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that is the tribute this society has paid to Mr. Patten. I have 

 heard mean things said about him, just as there are mean thing's said 

 about me, but I am awful glad he came to this meeting just to hear 

 the many kind things said about his work and about the Patten's 

 Greening. I should think it would renew his age ten years. There 

 is one thing I don't like. Mr. Elliot said you had nearly $500 in 

 the Gideon memorial fund. I wish the people of Minnesota could 

 be enthused to make it $5,000. They don't realize what Mr. Gideon 

 has done for them. I want to see that fund go up to $2,000; 

 I think it ought to go up to that anyway, and I think if you all do 

 what you ought to do we can get it up to that figure. Another thing 

 I don't like — although I don't like to say anything about it — but we 

 have been working for all these years to get out a fruit list for the 

 benefit of the people of Wiscinsin and Minnesota. People have read 

 it, and it is a guide to go by, and then in spite of our fruit list you 

 have an article come out in one of your city agricultural papers 

 saying that there are two better apples than you have on your list, 

 just holding up those two as the best there are and throwing all the 

 rest away. Here we honored the name of Harris last year, and that 

 story is right on the same page where the articles on horticulture 

 appear. After all these years of work by experimenters, such as 

 Harris, Somerville, Dartt and others, the report goes over the state 

 and over the northwest that there are two better apples than anything 

 found in your fruit list. I think that is a shame. You know I always 

 have a good time when I come here and I hope to live to come again. 

 (Applause.) 



The Chairman : Of course, we do not expect Mr. Philips to live 

 to be a hundred years old and attend all of our meetings, but we 

 hope to have him with us a great many times more. We have another 

 Wisconsin man with us, a sort of partner of Mr. Philips', whose 

 face we are always glad to see, and I am going to call on Mr. Kel- 

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Mr. Geo. J. Kellogg (Wis.) : I came here as a delegate from 

 the horticultural society of Lake Mills, but I did not give them 

 credit when I was called on yesterday morning. We organized three 

 years ago, and ran along several years without creating much inter- 

 est, but last spring I advertised in the papers telling the children 

 twelve years old and under that if they would come to my garden 

 they should have strawberry plants free. The next day ninety-seven 

 came, and we got up quite an interest in strawberries. I offered 

 a prize of fifty cents for the biggest strawberry grown from those 

 plants. It created quite an enthusiasm for strawberries, and we 

 had a very fine exhibition. I think I showed fifty varieties to the 

 children. My Senator Dunlap had some very fine fruit, and I prom- 

 ised the children that the next season I would give them six plants 

 each of the Dunlap. One hundred and fifty-two have asked for the 

 plants, and out of that number we shall get a lot of horticulturists. 

 I have gone a little outside of the common nursery business. I have 

 gone to grafting trees on the highway. I told the children the apples 

 would be for them. Two little girls come along one day while I was 

 grafting and wanted to know what I was doing. I told them, and 

 they were very much interested. In a month they met me again 



