STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Ill 



KEPORT OF COMMITTEE 0>r NEW FRUITS. 

 Made at Winter Meeting. 



Your committee recommend that in consequence of the large 

 number of new varieties being sent into the State from time to time 

 that the fruit growers report to the society the value they place 

 upon these fruits. In this way we may be able to compare them 

 with our standard fruits, and so far as their qualities are known 

 the results may be placed before the public. 



The attention of your committee has been called during this meet- 

 ing to the fine specimens of Dudley Winter, of which Mr. J. W. 

 Dudle}' of Castle Hill, Aroostook county, says : 



It is far ahead of the Duchess, I think ; it is not as tart an apple ; 

 it is a mild apple, juicy and quite crisp ; it is what I call a nice 

 tasting apple ; it probably- would taste nicer to me than to the rest 

 of you. 



I have kept them until nearly the last of March. I have not tried 

 to see how late I can keep them. I have sent half a bushel of them 

 to Chase Bros. The tree does not require very rich cultivation to 

 get a nice apple. It is a more sturdy tree than the Duchess of 

 Oldenburg, which you all know is liable to split down. I have never 

 seen any of that in mine. The apple is quite well colored ; half of 

 some of the apples is quite red. Many people have taken the apple 

 for an Alexander at first glance. They are considerably larger than 

 the Duchess. 



I will say in regard to my apple that it is a seedling from the 

 Duchess of Oldenburg. The way I happened to get it was this. 

 A neighbor of mine and I were in my garden, where I had two 

 Duchess of Oldenburg trees and a Hyslop Crab — I suppose you all 

 know that it has been but a few years since we have raised any 

 apples in Northern Aroostook, and our orchards are now very 

 small compared with those in this part of the State. I had a few 

 apples on my Duchess of Oldenburg trees and I was quite proud of 

 them because they were the first apples I had ever raised. My 

 friend and I ate an apple, and I said to him, "I guess I will plant 

 the seeds from this apple" ; so we each planted the seeds to see 

 what we would raise. The seed came up and I got a tree that 

 commenced bearing in ^ve years from that time. The first year it 

 bore I got five nice apples. The tree from the commencement had 



