276 State Horticultural Society. 



IMPROVEMENT BY SEEDLIA^GS. 



This breeding of our trees is one thing still more important than 

 selection becanse it is the foundation of things. Selection of only tlie 

 best seed from the very best fruit in color, size, and shape, and the most 

 perfect apples taken from the best, and most hardy and productive and 

 most vigorous trees would give us a foundation to work upon, would it 

 not ? Let this be followed for a term of forty years and can you dou])t 

 what the result will be? Follow this by grafting from the trees out- 

 lined a moment ago and still greater will be tlie results. The farther 

 stej), the deeper foundation, the real fact of breeding for these ncAv 

 apples, would give us still the hardest step in this important develo])- 

 ment. But I can onlv call attention to these facts. 



Continuing our work along the same lines as we have been 

 doing, results will be sure in the future as in the past. All it wants, 

 dear friends, is unity of action, unity in thought, unity in sentiment, 

 unity in purpose and the results will take care of us and the state 

 interests. Respectfully, 



L. A. Goodman^ Secretarv. 



