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section. A person gets in touch with eastern nurserymen and makes 

 a selection from their Hst. and it may happen to be a lot of stock 

 that is not hardy here. Several years ago a lady in St. Paul 

 wanted a farm, and she asked my advice as to how big a farm she 

 ought to get. I asked her how much money she wanted to spend. 

 She told me, and I gave her the advice I thought she needed. She 

 smiled about it and went away. Somebody else gave her some ad- 

 vice about planting trees, and she bought a place of ten acres. 

 Last winter her daughter came to see me and ordered a lot of 

 nursery stock. She said her mother did not want to come to see 

 me because she was ashamed. There was an agent around to their 

 place and sold them a lot of Kelsey plums, Royal American cherries 

 and other stuff of a similar nature, and she was done up to the tune 

 of $100. Those plums went in at a dollar apiece, and there was a 

 clause in the contract that stated those plums were adapted to 

 Minnesota, and what she wanted me to do was to help her get out 

 on that contract. Even if a nurseryman is honest he may give 

 the wrong advice to his customers in regard to varieties, and they 

 are very apt to get a lot of stock that is not adapted to this climate. 



Mr. J. M. Underwood: Some gentleman asked the question 

 whether trees grown in the east or south of the same variety as 

 the Wealthy, for example, whether they would be adapted to plant- 

 ing here in the northwest the same as Minnesota grown trees or 

 trees grown in North Dakota. I think the question was barely 

 touched upon this morning in the question of adaptation, of the 

 tree being adapted to the locality in which it is grown. I believe 

 it is reasonable to suppose that trees grown here are acclimated 

 and better adapted to be planted here than those grown in the 

 south or east, perhaps under different climatic conditions. Iknow 

 it is true in regard to the animal kingdom. It is generally said 

 we cannot bring mules into Minnesota and use them to advantage, 

 that horses are better than mules. Mr. B. F. Nelson told me a few 

 days ago that horses would do better than mules, that it had been 

 demonstrated that mules could not be used to advantage. We who 

 have been buying mules are going through some experience in re- 

 gard to that question, and I think Minnesota raised mules are 

 better than Missouri grown mules. On that same principle of 

 adaptability to the climate, that mules are better adapted to the 

 climate when raised in Minnesota, I think we can claim that 

 the Wealthy and Duchess apple tree grown here in Minnesota is 

 better adapted to planting here in the northwest than southern and 

 eastern trees grown under different climatic conditions, and I think 

 that is the point the gentleman was inquiring about. 



Mr. A. Brackett : I have always understood that the Wealthy 

 apple, whether grown in the north or south as far as hardiness is 

 concerned, planted on the same kind of root, there would be no 

 difference in its hardiness. It takes years and years to change the 

 hardiness of an apple. I think Prof. Hansen brought up that 

 point last year. The only trouble in buying a tree grown in the 

 south is that it is liable to be grafted on a tender root, and it is 

 likely to winter-kill, but as far as the original stock is concerned it 

 does not make any difference. 



