New  York’s  Blue  Ribbon  Apples 
The  Opportunity  They  Bring 
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How  to  plant, 
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Cn  the  cover  page  this  week  you  may 
see  a  true  picture  of  the  type  of  apples 
which  enabled  New  York  to  win  prizes  at 
the  Panama  Exposition.  This  picture 
represents  Baldwins  as  grown  by  J.  A. 
liepworth  *St  Sons  of  Milton,  N.  Y.  The 
size  and  color  are  true  to  nature  and 
this  is  a  fair  specimen  of  the  best  pro¬ 
duct  of  the  Hudson  Valley. 
The  remarkable  success  of  New  York 
growers  at  this  exposition  is  due  to  ft 
combination  of  natural  and  personal  ad¬ 
vantages  and  we  must  consider  them  in 
estimating  the  advantages  coining  to  us 
from  this  contest.  Most  apple  varieties 
those  who  will  not  improve  their  methods 
of  growing  and  packing.  On  the  other 
hand  those  men  who  will  study  and  work 
to  produce  the  highest  class  fruit  will 
find  in  this  prize-winning  the  opportuni¬ 
ty  of  a  lifetime,  because  t he  public  will 
not  be  denied  but  will  demand  and  seek 
out  the  best. 
As  the  result,  of  this  we  expect  to  see 
several  favored  spots  in  the  Hudson  Val¬ 
ley  and  in  Central  and  Western  New 
York  become  rich  and  famous  beyond 
our  present,  comprehension  in  the  pro¬ 
duction  of  high-class!  apples.  Taking  this 
prize-winning  fruit  as  a  model,  intelli- 
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Our  address  Is  easy  to  remember, 
town  is  named  after  our  nurseries. 
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Nurseries 
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are  creations  of  locality  and  peculiar 
soil.  To  reach  high  quality  and  ap¬ 
pearance  they  must  have  the  proper  soil 
and  climate  conditions.  It  is  well  known, 
for  example  that  conditions  which  are 
ideal  for  Baldwin  might  not  prove  so  for 
Spy,  Rome  Beauty  or  Winesap.  The 
prizes  won  at  San  Francisco  went,  to 
growers  who  have  selected  varieties  nat¬ 
urally  suited  to  their  conditions  and 
then  handled  the  soil  and  adapted  meth¬ 
ods  of  culture  so  as  to  host  suit:  the  de¬ 
velopment  of  the  fruit.  You  cannot  hope 
to  produce  high-class  specimens  of  any 
variety  until  you  are  willing  to  do  this. 
Then,  again,  the  man  who  grows  such 
fruit  must  be  a  scientist  and  an  artist 
as  well  as  a  practical  man.  One  of  the 
judges  at  the  New  York  State  Fair  said 
that  the  apple  prizes  were  going  more 
and  more  to  a  few  men  who  had  an  art¬ 
ist’s  eye.  Other  growers  might  produce 
just  as  fine  fruit*  but  the  man  with  the 
true  eye  for  beauty  was  tile  best  exhibi¬ 
tor,  because  he  could  make  the  most  at¬ 
tractive  display.  Thus  these  prize-win¬ 
ning  apples  represent  the  highest  skill  in 
fruit  growing  and  the  highest  art  in  se¬ 
lection. 
What,  then,  is  it  worth  to  what  we 
may  call  the  “average  fruit  grower?” 
We  want  this  clearly  understood  with¬ 
out  exaggeration  so  that  we  may  all 
know  what  it  means  to  have  these  beau¬ 
tiful  "pples  head  the  list.  It  does  not 
mean  that  any  apples  grown  in  New 
York  can  be  sold  at  a  high  figure,  sim¬ 
ply  because  these  skilled  growers  beat 
the  world.  It  just  means  that  growers, 
both  large  and  small,  have  a  new  oppor¬ 
tunity  for  getti.ng  into  the  first  class. 
This  winning  will  not  make  it  easier  for 
New  York  growers  to  produce  and  sell 
the  finest  fruit — it.  will,  rather,  make  it 
harder  for  them,  but  it  does  give  them 
larger  opportunity;  The  greater  the  prize 
the  closer  will  be  the  scrutiny  of  New 
York  fruit.  The  Northwestern  growers 
have  great  crops  of  apples  which  they 
must  dispose  of,  and  they  will  see  to  it 
that  the  most  critical  comparison  is 
made  between  their  fruit  and  ours.  Eu¬ 
less  the  New  York  fruit  can  be  kept  up 
to  a  high  average  and  properly  graded 
and  packed  we  believe  this  prize-winning 
will  greatly  benefit  a  few  careful  grow¬ 
ers,  but  xirovc  of  no  benefit  whatever  to 
gent  growers  will  cooperate  and  adopt 
standards  for  growing,  grading,  packing 
and  selling  which  put  their  business  on 
the  surest  basis.  They  will  make  use  of 
every  appliance,  method  and  material 
needed  in  this  work  and  will  organize 
their  business  fully.  In  fact  we  believe 
that  this  prize  winning  is  to  revolution¬ 
ize  the  apple  growing  business  at  the 
East.  It  will  he  a  slow  process  but  the 
men  who  won  these  prizes  will  not  let 
it  stop  and  more  and  more  and  more  of 
the  other  growers  will  join  them  after 
realizing  just  what  this  victory  means. 
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A  New  Seedling  Apple 
Among  the  medals  awarded  at  San 
Francisco  for  fine  apples  was  one  given 
to  Abram  Van  Vrauken’s  Sons  of  Rex- 
ford,  N.  Y.,  for  a  now  seedling.  A  pic¬ 
ture  of  this  apple  is  shown  above, 
and  there  follows  a  statement  by  Mr. 
Van  Yranken  regarding  this  fruit.  The 
specimens  which  came  here  were,  as  Mr. 
Van  Yranken  states,  not  at  their  best, 
but  we  think  its  description  very  fair  and 
conservative : 
To  begin  with,  we  are  very  sorry  to 
have  this  apple  go  before  the  public  in 
its  present  condition,  as  it  is  a  late  Fall 
apple  (coming  shortly  after  the 
Wealthy)  ;  also  we  experienced  a  severe 
hailstorm  on  June  27th.  which  left  very 
few  show  specimens  (all  of  which  went 
to  Sail  Francisco).  These  we  send  you 
are  imperfect,  undersize,  dull  in  color 
and  nearly  gone  with  age.  As  to  the 
history  of  the  apple,  Van  Vranken’s 
Seedling  No.  2,  several  years  ago  we 
sowed  some  apple  pomace.  Failing  to 
graft  or  bud  the  seedlings,  a  few  years 
later  we  dug  about  100  of  the  best  and 
hardiest  of  them  and  sot  in  one  of  our 
orchards.  All  of  these  have  come  in 
bearing  now.  and  about  six  of  them  are 
worthy  of  at  least  further  trial.  ’Phis 
one.  known  as  No.  2,  is  a  tree  of  great 
hardiness,  good  open,  spreading  growth, 
a  light  annual  bearer  of  a  large  striped 
red  apple.  The  fruit  is  not  among  tin* 
highest  for  dessert  purposes,  hut  of  ex- 
e  ljeiii  culinary  qualities.  Season  Fall. 
The  tree  is  in  medium  light  sand  without 
special  care.  ('has.  <}.  l’orter  and  others 
have  tested  the  fruit  and  called  it  fur 
superior  to  Alexander  or  Wolf  River. 
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