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Mr. Geo. J. Kellogg (Wisconsin) : At what age were the trees 

 transplanted ? 



Mr. Elliot : I think they were two years old. 



Mr. Kellogg : Any sun scald ? 



Mr. Elliot : Not a particle. 



Mr. Oliver Gibbs : Are there any other apple seeds gathered 

 and put away by the family ? 



Mr. Elliot : No, sir. Mrs. Perkins said she sat one April day 

 peeling apples. They had grown a good many apples the previous 

 year, and they had kept those Malinda until the last, and as she was 

 paring apples the thought came into her mind, why not save some 

 of these seeds and plant them? So she spoke to Mr. Perkins for 

 a little corner in the garden where she could plant the seeds and 

 care for them. She did plant them, weeded them and cared for 

 them for two years, and then she turned them over to the tender 

 mercies of Mr. Perkins, and I think you will agree with me that she 

 turned them over into good hands, for every indication points to 

 the fact that the trees have been well cared for. There are a few 

 trees that are still in the nursery row, and there is some of the fruit 

 here grown from those trees. There are some large trees, some 

 of them as much as six inches in diameter. I tliink here is quite an 

 instructive lesson for the ladies in our horticultural society. It 

 shows that the women are not so far behind in the pursuit of the 

 idea. I hope this lesson may be taken to heart, that the women may 

 save seeds and plant them and thereby advance the interests of horti- 

 culture just as they have been advanced in this case. 



Mr. J. M. Underwood : Women always have been in the apple 

 business. (Laughter.) 



Mr. Hamlin V. Poore : There is something I wish to say to the 

 horticulturists assembled here, and I wish to say to the farmer who 

 resides on the prairie. I have been a farmer in the state for twenty- 

 five years. I was raised in the apple orchards of southern Ohio. I 

 attended a horticultural meeting twenty years ago when Mr. Thomas 

 first came to Iowa. I made an effort at that time to present to the 

 horticulturists of the state what I termed facts derived from my per- 

 sonal observation and experience in growing apples. I was actually 

 surprised that the horticultural society of this state made so little 

 progress in the growing of fruit suitable for this state. I met a 

 friend coming down on the train yesterday, and he said he had a 

 seedling apple as large as the Wolf River, but he knew nothing about 

 the parentage of the tree. One winter the rabbits girdled the tree, 

 and the apple was lost forever. The longest lived trees are actual 

 seedlings grown from trees planted from seed. I have seen a tree 

 on my place the heart of which is dead, and that tree shows not the 

 least sign of blighting, yet the heart is completely dead. I have 

 heard people say that that kind of growth would not do. as though 

 the life was in the heart. The life is underneath the bark. One 

 vear apples were very cheap, and I saved a lot of seed from apples 

 I boueht. I did not know as much about the matter then as I do 

 now, I did not inquire where the apples came from, but I had an 

 idea I could produce a seedling better than anything that had so far 



