The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-20

over year ago that | believed this
apple would pay as one of the new
varieties There were some who
doubted the correctness of my esti-
mate on this apple. Rather than goI
into a discussion, I decided to wait
and in the meantime investigate. II
expected to have a few boxes of my
own that l know to be genuine be-
cause Stark Bros sent me the CRAFTS
with which I top-worked a few trees
This was done some three years ago
last spring But it SO happened that
the trees top-worked with these Deli
cious scions are in a low place and
Jack Frost caught them last April
and we had no crop. But | have had
other advantages in studying this
question of the value of the Delicious
and l have tried to make good use OF
them. During the Alaska-Yukon-I
Pacific exposition I met the leading
f, nit growers of Washington and 9TH
er northwestern states and quite a
few distinguished men from the mid
die west and the east I would not
every fruit grower whom / met on
the Delicious-possibly not half of
them I am not a crank on anything
or if I am / do not know it. But
do know that I talked with quite a
few men whose judgment l respect
as to the merits of this apple. l can
not now call to mind that even one
expressed a decided disapproval. Ny
remembrance is that very few said
that they did not regard it as a good
cooking apple but my impression is
that all declared it to be a good eat
ing apple and valuable as dessert.
Quite good many of our leading
horticulturists expressed themselves
as delighted with the Delicious. But
perhaps the most convincing proof of
the value of this apple was the fact
that it was on exhibition during the
entire fair. When the fair opened on
June first the Delicious was there
and if there was any time till the
close of the exposition that it was not
in evidence. I do not call the fact to
mind OF course the apples shown
from June to the middle of Septem-
Der were from cold storage. But it
is a good deal for an apple that it
will keep we'll in cold storage. The
out of storage in good condition. but
held up well when exposed to the
heat of summer. The apples were
large and ELECTED many very favor
able comments. 1t has been claimed
by some that the Delicious does well
in Chelan county, but does not do so
we'll in the Yakima valley and I had
supposed that this might be true, but
as fine Delicious as were on exhibi-
ton were grown near Granger in the
Yakima valley Then Dick Hart,
whose orchard is within one mile of
my main fruit farm in the Yakima
valley, took first prize on Delicious
at the National Apple show at Spo-
kane the past November. I wish
had 500 trees of this splendid apple
in bearing in my own orchards.
The following letter from w J.
Taylor of Wincsap, Chelan county,
Wash, suggests some things worthy
of the attention of farmers and also
raises a question of Importance con-
corning cooking apples that is one
of the live questions among fruit
growers:
L have gone into groceries in Sc
attic and other towns in the state
and asked for cooking apples and
would be told, oh, yes, we have good
ones and then have been shown a
lot of little scrubby. knotty things
that would cook about like corks.
The idea seeming to be that any ap-
pie not fit to eat is a cooking ap-
Pile Not more than once or twice in
six years residence in Seattle did
find really good cooking apples in
a store. mean apples that would
cook up like Maiden Blush and
others used to cook in Iowa Now,
/ am putting out a home orchard
and / don't want all big red apples.
but want few good cookers. What
varieties can you recommend for that
purpose in this locality
1.-THE lack of good cooking apples
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