36 ANNUAL REPORT. 
Carried. aD 
The chair appointed on this committee, Thos. Moulton, P. 
A. Jewell and Mr. Harris. : ; 
Mr. Jewell did not feel disposed to act on this committee 
for reasons before stated. hae 
The President said as they had buried the crabs at a pre- 
vious meeting, and Mr. Jewell had been the first to start them, 
he ought now to be among the first to resurrect them. 
Mr. Harris said that he had officiated at the burial, but had 
found that the things were prematurely buried, before dead, 
and would cheerfully help dig them out. 
Moved and seconded that the report on apples be taken up, 
one variety at a time, for adoption. 
Carried. 
THE DUCHESS OF OLDENBURG. 
Mr. Fuller In Meeker county this apple has been killed 
very badly, and he hardly knows of any trees of this variety 
now in healthy existence. 
Mr. Grimes has lost no Duchess since he grafted on hardy 
roots. 
Moved and seconded that the Duchess be adopted for gen- 
eral cultivation. ; 
Dr. Humphreys asked Mr. Fuller if his trees root-killed. 
Mr. Fuller said they did. 
Mr. Ford stated that with him the Duchess had killed, while 
the Transcendent, only eight feet distant, lived, and he in- 
tended to dig up and destroy the Duchess. 
Mr. Ditus Day, of Dakota county, had 20 or 30 Duchess 
that did not winter-kill; did not know of but one tree in his 
locality that had been injured. 
Mr. Fuller stated that the Duchess being slow in starting 
may be the cause of its killing with him. In reply to question 
by Dr. Humphreys, he said some of his trees were planted in 
loam, and some in sandy soil. 
Mr. Jewell (Lake City) does not consider that in his part 
of the State there is any danger of this variety being injured 
except by root-killing; had seen them top-killed in_this 
locality and at Mankato. In the southern part of the State 
the Duchess is free from root and top killing, but in the | 
northern some have top-killed. In the extreme northern 
part of New York they were more successful in growing ap- 
ples than in the southern part of the State. . 
Mr. Peffer, of Pewaukee, Wis., said that as he came up to 
this meeting he stopped at Sparta, Wisconsin, and he thought 
that the winter had been more destructive to trees there than 
