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BETTER FRUIT 



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The following is a list of the self- 

 fertile varieties: Baldwin, Bailey's Sweet, 

 Bethlemite, Colvert, Fallwine, Grimes 

 Golden, Keswick Codling, Longfellow, 

 Oldenberg (Dutchess of), Pumpkin Rus- 

 sett, Scott's Winter, Shiwassee, Wash- 

 ington, White Pippin, Yellow Newtown. 



The following is a list of the partially 

 self-fertile varieties: Ben Davis, Canada 

 Red, Fall Jeneting, Jewett's Red, Mann, 

 Pryor's Red, Rambo, Stark, Spitzenberg, 

 Wagener, Willow Twig, Whitney's Crab, 

 Yellow Transparent. 



Concerning this list of partially self- 

 fertile varieties I will state that they are 

 in some cases never fertile. The Spitzen- 

 berg apple, for example, set only three 

 apples, none of which were of standard 

 size. One of the chief problems we have 



llead what Hood liiver says 



Hood River, Oregon, Nov. 27, 1909. 

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 Tree Spray Fluids, VI, for killing San Jose 

 scale and found it very effectual. 



G. R. Castner, County Fruit Inspector. 



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taken up is to find the best pollenizer for 

 the sterile or nearly sterile varieties, such 

 as the Spitzenberg. We have found that 

 a large number of varieties will cross 

 with the Spitzenberg, such as Newtown, 

 Arkansas Black, Jonathan, Baldwin, Ort- 

 ley. Stark, Black Twig, King of Tomp- 

 kins County, York Imperial, Delicious. 



There were many others, but most of 

 them not of commercial importance in 

 the Northwest. 



We have been working out whether or 

 not it was feasible to plant Yellow New- 

 towns and Jonathans together to see 

 whether these varieties crossed in any 

 way. Our results show that these can 

 be planted together very nicely. 



Our next line of work was to take up 

 some self-fertile varieties like the Yellow 

 Newtown and to find if they would be 

 improved by crossing. The first two 

 years we crossed the Yellow Newtown 

 with a large number of varieties, and in 

 both the Hood River district and the 

 Willamette Valley we found the apple 

 was greatly improved by crossing such 

 varieties as Grimes Golden and Ortley. 

 The crossed apples gave a large per- 

 centage of fruit set and also gave a better 

 average size than those self-pollenated 

 with Newtown pollen. The work in the 

 Rogue River Valley seems to show 

 that the Newtown was not as greatly 

 improved by crossing with such varieties 

 as Grimes Golden and Ortley. The last 

 two years, however, we have obtained 

 splendid results not only in the Rogue 

 River Valley but elsewhere by crossing 

 the Newtown with White Winter Pear- 

 main pollen. Not only has the Winter 

 Pearmain proved successful on the New- 

 town, but has done well on all varieties 

 on which we have tried it. This is a 

 fruit of splendid vitality. Not only is 

 this vitality shown in the set of fruit, 

 but also in the seedling of the White 

 Winter Pearmain, which is very strong 

 and sturdy. This leads me to the state- 

 ment that a variety may have a good 

 influence not only in producing good 

 fruit, but, on the other hand, it may have 

 poor vitality and give negative results. 

 The Ben Davis, of poor vitality, is a poor 

 male parent. Its crosses seem to be 

 lacking in vitality. As example, com- 

 paring the vitality of the Ben Davis and 

 Yellow Newtown, we chose the Hub- 

 bardson Nonesuch as one of the varieties 



we desired to work. When crossing the 

 Hubbardson Nonesuch with the Ben 

 Davis the fruits were inferior and smaller 

 than when we crossed the Hubbardson 

 Nonesuch with the Yellow Newtowns. 



Many of the flat apples seem to have 

 a poor influence in crossing, especially 

 with such apples as Maiden's Blush, 

 which would be typical of the class. 

 The Winesap is a poor apple for pollena- 

 tion purposes, producing a small amount 

 of pollen, and in some seasons it seems 

 to be absolutely devoid of pollen. The 

 Northern Spy, on the other hand, is 

 more in the nature of the White Winter 

 Pearmain. It has been a good pollenizer 

 on all varieties on which we have tried 

 it. In most cases we have not produced 

 very marked results in the coloring of 



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