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miles in the Hudson Valley and see orchards which have not 

 had any care in years. I have in mind an orcfiard of four 

 thousand trees, which has been in sod for the last twelve years. 

 It is an orchard which ought to produce eight or ten thousand 

 barrels, but which does not produce over twenty-five hundred 

 or three thousand. I cannot get the owner to do anything. 

 He is afraid of disturbing the roots. It's an orchard in the 

 prime of life, but it's of no use to talk to some of them about 

 up-to-date horticulture. I think I could run some of their 

 orchards better than they do. 



A Member : I understood Mr. Foster to say that the demand 

 in the European market is for a red apple. I would like to 

 inquire of him if he thinks the prejudice against the green 

 apples, such as our Greening, will be overcome in the European 

 market. 



AIr. Foster: I must say to you, that there is no prejudice. 

 The Greening comes to them at a period of the year when they 

 have others in greater quantity ; wdien their own apples are 

 coming upon the markets there, and they are mostly green and 

 white. They are all out of the way by the first of December, 

 and then we have a market for our surplus goods, but if our 

 green apples go to them during that period, they come in direct 

 competition with their green apples, and apples like our Green- 

 ing at that time do not bring a fair price. If we could get a 

 good green apple to put on the market at the proper time, we 

 could do well with it. 



A Member: How is the Newtown Pippin? 



Mr. Foster : That is an apple which, in the Hudson River 

 valley, has been allowed to degenerate. But I may say to you 

 that I had one invoice of Newtown Pippins this last Novem- 

 ber, which brought 45 shillings sterling in Liverpool. They 

 brought back just about $7.00 a barrel on the New York dock. 

 The Newtown Pippin is as popular as ever. California is 

 producing immense quantities of Newtown Pippins. There 

 w^ere nearly 250,000 boxes sent from California this last year, 

 and this year there will likely be 300,000 boxes shipped. Some 

 of them have been graded badly, and have been an awfully 

 degenerate lot of stuff, with the result that they have been a 

 loss to the Californians. They are learning their lesson rapidly, 

 however, in the matter of shipping Newtown Pippins to the 



