Score-card for Varieties 



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Scoring the varieties. 



If the grower puts the points of excellence in tabular 

 or organized form, he may then scale or score the merits or 

 demerits of a given variety; he may need to inquire of 

 those who are well acquainted with the variety, if he does 

 not have personal knowledge of it, before he is able to 

 score or grade it intelligently. Sears has made a useful score- 

 card (Agric. of Mass., 1909, p. 44) for commercial apples: 



SCORE-CARD FOR A COMMERCIAL VARIETY OF APPLES 



Applying score-card points to apples for Massachu- 

 setts, Sears makes tables contrasting the desirable and the 

 undesirable, four cf which are given by way of illustration: 



BALDWIN 



Good points: 



1. Well known. 



2. Long-lived tree. 



3. Good bearer. 



4. Uniform grade of fruit. 



5. Good color. 



K 



Bad points: 



1. Rather slow in coming into 



bearing. 



2. Overbears in alternate years. 



3. Not high quality. 



4. Cankers. 



