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no need of packing so close; or if they are to be put in cold 

 storage they need not be packed as tightly. 



Question — Mr. N. N. King: Would you pack apples 

 right off the trees, when warm? 



Answer — Mr, Blodget: Get them into the barrels as 

 soon as possible ; they color all right and keep better if you 

 put them into the barrels quickly. Early picked fruit 

 keeps best. 



Mr, Dennis Fenn: The people in my town pack a good 

 many apples; they take a heavy block from a three-inch 

 plank and when they shake the barrel they press this block 

 down onto the apples, so as to keep them in place while 

 shaking the barrel, and so they don't shake the apples on 

 the surface every time you shake. 



Mr. Blodget: That is all right, if you have your block 

 well padded. 



President Hale added that in pressing down the head 

 on the last layer, it is a good plan to use some pads of 

 mineral wool that will act as a buffer and so not bruise the 

 apples, 



Mr. H, L. Fairchild favored the Society with a very 

 valuable paper on new varieties, which was attentively 

 listened to. 



NEW VARIETIES AND THEIR BEHAVIOR IN 

 CONNECTICUT. 



By H. L. Fairchild, Nichols. 



A week ago I was in New York at the meeting of the 

 Eastern New York Horticultural Society, and there I heard 

 Professor Beach from Geneva speak on the same subject 

 which has been assigned to me to-day, and he told how, at 

 the Experiment Station at Geneva, there were seven hun- 

 dred varieties of apples. Now, I have nothing on so large 

 a scale as that ; I have simply a few varieties on an acre or 

 two, which I am experimenting with, and even this is 

 filled up mostly with one or two kinds of fruits. 



With regard to berries, I have nothing to say, because, 

 in these days, when new varieties are coming up so rap- 



