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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt:...Montreal Beauty. 3. Badly injured.--Autumn Streaked, Barry, Belborodooskoe, Ben Davis, Borsdorf, Boskoop, Canada Reinette, Constantine, Cooper Market, Czar Thorn, Ewalt, Flory, Golden Sweet, Gravenstein, Hurlbut, Jefl'eris, Jersey Sweet, Kalkidon, Lankford, Late Duehess, Longfield, Milden, Milwaukee, Monmouth, Mother, Nero, Newman, Northwestern Greening, Ostrakofi', Paragon, Parry Vl1ite, Peck Pleasant, Peter, Rambo, Red "Beach (9, p. 31). Russian varieties; June, Scott, Smith Cider, Sops of Wine, Switzer, Wagener Improved, Walbridge, Washington Royal, Wealthy, White Pippin, Windsor, Winesap, Workaroe, Yellow Newtown, Yellow Transparent.' CnABAPrL1:s.--Chicago, Coral, Hyslop, Martha, Paul Imperial, September, Transcendent, Whitney. ' 4. Very badly injurcd.--Baldwin, Collamer, Jonathan, Mann, Red Transparen.t, Repka, Rhode Island Greening, Romna, Saint Peter,' Twenty Ounce, Vineuse Rouge, Winter Banana, Wagener, Yellow Calville. This classification shows, as did the one prepared by Beach in 1894, that crabapples and the Russian varieties are usually more susceptible to bordeaux injury than other varieties. The fact is better shown in the following table: TABLE 1.--CLAssIF1CAT1oN or Arruss AS T0 IMMUNITY TO BoanEaux INJURY. ' Class. Iniury. Crabapples. Russian apples. Other apples. No. Per ct. No. Per ct. No. Per ct. 1...... No injury or very slight............. 2 8.3 34 28.3 2...... Slight injury........... 2 20 4 16.7 41 34.2 3...... Badly insured.......... 8 80 12 50.0 37 30.8 4...... Very ba ly injured.................. 6 25.0 8 6.7 Attention should be called to the fact that while Russian apples as a class are susceptible to bordeaux injury, yet some of the most valuable of them are immune. Thus Alexander, Oldenburg, Red Astrachan, Tetof...