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(enclosed in letter:) NEW APPLES WAX FATTER_ If the Lord makes any little apples you’d never guess it from the “apple show-”
Fat and sissy is today’s apple. We saw it go on annual review the other day before the fruit men of Western New York at that familiar January horticultural event which makes the old Edgerton Park Exposition buildings temporarily come out of their doldrums, bristle with farm machinery and generally hum as of old. And if there’s anything purtier than a shining red apple we haven’t met it—in January, anyway.
There’s more to an apple than meets the eye- And a new apple, if it wants to get ahead in the world, has got to pass so many tests, it’s a wonder one ever survives to meet a pie crust.
Once upon a time an apple got by if it was good for baking, made a good pie or was tasty for sass and cider. Now it must be a good copper, it must endure bravely the rigors of picking, packing, storing and shipping. It must please the palate when used fresh for assorted purposes and —major latter day note—it must go through the freezer well.
Once in a while a valuable new apple arrives by accident as a sport —or a freak—on an established variety, as in the case of Red Spy and Red Gravestein.
But most new apples, or any other new fruits, have been birth-controlled. They are the result of mating
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