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Mr. Howard: I was goine;- to give that in my talk lonioiiow morning 

 at nine o'clock and I do not want to bore the people now with anything 

 . I was going to give in my talk tomorrow morning. 



Q. Is the Grimes' Golden a hardy tree? 



A. Particularly so south of the Platte river. 



Q. Is the Grimes' Golden a disease-resisting tree? 



A. Yes, fairly so as to the top, but not as to the i-oots. 



Q. About what is the average existence? 



Mr. Marshall: That depends on the health of the tree while it is 

 young. I would say in the east central part of Nebraska it would live 

 twenty-five years and longer. It might live forty years. 



Mr. Stephens: I have some Grimes' Golden that were planted in 

 1873 and two years ago they gave twenty-seven bushels. 



Q. How des it compare with other varieties? 



Mr. Marshall: I believe the .Jonathan will outlive it with us. It is 

 very nearly like the Jonathan. We have trees at Arlington that are 

 twenty-tw^o years in the orchard, and last fall I think they averageo 

 over twenty bushels to the tree; there are just a few trees, probably 

 seven or eight of that age. The Jonathan is about the same, but I 

 would say for the Grimes' Golden that we can not afford to leave it 

 out of our orchard. It is an apple we can give to our New York friends 

 and feel proud of it while they are eating it; it is an annual bearer; it 

 does not overbear, but it bears all through the tree, and it is a scab 

 resister. It is not absolutely hardy, yet it is well worth planting in ♦^^he 

 eastern part of the state. 



Q. What variety of apples come closest to the Grimes' Golden for 

 quality of fruit, and season, or could be substituted for it? 



A. The Jonathan, I think. 



Mr. Vassey: The explanation made is not entirely .satisfactory. It 

 was said that it was partially a short-lived tree. Well, just how much 

 should we cut off the tree's existence is the question in my mind. The 

 reason the question was asked, I have an old orchard, my own home 

 trees have been planted seventeen years; there were five Grimes' Golden 

 trees in the orchard, and four of them are dead and another one is not 

 bearing. They have all gone about the* same way, affected right at the 

 soil on the south side of the tree, where it is entirely dead, while on 

 the north side they have fruit. They have only fruited about five years. 

 If that is the length of the tree's usefulness I fail to see good sense 

 in recommending a tree of that kind to be planted in district No. 4 in 

 this state. It is much harder to get the substitute in an old orchard than 

 to get it in the first place. I do not want to plant Grimes' Golden for 

 only four or five years' fruitage and then have to plant another tree of 

 some other variety in its place. I sent some of the specimens of the 

 bark to Professor Wilcox and he said as far as he could see there was 

 no disease, but that it had been killed by the frost. Is it possible that 

 in an ordinary winter the Grirr.rs" Golden is not sufficiently hardy lo 



