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a valuable point of identification. The stem is often the means of 

 telling" conclusively the variety that is presented. 



Another thing I want to criticise in your exhibit. In your se- 

 lection of five apples — which should be a plate — you should be very 

 careful to have the apples all of one size, all of one color — true to 

 type — not overgrown. I believe there is a type for every variety ; 

 and that where an apple is of the ordinary size — good, fair, ordinary 

 size, of good high color, perfect in all respects, it is always given the 

 preference to apples overgrown and not true to type. We are not 

 exhibiting monstrosities, but specimens of what we expect to produce 

 in our orchards. 



In a contest recently opened by a spray pump company, which 

 offered a spray outfit as a premium for the best plate of Northern 

 Spies, the outfit was awarded to a young man who had been in busi- 

 ness only three years, simply because he went to the trouble of find- 

 ing out what in their mind constituted a perfect plate of apples. The 

 first thing that was done when the contest opened, was to eliminate 

 from the twenty-six plates exhibited, twenty plates of monstrosi- 

 ties, devoting their entire attention to six plates of good, fair-sized 

 apples, true to type. 



Detailed Report of Fruit Exhibit. 



We find in this exhibit, 214 plates, as follows: 

 Robert Garrettson, 6 plates — 



3 Plates York Imperial. 



1 Plate Langford Seedling. 



2 Plates Smith Cider. 

 Curtis Peters, 10 plates — 



4 Plates Winter Paradise. 

 6 Plates York Imperial. 



H. G. Baugher, 



I Plate Purple Top Globe Turnips of immense size, yield- 

 ed this year at the rate of 400 bushels per acre. 

 D. G. Minter, 5 plates — 



I Plate Coal. 



1 Plate York Imperial. 



2 Plates York Stripe. 

 I Plate Jonathan. 



A uniformly good exhibit. 

 C. E. Jones, Kearneysville, Va. 



1 Plate Mammoth Black Twig. 

 H. M. Keller, 



2 Plates Winter Banana. 



Very fine fruit, attracted considerable attention. 

 Rufus Lawver, 10 plates — 



2 Plates Paragon (highly colored) . 

 2 Plates Wine Sap. 



1 Plate New Centennial. 



2 Plates Gano. 



2 Plates Seedlings (attractive red fruit, of medium size). 

 I Plate well-colored fruit, resembling King (said to result 

 from top-working Summer Pambo on natural stock). 



