his year I
raised five apples. Two of these could not be told from Ben Davis. One
looked like Jonathan.

William Cutter: I class it with Ben Davis. It differs little except in
color. Trees are alike, but I think it a younger bearer. I got my grafts
from Lee's Summit, Mo., paying five dollars per 100 for them. One tree I
gave to a friend was this year a wonder to all who saw it.

President Wellhouse: We have seventy or eighty acres in Gano, planted
five or six years ago. While the tree is much like Ben Davis, I can
distinguish a difference in the apples. If I pile both kinds together I
can see a difference; if I pick out a Gano and put it in the Ben Davis
pile, neither I nor any other man on earth can tell it from the Ben
Davis. I do not know whether it is distinct from the Ben Davis or not.
If it is Ben Davis, it is all right. I hope it is distinct, but have so
far been unable to settle the question.

W. G. Gano: We originally found only one tree in an orchard in Pratt
county, Missouri, and in the same orchard there were plenty of Ben Davis
trees. There may have been a mix-up of these varieties, but you will not
be disappointed if you get the Gano.

President Wellhouse: Before planting, I went to Lee's Summit for three
or four years in succession and examined the original trees, to see
whether we ought to plant any; we concluded to plant, for if they were
not a new apple they would be the Ben Davis anyhow. We may have obtained
Ben Davis trees.

Mrs. A. Z. Moore: My husband handles many of them on commission, and
favors them both in the orchard and in the market. He says they are
known as Jonathan, not as Gano, and while you may not distinguish them
in a pile of Ben Davis, you will know the difference if you put your
teeth into them.

YORK IMPERIAL.

_Synonym_: Johnson's Fine Winter.

Origin thought to be York county, Pennsylvania. Tree moderately
vigorous, productive. Young wood rich brown, downy. Fruit medium, oblate
oblique, whitish, shaded with crimson in the sun, thinly sprinkled with
light and gray dots. Stalk short. Calyx closed, or partially open. Basin
large, deep. Flesh yellowish, firm, crisp, juicy, pleasant, mild
subacid. Good to very good. Core compact, small. November to February.

Remarks on the York Imperial by members of the State Horticultural
Society:

C. C. Cook: I have planted heavily of York Imperial. They are not yet in
full bearing. They have given me good results. The trees are of