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everything present to indicate they were in good condition, and 

 they blighted badly. 



Mr. Philips (Wis.): Did you ever see the Northwestern Greening 

 blight? 



The President: I have not grown them long enough to find out. 

 I have seen the Duchess blight, and I do not consider that a blight- 

 ing variety. 



Prof. Green: Would your trees blight worse when not cultivated 

 than when cultivated ? 



The President: They would blight under every condition. I was 

 just positive I knew why my trees blighted, but I found I was mis- 

 taken. 



Mr. Gregg: Do you think they will blight as badly where there is 

 a thorough circulation of air as where they are subjected to more 

 moist influences? 



The President: I have had them on high, rolling prairie soil, 

 where all the conditions were the most favorable I could possibly 

 get, and I never had a worse case of blight. There is no condition I 

 could imagine where blight cannot exist. 



Mr. Bunnell: Judge Woodbury set out his trees in an old orchard, 

 and nearly every one of those trees were blighted badly. I laid the 

 cause to the fact that he planted them among those old trees, and 

 there was very little circulation of air. If he had set them away 

 from the large bearing trees where there was more circulation of 

 air, they would not have been subject to blight. 



Mr. Philips (Wis.): After Mr. Peffer was taken sick and expected 

 to die he sent for me. He wanted me to take a pear tree he had on 

 his place and propagate it because it was entirely blight proof. He 

 took me out and showed me the trees (he died six weeks later), and 

 I took them home, six of them, and I planted one of those trees near 

 a Transcendent tree, and I planted another near a Sylvan Sweet tree, 

 and that did not blight for two years, but the one I planted near the 

 Transcendent blighted and died to the ground the year it was 

 planted. 



The President: There is no doubt but what blight spreads from 

 one tree to another, and the best thing to do is to avoid the blight- 

 ing varieties. I believe climate has some effect on it. 



Mr. Barnes (Wis.): I did not come here to advocate the North- 

 western Greening, but on that table (indicating) there are specimens 

 of that apple that were grown within fifteen miles of the old North- 

 western Greening tree. The circulation in the orchard is not very 

 free, and I got a good many that are specked like these. The old 

 original Northwestern Greening tree does not show any blight. 

 My three hundred trees have never blighted. Once in a while I 

 have seen a little twig blight, but I have never had a Greening that 

 blighted. 



Mr. T. T. Smith: Did I understand you to say that those large ap- 

 ples and the small ones grew on the same tree? 



Mr. Barnes: No, I said they grew in the same orchard. These 

 large apples grew on the outside row, while the others grew where 

 there was less circulation of air. We must give the Northwestern 



