140 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. O. AI. Lord: What is the objection? 



Mr. Trigg: No flavor. 



Mr. Lord: What is the color? 



Mr. Trigg: A dirty red. (L&ughter.) 



Mr. Lord : Are you sure you have got the Good Peasant ? 



Mr. Trigg: Perhaps I have been fooled, but those trees were 

 sold to me under that name. 



Mr. O. M. Lord : Our Good Peasant is the Anisim. I consider 

 it a beauty, and I would not take five dollars or five times that for 

 my trees. 



Prof. N. E. Hansen (S. D.) : The Russian name for Anisim in 

 our translation means "a beauty," and it is a beauty. If Mr. Trigg 

 had seen our Anisim, if he had seen the Minnesota Anisim from a 

 dozen different places at the state fair, he would not have described 

 it as a "dirty red." It has been called the Jonathan of the North. 



Mr. Trigg: It may be the Jonathan on the outside, but it isn't 

 on the inside. 



Mr. J. S. Harris : What is the description of your apple that you 

 call the Anisim? 



Mr. Trigg: They are covered with a sort of bloom, a kind of 

 a bluish cast over them, like as if they had fever and ague ; but that 

 would not be so bad, but if you cut them and undertake to eat them 

 they have absolutely no merit. That is the apple I have got, but it is 

 not the apple I ought to have. 



Mr. J. S. Harris: Here are two specimens (indicating) of the 

 apple we call the Anisim. They were on exhibition at the state fair 

 eight days and have been in cold storage since. When they were 

 just ripe they were a very fine apple. 



Mr. Trigg: I have to announce with a profound sense of self- 

 commiseration that I have been "stuck." (Great laughter.) 



Mr. J. S. Harris : I used to attend horticultural meetings in 

 Wisconsin, and there was a great diversity of opinion about the 

 Northwestern Greening. Mr. Springer told me once that it had 

 been killed root and branch. He said they had never endeavored to 

 hold it over and never expected it to stand so they would get an ap- 

 ple. On that account I have never planted many trees of it, but 

 for a few vears it has been coming up steadily, and a great many 

 people like it. I judged from remarks I heard at last winter's meet- 

 ing in Wisconsin that when it gets old it is one of the poorest apples 

 they have. There are two places in Houston county where the apple 

 is grown to a considerable extent, and they said at both places they 

 did not think much of it. They said it took a long time to get into 

 bearing ; there were many apples with dry spots in them. 



Indirect manures are those which do not furnish tlie plant with food 

 directly, but by freeing the plant food locked up in the soil are beneficial to 

 crops. 



