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PROMISING NEW FRUITS. 



By WM. A. TAYLOR, 

 Pomologist in Charge of Field Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry. 



INTRODUCTION. 



For many years there has been a strong tendency in the American 

 fruit trade to urge that fruit growers reduce the number of varieties 

 in their commercial plantations. TVTien commercial fruit growing 

 was developing out of the old-time family orchard, with its succes- 

 sion of varieties ripening throughout the season, such advice was 

 undoubtedly good for the average individual planter, but there ap- 

 pears good ground for the belief that a point has been reached in 

 several of our orchard fruits where a wider range of season and 

 quality would result in a steadier net income from the fruit crop, 

 and therefore in a sounder business condition in the fruit industry 

 in many sections. Attractive diversity in appearance and quality 

 stimulates a demand for fruit among consumers and is worthy of 

 recognition by the fruit grower as an important factor in determin- 

 ing his selection of varieties for planting. If he has several varie- 

 ties in his orchard rather than a single one or two, the advantages 

 of cross pollination are secured also, and the risk of loss of crop 

 through unfavorable weather at the blossoming season is reduced. 



The varying requirements of our domestic and foreign markets 

 and the importance of growing in each section of the country those 

 varieties that are best adapted to the climatic and cultural condi- 

 tions there, render familiarity with new types and varieties important 

 to all progressive fruit growers. 



The present article, in connection with those that have preceded it 

 on the same subject in the Yearbook since 1901, calls attention to 

 several recently introduced or little-known fruits that are considered 

 worthy of testing in various sections of the country. 



DELICIOUS APPLE. 

 [PLATE XXIX.] 



This variety first came to notice in the orchard of the late Jesse 

 Hiatt, of Peru, Madison County, Iowa, about 1881. It was then a 

 sprout, supposed to be about 6 years old, from the stock of a Yellow 

 Bellflower tree, the top of which had been destroyed. The beauty and 



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