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Geo. Crdickshanks (of Fitchburg). I have known 

 the Sutton Beauty, having lived in a neighboring town for 

 thirty-five years. Having moved onto the place where I 

 now live, sixteen years ago, I had several trees grafted to 

 the -Sutton Beauty, and from the crop of 1896 I kept the 

 Sutton Beauty in good eating condition until the second 

 day of August. 



Mr. Willard. Massachusetts to the front ! 



Mr. Manning. As has been said, the Wealthy apple came 

 from Minnesota. It is adapted to that climate because it 

 will stand the winter. It never should have been brought 

 to this State. 



Mr. Searle. If you were going to set a commercial 

 orchard, would you put in all Sutton Beauty? 

 , Mr. Willard. No, sir ; I would not put all my eggs in 

 one basket. There is a principle involved there. I would 

 not set an orchard to all of one kind of anything. I would 

 have the Sutton Beauty one of the varieties. This apple has 

 been introduced into the State of New York but a very few 

 years. It will never be an apple that will be disseminated 

 largely except as it is called for. Like the Seckel pear, it 

 has a short, stubby growth. In order to make it profitable 

 at the present low price of trees, nurserymen will grow 

 varieties that will make trees at two or three years of age. 

 This tree has to grow three or four years. 



O. B. Hadwen (of Worcester) . Perhaps I might add a 

 word of testimony relative to the Sutton Beauty. I have 

 known it for more than fifty years. It originated in the town 

 of Sutton, on the farm of a Mr. Waters, about the year 1847. 

 At the Horticultural Society exhibit the wise committee pro- 

 nounced it the Hubbardston-Nonesuch, and they carried the 

 day. The man who presented it felt very much disturbed. 

 He brought it for several years, and the committees were in 

 great doubt as to what it was. Finally, when it became a 

 little better known, when it was a little more widely dissem- 

 inated, it was found that the tree, as well as the apple, was 

 entirely different from the Hubbardston-Nonesuch. The 

 branches of the tree run up almost perpendicularly. It is a 

 great bearer. In 1896 I had trees that would bear ten bar- 

 rels each. Some fifteen or twenty years ago I sent some 



