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different places in order to test it. It should be in the hands of 

 the executive board whenever the apple is found. 



Tha President: So far as the money is concerned, there will 

 be no trouble in securing that. The recommendation is that 

 this society take this step to show its interest in this matter 

 and put it in some form, so it may be shown that the state 

 horticultural society is back of this movement. 



Mr. Bush: This is a matter I have had in mind for some time, 

 and it is an excellent idea, and if we find an apple of that kind 

 it will be worth many times its cost to Minnesota. 



Mr. Barnes, (Wis.): I want to suggest this, that if the goal 

 is never reached, which, however, I hope will be, this action 

 of the society will be worth millions of dollars to the north- 

 west. We will go at it with new vigor, even if we never reach 

 the premium, and the effort put forth to obtain that new apple 

 -will be of wonderful value to the horticultural interests of the 

 northwest. I want to congratulate you as being the banner 

 society in offering such a reward. I believe our future pros- 

 perity and wonderful improvement lies in the originating of 

 new seedling varieties and the propagation of varieties already 

 originated. 



Mr. .Walker: Does not that need some explanation? As I 

 understand it, it must be an apple that can be grown here in 

 Minnesota. 



Mr. Philips, (Wis.): If it is as hardy as the Duchess it can 

 be grown here. 



Mr. T. T. Smith: In regard to carrying out this matter, it 

 will require a good many years to test the tree so it can pass 

 the test prescribed. In 1871 I came into this society and asked 

 for a list of trees suitable for planting in this section. The 

 society appointed a committee, of which Dr. Jewell was a 

 member, and that committee made up a list, and of that list 

 there is but one tree that the society 'recommended that is 

 alive today, and that is the Duchess. There were Ben Davis, 

 Famous, Perry Russet, Saxton, Tetofsky and the Haas. I 

 planted the whole list the next year, and I have but seventeen 

 trees left — two of the Tallman Sweet and the others the 

 Duchess; all the rest went in the hard winter of 1873. 



Mr. C. L. Smith: There is one point that suggests itself to 

 me. It i's the intention that this reward shall be given for the 

 production of this variety of apple, and is it to remain the 

 property of the originator, or is the society to own the stock 

 for dissemination ? You can readily see how that some man 



