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recommend as the best five crabs or hybrids: Virginia, Lyman’s 
Prolific, Florence, Martha and Orange. 
Mr. Burnap (lowa): I want to give a note of warning in re- 
gard to the Virginia; it has been especially recommended for 
stocks. There is but one Virginia that is all right. When 
young it seems to do well. I have Virginia twenty-five years 
of age, but they commence to body blight. I can heartily com- 
mend it; it is all that is claimed for it when young, but when it 
gets to a certain age its body blights, and if that is the case we 
want to use it carefully. 
The President: Does the true Viteinia blight? Ihave never 
been able to definitely trace the true origin of it. It has been 
grown around St. Paul and this particular section of country 
for a great many years. I think Mr. Brimhall was the first 
man who ever called my attention to it. Prof. Green, do you 
know the true origin of the Virginia? Has it ever been found? 
Prof. S. B. Green: Prof. Budd says it is a wild crab of Sibe- 
ria, but the Virginia is an upright growing tree. There is one 
here called the Virginia which is just the reverse, it makes a 
large, spreading tree. 
Mr. G. H. Van Houten (Iowa): I have looked up both of 
them very closely. The apple I recommend under the name of 
Virginia—and I only recommend it as a stock, and it has 
_ proven a good stock—was discovered as a stray in the nursery 
of Sewall Foster, and he has scattered it all over Lllinois 
through our horticultural stations. 
The President: Mr. Dartt, will you give us your list? 
Mr. Dartt: Martha, Virginia—and Tonka; Ishould put that 
in as the fifth. 
Prof. Green: Martha, Virginia, Sweet Russet, Strawberry 
and Gideon’s No. 6. 
Mr. Dartt: Ido not think much of the No. 6, and the Straw- 
berry is not worth shucks. (Laughter.) 
Mr. Wedge: Prof. Green named my list. I want to make 
one remark in regard to the Martha. Mr. Cummins says the 
blossoms blighted. That is simply the habit of the variety, 
of the young tree. 
Mr. Cummins: My trees are twenty-five years old. 
Mr. Wedge: Wherever I saw it, it occurred in young trees. 
Mr. F. W. Kimball: Ihave no list of five varieties. I would 
like to see the Minnesota crab there. I think a great deal of 
it. I think it is one of the most valuable varieties. I think 
the name isa misnomer; I think it should be cut otf from the 
