ANNUAL MEETING, NORTHEASTERN IOWA HORT. SOCIETY, I9O3. 63 



Des Moines, Iowa ; Prof. Little of Ames, Iowa ; and Silas Wilson, 

 director of horticulture of Iowa. 



The meeting elected the following executive officers for the 

 coming year : President, W. H. Guilford, Dubuque ; vice-president, 

 Rev. C. A. Marshall, Cresco ; secretary, J. C. Ferris, New Hampton ; 

 treasurer, E. Blakeman, Decorah. 



The next annual meeting of the society will be held at West 

 Union, in December of 1904. 



The exhibition of apples was quite good considering the season. 

 A number of newer varieties of apples and seedlings were shown. 

 Among the named varieties the Windsor Chief was generally ad- 

 mired. Mr. Patten exhibited a seedling of Ben Davis by the Jona- 

 than. The fruit resembled both parents and was interesting. 



Mr. Ivins exhibited his seedling, Ivins' Pippin. The fruit is large, 

 and the tree is said to be of the first degree of hardiness. It should 

 be experimented with in Minnesota. The same gentleman exhibited 

 the Hinckley seedling. The original Hinckley tree died four years 

 ago and was then about sixty years old. It is said to be hardy and 

 has a good record as a bearer. The fruit is reported to keep till 

 June. 



Mr. Toole exhibited a seedling found in a pasture near his Wis- 

 consin home. Mr. Reeves exhibited a seedling grown by H. L. 

 Ayers, of Cedar county. As a fruit it was interesting and very 

 good, but the tree was not supposed to be extra hardy ; however, it 

 will soon be in the market, and our experimenters should try it. 



Mr. Ivins in his paper on "Production of New Varieties" spoke 

 favorably of the Hinckley seedling, the Ivin's Pippin and also de- 

 scribed the Adamson as a very large, beautiful yellow fruit having 

 borne many heavy crops. The Rankin seedling he recommended for 

 a late fall apple. It begins bearing very young and will, when better 

 known, be planted generally. Mr. Ivins had come to think more of 

 the "Arctic" every year and had planted out 300 trees in his orchard. 

 The Dickinson Seedling No. i was given the reputation of being a 

 grand September apple of large size and firm quality ; it is a seedling 

 of the Duchess, of mammoth growth and enormous size of foliage ; 

 will root well from the scion. 



The committee on seedlings asked for more time in which to 

 study the seedlings before reporting and was continued. The chair- 

 man however made a statement to the effect that the district had 

 some fifteen good winter seedlings and about thirty fall and summer 

 varieties, and that the state of Iowa would soon have an improved 

 line of apples. 



The premiums on seedlings were not awarded, the judge, Prof. 

 Little, desiring to test the keeping qualities of the fruit. According 



