Addresses — Vaeities of Apples. 197 



■with; but if this article should advertise my stock so that I do sell 

 some, I'll have to stand it. 



Mr. Phillips — My paper is brief, for two reasons: One is that it 

 is a very limited subject, and the other is, I saw by the programme 

 that Mr. Gideon is to follow me; and he has had large experience 

 in the business, so I thought I would make my paper brief and give 

 him a chance to teach us something. I suggest that Mr. Gideon 

 read his paper, and then we have a discussion on both. I think it 

 will bring the subject matter better before the meeting. 



Mr. Tuttle — I set twenty-five trees of Fameuse twenty-five 

 years ago, and I think they have paid me better than any twenty- 

 five acres of land I have on my place. In Wisconsin, it is probably 

 a better apple than it is anywhere else where it has been tried. It 

 wants a warm, dry atmosphere; even oh the lake shore or in Mich- 

 igan it mildews, and in Canada it is considerably smaller than it is 

 here, and so in New England. It reaches its greatest perfection in 

 Wisconsin; you do not need anything better. On all good fair 

 locations it will do well. 



Mr. Kellogg — It depends a little on where a man lives what he 

 recommends. Now we were very much amused with about six 

 lists made up here by different fruit growers in the state, who were 

 requested to recommend the varieties with which to set out an 

 orchard. One man recommends ninety-nine Duchess of Oldenburg 

 out of a hundred, and the other a Duchess. Another in the same 

 list recommends fifty. 



Mr. Phillips then read the lists of varieties suggested by the 

 several fruit-growers. 



Mr. Stickney — 'I wish to say in explanation of my recommenda- 

 tion that the question was put to me on the wing, as it were, to 

 answer off-hand. Although by mature deliberation I might find 

 something else I could add to that list, I still have two arguments 

 to present in favor of the list I recommended. One is, that it is 

 simple; the other is that I have taken my own medicine, having 

 very recently planted four hundred and fifty trees — four hundred 

 and forty-nine Duchess of Oldenburg and one Duchess; this, how- 

 ever, was for the market of Milwaukee. They were planted for 

 dollars and cents. I think I had rather plant them than four 

 hundred and fifty trees of any other variety. 



Mr. Plumb — In furnishing a list of trees, the location is a very 



