STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 55 



Mr. Baker : I overheard some remarks of the president in 

 regard to an apple called the Arctic. I fail to see a sample of 

 it here in the hall. I will say that we raised the apple or tried 

 to, that is, and have been at work at it about fifteen years. We 

 have discarded it. It is a handsome apple, the tree a vigorous 

 grower, but it is an apple that goes off very quickly, appears 

 one week to be solid as a rock, the next is gone by. The result 

 is that we are discarding the Arctic apple. Perhaps they will 

 do better here in Maine, but from my experience I would advise 

 you to go slow. They are a very pretty apple, but an apple has 

 to have something besides good looks on the outside to recom- 

 mend it. 



Mr. : I am interested in the Arctic apple. Last 



winter I had a bulletin sent me from the Orono State College. 

 They called the Arctic apple one of the best, if not the best winter 

 apples. This spring a man came along selling those apple trees 

 and I bought fifty on what they said there. I would like to hear 

 a little more about it so I can understand it a little better. 



Prof. MuNSON : I am responsible for that bulletin. What- 

 ever was said in that bulletin I will stand by. I don't think if 

 the gentleman will read the bulletin over again he will find that 

 it is called one of the best apples. 



Mr. : That is the way I understood it. 



Prof. MuNSON : But I do say that where you cannot grow 

 the Baldwin that may take the place of the Baldwin as being 

 somewhat of a similar type and a good selling apple. I do not 

 regard it, and never did regard it as one of the best apples intrin- 

 sically. 



O. Is it a good keeper? 



A. It is a good keeper. It kept with us last year until March 

 or April, very well indeed. 



Q. Is it larger than the Baldwin, redder and better flavored? 



A. No, it will average fully as large as the Baldwin. It will 

 not be a distinctively red apple, not as red as the best Baldwin. 

 The color however, of course, as you understand, would depend 

 very largely on the soil and location. 



Q. Would you ithink it would be policy to set out more of 

 these apple trees ? 



