58 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Kelsey : Gentlemen, there is a principle here 

 which you seem to overlook. It is nature's law that anything 

 shall first mature and then decay. If you will pick your 

 Greenings a little earlier, before the ripening process has 

 become complete, and then keep them> cold, not as cold as 

 in the case of some other apples, but cold enough to prevent 

 that ripening process from going on, you will not have any 

 trouble. Greenings will not stand cold storage as well as 

 the ordinary varieties of red apples. We have tO' retard this 

 ripening process. You can take anv fruit or vegetable and 

 after a certain length of time it will mature its growth and 

 mature its seed, following nature's law. for the ripening oi 

 the fruit or vegetable and then decay. So it is with any of 

 these things, either fruit or vegetables, if you wish to keep 

 them you must retard that process. Take a squash, and 

 when it is picked before, that process is completed, you can 

 retard its decay by keeping it froui becoming ripe. Now in 

 the case of Greenings, you should begin sometime in August. 

 The Greening is sometimes a fall apple. This year it was 

 a fall apple, whether up into New York state or in Connecti- 

 cut. 



A Member : I noticed that the gentleman said that his 

 information was that a Greening required a higher tempera- 

 ture to maintain it in the best condition, at least that is what 

 I understood him to say, that a Greening would not stand 

 as low a temperature as some of the red apple varieties. I 

 would like to ask if that is based upon any demonstration or 

 test in cold storage and is known as an absolute fact. Has 

 that been shown by any cold storage test under careful su- 

 pervision ? 



Mr. Kelsey : That is a fact that I gathered from ex- 

 perience with cold storage in the state of Ohio, and I pre- 

 sume it is as good in New England. 



Mr. Robertson: Might I say, Mr. Chairman, that 

 there is more trouble with scald down in the eastern part 

 of the state than there is in some other sections. Then, too, 

 there is more scald this year than in anv other recent vear. 



