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The Committee on Apples would submit a further re- 

 port and recommend that the prize list for apples be re- 

 vised. Striking out those varieties of which there is only- 

 one single plate exhibited and adding a like number of 

 such as are becoming more popular and attiacting the at- 

 tention of growers and marketraen. 



We would advise dropping, Pickman Pippin, Tolman's 

 Sweet and Smith's Cider, 



Substituting therefor, Wealthy, Mackintosh Red and 

 Ladies' Sweet. 



At our last exhibition there were shown eight plates of 

 Wealthy, three of Mackintosh Red, and two of Ladies' 

 Sweet. 



All of these apples are on the list of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, and their cultivation is recommended 

 and encouraged. Having been sufficiently tested and 

 found of good quality and very superior appearance. 



The Wealthy has been raised in the northwest for some 

 thirty years and in New England perhaps ten or twelve. 

 According to Downing, its time of ripening is December to 

 February, but in N. E., it is October and November or 

 September to November. 



This discrepancy may be accounted for by the fact that 

 an3' apple brought from Minnesota (its native home), to 

 New England would ripen at an earlier date. 



The Mcintosh Red originated in Ontario some seventy 

 years ago, though lately introduced to N. E., nearly related 

 to the Famuse or Snow apple, two or three times the size 

 and much darker in color, with all the good qualities of 

 the latter, and has proved a very remarkable good keeper. 



At the Horticultural hall in Boston in March, 1898, I 

 saw a plate on exhibition beside a plate of Northern Spy 

 and the Mcintosh were certainly in the best state of pie- 

 servation. 



The tree is said to be hardy and a good annual bearer. 



