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THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Just let me talk to you a little about that. My impression is 

 that in a good many localities you have got to go out of the 

 peach business and plant apples. My impression is that the 

 localities for growing first-class fruit, both in peaches and 

 apples, is very much more limited than a good many of us 

 think. I know there has been a great deal of talk about Con- 

 necticut being a splendid apple and peach state, and about the 

 same condition prevailing in some sections of Pennsylvania. 

 Virginia, West Virginia and other states of the further South, 

 but I am of the opinion that the people have gotten the wrong 

 idea from that kind of talk. Not very long ago, in conver- 

 sation with a gentleman — that gentleman there — (indicating 

 Mr. Hale) he said to me, "You hill fellows are going to be 

 an example of the survival of the fittest, and we will have to 

 go out of business in Georgia." It is the hill people that are 

 going to make the success in fruit growing in the future. I 

 do not think that my statement about the quantity of fruit 

 that we are likely to turn out need scare anybody. When I 

 say that we shall ship that quantity of fruit from my own 

 station of Winchester, that, of course, means the whole sec- 

 tion in that immediate neighborhood, because that is the ship- 

 ping point for that whole section of country. At any rate, 

 those matters, like others, are regulated by the law of supply 

 and demand, and people are not going to raise apples for mar- 

 ket if they can not sell them. 



Of the varieties that we grow in \ irginia. I see practically 

 none here on your exhibition tables. \\'e grow the Ben 

 Davis, which is not an apple of high quality, as we know, but 

 it fills the barrel, and it brings the price. Xot long ago, in 

 an address delivered by Air. Collingwood, of the Rural Xci^'- 

 Yorker, he made the statement that there were two millions 

 of people in New York who did not know the difference 

 between the Ben Davis and the Baldwin, or any other better 

 variety. Now our people down in Virginia, in growing the 

 Ben Davis, are catering to those people. The Ben Davis 

 seems to fill their demand. We think our market for the Ben 

 Davis is going to be pretty steady. That explains why we 

 grow the Ben Davis. We grow the Ben Davis, and also the 

 York Imperial, the Greening, the Albemarle and Newtown 



