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second list, but with two foot-notes. The Urst foot note is 

 "Tardy bearer." The second foot-note, "Does best top- 

 worked." 



Mr. F. G. Gould: I would like to ask a question. I want to 

 ask Mr. Wedge if in transferring the Charlamof to the first list 

 whether he considered the question of its being a blighter or 

 not. I do not know that it is a very bad blighter, but I think 

 it would be an injustice to the public if it was a blighter to put 

 it on the first list. I asked the question for that reason. 



Mr. Wedge: We have endeavored to consider every phase 

 that entered into its hardiness in the broadest sense of the 

 term. We found the tree a little more subject to blight than 

 the Duchess, but Mr. Peterson's trees have been set over 

 twenty years and they still look beautiful, and the people of 

 northern Iowa endorse it. I think it is a very safe variety as 

 regards blight. 



Mr. Somerville: I do not see that the Malinda is a tardy 

 bearer. I have got some Malinda apples in the other room 

 that are certainly nice ones, from a three year old tree, and 

 these came into bearing as soon as any tree I know of, and 

 there is no tree so productive as the Malinda. What do you 

 mean by "tardy bearer?" 



Mr. Wedge: Late coming into bearing. 



Col. Stevens: I wish to ask the committee if the Tetofsky is 

 put on the second list in consequence of its semi-hardiness. 

 The Tetofsky is the hardiest tree we have in Minneapolis I 

 know of a tree that was in the way of a house which was to be 

 built, and the tree was taken up and re-set in full leaf without 

 injuring it at all. Certainly, in this neighborhood, the Tetofsky 

 is the hardiest tree I know of. 1 am speaking now of the 

 neighborhood of Minneapolis. 



Mr. Harris: I think it ought to be on the first list until we 

 get an early apple that is better. The Tetofsky has been in- 

 jured in some peculiar winters we have had. A single tree of the 

 Tetofsky has brought me more dollars and cents than any 

 other tree on my place and as many bushels in proportion. I 

 believe that the Tetofsky ought to be on the first list. 



Mr. Gould: Now, I want to say that I believe Mr. Harris is 

 truthful and consistent in what he says in regard to the Tetof- 

 sky on his place, but I think it will not apply everywhere. I 

 have been there myself. He has a peculiar situation, and, I 

 think, one of the best to grow half hardy varieties, and I think 

 that is the reason. Now, what he can do there does not apply 



