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PROMISING NEW FRUITS. 



By WILLIAM A. TAYLOR, Pomologist and Assistant Chief, and H. P. GOULD, 

 Pomologist in Charge of Fruit District Investigations, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Since fruit culture first began to receive serious and systematic 

 attention in the United States the question of what varieties to plant 

 has been an important one in the minds of fruit growers and in the 

 deliberations of horticultural and pomological societies. 



That this matter will continue to need attention for many years to 

 come is inevitable. Fruit culture is constantly being extended into 

 new regions where new conditions or combinations of conditions of 

 climate, soil, etc., exist; new marketing facilities are developed; and 

 changes in the market demands occur. These factors influence in a 

 marked degree the selection of varieties of fruits for planting by the 

 more discriminating and farsighted fruit grower. More and more 

 are varieties being planted to meet particular conditions and for 

 special rather than for general purposes. 



In this perpetual effort to obtain better varieties and such ones as 

 will more satisfactorily meet particular needs, sorts that have long 

 been in cultivation but which have remained largely in obscurity 

 sometimes come into prominence because of their adaptability for 

 some new requirement. Such varieties have frequently been included 

 in the series of articles of which the present paper is a continuation. 



The varieties described in this article have been selected because 

 of the value which they are believed to possess in the further devel- 

 opment of fruit culture. 



The Department of Agriculture has no stock of these varieties 

 available for distribution. 



CORNELL, APPLE. 



SYNONYMS: Cornell's Fancy, Cornell's Favorite. 



[PLATE XLTX.] 

 EARLY HISTORY. 



The Cornell apple, strictly speaking, is not a new variety, yet it 

 is unknown to a large proportion of growers. It has apparently 



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