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Show NEW TEST FOR I APPLE TREES AMHERST, Mass., Jan. 7. How to H know apple trees by their leaves and M not alone by their fruleds bids fair H to become part of tho business ..f the H 18 o B seven years' research at the experiment H stutiun of the Massachusetts Agricul-tural Agricul-tural colleg" here. Systematic study HJ Of the leaf characters of young jppla H trees conducted by Dr. J. K. Shaw, ex- Nl peri promologist has enabled him to announce a new method Of Identifying Ip1 nursery stock that uromJses to remove on thi lerl growing. "For no one who has not H purch.i i , labelled 'Mcintosh,' only to find eight years laier that the supposed Mcintosh en all Wall i - la almost worthiest In New Bngland t uppreclate what It means to the fruit. grower to have tho uncertainty re-moved re-moved from the purchase of his nur-sery nur-sery stock1' says a Statement issued from the ejtperlment station. Massachusetts Fruit Growers' assr-elation. assr-elation. Dr. Shaw applied his Identi- flcatle.n mel In.d :;'Uii .ipiilf trees In, Saal merfl tbe nnrserj men. lie threw mit , nearly 10 per cent of the young trees) I L Dr. Shaw's Investigation Involved I sUldy ft leaves of 200 varieties of ap. HI ; pie trees collected from orchards of S( ( distant states as well as In New Eng- Wii lund. He discovered that always there If wero certain characters invariable In Hj ; leaves of the same variety and a R-reat H tnany points of ellffereuco bettwsjSjn the leaves of different varieties. HJ During hi.- . iri of resoach i" jj (piled his leaf tests to 1100 vounjc ap- H pie irees as hc set them in his own HJ experimental plots. Only one tree HJ turned out. when it tarne into bear- HJ lng. to be different from hla mark- H Dr. Shaw docs not pretend that anv- H body can Identify fruit tre. g by tholf K le-aves. Rut study, he says, Wi en- H able the fruit grower to distinguish H an;. rlven variety In the nursery. H |