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Show Highly Colored Apples. We all desire highly colored apples, but what can wo do to tho soil or to the trees to add color to the fruit? Wo have been told many times that certain fertilizers, and particularly potash, applied to the soil will heighten height-en the color of apples, but I have doubts on this claim, says Green's Fruit Grower I am convinced, however, that sunshine admitted free-Iv free-Iv to the fruit will add tho desired color. Thereforo the judicious pruning prun-ing ot trees, avoiding over-production or crowding of tho fruit, will add the desired color. We have all noticed that fruit on the outside of tho tree, visited by tho sun almost every day, Is of a bright red color on the Baldwins Bald-wins and Spies, and that we can wrlto our names on the skin of these npplen by pasting a perforated paper on the side of the apple. When apples are brightly colored they aro apt to bo f better quality than thoso growing on the interior of the troes, where they cannot bo reached by tho sun. |