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VARIETIES AND NURSERY STOCK 



oldest standbys, like Rhode Island Greening, have any place in 

 that market, unless they are red. Of course there is also a 

 difference in the attractiveness of yellow varieties, and this 

 ought to be given due weight. One is a fine, waxy color, such as 

 a Grimes Golden or an Ortley, while another is dull and un- 

 interesting, as a Mann. 



6. Good Quality. This is a point which the writer likes to 

 give special emphasis. It is astonishing what an influence 

 quality has in the demand for apples, or any other fruit, for 



that matter. Give a man a 

 really fine apple and he 

 wants some more at once, 

 and incidentally he is not 

 so particular just what he 

 pays for it. But give him 

 one that is indifferent or 

 poor in quality, and he does 

 not care just how long he 

 has to wait for the next. 



One winter the writer 

 began on some Baldwin 

 apples, some particularly 

 fine Baldwin apples grown 

 in western Massachusetts. 

 It was the custom each 

 evening to bring up a plate of them for the family circle. 

 It usually required two apples in his own particular case to 

 satisfy the " demand." Later in the season, after these Bald- 

 wins were used up some rather indifferent apples of various 

 varieties were brought forward. They were good sound apples, 

 and well preserved, of such sorts as Rome Beauty and locally 

 grown Stayman Winesap, but they were not of particularly high 

 quality. It was certainly astonishing to see what a change took 

 place in the attitude of the family toward the evening apple 

 feast. The custom was still kept up and with fair regularity, but 

 nobody felt very badly if it happened to be omitted, and it was 

 nothing uncommon to have a part of an apple (and a good big 



FIG. 7. A Baldwin apple. Probably more 

 people know and like the Baldwin than any other 

 variety. 



