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stocks had made the Baldwin hardy, other Baldwin orchards, near by, 

 having been killed by cold. 



Mr. HoLLiSTER of Monroe knew of the same instance, and said that 

 Red Canada on the same stock proved hardy at the same time; and he told 

 of similar success of this method with other varieties in Lapeer county — 

 Eed Canada and Stark on Oldenburg, and King and Peck's Pleasant on 

 Talman Sweet and Spy. All made hardy, fine, uniform tops. 



NO SUCH APPLE AS STEEL'S EED. 



Replying to a question, Mr. Lyon said there is no apple properly called 

 Steel's Red and so recognized. The name is a synonym, an interloper. 

 In New York it came to be applied to the Baldwin, because a man named 

 Steel got Baldwin trees, not knowing what they were, and the fruit got his 

 name. In Michigan, near Plymouth, a man got some grafts for Greening, 

 but was told the red apples they bore were Steel's Red, and they were so 

 disseminated, but were really Red Canada. So the name came to be 

 applied, in two states, to two varieties. Orders sent to New York for 

 Steel's Red trees will bring Baldwins. Do not propagate Red Canada by 

 root-grafting, for it does not succeed so. Top-graft it always upon some 

 hardy stock. 



THE SEASON OP 1891 IN NEW YORK. 



Under this heading, Mr. S. D. Willakd of Geneva, N, Y., presented the 

 following paper: 



If in the few words I may say to you on this occasion, I should express 

 sentiments not entirely in accord with your own, you will, I trust, be con- 

 siderate and charitable, bearing in mind that we are residents of diflPerent 

 states, with different surroundings (climate, soil, markets) and hence have 

 different experiences. 



We all have our varied experiences, but most of us are rather slow to 

 communicate them to others. Nevertheless, what is more interesting than 

 a good experience meeting, just such as fruitgrowers can have when all 

 take a part and no one waits for another? I always enjoy such, and invari- 

 ably have found that in meetings of this kind, where the gates are open 

 wide and each one tells all he knows (ancj perhaps more) and then some- 

 thing he does not know, there is much that is useful and instructive to be 

 gleaned and carried away to be added to my stock in trade. From my 

 childhood days, fruitgrowing has had about it charms that I have been 

 unable to see in any other department or profession of life. 



The year just passed, to all fruitgrowers, I think, has been one rich in 

 experience, if not in dollars and cents, and were all the craft consulted, 

 from the north, south, east, and west, I imagine you would be informed 

 that the year had been full of instructive lessons; and further, that the 

 amount charged up to the debit side of educational expenses had been 

 somewhat in excess of former years. 



