SEEDLING FRUITS, 1895. '-'AT 



In another report I shall fi^ive you a description of six of those 

 varieties, and the trees are hardier than the Duchess; we have 

 Mr. Zettel's word for that. 



Pres. Underwood: I would like to emphasize this thought to 

 members of our society, that there is not a year but that there 

 is some new seedling apple comes to our notice, and just as an 

 illustration I will mention that one of our men found a seedling 

 growing perhaps twelve to fifteen miles from our jilace, in 

 Wisconsin, back on the prairie in an exposed location, and it 

 was obtained in this way: A Norwegian family bought a half 

 bushel of apples about fifteen years ago. The wife saved 

 some seeds and planted them and from that planting has 

 raised a number of seedling trees, and there are some of the 

 apples I think are very promising. The old lady would not 

 allow anything to be cut from the tree. They ought to cut off 

 some of the limbs, and I think the trees would do better. She 

 had allowed them to go without any trimming. One day some 

 tree agents came along and persuaded her that the tree should 

 be trimmed, but it did not prove to do well. They trimmed 

 two or three limbs off and injured the tree, and after that they 

 would not allow anything to be cut off the tree. There were 

 two trees that had fruit last summer, and they were nice 

 apples, and one of them gave indications of being quite a 

 keeper. She said they sold seven or eight dollars worth of 

 apples and had all they wanted themselves. I just think 

 this: if every one would go to work and save apple 

 seeds from our hardiest kinds of apples and plant them, 

 we would develop a most wonderful crop of seedlings in 

 a few years. Save your apple seeds this winter and plant 

 them in the spring and get them started; then you can 

 take the wood and top-work it, and you can find out what 

 the fruit is. If we could get enough people at it, in five or six 

 years we would have all the apples we wanted. We would 

 have wonderfully interesting results. At our table every day 

 or evening a few seeds are saved when we eat a good apple, 

 and we have a lot of seedlings saved in that way. 



Mr. Philips: When Uncle Zettel took me to see the trees, 

 we w^ere eating apples, and I noticed the old man. when we 

 came under thai particular tree from which we were eating the 

 apples, he would take out the seeds and stick them into the 

 ground. I said, "You do not expect to live the winter through, 

 what do you want to plant those seeds for?" "O, to do some- 

 body some good." If wo would all do that same thing, we 

 should have some apples. 



