LIST OF FRUITS FOR MINNESOTA PLANTING. I35 



Capt. Reed : Why don't you add the Northwestern Greening ? 



Mr. Andrews : It is not hardy enough. 



The Chairman, Prof. Saml. B. Green : Capt. Reed says the 

 Northwestern Greenings ought to go on the list of "first degree of 

 hardiness." \\'hat have you to say to that? 



Capt. Reed : I move to amend the report to the effect that the 

 Northwestern Greenings be put on the list of "first degree of hardi- 

 ness. 



Mr. Elliot : If you were in the secretary's office and heard 

 the complaints about Northwestern Greening not being hardy, you 

 would not want to put it on the list of "first degree of hardiness." 

 Many growers who put out the tree throughout the state are be- 

 ginning to get a little doubtful about its hardiness. I myself have 

 the Northwestern Greening grafted on Hibernal stock, and I am 

 in doubt about its being a long lived tree, not equal to the kind 

 that should be put on the list. 



Capt. Reed : I made the motion for the sake of hearing the 

 matter discussed. I do not know much about the tree myself, but 

 from the display made and on account of its keeping qualities I 

 think it ought to be placed on the list. 



The Chairman : You want it among the "most profitable 

 varieties to plant in Minnesota," but when you talk about its being 

 of the first degree of hardiness that is another story. 



Mr. Elliot : An apple displayed on the tables here does not 

 indicate anything about its degree of hardiness ; it does not show 

 that it has any degree of hardiness that can be recommended for all 

 sections of the state. 



• The Chairman : We have had two trees at the station for twenty 

 years, and they have borne three crops ; one is dead, and the other is 

 half dead. I also had some sent to me by the originator, fiom 

 Janesville. Wis., about 1890, and they all died. Another thing, as 

 Mr. Elliot says, the reports that come into my office and into the 

 office of the secretary are so discouraging that we had better leave 

 the matter as it is. After they bear a few crops they die, or they do 

 not do well, and as a general rule it gives poor satisfaction. 



Mr. Taylor: At Howard Lake it bore a good crop of apples, 

 but the trees look weak. 



The Chairman : They are going out almost everywhere. 



Mr. Taylor : I would not be in favor of putting it on the list 

 of "first degree of hardness." 



The amendment offered by Capt. Reed was then put to a vote 

 and lost unanimously. 



The Chairman : We put the Northwestern Greening in the 

 list of most preferable orchard varieties. 



Mr. Underwood : I do not know why the Okabena has never 

 been placed in the list of "second degree of hardness." I will never 

 make a motion to have it placed anywhere on the list. It has won 

 its way and it will hold its own, and I have no favors to ask for it. 



