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I do not believe in offering a premium to amount to anything for 
a collection of crabs. If we want to have anything to go by, let us 
offer a premium for the three best, but we do not want to offer a 
premium for a crab collection. 
Mr. Philips, (Wis.): In judging fruit last year I found it exactly 
as Prof. Green states, and we have reduced our list to the ten best 
varieties of crabs. We found what Prof. Hansen says to be the case 
last year in regard to the largest collection of seedlings. I do not 
believe in giving the premium to the largest collection, but to the 
best collection. Last year we had some collections that contained 
about half as many as others, but they were superior, while in the 
large collections there were very few that were desirable to propa- 
gate. I think Prof. Green’s idea is to reduce it to three, then if a 
man has a dozen seedlings let him cut those down to three, and in 
that way we will get a more valuable collection if not as large. 
Prof, Hansen: I believe that matter could be arranged by hav- 
ing a separate premium offered. 
Mr. Latham: I judge by what Prof. Hansen said, that he thinks 
the seedlings and standard varieties were mixed up at the state fair. 
No exhibitor is permitted to mix his collections in this way. In his 
collection of named varieties he can not put in a seedling of which 
he owns the original tree, but he may put in some one else’s seed- 
ling, if it is named. According to the rules of the Minnesota state 
fair, an exhibitor must show his seedlings in an exhibit strictly by 
themselves. They are always shown in a different part of the hall, 
separate from the collections of standard named kinds. 
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON AWARD OF $1,000 FOR 
SEEDLING APPLE. 
PROF. S. B. GREEN, CHAIRMAN. 
The premium of $1,000, which was offered one year ago by the Minnesota 
State Horticultural Society, has attracted very much attention and been gen- 
erally noticed in the more important papers and periodicals of this country. 
It has shown that our state and society are enterprising, and if it does noth- 
ing more than show this as the normal condition of our people it will cer- 
tainly be a great benefit in this way. It has resulted in starting correspond- 
ence with some sixty different parties, most of whom are owners of or in- 
terested in some seedling apple which they think worthy of entry. As yet, 
however, there has been but one formal entry, and that is from Ohio. (There 
have been several more since this was written.—Secretary.) 
Among the inquiries that have been made is as to what we would regard 
as a seedling in the competition for this premium. It seems to me that in 
this competition we should regard as a seedling any variety which is not 
generally grown, and that we would not be very particular about this point 
