154 Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. 



Mr. Plumb — I wish to inquire of the committee if it is 

 their intention to have a single experimental station or 

 more? 



Mr. Hatch — It should be one. That is all they will furn- 

 ish money for. 



Report of committee unanimously accepted. 



Mr. Kellogg — T wish to offer a resolution. We have three 

 other delegates from neighboring states, two from Iowa and 

 one from Illinois (naming them). I move they be elected 

 honorary members of the society. Motion carried. 



5'resident Smith — We will now listen to our friend 

 Mr. Tuttle on the subject of "The Relative Hardiness of 

 Apples." I hardly dare tell you what he just told me. 



Mr. Tuttle — I was just saying to Mr. Smith that I would 

 have to look at the programme to see what my subject was 

 to be. I see that it is "' The Relative Hardiness of Apples." 



I have had a little orchard experience during the last 

 thirty years, and have seen something of the relative hardi- 

 ness of the different kinds of apples. During that time it 

 has been a series of experiments, and we thought that we 

 had got upon solid ground a good many years ago, and that 

 the fruits that came through the winters of 1855 and 1856 

 were all right for Wisconsin, but we have had several set- 

 backs since that time, and especially last winter which 

 rather knocked the bottom out, with the exception of a very 

 few varieties. We have been at work for nearly twenty 

 years now upon a class of fruits that we supposed to be 

 hardy enough for Wisconsin, and we are now looking to 

 them, at least plums, cherries and apples, as adapted to the 

 climate of Wisconsin. It is now fully twenty years, or more 

 since I first saw a report of the great orchards of Russia. 

 After reading an account of those orchards, I took evevy 

 opportunity in my power at that time to learn something of 

 the climatic conditions of that country. I procured several 

 books of travel written by persons who had been through 

 the country and had given a description of it. I was then 

 satisfied, and I have been since, that the Russian fruits were 

 adapted to this region. They have the same kind of climate 

 and the same kind of soil that we have. Where in the 



