when the 

 people in the market in which you expected to sell it de- 

 manded head lettuce? Why, you say at once, no. The con- 

 sequence would be that if a man grew loose leaf lettuce for 

 a market that demanded head lettuce he would be unable to 

 sell his crop. Now that illustrates the point that I wanted to 

 bring out. He must have a variety that is adapted to his 

 market. If you are going to take a new variety that is little 

 known, you might perhaps succeed with it by keeping it con- 

 stantly before the public, and work it into the public mind 

 that it was just as good. If a man can do that successfully, 

 why then it pays to adopt a new variety. 



Secondly, varieties ought to be adapted to soil conditions. 

 For instance, a man asked a question here about the Fitz- 

 gerald peach, if it was any good, and someone in the audience 



