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TABLE II. Composition of French cider fruits admitted to the provisional list of the Asso- 

 ciation Franqaise Pomologique. 



Analyses not found. 



GERMAN STANDARDS. 



The Germans do not appear to have attempted a study of varieties 

 of apples and pears for cider purposes in anything like the compre- 

 hensive manner of the French students. It seems that the German 

 cultivators have worked on other lines than those of the French. To 

 an American it appears that ordinary orcharding in Germany is about 

 as far advanced as it was in the United States twenty or thirty years 

 ago, before the wonderful development of commercial orcharding in 

 this country. There are many good varieties of grafted fruit, and 

 these are cultivated at times in considerable areas, but neither orchard- 

 ing for table fruits nor for cider fruits is well developed in Germany, 

 except where the dessert fruits are grown in what we would call gar- 

 den culture on walls, trellises, etc. 



The German cider fruits, so far as they can be differentiated from 

 dessert fruits, are occasional seedlings of no peculiar character or 

 special value. There are certainly no varieties to compare with the 

 special varieties recorded in the French literature and shown at the 



