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Show PLANT RED APPLES. Were every consumer of fruits n con-noleur, con-noleur, the grower ot apples for commercial com-mercial purposes would have wide range nf vnrletlos Acquaintance with chnracterl"tlc excellence of tho several sorts comiels the fruit fancier to Include In-clude In his list perhaps fifty npples, each possessing some special feature of Its own Among tho great masses of consumcts, It Is safe to say that not one ln ten has nn knowledge of nnmos nr special qualities recullar to nny of tho list of apples grown ln America. It Is true th it occasionally Is found a person ln the crowded cities who, with fond recollections of the hnloon tln)s of )nuth on the dear old homestead, clings to the epic) Husset or the Juicy Snow apple ni the aromatic Peirmnln, nr the beautiful Hellllnwer, or the rich Orrenlng. or one of many good things Inseparably nssoclnttd with thoughts of blissful hours nbout tho fireplace In da)s long gone, but to one such person thete nro linn) scores to whom ono apple ap-ple Is as another save only that tho best' Is thnt which look finest Hence it Is that the grower tin Is greatest profit In npples which appeal most strongly to the sense of sight 111 mankind While It Is not true that nil red npples nro of the best quallt) It Is, nevertheless, true thnt the) arc most ntfrnctlve and will sell to the nvernge buyer before a better bet-ter npplo of n light color A little observation ob-servation will corroborate this statement state-ment I,nnk nt a fruit stand nr grocer's window ncross the street Ho may have n dozen varieties nf llght-cnlorcl np- les nn dlspla), while 'nnly nne big red niple' Is shown Tho red npplo draws the attention nnd In a majoilty nf cases, Is sold in spite of the fact thnt ever) ono nf tho white npples may be of a better quallt) Color nppeallng to the Ideal of beautiful does the work Not nnly In point nf nttrnctlvcucss but In the more Important matter nt lone keeping It sn happens that with few exceptions the red apples excel Here Is u most Important point to consider con-sider Apples Ihnt ripen In the summer nnd early fall do not keep be)ond a month nr six weeks Coming upon tho market nt o time when frulls nnd vegetables vege-tables nro In gre itest abundance the apple Is not In demand The public taste Is suited and the housewife seeks only the fruits most suitable for mulling mu-lling und preserving 'ihtrfore tho summer sum-mer npplo, which must be utilized quickly or not nt nil, becomes n drug nnd must t,n ut nny small price that muy be offered Quito a dlfftrent thing Is the npplo which keeps until Mnrrh or April following! fol-lowing! Then even the most piovldent hnusewire has made great Inronds upon her stock of Jellies, Jams, preserves nnd bottled fruit nnd the great Amerlcnn dessert, the much-abused pie, must stllle be served Then Is tho npplo king nf fruits nnd tho variety which Is ln evidence nt that time Is king nt kings Now does tho big red upplu" reign supreme' Another point nf prime Importance cr mmerclnlly Is that the red apple docs not show discoloration from brulscn received re-ceived In picking, packing nnd shipping, ship-ping, while nn equal dent In a light npple bt comes n serious blemish ns all bruised si ots very soon turn black necessarily nec-essarily making the ,i plu more or ltsa repulsive In appearance The nbove mints being In favor of the red npple the quetslon arises what varieties nf red a les uio must desirable' desira-ble' Thus thi rhniic narrows nnd It would be piesumptuoiiH to undertake to name tht best ' among so niuii) that are superior S caking from experience In Wibcr county nnt northern Iltnli It Is safe to say that the Jonathan Wlno-sap Wlno-sap nnd Hen Davis all ted apples and hood keepers mo perhaps the most tollable to-llable and best troductng sorts Of these the Jonnthan Is often referred lo as the king of nil npples, whlih title Is tamed b) reuson nf Individual ex-itllrnie ex-itllrnie only since iltlitr of the either two varletlts nnmtd nre giealer pro-ilutrrs pro-ilutrrs nnd equally knod ktciers Indeed In-deed In n snrdl I money rensc Hie Hen Dills Is by ininy nri linrdlsts considered consid-ered and called "the money-maker since It combines more good points Hi in nny, viz Hardy tree, curly burning lute blooming which ntcnuuts feu icmi-I icmi-I trlty or litnrlng. uniform Innds nf frull, never breaking tho Hie, uhnin uvenigo size, lllkllly colored and equal to an) In keeping quality Whllo numerous other red npples ate grown In I'tuh many having single points of merit equal lo the three mentioned men-tioned hi'lin It is sife In say that llinse nanitd nre th. most nil tide and will In the mil. mm- pinve most miltiible to the nrihlir list who treks In krow tho apilis ibmiiil.il li) Hit tiinsuniern thintighnut the woild |