REPORT OF SEEDLING COMMITTEE, I9O3. Ill 



Malinda type in form, color green ground striped with red, flesh 

 coarse, sub-acid, core large, seeds not counted, productive, one of 

 the best late kinds. I could give descriptions of other trees, as I 

 have made some notes for my own use, but the above are sufficient 

 to indicate there are some of these seedlings which will be valuable 

 additions to our already extensive list of seedling apples. I have 

 gathered leaves from several of the trees showing types of foliage 

 resembling that from trees on each side of their parentage. 



The more I examine and study the exterior appearance of this 

 lot of seedling trees and their foliage, the greater is the mystery of 

 how it happened that so many of them produce such fine fruit, rep- 

 resenting all the seasons in ripening and keeping qualities. Here 

 we have the Malinda on the mother side, of which, no doubt, from 

 the appearance of the foliage, growth of tree and the fruit, a few 

 were self-fertilized, and in very many of the others the blossoms 

 from which they sprung were crossed with pollen from the five 

 varieties, Duchess, Perry Russet, Haas, Wealthy and Tetofsky, sur- 

 rounding the parent tree. This is very plainly indicated by the 

 shape, size, color and quality of the fruit produced. These facts, so 

 well illustrated in Mr. Perkin's seedling orchard, will, I hope, give 

 us all food for thought and investigation which will lead us to ac- 

 complish what we have so many years striven for, the origination 

 of the ideal hardy, productive, long keeping, highly colored, good 

 quality apple and adapted to the use of commercial orcharding for 

 this great northwest. 



I must not close without calling your attention to the fact that 

 the Central Experiment Station has grown some valuable seedling 

 apples and plums, thirty-five kinds of which were placed on exhibi- 

 tion at the last state fair, attracting considerable attention from their 

 size and quality. From this list of seedlings nine varieties were 

 selected to be shown at the American Pomological Meeting in Bos- 

 ton. They were a valuable addition to our general collection of 

 seedlings and named varieties of apples. We most heartily com- 

 mend the efforts of Prof. Green in the planting of apple, plum and 

 other fruit seeds, to develop valuable varieties adapted to our cli- 

 matic conditions. 



Mention should also be made of a small collection of seedlings 

 put on exhibition at the state fair from the Owatonna Experiment 

 Station, which showed some varieties being grown there that may 

 prove of value as additions to our list of seedling apples. Of the 

 great numbers of seedling apples and plums exhibited the past sea- 

 son there are a few having several points of merit which will be 



