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"I also want to speak of the Wagener. That is an apple 

 I never have tested until this year. I never have had a very 

 favorable opinion of it, but my opinion, from the exhibitions 

 I have seen of it, and from the exhibition of it in our own 

 orchards this year, has become more favorable. The trees 

 bore young, bore fully, and the apples are of good color and 

 fair size. 



■'As to the Sutton Beauty, I should say to you as I said at 

 the meeting of the State Board of Agriculture, go slow with 

 the Sutton Beauty. The Sutton Beauty does not grow well 

 as an orchard tree. If you graft it in the top with the 

 Baldwin or some strong-growing Northern Spy grafts, I have 

 no doubt it would do well. 



"There is one other apple that I meant to have spoken 

 of this morning, which I think promises fine for a fall apple, 

 and that is the Princess Louise. It originated in Canada. It 

 is a fall apple, and I think one of the most beautifully colored 

 apples that I ever saw. It is a fair standing apple, but of 

 course you can't raise it in as large quantities as you would 

 a winter apple. The old Baldwin is still the stand-by, and at 

 the same time don't forget the Rhode Island Greening. The 

 time is coming when the Rhode Island Greening will fetch a 

 great deal more than it does now." 



Mr. T. S. Gold: "Our president has taken it for granted 

 that one question which has been agitated from time to time 

 is fully settled. That is, that the orchard with one variety 

 will bear just as well every year as those same trees of that 

 variety would bear if there were other varieties planted with 

 them. Now, it is claimed that there are some varieties that 

 do not bear well unless there are other varieties planted with 

 them. I am inclined to think that that statement is pretty 

 well sustained. Whether it is fully so with regard to the 

 Baldwin or not I don't know, but I think I should prefer in 

 planting an orchard of Baldwins to put in the others, as that 

 might insure me against that possible failure that the Baldwins 

 sometimes meet with. I am not fully satisfied about it myself, 

 and should like to know whether there is anything in that 

 idea. Is there anybody here who has any facts upon that ? 

 Whether or not, if you plant a single variety the trees will 



