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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
FOURTH NATIONAL APPLE SHOW, SPOKANE 
Spokane, Wash., Sept.—Five hundred dollars in gold and a 
massive silver loving cup, suitably engraved, presented by the Inter¬ 
national Apple Shippers’ association, will be aw^arded to the exhibitor 
of the best packed carload entered at the fourth National Apple show in 
Spokane, November 23 to 30. The total value of the prizes and 
premiums is $20,000. The judges will award prizes of $300 to firsts and 
$100 to seconds in carload contests on each of these varieties: Jona¬ 
than, McIntosh Red, Rome Beauty, Spitzenberg, Wagener, Winesap, 
Yellow Newton, also on the best mixed car of standard winter varieties, 
each to consist of at least 50 boxes, and the best car of any standard 
variety not named in the foregoing. A special premium of $200 is 
offered for the most artistically decorated entry in the carload class. 
“The trustees think this arrangement of the carload prizes will be 
more satisfactory to all the growers and districts than was possible by 
the terms of the championship contest, which was heretofore a feature,’’ 
said Harry J. Neely, first vice-president of the National Apple Show, 
Inc. ‘ ‘The championship prize was $ i ,000. It is possible for an exhibi¬ 
tor to receive a similar amount, besides gaining three distinct honors: 
Winning first on pack, first in his class on variety, and first for decora¬ 
tive features-. Another thing is that certain varieties will not be forced 
into competition under a handicap because of the higher quality rating 
of other apples.’* 
The carload contest calls for entries of 630 boxes or 210 barrels. 
The exhibitor must be the owner, lessee, or authorized agent of the land 
where the apples were grown and give a sworn statement when making 
entry that the apples were grown in one orchard. The judges will 
consider quality, color, size, uniformity, condition, and pack in scoring 
to make their awards. 
Another competition is to bring out originality in design and at¬ 
tractiveness of display, not necessarily of a commercial value, and is 
open to associations, districts, lodges, societies or unions having a 
membership of more than five persons. Two hundred dollars will be 
awarded for the most unique and artistic display, the second prize being 
$100. Wide latitude is allowed in designs and decorations. 
There also will be a similar contest, open to individuals, the first 
prize being $200, with $100 for the second. These displays will be 
passed upon by a committee of special judges, who will consider only 
the merits of the unique and artistic sides of the exhibits. As an added 
inducement the judges will award premiums of $50 each to the five 
contestants whose displays rank closest to the winners of first and second 
prizes. 
One hundred dollars to the first and $50 to second is offered for 
general collective displays of apples grown on irrigated land and shown 
by commercial clubs, unions, associations, counties or districts, but not 
by individuals. The same provisions apply for the best general col¬ 
lective display of apples grown on non-irrigated land. The first prize is 
$100, the second $50. 
Fifteen competitions are announced in the lo-box classes, taking in 
standard varieties, with first prizes of $40 and $20 to seconds, and added 
premiums for pack. There will be 15 competitions in the 5-box classes, 
with first prizes of $25, and second prizes of $15; also added pack 
prizes. An added contest in this class is for five varieties in as many 
boxes. The first prize is $50 and $25 for the second. In the single box 
class there will be 50 competitions, the varieties including 30 of the 
best known standard winter apples, with first prizes of $10 and second 
of $5. There will be additional prizes on pack. 
Seventy-five dollars is offered for the heaviest pyramid of 50 apples, 
weight to determine the award, with $25 as the second prize. Other 
contests on big apples are for entries of plates of five apples, circum¬ 
ference to determine the awards. The first prize is $25 with $15 as 
second. The exhibitor of the largest single apple will receive $20; the 
second largest, $10. 
Forty dollars to firsts and $20 to seconds are offered for displays of 
one barrel or three boxes of any variety grown in the eastern, middle 
western, southern, and northwestern groups of states and districts or 
provinces outside of the United States. 
A gold medal banner will be awarded to the manufacturer or dis¬ 
tributor of the most practical and economical new appliance for use in 
planting, cultivating, picking, packing or marketing. The second prize 
is a silver medal banner. 
Four hundred prizes of $2 each to firsts are offered for plates of five 
apples. 
Cups, gold and silver medals, and banners and trophies are offered 
for exhibits of factory and home made apple by-products, also for new 
varieties, and photographs and designs reproduced on apples. 
The added premiums in the foregoing contests are nursery stock, 
orchard implements, spraying machinery and materials, and numerous 
other articles of value to orchardists. The contests in all classes are 
free and open to the world, no charge being made for the space occupied 
in the exhibition halls. 
THE LEMON ASPECT OF THE TARIFF FIGHT 
Without doubt the tariff fight at the special session of 
Congress was intensely bitter while it lasted, but now that the 
smoke has cleared away one is compelled to smile at the 
contest made by the Italian importers in New York for the 
removal of the duty on lemons. This was really the one 
humorous incident in the tariff campaign. Nothing funnier 
could be imagined unless Dr. Cook had appeared to ask that 
gum drops be put on the free list. 
The growers in Italy and Sicily, be it understood, are 
protected by the government, which does not levy an import 
tax, it is true, because no lemons are imported into Italy; 
but it does give a substantial bounty to encourage the busi¬ 
ness, and the entire Italian nation, whether consuming 
lemons or not, helps to pay it. In this country we import 
half of the lemons we use, and we place an import tax on 
those coming from abroad. This has encouraged production 
in this country and has resulted in putting a curb on the 
rapacity of the importers, who formerly manipulated the 
market to their entire satisfaction. But listen to the plea of 
the importers, speaking in disguise from beneath the mantle 
of the “consumer,” namely, the retailers and push-cart men 
dominated by the importers in Little Italy on the East Side 
of New York. They ask for free lemons in behalf of the sick! 
In fact, not one hospital in the country made a plea for free 
lemons. With lemons, under the force of home competition, 
selling lower than any other fruit in the market—lower even 
than potatoes—what an absurd plea. Rather was it not the 
boulevardiers, the bartenders, the idle loungers in the clubs, 
who really pleaded for free lemons to make their cocktails, 
their gin fizzes, their mineral water “lemon squashes,” and 
the other concoctions of the mixologist ? Why not be honest 
about it, and if these are the real sufferers from the fancied 
burden of the lemon tariff, why not help them out with a few 
free lemons direct from the lemon groves? But would one 
destroy a great and growing industry on the simple pleas put 
forth by the importing interests ? 
INTERNATIONAL PLANT BREEDERS MEET 
One of the chief desires in the minds of many American plant 
breeders at present is to secure the sixth session of the International 
Congress of Plant Breeders in 1915 for California. To that end, 
prominent Californians in Paris at the time of the fourth conference in 
September were asked to use their influence at the meeting. There are 
probably a thousand plant breeders in America, and a large proportion 
of these carry on their work in California. Anyone desiring to obtain a 
printed report of the proceedings of the present session being held in 
Paris will do so upon sending $3.00, the membership fee, to Secretary 
Philip L. de Vilmorin, 66 Rue Boissiere, Paris. 
C. W. Denton of C. W. Denton & Sons, Dansville, N. Y., called at 
the office of the National Nurseryman. 
