1914-15] REPORT OF WINTER MEETINGS 37 



number 1, 90 per cent, perfect; number 2, 80 per cent, 

 perfect. 



^'The Missouri experiment station had a very interesting 

 experiment in hybridizing two varieties of apples, in an 

 effort to combine the best quality w4th strong grower and 

 long keeper. A Ben Davis tree was selected and pollen from 

 the Jonathan variety was sprinkled over its bloom. Seeds 

 from apples grown on this tree were planted and resulted 

 in something like 1,000 new trees. These have come to 

 fruiting and develop 368 distinct varieties, 65 of which were 

 shown, numbered but not named. 



''The variety known as Ingraham is considered the best 

 all-around apple grow^n for Missouri. The Missouri pippin, 

 though a native, and formerly w^ell thought of, is Avorthless, 

 being full of disease. Grimes' golden is a grand fruit but a 

 poor grower, and dies at the root early, and is being grafted 

 on Ingraham. 



The Gideon, though small in Massachusetts, w^as shown. 

 This is a late fall apple, smooth everywhere, a great yield- 

 er, but too much on the yellow^ transparent type to be popu- 

 lar in Massachusetts. 



''Professor How^ard discussed the cost and probable 

 profits of growing the apple crop and said it was much 

 complicated because an orchard must withstand for the 

 first several years the action of the evils. To get at the 

 profits he would charge total of all expenses till the advent 

 of the first crop, and deduct from these expenses everything 

 received from incidental crops that the land meanwhile 

 may have produced. 



"He thought it possible to get the first crop of fruit the 

 eighth year and would expect an orchard to last 40 years 

 after and to yield some 25 crops. 



"Among successful large orchards, the Evans peach 

 orchard at Bryon, Ga., was mentioned as having produced 

 98 carloads the third year from planting, and the next year 

 140 carloads, nearly all of the elberta variety. 



