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Yellow Transparent is a week or so earlier, soft-fleshed, better flavor, 

 and about equally productive. I much prefer it to Tetofsky for my own 

 eating, but I have many trees and positively cannot say which sells the 

 best or brings the most money. Chiefly, however, I value Tetofsky as a 

 stock upon which to top work varieties like Prolific Sweeting, which are 

 late in coming to fall bearing. On Tetofsky, Prolific Sweeting bears as 

 soon and as freely as the Tetofsky itself, while root-grafted trees of 

 Prolific Sweeting, 17 years set, do not produce as many apples as those on 

 Tetofsky six years grafted. The commercial importance of such a stock is 

 very great. If it will do for the Bethel what it has done for the Prolific 

 Sweeting it will make it by far our most valuable winter apple. I have 

 now a lot of Tetofskys which I shall plant out this spring for the purpose of 

 making the trial. The only fault of the Bethel is that it is as long as the 

 Spy in becoming a paying tree. In reference to the keeping qualities of the 

 Wealthy if it is gathered early, and at once placed in a deep cool cellar 

 with well-managed ventilation, I find it to keep in perfect condition until 

 spring. Last year at this time I sent to Mr. R. W. Shepherd of Montreal, 

 a box of Wealthy's in prime order. They were kept in my house cellar 

 with no extra care, and not a cent's worth of extra labor. Simple attention 

 to the above named conditions is all that is needed. By reversing them I 

 can have them ripe and mellow in October. 



Mr. Beall seems to think that what he does not know is not worth 

 knowing ; at least, his condemnation of apples because little known * (to 

 him), looks that way. If he will consult Mr. Gibb, Mr. Shepherd or Mr. 

 Wright, he will obtain Canadian experience of considerable length regarding 

 Scotts Winter, which is highly favorable. High dessert quality has never 

 been claimed for it, but as a vigorous and productive tree, more hardy than 

 Wealthy, with superior culinar^y quality and remarkable long keeping it 

 occupies a place not otherwise filled in the cold north. 



As to McMahon's White I expressed no judgment on it until I had 

 fruited it for several years, and then I set out every tree of it I had in my 

 nursery, because it gives a succession to the Duchess much needed. As to 

 Duchess of Oldenburgh, it is ridiculous to speak of it as a summer apple 

 here. It does not get its full growth imtil September, and by gathering as 

 soon as well colored, and placing in a cool cellar, it keeps well into 

 October. But of course in a warmer climate it is earlier. 



Magog Red Streak, though it seems to be much liked by a good many 

 and though I myself was the first to propagate it, is for me so completely 

 surpassed and replaced by the Wealthy, that I have no further use for it. 

 Still it has merits and stands the winters with me quite as well as Wealthy. 

 My family regard it as our best pie apple. The Switzer is the nearest 

 perfection in tree and fruit of any apple I have, its only " out " being a 



*See Report F.G.A. ijg, page 4. 



