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agree that he has never seen a worse lot of bUght than in our Russian 

 orchard. You can hardly find a tree that is not blighted, and right 

 in the open too. We have the Wealthy planted near those trees, 

 and they have never blighted badly. There is only one of them 

 that has blighted at all. One of these pyrus baccatas has a little 

 bitter fruit, a little bigger than a pea, and the other has quite large 

 sized fruit. One is red and the other is yellow, about as large as 

 a cherry. This is a line of work of great interest, and we are paying 

 a great deal of attention to it. Last year we raised about twelve 

 thousand seedlings, and this year we have raised plants from some 

 seeds received from the same source, namely, from the Department 

 of Agriculture, which gathered the seeds in Siberia. They are all 

 doing very nicely. We have also raised the Tonka crab and others. 

 I noticed there is a great dilTerence in the time in which these stocks 

 mature, and what we are paying attention to is to select those pyrus 

 baccata that mature early. One form does not mature early, it 

 grows way into autumn and kills back nearly every year, and others 

 ripen up in good shape. 



Mr. O. M. Lord: How was it this fall? 



Prof. Green : The lot we got from Russia ripened up early. 



Mr. Lord : I received some trees from the Department of Agri- 

 culture, and the leaves were on the trees when I left home some time 

 before this, when other trees had dropped theirs some time ago. 



Mr. Gibbs : Was the Russian orchard under your supervision? 



Prof. Green : Not the first time. Prof. Porter put out i8o, 

 and I planted the rest of the i ,300. 



Mr. Gibbs : Was there any attempt made in the growth of these 

 plants to differentiate between the trees that are known to be sub- 

 ject to blight and other varieties that are known to be comparatively 

 free from blight? 



Prof. Green : The trouble was that at the time they were planted 

 we did not know anything about it. There were two hundred va- 

 rieties shoved on the people that did not know anything about them 

 until they were tried. We had a lot from Russia that did not seem 

 to hit the people here. We found some that came from Russia that 

 were very good, but they blighted tremendously ; there were also 

 a whole lot that did not seem to come into bearing, and when they 

 did come into bearing did not bear to amount to anything ; and some 

 blighted to death, but on the whole I believe it paid well for the labor 

 of setting them out, and you all know what they are. The Lowland 

 Raspberry is a good fruit ; that is one I want to mention. That is a 

 good tree, a good bearer. 



Mr. Frank Yahnke : I have got it growing, but it blights badly. 



Prof. Green : Well, the Wealthy and Duchess blight too. 



Mr. Yahnke : What do you think of the Glass Green ? 



Prof. Green : The Glass Green is so near the Duchess and the 

 Borovinka that I cannot tell the difference. 



The President : I have got the Borovinka, and it is a large 

 sweet apple. 



Prof. Green : Those things are frightfully mixed up. 



The President : It is a good apple. 



