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November 25th, he says he has made in many years' experiments 

 some faihires, but he has had many excellent results. He said, 

 "I have the Grimes' Golden, Jonathan, Seek no Further, Fameuse 

 and many other kinds doing well." He said last winter, at the meet- 

 ing of the Southern Minnesota society, he exhibited thirty varieties 

 of winter apples, and that he has used Virginia crab but likes 

 Hibernal best. Says he top-works most of his Malinda to make 

 them hardier. He hardly trims any trees, but I noticed he mulched 

 with stable manure. Says he has best results whip-grafting. 



A letter from Edson Gaylord, Nora Springs, la., says he never 

 sold any apple trees or had any to sell, but has had fine success top- 

 working. He says the variety known as the Baltimore is with him 

 a great success top-worked on the Minnesota crab. Says Grimes' 

 Golden is doing well on Hibernal. Says the Fall Orange does well 

 on the Virginia crab. Mr. Gaylord says that Ben Davis and Long- 

 field are very much improved on Duchess stock. He says most 

 of his experiments and what he has observed on other orchards has 

 been since about 1883. He bought two Wealthy trees of C. G. Pat- 

 ten, in 1882, started on crab roots. Says Wolf River top-worked 

 on Duchess in 1885 is bearing annually, that the Wealthy on crab 

 roots survived when the other Wealthy died. 



A letter from G. A. Ivins, of Iowa Falls, says he uses entirely 

 crab roots. He speaks of the Hibernal as one of his choice stocks. 

 Top-works different varieties ; he wants to top-work at two years 

 old. 



I have given the experience of others, and I think it clearly 

 proves that a hardy stock imparts to the graft vitality to apples we 

 cannot grow in any other way. I have some valuable letters, and 

 I shall turn them over to Prof. S. B. Green to get the points of 

 value. These letters contain much material ; I have only touched 

 on their merit. It seems to me that Prof. Green is doing a noble 

 Avork in interesting the state university boys in horticulture, and if 

 he is not a life member of this society I would be glad to have this 

 society recognize his usefulness. 



Mr. Kenney: I might say that I grafted the seedling of the 

 Gould crab on September 10. I dug down until I came to where 

 the root branched out and then set the graft clear down on the 

 crown of the root and waxed it with a very warm wax, so as not to 

 injure the union. Then I covered that up almost to the top, and the 

 last time I looked at it the graft looked really as though it were 

 going to grow. I thought I would gain something by grafting in 

 the fall. 



Capt. A. H. Reed: Have you ever grafted this way previously? 

 Mr. Kenney : I simply did this as an experiment. I know we 



