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The cause of loss was bad grafting wax. On account of the high price 

 of beeswax we substituted a part with paraffine. It was not tenacious and 

 cracked. We have tliree pedigreed seedlings top worked, Genet pollenized 

 by Ben Davis. We grew about 1,000 pedigreed seeds at a cost of about 

 $30. They were planted November 12. 



Rome Beauty pollenized by Ben Davis. 

 Rome Beauty pollenized by Grimes. 

 Ben Davis pollenized by Rome Beauty. 

 Ben Davis pollenized by Grimes. 

 Winesap pollenized by Rome Beauty. 

 Winesap pollenized by Grimes. 

 Winesap pollenized by Ben Davis. 

 Grimes pollenized by Benoni. 

 Grimes pollenized by Grimes. 

 Benoni pollenized by Chenango. 

 Benoni pollenized by Early Harvest. 

 Benoni pollenized by Trenton Early. 

 Benoni pollenized by Yellow Transparent. 

 Yellow Transparent pollenized by Benoni. 

 One lot, identity lost. 



We have at our service only a few good varieties to operate on. The 

 coming season we will work mostly for inbred seeds. 



Have found the wood veneering a good protection against rabbits, but 

 quite an injury to the trees. It is too close and makes a special harbor 

 for woolly aphis. All will be discarded in the future. A number of im- 

 portant experiments will be inaugurated next season, but will not be no- 

 ticed until our next report. The orchard cost the society for the year $125. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Hobbs: State your success in crossing Rome Beauty and Wine- 

 sap. 



Mr. Burton: It is quite an idea with me to get a cross between the 

 Rome Beauty and Winesap, and if I could make a thorough cross I 

 would have an ideal apple and ideal tree, but on account of blooming at 

 different times— Winesap first and Rome Beauty later— it is diflicult to 

 get pollen. I have never been able to find one particle of Winesap pollen. 

 I have never been able to have a single Winesap set on where I enclose 

 blossoms, either in paper sacks or cloth. Other varieties set on more 

 rapidly where enclosed than when in open air. This season the Rome 

 Beauty blossomed early, and I succeeded in getting a number of crosses, 

 about 35 apples pollenized by Rome Beauty, and though we have no 

 assurance that crosses will take, we hope they will. 



