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of them, but will not be able to get them to this meeting. I am 

 now making our wants known through the papers, and have 

 heard of some others, but being called so suddenly from home 

 must let them lay over for investigation the coming year. While 

 I have not found what I am looking for, I have reason to believe 

 that good results will yet come from looking up our Seedlings. I 

 have alread}' found some that are standing better than the Wealthy 

 and will keep longer, and some of them may yet be of considerable 

 value. My seedling of the Transcendent crab is a marked evidence 

 of the susceptibility of the Siberians to improvement. 



Please to accept this for what it is worth, and upon my return 

 I will duplicate and improve it. 



Yours, &c., 



JOHN S. HARRIS. 



The Secretary. Mr. Emery being absent I will report for him, 

 but prefer to do it at some future time when we can have the 

 apples displayed on a table in front of the audience so that each 

 specimen can be seen when the description of tree and fruit is 

 given. 



Mr. Pearce. And I, too, will wait for that occasion. We have 

 a promising lot of seedling apples here, and it is desirable to call 

 especial attention to them. 



Mr. Phillips then read his paper on 



TWO YEARS IN ORCHARDING. 



By a. J. Phillips, of Wkst Salem, Wis. 



By way of introduction to this paper I will say that my location, 

 just back of La Crosse, is similar to the country on your Minnesota 

 side of the river in that section. I have attended your State ex- 

 hibitions and horticultural meetings, and find them of more value 

 to me than the exhibitions and meetings in Wisconsin, because 

 your varieties and conditions are more nearly like ours in North- 

 western Wisconsin. When called upon by Secretary Gibbs I at 

 first declined to write a paper, but he reminded me that he had 

 read my Ten Years in Horticulture in the Wisconsin report, and 

 suggested that I begin here where I had left off there, and as I had 

 had some new and perhaps valuable experiences in these other two 

 years, I adopted his suggestion; hence the title of this paper. 



As the spring of 1881 approached 1 must admit that from obser- 



