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them out this spring, and I had plenty of them left. I eat 

 very few apples. I am a little particular as to what apple 

 I eat. As for the Duchess, I should go without apples to 

 the end of time without eating the Duchess, or the Red 

 Astrakhan either. It is too sour. I have an early apple 

 that is not quite so sour, that I consider quite a good eating 

 apple. The story has been circulatod over the country that 

 we had no apples of good keeping and eating quality. Now 

 I have apples that will keep better than the Golden Russet. 

 I will say again that I think there is a class of apples that 

 will make Wisconsin as good an apple state as Michigan. 



Mr. Philips — Have you any apples that look and bear 

 better than the Fameuse and St. Lawrence do at the same 

 age ? 



Mr. Tuttle — Oh, yes, a good deal better, a good deal better. 

 I consider the Wealthy a valuable apple for Wisconsin in all 

 parts of the state where it can be grown. I had it before the 

 Fameuse played out. I have dropped it [Fameuse] and 

 have not propagated it for six years, principally because 

 the scabs used it badly, and because the Wealthy would 

 take its place and more than fill the place. 



Mr. Phillips — Yes, the Wealthy, where it can be grown, 

 is a very profitable tree. 



Mr. Stickney — I should say that as a starter, the experi- 

 ments of Mr. Loudon are very valuable, and any man that 

 will take up the experiment of fruit growing and persist in 

 it as Mr. Loudon has done, cannot fail to bring out some- 

 thing that will help us. Mr. Peflfer's experiments have been 

 and are continuing to be very valuable in originating new 

 varieties from seed. It may be and has been with him as 

 with Mr. Loudon, that he has ninety failures to one success, 

 but something good will come of it. The field is endless and 

 some good must come of it. I have read every second year, 

 for a great many years, the biennial address of President 

 Walter of the American Pomalogical Society, and I never 

 fail to find in that address from half a page to a page on 

 originating new varieties from seed; and that old gentle- 

 man, at SO years, is working as earnestly as any man in 

 crossing varieties of fruits and flowers, and searching con- 



