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desire them if they saw the others, yet it is my firm convic- 

 tion that 5.03 is just as good an individual as 8.13, and in 

 the case of other trees which we have tried since, we are 

 finding that we can get better growers than 8.13. In other- 

 words, there is a question as to whether vigor in a young 

 tree, and productivity are correlated in any degree or 

 v/hether they are antagonistic. I feel that is is possible tu 

 select individuals in which both will be found. One of the 

 iriost striking illustrations of this is the strain of Duchess of 

 Oldenburg, which has been taken from two or three owned 

 by the Collamer Bros., Hilton, N. Y. Here we find no dif- 

 ficulty in securing 6 feet tall and well-branched trees when 

 headed low and strong and stocky, which are strikingly 

 uniform, whereas it is much more difficult with other selec- 

 tions to secure a height of more than 5 feet and a lower cali- 

 per. This is a strikingly vigorous lot of trees and we know 

 that they have been wonderfully productive ; the original 

 trees are now of good age and, strange to say, are top-worked 

 on some other variety. Has this added any vigor to this 

 strain or is there some inherent power? So far as we can 

 find these Duchess were selected and top-worked because of 

 their good bearing power; in other words, have we found 

 an individual which has ability to transmit its characters 

 and is both vigorous and productive at the same time? One 

 strain of Mcintosh we have from Mr. Teator of Red Hook 

 and also a Baldwin from him are strikingly vigorous, also 3 

 Baldwin which we secured from ]\Ir. De Los Tenney of Hil- 

 ton, has shown wonderful vigor in producing a two-year old. 

 Now these trees are well checked because we frequently 

 will run one row then repeat it at a distance of six or seven 

 rows apart and they stand out as markedly as steps. Again, 

 by selection in the nursery row we can get a crooked variety 

 to grow straighter. We have a strain of Bosc, which while 

 generally recorded as a very poor grower, is producing a 

 relatively large number of straight trees and just as strong 

 growers as we can find in Bartlett; this, however, is the ex- 

 ception. We know that these Bosc are from good individ- 



