26 ■ MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. A. J. Philips (Wisconsin) : All of you know what the 

 Northwestern Greening is here ; would it not be well to put it 

 in the second degree of hardiness rather than in the trial list? You 

 have not tried it thoroughly here. We have so few winter apples 

 it seems to me worthy of a place there. 



Mr. Wedge : I do not know but we ought to do that. I was 

 under the impression that the Northwestern Greening had a com- 

 paratively short trial over our state, and it would be better to con- 

 tinue it on the trial list for a time longer. I have some of the North- 

 western Greenings myself. 



Mr. A. J. Philips : Well, I remember while we were going 

 down to the train in Milwaukee you and I agreed that the North- 

 western Greening was one of the greatest acquisitions of horti- 

 culture. Don't you remember we did ? 



Mr. S. D. Richardson : We have not had a winter to try the 

 Northwestern Greening. 



Mr. Dewain Cook : I see Mr. Wedge has the Weaver plum on 

 the list. It is worth almost nothing', and I move it be stricken 

 from the list. 



Mr. J. M. Underwood : The W^eaver is one of the best plums 

 we have. 



Mr. Emil Sahler : The Weaver is all right in southern Min- 

 nesota. 



Mr. J. S. Parks : It is the best of thirty varieties in southern 

 Minnesota. 



Prof. S. B. Green : I am going to move the adoption of the 

 list as read, Mr. President. I do not believe myself it is time 

 to put the Lyman's Prolific on the list for general cultivation. 

 What these gentlemen have said about it is true, it has not been 

 tried long enough, and I do not believe Mr. Lyman himself would 

 be in favor of putting it on the general list. There are a number of 

 other varieties that are just as much entitled to go on the gen- 

 eral list as the Lyman's Prolific. This list after all is only a guide 

 for the novice ; it is only a guide for the beginner ; it is not a com- 

 plete list. There are some varieties not on that list that some of us 

 think very well of. We put out this list as a guide for those who 

 have nothing better to follow, and it seems to me that as we have 

 got it it is about as good as we are able to get it. 



Mr. Oliver Gibbs : With such varieties as the Northwestern 

 Greening and Lyman's Prolific it does not make much difiference 

 whether they are put on the list or not. They have merit and will 

 make their own way. 



Mr. O. F. Brand : I do not like to have the list go before the 

 public containing an error, and as the originator of the Estelline I 

 want to say that you have got it in the cral) list. A good many 

 years ago I planted the seed of the Duchess, Tetofsky and others, 

 and the stakes got down while I was away, and only one tree lived. 

 It bore fruit, and I exhibited the fruit, supposins: it to be a seedling 

 of the crab, but a, few years after when I got a lot of Duchess seed- 

 lings into bearing I found such a strong resemblance that I made up 

 my mind it was a Duchess seedling. It is an apple and sells as 



