SOCIETY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS. 2J'S 



Mr. Piper — I consider that the White Star does better planted 

 on high ground. 



Mr. Rice — The White Star has been a very poor yielder and 

 very poor in quality with me. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FRUIT EXHIBIT. 



Your committee, appointed to report upon the exhibits, find the 

 following on the tables, to-wit: 



W. H. Hansen, Franklin Grove — '19 plates, to-wit: Twenty 

 Ounce, Glori Mundi, Tallman Sweet, Grimes' Golden, Willow 

 Twig, Rawles' Janet, Roman Stem, Flushing Spitzenburg, Fameuse, 

 Domine, Seek-No-Further, Limber Twig, Michael Henry, Ben Davis, 

 Whitney Russet, an unnamed Russet and two seedlings. 



William Bell, Franklin Grove — 7 plates: Northern Spy, White 

 Pippin, Roman Stem, Domine, Westfield Seek- No-Further, Minkler, 

 Romanite. 



C. Durkee, Franklin Grove — 3 plates: Rawles' Janet, Roman 

 Stem, Willow Twig. «• 



D. F. Lehman, Franklin Grove — 9 plates: unnamed. 

 .J. Y. Cotta, Nursery — 1 plate: Garfield. 



W. Wicks, Mt. GsiXxoW — l plate: Willow Twig. 



Warren Dysart, Franklin Grove — 1 plate: Domine. , 



Mrs. M. Hall, Franklin Grove — Ijjlate: White Pippin. 



Joseph Mattern, Franklin Grove — 1 plate: Cayuga Redstreak. 



Marcus Wingert, Franklin Grove— ^ plates: Northern Spy, 

 Willow Twig, Tallman Sweet, Winter Pennock, Roman Stem, 

 Rawles' Janet. 



L. C. Hansen, Franklin Grove — 6 plates: apples unnamed and 

 one plate of a seedling crab. 



L. W. Reigle, Franklin Grove — 2p)lates: Willow Twig and 

 Rawles' Janet. 



Dysart Lincoln, Franklin Grove — 9 plates oi New \ork grown, 

 and 2 plates of home grown apples. 



The exhibit, in the main, was a fine one, most of the plates 

 being of large, handsome, well kept specimens, proving that Northern 

 Illinois is capable of producing an excellent assortment of apples, 

 sufficient for all our wants, if trees are properly grown and fairly 

 well cared for in the orchard. 



We also find a fine exhibit of specimen branches of the follow- 

 ing varieties of evergreens: hemlock and Norway spruce, balsam 

 fir, white Austrian, Norwegian red, Scotch and sugar pine, Ameri- 

 can and Siberian arbor vitae, red cedar and Irish juniper, and, also, a 

 branch of the European larch — all correctly labeled. Only regret 

 that the ten thousand farm owners of Northern Illinois could not 



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