106 ANNUAL REPORT 



REPORT ON SEEDLING FRUITS. 

 By G W. Fuller, Litchfield. 



I have visited the two seedlings referred to in nay report last year, 

 that of Mr. Mills in Grreenleaf, and of Mr. Baldwin in Cedar Mills, 

 The trees bore but little fruit. Two npples from the Mills seedling 

 kept in my cellar until a few days since The Mills seedling usually 

 keep but a short time. 



I put in grafts from both these trees last spring, and, after a few 

 years, shall be able to say more certainly what they will do. 



lam inclined to think we cannot decide on the real value of a seed- 

 ling, until we have tried it by growing grafts. 



I have had no opportunity to act with the other members of the 



committee. 



G. VV. Fuller. 

 Litchfield, Jan. 17, 1888. 



DipCCSSTOK. 



Mr. Dartt. I would like to inquire of Mr. Sias on which side he 

 found the windbreak, when visiting the Peerless? 



Mr. Sias I noticed when visiting the tree that the orchard was 

 protected from all sides. 



Mr. Brand. Mr. President, I want to correct one or two errors in 

 the description of the Peerless ai)ple. In reference to the age of the 

 tree, your committee took some facts from Mr. Miller's memory; I 

 have something more substantial than that. In 1875 I made a plat 

 of the orchard and a record of it, and numbered every tree. At that 

 time, as he told me, the trees were six years old past, and I was of the 

 opinion they were a year older still; he stated that they were grown 

 from seeds of apples raised in 1867, as that was the year he had a 

 large crop of apples, in another orchard, which I found confirmed by 

 reference to the files of the Faribault Republican. He got his seeds 

 from that orchard. 



With reference to the condition of the tree as compared with 

 the Duchess, I would state that in the year 1868 I sold Mr. Miller 

 thirty Duchess trees, nearly all of which came into bearing, but they 

 have all killed out except four or five which still remain of the origi- 

 nal thirty set in the spring of 1869. He has planted a good many 

 since, but' the Peerless has produced twice as much fruit as any 



