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of as high a quahty as the one named first, but it is a splendid 

 cooking apple and commercially it fills a place in the western coun- 

 try here that the old Rhode Island Greening does in the east, and 

 I think it is worthy of propagation. 



The next best is the Coates' seedling. It is on exhibition here. 

 It never has been propagated. I do not know whether it will be 

 propagated, butT know it is a first class quality apple and is stand- 

 ing up remarkably well as a long winter keeper, cutting fine in the 

 middle of May. 



There was another seedling, the G. A. Anderson, which is an 

 apple that is small in size. That has never been propagated, but 

 it really tested well and pleased me very much, and I consider that 

 to be one of the coming apples. 



Then there was the Lampert seedling. You remember there 

 were a lot of apples, fourteen or fifteen, put on the table last year, 

 resembling the Malinda, of higher color, and there was consider- 

 able dispute as to whether they were a Malinda seedling. I was 

 very much impressed with the way they were keeping. It is not of 

 a high quality, but of a good commercial value. 



There was one other that is not on exhibition this year. That 

 was Mr. Lyman's Evelyn, that stood up nicely and was in very good 

 condition in May. 



Capt. Reed: Is the No. 72 Perkins seedling on exhibition? 



Mr. Elliot : No, for the reason that a wind storm blew Mr. 

 Perkins' fruit off the trees and injured the trees so severely that we 

 are deprived of the test this winter. 



Mr. Philips : Have you any record of that Brown seedling 

 from Baraboo. You know you wrote me that you cut it in May. 

 He called it the Gem seedling. 



Mr. Elliot : It is classed here as "early winter." It was in fair 

 condition the 15th of March, but April 13th it was out. Now, 

 these tests, of course, vary from year to year. Some of the var- 

 ieties that I have been cutting at this meeting I find are not keep- 

 ing as they did last year. They do not show the same testing 

 qualities, and as a general thing our apples all over the state do not 

 keep this year as they did last. Our seasons vary, and for that 

 reason we have to make new allowances, and it is only by a series 

 of tests from year to year that we can decide as to what an apple 

 is going to do finally. The testing of apples by cutting is no test 

 at all. While I cut and test an apple here and regard it of certain 

 quality, I may change my mind in three months from now very ma- 

 terially. In that regard there is one variety I have in mind par- 

 ticularly. We cut it at the fair and at the December meeting, and 

 it was in good condition both times. I put it in the storage we 

 used, not cold storage, and it kept right along through the sea- 



