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or not, it is very desirable that lie should know its weaknesses 

 and give them due consideration. And a variety is certainly 

 distinctly more valuable the more free it is from all of these 

 troubles. One would discount for susceptibility to all diseases 

 such as scab, blight, and canker; and for being a poor grower, 

 like the Wagener apple; or for being specially liable to over- 

 growing, and consequent winter-killing, as is the ease with the 

 Tompkins King and the G-ravenstein apples. 



4. Fair Size of Fruit. — It was quite a question whether this 

 should not receive more weight in the general market than in the 

 special, for one certainl}^ might grow the Pomnie Grise or the 

 Lady Apple for a special market, while he would not as a rule 

 think of growing either for the general market. But on the 

 other hand one usually sees apples in the fruit stores (and high 

 class stores at that) selling at prices which range directly as the 

 size of the fruit. 



If any one disagrees with the values given this point in the 

 score card he has the writer's permission to change them, pro- 

 vided he can decide where the extra value taken from " size " 

 in the special market shall be placed. 



5. Good Color is practically synonymous with " red color." 

 Whatever we may say about it, however strongly we may con- 

 demn people for " eating with their eyes," there is not the 

 slightest question that they do prefer a bright red apple, and 

 they probably always will; that is, the general public will. And 

 since the man who grows fruit is bound sooner or later, and to a 

 greater or less degree, to be dependent on the general public 

 for his market, on people whose tastes have never been educated 

 up to the high standard that they should be, it is worth while to 

 give color due weight. Even for the special market it is easier 

 to sell a beautiful red apple. But where one is coming into 

 direct, personal contact with his customers, as he does in the 

 special market, he can push an apple of fine quality, like a 

 Palmer Greening, even though it is not red. And the more con- 

 fidence his customers have in his opinion, and the finer the 

 quality of his variety is, the more he can afford to disregard red 

 color. But in the general market it is far different. Only the 



