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This apple (indicating the Evelyn), from an experience of years, 

 has kept well in a commercial way until this time (Dec. 4) and 

 later, and no spot on them. We have given them no extra care 

 except to put them into bushel baskets. I looked over nine bush- 

 els, and there was not an apple in the lot that was spotted. They 

 were picked at the same time with the Northwestern Greening, the 

 20th of October. I put them in the corn crib, and then later they 

 were put in the cellar. The Wealthy were handled in the same 

 way, but were picked six weeks earlier, and they are still good 

 to use. This is the apple (indicating the Evelyn) that Mr. Elliot 

 spoke of. He showed two specimens that had been returned from 

 St. Louis. They had been gathered on the 23rd of September 

 and had not yet colored the natural color. We named that apple 

 the "Evelyn." We call it an early winter apple. It is an apple 

 that can well be held in a commercial way. 



Mr. Elliot: I have just been thinking over what the Wealthy 

 has done for this northern country. I saw the first peck of apples 

 that was ever placed on exhibition at any fair in our state, and I 

 tell you it did my eyes and heart good to look at them, and ever 

 since that first exhibition I have kept track of the Wealthy. I 

 have one tree growing now that is a sprout of the original tree. 

 In all those years since the Wealthy originated there have been a 

 great many seedlings raised from it, and wherever you find a 

 Wealthy seedling you find the ear marks of its parent, you can 

 note the individuality of the Wealthy. In some it runs in one 

 direction and in some in another direction, but it is somewhat like 

 the members of a family in the human race, there are certain 

 characteristics in the family that cannot be mistaken. I have seen 

 apples not as large as the Transcendent crab but as perfect as the 

 Wealthy and with the same appearance and coloring. It possesses 

 a remarkable degree of prepotency, and it has stamped its im- 

 press upon the whole northwest, and I believe from the Wealthy 

 and its seedlings we are going to develop an apple that is going 

 to be a long keeper. Many of the seedlings of the Wealthy are 

 a great deal longer keepers than the Wealthy itself, and it is my 

 impression that by following out this course their season can gradu- 

 ally be extended until we get our long-keeping apple. In the case 

 of this apple of Mr. Lyman's here, I want to speak a word about 

 it in regard to its size. It has increased in size somewhat under 

 Mr. Lyman's conditions, but not as much as it has in being trans- 

 ferred into other environments, and for that reason every one who 

 has a promising seedling should at once place it in the hands of 

 some one who can give it a different environment from that of its 

 original position in order to study what it will do, and when a 

 man has got something that he thinks will do well he should place 

 it with our experiment station and let it be tried there, and before 

 it is generally disseminated it should be taken to various trial 

 stations where a thorough test may be given it in diflFerent soils 

 and different locations. If we do that we shall know just what to 

 expect, and I do not believe there is any man in the state that 

 will take advantage of the fact that it is on trial and will propa- 



