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if you want to go over it. I am in favor of adopting the report of 

 the committee as read, and I beheve after you have threshed the 

 whole thing over you will not be in better shape to adopt it than 

 you are now. 



Mr. EIHot: I made that motion for a particular reason. The 

 Peerless was mentioned in connection with the Okabena, I knew 

 facts as I learned them from every quarter and direction about the 

 Peerless. While the Peerless is good in some locations, in a great 

 many localities it has been a disappointment, and I feel, as has 

 been stated here, that we should keep the head of our fruit list 

 sacred. There should be nothing put in there that we cannot 

 absolutely guarantee as to hardiness and productiveness. It seems 

 to me the best way for us to do is to leave it where it is. 



Judge Moyer: I speak of the Peerless as it appears in our 

 neighborhood. I think it is the best thing we have and hardier 

 than the Hibernal. 



A vote was then taken on Judge Moyer's motion to amend the 

 list by placing the Peerless in the list of "first degree of hardiness," 

 and the amendment failed. 



Mr. Dewain Cook : I move that the report be adopted as it 

 now stands. 



Mr. Brand : What is the list recommended for commercial 

 planting? I would like to add to that list the Estalline and the 

 Itasca if I can obtain a second to the motion. 



Mr. Pond : I will second the motion. 



Mr. Brand : The Itasca has been introduced for about twenty 

 years, and I was told by a gentleman here that he had a single 

 tree that has produced fifteen bushels. It has not been planted a 

 dozen years. Is there any other tree that has done as well as that 

 with us? I find it is the earliest bearer that I have. It is a heavy 

 bearer, the apple keeps well in the fall as well as later, and it is an 

 extremely hardy tree ; it is equal to the Duchess. 



The Secretary: An objection to this seems to be that it has 

 always been the practice of our society not to recommend any- 

 thing for general cultivation until the variety was very generally 

 grown by the nurserymen of the state, so that the demand for the 

 variety could be supplied. Of course, nurserymen here generally 

 know whether they are cultivating the Itasca, but my thought is 

 that it is not generally cultivated. 



Chairman Taylor : Will those nurserymen who have the 

 Itasca for sale raise their hands. (A few hands were raised.) It 

 seems it is not very generally cultivated. 



The motion by Mr. Brand to amend the report by adding the 

 Estalline and Itasca to the list recommended for commercial plant- 

 ing was then put to a vote and lost. 



Mr. Cook's motion to adopt the report of the committee as 

 amended was then put to a vote and prevailed unanimously. 



