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ness. I feel today as though I wanted to plant this barberry all around my 
place. (Laughter.) I wonder if it would not be a good idea for farmers to 
plant barberries all around their farms. They have got wheat down to fifty 
cents a bushel, and I think it is time to stop it in some way. (Laughter and 
applause.) 
SEEDLINGS AT THE WISCONSIN EXPERIMENT 
STATION. 
A. J. PHILIPS, SECRETARY WIS. HORT. SOCIETY. 
I have been asked about the planting of seedlings. 
When we decided to locate our new trial station or orchard, Prof. Goff 
and myself were appointed to select site. We went into northern Wiscon- 
sin, but did not find anything to suit us. As Prof. Goff was called away 
I notified President Kellogg to meet me at Wausau, and we located it there, 
because it was like much of the land in northeastern Minnesota where the 
pine had been cut off, and trees that would grow well on such land in our 
state would grow well on similar land in your state. After the ground was 
selected, at our winter méeting I was appointed to select the trees to plant, 
but that was a greater responsibility than I cared to assume. I declined to 
do it and offered a resolution that the president appoint three of our oldest 
orchardists to select varieties that they thought would answer for that 
climate. The president appointed Geo. J. Kellogg, J. C. Plumb and Mr. 
Hirschinger, the latter a man who raises some years as high as five thou- 
sand bushels of apples, and they made the selection for the commercial 
orchard. I was surprised after the statement Prof. Taylor made about the 
seedlings that originated in the north not being worth fifteen cents, that we 
had over two-thirds that were seedlings from either Minnesota or Wiscon- 
sin, and I spoke of that in our meeting afterwards, which was told to Prof. 
Taylor, and he modified it by saying that the originator did not make fifteen 
cents out of them. There was one thing certain, that those men who had 
grown gray in the work had either spent their lives in vain, or Mr. Taylor 
was. mistaken. 
The first row in the trial orchard on the west is set with Virginia crabs, 
top-worked with Wealthy, Malinda and Wolf River. Next are two rows of 
Hibernal, then two of Duchess, then the Northwestern Greening (of which 
I have fifty-four trees), then the Newell, a Wisconsin seedling; next the 
Longfield; then the Wealthy and then the Dudley Winter, which originated 
in Maine; then the Okabena, one row. Mr. Underwood sent me some seed- 
lings, very nice trees, the Alma. They are a new seedling and are growing 
very nicely. He said it originated at Alma. Then we have the Hoadley 
from Baraboo, that Mr. Hirschinger originated, and the Dominion Winter 
from Canada. That constitutes the commercial orchard. There are only 
two or three varieties that are not seedlings. I carried to our meeting last 
summer the new growth of every variety we have there. Our people, of 
course, have but little chance to visit the orchard, and in order to show the 
growth of those trees I cut some new growth from all of them. I had a 
committee appointed, with Prof. Goff as chairman, to examine that growth 
and compare it with the growth in other parts of the state; it was quite an 
object lesson to them, There was only one variety that blighted, and that 
was the Newell, and I thought they would have to be reset, but when I went 
there late in the fall I found them well recovered so that there are only five 
in the row that will have to be reset. 
