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Mr. Shephard — Those I saw were all taken from the same orchard 

 and planted at the same time, and the trees looked verj^ healthy. I 

 could see a difference between them, and it may be owing to some 

 local qualit}' in the soil. The trees which I noticed particularly were 

 precisely the same; there were no signs of age or decay; one was 

 used as well as the other. I never saw apples look better than these 

 did, and yet, there was this manifest difference. 



Mr. Wier — I hare been aware that the apple they have in Mis- 

 souri was not the same as we have here. Their red is not the same 

 — it is darker. Their apple is yellow, and ours is a whitish green. 

 Theirs is the better apple of the two, I think. 



The President — I am sorry that our notes will show a confusion in 

 regard to this apple. I think it is necessary to say that I was for 

 several years on the search for the big Janet. I procured it from 

 different places, and twice from Missouri. It is all the same thing — 

 it is all Janet. 



Ehode Island Greening. — Mr. M. L. Duulap — I move that Rhode 

 Island Greening be recommended for market and family use in the 

 Center. When it will break free from the stem it is time to harvest it. 



Mr. Huggins — I have noticed that when everything else was 

 spoiled, this apple was very little affected. It is an apple that is good 

 for cooking in the family — that is my experience. It would not do to 

 grow in a nursery, as it is an ill-shaped, crooked tree. 



Mr. Miller — I will inquire whether in root-grafting, you got good 

 fruit from it. 



Mr. Huggins — Any way you can take it. 



Mr. Wier — We have it top-grafted, and it bears young and very 

 abundantly. Root-grafted, it is very vigorous, although it does not 

 commence bearing early. 



Mr. Bancroft — I have a good lot of these trees — they are healthy 

 and good trees. I have had very fine fruit, but not a crop. I like 

 them so well that I have commenced grafting them into other trees. 



The motion to add it to the list for market and family use in the 

 Center was carried. 



