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President Rogers : Is there anything further to offer 

 on this question? Jf not, would you like to call for some 

 other question? 



A Member : Number three. 



President Rogers : Number three is called for. ''After 

 the Baldwin and Spy, what is the best red winter apple to 

 plant in Connecticut?" All you want to do is to cut out the 

 Spy. (Laughter). Is there any other variety that you sug- 

 gest beside the Baldwin and the Spy? ]Mr. Staples, after }0U 

 get Baldwin and Spy, which other winter red apple would you 

 plant? Will you answer that question? 



Mr. Staples : I think, Mr. Chairman, that I should plant 

 Macintosh Red. 



. President Rogers : That is a fall variety. 



Mr, Staples : You mean for a winter apple ? 



President Rogers: Yes. 



Mr. Staples : I do not know of anything else that I 

 would plant. I think . I would keep on planting Spys and 

 Baldwins. 



President Rogers : For an early fall variety I do not 

 think there is anything better than Macintosh Red. It makes 

 a good early fall apple, and looks nice, but I would say right 

 here that I went down to the cold storage plant the other day 

 to get some apples out, and we had a barrel of Macintosh that 

 we put in there for the show. They were shipped here to 

 Hartford, and we took out perhaps a peck or a half bushel, 

 and immediately filled it up with other apples. The other 

 day I brought the barrel out, and we had those apples down 

 at our banquet, and they VN^ere fully as good as they were the 

 day we left them in storage. They certainly came out in nice 

 shape, but I would not recommend holding tlie Macintosh 

 apple until February and then try to put it on the market, be- 

 cause it won't stand it. Of course, if you take the King apple, 

 that is a very nice apple, looks well, and I think will bear 

 every year when the tree is from fifteen to eighteen years old. 

 We have 2:ot them that have borne everv vear for the last ten 



