APPLES. 109 



Pres. Underwood: I think if you will turn to page 17 in our 

 last year's horticultural report, it will give you the ^ense of our 

 society this year. When the annual fruit list is made up this 

 year, if there is any variation you will get the information you 

 seek for. Of course, individuals might discuss the matter with 

 you here. 



Mr Somerville: Mr. Gerrish got my apples for a number of 

 years. If he will come to my place next summer, he will have 

 the privilege of looking over nearly three hundred varieties, 

 and it will pay him to come there, and I will take him to my 

 place and to the neighbors', and we will have a good, jolly 

 time. 



Pres. Underwood: If you will come to Lake City, I will show 

 you just such soil as you have. 



Mr. Gerrish: I have seen that soil. 



Mr. Dartt: If you will come to Owatonna in the spring I will 

 show you five hundred varieties, and you can take your choice 

 of all of them. (Laughter.) 



Mr. Philips, (Wisconsin): I want to say a word about this 

 matter. I do not think he can succeed in growing a good 

 orchard on that soil where the sand is thirty feet deep and with 

 the varieties we have in the north-west, unless he goes to work 

 and fixes that soil. I have given this advice to other men: In- 

 stead of setting one hundred trees in that soil, you go to work 

 and dig twenty good sized holes — come over and see me if you 

 want to (laughter), but you go to work and dig twenty good 

 sized holes; then go to the nearest bluff or buy c\a>y and put 

 half a wagon load in each of those holes and plant your trees, 

 and in a few years you will have apples. In a few years plant 

 twenty more and treat them in the same way. I would rather 

 have a hundred such trees than to have ten thousand in the 

 original soil, even if you mulched them ten times a year. You 

 will have to doctor that soil before you can get apples. Mr. 

 Underwood had an Okabena growing on sandy soil and doing 

 very well. It has bothered us in getting a variety that will 

 do well on sandy soil, and if we want to be successful we must 

 go to work and doctor the soil. Plant one tree in that way, and 

 it will give you better satisfaction than a dozen planted in sand. 

 I think that is good advice, and no ax to grind. 



Mr. Dartt: That is good advice if Philips says so. (Laughter). 



Mr. Gerrish: Three hundred feet above this I have a lime- 

 stone soil 



Chorus of Apple Growers: That's all right. 



