only recommend a tree or two of them for the
family orchard. It has had its day in the West, and is succeeded by more
profitable varieties.

H. L. Ferris (Osage county): I would not plant them to sell. They are
too subject to diseases--bitter rot, etc.

W. G. Gano: I think it could be discarded altogether.

James Sharp: Will not pay for commercial orchard.

G. P. Whiteker: Janets bring a good price. They are late keepers. We
kept ours this year until we began to pick apples the following fall. It
is not a good commercial apple.

Phillip Lux: I would place it on the retired list.

William Cutter: Only fit for family use. Trees overbear; fruit small.

B. F. Smith: I would place it on the retired list.

SMITH'S CIDER.

_Synonyms_: Smith's, Fuller, Pennsylvania Cider, Popular Bluff, and
Fowler.

Origin, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. This apple is widely grown and much
esteemed as a profitable market sort. The tree is a very vigorous,
straggling, spreading grower, and productive. Young wood a rich, dark
brown. Fruit medium to large, roundish oblate conic, yellow, shaded and
striped with red, sparsely covered with gray dots. Stalk slender, of
medium length, inserted in a deep, rather narrow cavity. Calyx closed,
set in a broad, rather shallow basin. Flesh whitish, tender, juicy,
crisp, pleasant, mild subacid. Good December to March.

Remarks on the Smith's Cider by members of the State Horticultural
Society:

C. C. Cook: I planted Smith's Cider pretty heavily, and now regret it.
It blights badly, and the apples fall off. I intend to replace it with
York Imperial.

E. J. Holman: It deserves a place in the family orchard, and a small
place in the commercial orchard. They are as large as Ben Davis, and as
great bearers, but they fall from the tree sooner.

James Sharp: We had 500 Smith's Cider. Nearly all blighted and died;
have never paid me.

G. Whiteker: It is a splendid apple, but blights; I think it will not be
profitable.

B. F. Smith: We should not drop it from the list; it is a fairly good
apple.

MAIDEN'S BLUSH.

A remarkably beautiful apple, a native of New Jersey, and first
described by Coxe. It begins to ripen about the 20th of August, and
continues until the last of October. It has all the beauty of color of
the pretty little Lady Apple, and is much cultivated and admired, both
for the table and for cooking. It is also very highly esteemed for
drying. This variety forms a handsome, rapid-