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MR. FROST. Jonathan. 



MR. FRASER. We don't grow it; I am not well 

 enough informed about the Jonathan. 



MR. FROST. King. 



MR. FRASER. You can leave it in the King. I don't 

 mind about the King, the tree tends to grow open and when 

 it is in good shape and the fruit colors well I should leave it in 

 and if it wasn't I would open it up. The King wants a lot 

 Ox color. There is one thing that you must realize. The 

 eastern part of the state of New York and New England 

 have a great deal more sunshine than we have in western 

 New York. Bear that in mind. You may have more 

 trouble from sun scald than we. The Ithaca Station re- 

 ports 85 days of sunshine for the year at Ithaca, while the 

 Hudson River stations report 180 days. AVe have got condi- 

 tions there which may render our management somewhat 

 different than yours. 



MR. H. E. CHASE. I would like to ask what .assur- 

 ance we have that the people of New York will always want 

 a green Greening? 



MR. FRASER. I think we have a good one. If yoa 

 go into New Jersey you will find them planting the English 

 Codling and the Monmouth Pippin. They look something 

 like a Greening; both are large and the Monmouth Pippin 

 has a red cheek, and the women of New York have recog- 

 nized that those red-cheeked things that they bought for 

 Greenings are not nearly so good cooking apples. In other 

 words, the Monmouth Pippin masquerading as the Rhode 

 Island Greening isn't a very good proposition, and the 

 women are beginning to discriminate, and just as soon as the 

 Monmouth Pippins are grown and sent into New York the 

 women are going to say, "No; no more of the Greenings 

 like those." That is the proposition. There are business 

 reasons underlying this Greening business. 



MR. MOORE OF ARLINGTON. You speak of a large 

 percentage of trees not bearing fruit in the orchard. 

 'May I ask if they grow wood at the expense of the fruit,. 



