No. 4.] APPLES. 133 



ton Royal is another apple which I think we can grow for 

 the local markets, but not as a shipper. Most people would 

 say that it is the best apple in its season for eating and cook- 

 ing we have. The majority of the apples on the tree were 

 large. A young tree six inches in diameter bore about a 

 barrel the past season. The tree is a fairly good grower 

 and an annual bearer. 



Another variety, a late keeper and beautiful in form, is the 

 Scarlet Cranberry, a western apple. Another, very small 

 but profitable if well grown, is the Lady apple. They are 

 most beautiful in texture and color. They do not grow large, 

 but perfect in form and coloring. They grow in strings on 

 the branches. They are very delicate, and bring five to 

 eight dollars a barrel when well grown. The product of one 

 tree nine inches in diameter sold for twenty-two dollars. 



The Mammoth Black Twig is an apple grown in the west. 

 It is a later keeper than the Baldwin, and a good deal like 

 it in form. Another is the Hurlbert. We have five trees, 

 from which we picked from five to seven l)arrels each. Almost 

 every one was as perfect as these specimens, and most of 

 them were larger. The Gravenstein is a very good eating 

 and cooking apple. It is a very heavy, strong growing tree. 

 The specimens on the table were spra3'ed. The only variety 

 in this collection that was unsprayed is Shiawasse Beauty, 

 a seedling from the Snow apple. It is covered with the 

 specks and spots that the speaker this morning described 

 as growing on the skin and finally penetrating the apple. 

 This is the ordinary apple scab, which grows during the sum- 

 mer, when the weather is wet. All other trees were sprayed, 

 just before picking or within two weeks of picking, with a 

 simple solution of copper sulphate, three ounces in fifty gal- 

 lons of water. 



For a fall apple you are all familiar with the Fall Pippin 

 and Holland Pippin. They are most beautiful yellow apples, 

 of high quality, fairly productive and always of a large size. 

 We can grow the Snow apple successfully in New England, 

 if on heavy soil and if the trees are sprayed. The difficulty 

 as ordinarily grown is that they are covered with little black 

 spots. When these come early in the season they stop the 

 growth of the apple at the point attacked and it becomes im- 



