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Mr. Galusha said, however, that, if picked early and kept in a cool, 

 dry place, the appJes will keep a month or six weeks, if the family will 

 allow them to. The apple is so large and fair, and withal so tender and 

 good to cook, that it doesn't keep well, unless the supply is large. 



THE DOMINE 



Did not want for advocates. This variety sustains even a better reputation 

 among members than in former years, inasmuch as the fruit is fairer upon 

 old than upon young trees ; though the trees are not quite as hardy as is 

 desirable. 



NEWTOWN PIPPIN 



Was generally condemned, though Mr. McWhorter said he had moderate 

 crops from thirty trees top-grafted or budded on seedlings. 



D. C. ScoFiELD said that, in an orchard ten miles west of Elgin, 

 planted on hazel-barrens, Newtown Pippin trees had averaged two dollars 

 and a half to three dollars per tree, per year, in value of apples sold. 



CAYUGA RED STREAK. 



The President — It drops from the tree on my grounds. I will ask 

 Mr. Minkler of his experience with it. 



Mr. Minkler — The tree is one of the best and most profitable in 

 my orchard. The fruit is very large, fair, handsome, and of fair quality; 

 I can always sell it, whether apples are plenty in the market or not. The 

 fruit does not all color at once, and I go over my trees about three 

 times, picking them as soon as colored. They are so large that they fill 

 up fast, and make m.ore bushels than most people would judge by seeing 

 them on the trees. I regard this sort as the best big apple for Northern 

 Illinois. 



Others who had grown this variety confirmed Mr. Minkler's state- 

 ment. 



RED CANADA 



Was not generally known. 



Mr. McWhorter — It is a synonym of Steele's Red Winter (of 

 Michigan). The tree is a feeble grower, but profitable ; the fruit of good 

 size, fair, good quality, with spicy flavor. 



YELLOW BELLFLOWER. 



Mr. WiER stated, as reasons for the general unproductiveness of 

 this tree, first, that the blossoms were not perfect — on some trees the 



