DISCUSSION. 161 



Professor Green: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I 

 think it is a little unfair to call on me again. However, I will 

 say a few words about our seedling work in Minnesota. We are 

 very much interested in seedling work, and are quite proud of 

 what we have done along this line. 



Mr. Gideon worked at this work on seedling apples a good 

 many years ago. He originated varieties that he said were 

 adapted to every month in the year. But the one of greatest 

 merit is the Wealthy. It is quite a wonderful variety in many 

 ways. Wliile in many sections it is an autumn apple, it is the 

 one variety to keep in cold storage. When Mr. Gideon origi- 

 nated the Wealthy henamed it after his wife. After Mr. Gideon's 

 death, we established an experiment station for the purpose of 

 experimenting with apples. In connection with this we went to 

 raising seedling fruits, and we are now trying to get the people 

 of Minnesota to raise seedlings. Shortly before Mr. Gideon's 

 death we had something like twenty or thirty thousand good 

 seedlings. Many people experimented with them. This work 

 was commenced about eighteen years ago, and we are getting 

 a good many nice seedlings. They look nice and make a very 

 creditable showing. 



In 1899 the Minnesota Horticultural Society offered a prem- 

 ium of one thousand dollars for a seedling apple that should be 

 as hardy as the Duchess, have the good quality of the Wealthy, 

 and the long keeping qualities of the Malinda. That money is 

 still on deposit, and you people of Nebraska can have it if you 

 want to earn it. We are in earnest, and there is no humbug 

 about this. At every meeting of our Horticultural Society we 

 offer good premiums for seedling apples of merit. So you see 

 we are doing a good deal to encourage the growing of seedling 

 apples. We think we will get a lot of varieties that are well 

 adapted to northern Minnesota. We have a seedling committee 

 in charge of this work, two committees in fact. One of these 

 committees is in charge of this one thousand dollar premium. 

 We have had forty-two entries that have been made in competi- 

 tion for this premium. They are from ten of the northern 

 states, I think. Then we have another seedling committee on 

 the lookout for seedling apples growing throughout the state. I 

 think you Nebraska people ought to have a seedling committee 



