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Now the apples T see here remind me of the pleasure I had when 

 1 did see an American apple. I have forgotten whether it was a Ben 

 Davis or what it was ; anyway a red apple, instead of the pale affair, 

 such as they grow over there. So, let me say again, as I said before, 

 very strongly, that the chances of apple growing in the future in this 

 country are very vast and anybody who has an opportunity to do so 

 ought to go into it head and soul. 



Mr. Wilson of Iowa. — Now in regard to the Russian apples, did 

 you taste them over there? 



Prof. Von Schrenk. — Yes, sir; I brought a great many of the seeds 

 of those Russian apples with me, particularly on account of the question 

 that was raised by, you in respect to Iowa and Dakota. Those apples 

 were acid apples, most of them, and they were apples that were not as 

 large as our Ben Davis or Gano, but they were apples of a very fine 

 flavor; they were of a pale color and like the majority of the Russian 

 apples we know here of a hardier grade, but they were apples that stood 

 the temperature over there, but none of them, of course, were equal in 

 body or flavor to any of these we have here at the present time; but the 

 chances are that if we are careful enough in selecting the right variety, 

 and perhaps grafting with some of them, we may be able to get them to 

 grow through the winter without root rotting. 



