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Fruit Notes from Missouri 
(Continued from page 1545) 
every way than buying along at retail. 
The Delicious apples do not color deep¬ 
ly here, and this detracts from their at¬ 
tractiveness. This year, due to crowding, 
the fruit was paler than usual. On the 
other hand, the King David with as full 
a crop, colored with all it^ old-time 
beauty. Iu fact, I do not know of any 
apple that paints itself so uniformly and 
so brilliantly, and when we consider its 
early and regular bearing and great pro¬ 
ductiveness we must concede that it is 
in a class by itself. Another thing in 
its favor was 'that while the Delicious 
ran but little over half size King David 
averaged very closely to its usual size 
when not overloaded. Jonathan bore only 
a medium crop. Its apples averaged 
larger than King David, but only a small 
proportion colored real deeply, and they 
began to drop eaidy, while the others 
hung tenaciously. This year Senator 
bore a fair crop, mostly on one side of 
the trees, hut it is four crops short of 
the record of King David and two of 
Delicious. Its apples were large, flat- 
tish and prettily specked over a very deep 
red. To my surprise I found myself 
taking a decided liking to the flavor of 
this apple and going back to the tree 
whenever apple-hungry. Although listed 
as a Winter apple it was easy to find 
specimens that were mellow and in prime 
shape for eating out of hand. 
Stayman. all in all. is not very satis¬ 
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an unattractive color, about like that, of 
the old Geniton. Secondly, it has not 
been productive, and thirdly, nearly half 
its apples cracked so badly that they could 
only be marketed as windfalls, and rot 
quickly set iu in the exposed flesh. To be 
sure this is the first year they have 
cracked in this way, and it may be that 
the soil, which is highly manured, is too 
rich, for this variety is said to do well 
ou high dry land. But in its favor we 
can say that it is unsurpassed for cook¬ 
ing. even before fully grown. Nothing 
can exceed its color, tenderness and| 
piquancy when cooked for canning or ap¬ 
ple sauce, and when ripe in the Winter 
I have found most people who have given 
it a test prefer it to Delicious. It also 
grows to a large size. 
A letter from Stark Bros, gives facts 
that afford a clue to an important dis¬ 
covery, and that is that the apple pic¬ 
tured and described by me on page 1347 
as the San Jacinto or Wilson’s Red June 
is really the Sau Jacinto, and that the 
latter sort is an entirely distinct variety. 
“When we began growing Wilson’s Red 
June, Mr. C. M. Stark, who started the 
propagation of the variety, said that it 
was entirely distinct from San Jacinto, 
but within the last 10 years, the idea 
that the two varieties are identical has 
become almost general and propagation 
we fear has on this account become 
mixed.” Thus reads the letter, and it 
describes Wilson's as a long fiery red 
apple, This makes entirely clear to me 
what was before confusing. I know now 
that I have two trees of Wilson’s and one 
of the Sau Jacinto, the latter younger 
and procured from a Texas nursery. I had 
lost the names of the trees in this row, and 
when Wilson's came into hearing I sent 
sample specimens to Washington for 
identification. The department there 
wrote me that neither they nor Stark 
Bros., to whom they had forwarded the 
samples, were able to recognize them. 
When the true San Jacinto bore this year 
there was plainly a difference between 
them and the unknown apples. Judging 
from this year's crop the true Sau Jacinto 
is superior iu every respect. The tree 
was more productive, though younger, the 
fruit averaged considerably larger and 
was more deeply and uniformly colored. 
The largest Sau Jacinto were a third 
larger than the largest specimens of the 
Wilson’s. Nevertheless Wilson’s is a fine 
I apple and worthy of a place iu any or¬ 
chard. and might he considered unrivalled 
for its season were it not for the other 
claimant, which ripens about the same 
time. There are two features that will 
always identify it; one is its long shape, 
1 called “sheep nose." and the other a 
peculiar swelling that tills up all or part 
of the basin at the stem end: ou the other 
hand ihe San Jacinto 
the picture mentioned 
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