QUKSTION BOX. 03 



Mr. Yager: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Green: We found that there were some very good varieties 

 that were adapted for our purposes, and we have weeded them out now 

 and have sold the sensitive ones to the nurserymen. I have disposed of 

 th later blooming varieties at wholesale. There were some of these very 

 beautiful, but they w^ere too late, and therefore not profitable to me. But 

 you will find that there are other varieties that will stand a good deal of 

 freezing, and still come out in good shape. We had a hard frost on ours 

 last year, and I thought we would not get anything, but they came out 

 alright. 



Mr. Harrison: Did you ever try turning the hose on them before 

 the sun comes out? 



Mr. Green: No. I never did, but it is a good idea, I think. 



Mr. Atkinson: If you fail to plant in the fall, would you wait until 

 next spring? 



Mr. Green: If you can get plants that have been well stored over 

 winter, I would plant in the spring by all means, because tlien you will 

 get at least a partial crop the next year. 



QUESTION BOX. 



The Chairman: We now come to the question box, whicli I spoke 

 about at the start of this morning's session. Are there any questions? 



Mr. Barnard: I would like to ask about pedigreed strawberry 

 plants. I have a lot of them planted, and I do not know anything about 

 them. I do not know what the pedigree is. Of course I know what a 

 pedigree is, but I would like to kuQw what pedigreed strawberries are. 

 Kellogg and other plant growers send out all these varieties and call 

 them pedigreed, and now I want to say right here I do not believe in it. 

 The meanest plants I have are called pedigreed plants. I do not think 

 it is fair to the horticulturists of this state, because I do not believe 

 they are selling anything of which a record is kept. 



Mr. Christy: Mr. Crawford, of Ohio, one of the best strawberry 

 growers in the United States, took this matter up several years ago, and 

 he sent to Mr. Kellogg and got some Warfields from him, and I also sent 

 him some out of my orchard, and I knew they were true Warfields, and 

 he also got some from Sarcoxe, Missouri, and a number of different 

 places, and planted them. The ones that I sent down there, that had 

 been cultivated on my place for twelve years, produced just as good as 

 Mr. Kellogg's, and they were the same kind and variety, and his produced 

 just as good as mine. So the pedigreed plants did not amount to very 

 much, and were nothing more or less than ordinary plants with a phrase 

 to catch the suckers. 



The Chairman: I find it necessary to appoint a Resolution Com- 

 mittee, and as members of that committee, I have decided to appoint 

 the following: C. H. Green, B. E. Fields, H. W. Marshall. 



