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cord, but when I can raise the Green Mountain, Worden, 

 Delaware, Brighton, and grapes of that class, I have no use 

 for the Campbell. 



In regard to apples, we have some pretty enterprising 

 nurserymen here in Connecticut, but I think there are 

 people outside of Connecticut who can give pointers to the 

 Connecticut nurserymen and beat them easy in some kinds 

 of apples. There was an apple which originated near 

 Georgian Ba)' some few years ago. Samples of this apple 

 and descriptive circulars were sent out and it was very 

 widely advertised throughout the country, and in various 

 ways very high recommendations were obtained for it — 

 among others, from officers of the American Pomological 

 Society. The trees were offered for sale at $1 apiece, six to 

 seven feet high. I ordered tv/elve trees in the fall of the 

 year. They came down on that train on the Hudson River 

 that ran into the river. They lay there a week, and finally 

 came to me with the roots entirely exposed. I set the 

 trees and found they were grafted about four or five feet 

 from the ground, and had grown on an average of about 

 eighteen inches. Then I tried a Southern apple — Loy — 

 which had a very high recommend in New Orleans. I 

 fonnd it to be a good grower — a very characteristic grower. 

 It was about the same size as the Sutton Beauty; also 

 about the same shape. It was a fair keeper, but not as 

 high quality as the Sutton Beauty. It was a good dark, 

 red color, very uniform in shape and would be a desirable 

 apple, but it does not cook well; like a sweet apple, it is 

 not tender. 



In regard to the Sutton Beauty, I only know the tree; 

 it is a very thrifty, upright growing tree. From present 

 indications I think it will be an abundant bearer, but not as 

 large as the Baldwin. The Banana apple I exhibited at 

 the Exhibit in Meriden last year. I never saw an apple so 

 badly stung by insects as this variety is; there seems to be 

 something about tlicm that causes the insects to make 

 them their special objects of attack, and I feel perfectly 

 sure it is going to destroy its value. The Akin, an Illinois 

 apple, I have a single tree of, and this year, on one limb 

 of the graft, I had between forty and fifty apples; they 



