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Yellow Traksparent. 

 One of the best of Earh' Summer Apples. Note the heav}' load of fruit. 



SOME COMMENTS ABOUT IMPORTANT APPLE 

 VARIETIES. 



H. P. Gould, U. S. Dcpartiiiciif of Agriculture. 



In the many lines of progress that have occurred in the rapid 

 development of the fruit industr}- in recent years, there have been 

 none greater than the changed conceptions regarding the variety 

 in its relation to successful fruit culture. 



Though for many years following the formation of the Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society about the middle of the last century, its 

 most conspicuous work was along tlie line of variety adaptation, 

 its influence was apparently somewhat restricted — much more so 

 than in more recent years — and apparently not largely felt by the 

 mass of those who were planting fruit trees. 



In the earlv days, the fact that a variety was pleasing when 

 grown in a particular place was taken as prima facie evidence in 

 great numbers of instances that it would be equally as desirable a 

 hundred or a thousand miles distant where the environment was 

 entirely different. Xot so at the present time ! There is nothing 



