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ten years many of us orchardists will find ourselves in the 

 position of the passenger on the vessel that was sinking, 

 and we will find that altogether too few life boats and life 

 rafts are available. That may be a gloomy view, but I 

 think we ought to seriously consider it. 



Now, speaking about difficulties with the Baldwin, tlie 

 most serious thing the Baldwin has today is the Baldv/in 

 spot, a little brown spot under the skin, and our scientists 

 all tell us it is nothing they can help and that there is noth- 

 ing they can recommend to help us out in that respect. 

 Isn't it entirely reasonable that we might expect to see 

 some decadence in a variety even so long standard as the 

 Baldwin? It is within the memory of all of us that we 

 have seen the same thing come about with certain varieties 

 of vegetables ; not particularly that they have been super- 

 ceded by better varieties, but that some serious disease, or 

 something of that kind has put the variety into the back- 

 ground. We very well realize that this is a fact with many 

 of the varieties of small fruits. We feel and we very well 

 understand that very many varieties of strawberries have 

 passed into oblivion on account of some constitutional trou- 

 ble. Undoubtedly there is a way to remedy this, and how 

 shall we do it ? By paying sharp attention to special varie- 

 ties that offer characteristics in which we can see something 

 more promising than we do in the Baldwin, some desirable 

 features of flavor, texture, or keeping quality, or some oth- 

 er desirable quality, and you may be interested to learn that 

 I know of the existence of some very special plantations in 

 Massachusetts ; I can tell you of a two-acre plantation of 

 Tolman Sweets, and they are planted by shrewd, keen, 

 smart planters. They know what they are talking about. 

 I can also tell you of the existence of a young orchard con- 

 taining several hundred Washington Royal. I know also 

 that the number of inquiries now received concerning the 

 Winter Banana and things of that kind are amazing. It 

 may be that you will be interested somewhat in our varie- 

 ties planted at Turner Hill, and I am going to tell you, in the 

 first place, that we are not following out the first instruc- 

 tions we received from our Horticultural instructors and 

 professors. Commercially, we are attempting to grow a very 

 wide variety, much wider than you would ordinarily recom- 

 mend, but we feel that we see some reason in this. If your 

 town tradesman is an energetic person he will aim to turn 

 his stock in his store over several times during the year; if 



