A CATALOG OF NEW FRUITS 
WHY DO WE NEED NEW FRUITS? 
KENDALL 
Because there are no perfect fruits and all can be improved in many ways. 
How? 
Most fruits can be improved in size, color, shape, texture, flavor, and aroma. 
By breeding greater immunity to this disease or that, as pear blight, mosaic of 
raspberries, apple-scab, peach-mildew, and many others. 
Fruit users need new fruits for new purposes, as canning, freezing, fruit juices, 
preserves, and earlier or later seasons. 
Fruit growers need better pollinating, earlier bearing, later blooming, better 
producing, and hardier varieties. 
To secure these and many other improvements the Geneva Experiment Station 
has been breeding new fruits for a half century. The sorts it has produced 
can be obtained by fruit growers from the New York State Fruit Testing 
Cooperative Association. 
What is the New York State Fruit Testing Cooperative Association? 
It is an organization to test new fruits of which any fruit grower in the world may 
become a member by paying a fee of one dollar, after which the new varieties 
listed in the annual catalog of the Association may be purchased at cost. 
Applications for membership should be made to the New York State Fruit 
Testing Cooperative Association, Geneva, N. Y. 
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