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ter of location about the Peerless bearing fruit, and that is a mat- 

 ter that every grower will have to study with all varieties. 



Judge Moyer: I wall move that the Peerless be placed on the 

 list of "first degree of hardiness." 



The chairman then called Mr. Taylor to the chair. 



Prof. Green : I can name you twenty varieties and more that 

 are just as good as the Peerless. I am digging them up today, 

 throwing them on the brush heap and burning them. The Peer- 

 less is a disappointment to the people of the state. I should not 

 have mentioned this thing but from the fact that there was 

 danger of putting it in a place that I regard as sacred, be- 

 cause it is for the guidance of gardeners and amateurs who 

 want to plant apples in this state. I do not care what we put on the 

 second list or on the list for trial, but let us keep the list of the 

 "first degree of hardiness" up to the standard, and let us put noth- 

 ing on it like the Peerless. I do not want to have it stricken off 

 the list entirely, but if we are going to discuss the Peerless in full 

 I am inclined to say that that is what ought to be done with it. It 

 ought to be taken off the list altogether. I have nothing against 

 the Okabena. and it ought to be put on that list, perhaps, but I do 

 not want to see the Peerless put on. 



Mr. Eli Stone : I planted ten years ago an orchard of Peerless 

 apple trees myself. I waited ten long years for them to commence 

 to bear, and they have never borne any apples to speak of until 

 last year, when they bore about fifty bushels, and that is the only 

 time they have borne to amount to anything at all. I am not 

 pleased with the quality of the apples, but as to hardiness I 

 cannot say, and what has been said about it may be true, but I have 

 not seen the buds kill back at all. I do not like the apple, and last 

 fall in discussing the matter with my wife I said I thought I had 

 better grub them out and plant some better varieties where they 

 stand and not have the Peerless occupy the ground. That is my 

 opinion of the Peerless. 



Mr. Pond: I have had a little experience with the Peerless. 

 and I consider it one of the best varieties I have. It is the most 

 profitable for market, it is a beautiful apple, and I consider it al- 

 most first in quality, and it is almost free from blight, as much so 

 as any variety I have on my place. I have a great deal of blight. 

 There is one other variety I have wondered why it is not on the list, 

 and that is the Itasca. I have had a little experience wath it, and 

 consider it a very strong, thrifty and heavy bearing tree. It has 

 fine fruit — I sold nearly two barrels — and I have wondered a good 

 deal wiiiy it was not on the list. I have brought apples to the meet- 

 ing and wondered wh)^ you did not enter them. I can say I like the 

 Peerless. 



Capt. Reed : About three years ago I set out about 300 Peer- 

 less, and afterwards I wished I had not done it. I thought it 

 would not bear. I did not think it was a producer, but this season 

 they bore well, nice, large apples, and I became very much in 



