This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
When a fruit once becomes widely scattered, it achieves popular favor, simply because people know no better. In the olden time, it was the fashion to take votes at Pomological meetings as to the best varieties, and hundreds of people voted on the best they knew. No new and superior variety could get votes in this way. To-day there would be many votes on apples that would not include the " York Imperial," but the vote would only prove that it takes time for superior varieties to become well known.
 
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