STATE HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 23 



Thos. Mateer, Glasgow. IVIinnesota, Price's Sweet and Alexander. 

 N. Schmidt, Glasgow. Fall Orange and Wallbridge. 



B. B. Fetzer, Glasgow. St. Lawrence. 



Mrs. Thomas Crawshaw, Lake. Utter'sRed and General Grant. 



Theodore Bowen, Lake. Wealthy and AVallbridge. 



M. D. Carroll, Lake- Unnamed Sweet Crab. 



Mrs. Agnes Frost, Lake. Utter's Red, Maiden Blush, Hesper Blush. 



John Monroe, West Albany. Green Winter. 



C. Konig, Pepin. King Apple. 



A. W. Fountain, Frontenac. Seedling Sweet Apple. 



Mrs. Amelia Heine, Wacouta. Talman Sweet. 



Joseph Church, Waconta. Seedlings and Golden Russet. 



W. H. Roberts, Wacouta. Plumb's Cider and unnamed crab. 



Baker Harrison, Mt. Pleasant. Plumb's Cider, Utter's Red, Haas and two 

 unknown varieties. 



Joel Clark, Mt. Pleasant. Talman Sweet and Plumb's Cider and Seedling Apple. 



G. A. Cook, Cook's Valley. St. Lawrence. 



Collins Pratt, Oakwood. Haas, Melinda, Wealthy, Duchess, Orange, General 

 Grant, Seedling Sweet Apple, Gilliflower Crab, and Concord, Deleware, Janesville 

 and Seedling Grapes, 



.1. S. Harris, LaCrescent, Seedling Hybrid Apple. 



E. Wilcox & Son, La Crosse, Wis. Rhode's Seedling, Seedling Crab, Grimes' 

 Golden, .Jefferson County, Pewaukee and General Grant. 

 Wm. Forster, Chatfield. Seedling Winter Apple. 



D. K. Michener, Etna, Fillmore county. Seedling Winter Apple. 

 W. E. Brimhall, St. Paul. Tetof.sky and Virginia. 



W}-man Elliot, Minneapolis. A display of Wealthies. 



Geo. H. Nichols, Prescott, Wisconsin. Concord and Delaware grapes. 



D. G. Heggie, Florence. Duchess, Wealthy, Haas, Gen. Grant, Hyslop, Hutch- 

 inson Sweet, Maiden Blush, Aikin's Striped Winter, Orange, Beecher Sweet, 

 Transcendent, Red Siberian, Early Strawberry, Minnesota and Conical. 



Among the seedlings included in the above Ust your committee would call the 

 especial attention of the society to those of Messrs. Forster, Michener, Fountain, 

 Hazlett and Harris, to the end that if thought advisable they may be further inves- 

 tigated by the committee on seedlings. 



That of :\rr. Forster was awarded the first premium at the recent State fair at 

 Rochester for the best winter seedling. Samples of bright, healthy four-year-old 

 wood were shown, and statement made that the tree has been in bearing five or 

 -six years, and has produced in all about twenty bushels. (This from statement 

 furnished to one of your committee by that respected fellow-member of our society, 

 Martin W. Cook, of Rochester). Specimens from the plate here on exhibition will 

 he put away for safe keeping till our next winter meeting, when this new candi- 

 date can be further examined, and receive a name if found worthy. 



Mr. Michener's seedling certainly has the present symptoms of a long keeper. 

 After having been handled over and over again for the hundredth time at Roches- 

 ter and here, it is still a dangerous missel to throw at a tree-peddler, although rep- 

 resented by its producer to be capable of mellowing into eatable condition and 



