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life of the Greening is not so prolonged, or the marketability 

 of the Greening is not so prolonged as the Baldwin or Ben 

 Davis. Do not be afraid to plant the Rhode Island Greening. 

 It is all right. 



A Me.mber: What do yon think of the Pecks Pleasant? 



Mr. Foster : It is an excellent apple. It is not an apple that 

 is grown verv freely. Unfortunately it is taken a good deal for 

 the Newtown Pippin. There are tricks in every trade but ours, 

 you know, and we do it when we can. 



Mr. Cook : I have got some fifty trees that I bought for 

 Newtown Pippins. I bought fifty trees. I have been trying 

 ever since I have been farming, or for more than 32 years, to 

 get some Newtown Pippins, and I supposed I had some, but 

 talking with a friend one day, he says : "Cooke, have you got 

 the Newtown Pippin?" I told him I supposed I had, and he 

 looked at them, and he says : "They look very much like the 

 Newtown Pippin," but he says, "tfiey are just like what I have 

 known as the Peck Pleasant." I told him that I did not think 

 they were, but I have found out since that they were. But they 

 are a fine apple. They have borne every year continuously for 

 more than twelve years. It is eighteen years since we set them 

 out. It is a good, bountiful bearer, and I think one of the finest 

 apples I have got. 



Years ago I had some old-fashioned Rhode Island Greenings 

 that came from \'ermont, but they overbore, and didn't amount 

 to very much. I didn't know anything about thinning fruit at 

 that time. Since we have learned more how to handle fruit, I 

 have bought several kinds of trees for Rhode Island Greenings, 

 but I never have got what I called the real Rhode Island Green- 

 ing tree until lately. I have got some growing now, and bearing 

 the fine, handsome, round and smooth apples such as we used 

 to see. 



Mr. ]\lERRn[AN : I would like to know about packing the 

 apples for shipment. Vou say to raise them aliout two inches 

 above the barrel. What is the object of that? 



Mr. Foster : I think an inch and a half or two inches. Some 

 packers claim if you pack them an inch above the chime it is 

 enough, but two inches is not too much. 



Mr. ]\lERRi:srAX : I have packed a good many thousand barrels 

 of apples and it seemed to mc that was a good deal. Do you 

 use any cap and cushion ? Do you recommend that ? 



