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too much honor is often paid to money, that merit does not get 

 quite its share of honor; and I think we Americans have been justly 

 charged with the fact that we were rather inchned to honor the thing 

 that ghtters than that which Avas true underneath. I do not mean 

 that entirely; it would be a slander upon myself and upon a great 

 many high-minded men and women; but it is a fact that we do not 

 _go down to the bottom of these things and honor the thing itself, the 

 example. Here is a man who started out in an original line. He is 

 a pioneer; he laid out his own maps, and he did not know what 

 harbor he was going to bring up in. He laid it out with his horti- 

 cultural chart and compass, and you and I and many citizens are 

 reaping the benefit of his labors. 



I believe this is a good thing and I believe it is perfectly prac- 

 ticable. I will put in $25 myself. 



There is another feature in this thing. It comes home to me 

 personally, because at present I am professor of horticulture in the 

 university. I know a thing like that would be a stimulus; it would 

 be a good thing for all young men to have these matters spoken of. 

 We have a new horticultural building at the experiment station. 

 There are two brick piers in the class room having a face of two feet 

 towards the class. It is the purpose to have brass plates placed 

 on those columns with the names of eminent horticulturists on those 

 plates, — to have them there as a sort of inspiration. If I were asked 

 why the name of Epraim Bull was engraved on that plate I could 

 tell them of the Concord grape. I could point out to them the name 

 of Peter Gideon as the originator of the Wealthy apple. They 

 would inquire about these things, and they are examples, thoughts, 

 texts that will stimulate good thinking, high thinking, and I think 

 it is a very good thing to have before the young. I would move the 

 adoption of the resolution. 



As to whether there should be more than one thousand copies 

 issued, I think that matter can be left to the executive committee. 



Mr. J. S. Harris: I will most heartily second the motion of 

 Prof. Green, and I think in doing what we propose to do we are 

 not only perpetuating Mr. Gideon's memory, but we are doing some- 

 thing by which thousands and tens of thousands of people coming 

 after us who read and study his life may be stimulated in doing like- 

 wise. It will be doing something that will last after marble has 

 crumbled to dust, and the study of the contents of that little book 

 will also be a stimulus to make more and better horticulturists. 



Mr. J. S. Triggs (Iowa): A leading fruit man in the city 

 of Minneapolis told me not more than one hour ago that this apple, 

 if raised in sufficient quantity throughout the northwest, would out- 

 sell the Rhode Island Greening, the Baldwin, Northern Spy or any 

 other eastern apple. 



The President: I inquired in Washington of different ones 

 what the most popular apple was in their state. They named sev- 

 eral, "but," they said, "there is a new one that we have got the 

 last few years." "What is it?" "It is an apple called the Wealthy, 

 and it originated in your own state." This little memorial book 

 strikes me verv favorablv. indeed. It is a thing of beauty and will 



