HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 91 



MOENING SESSION. 

 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1890. 



The meeting was called to order at 9 o'clock, by President Elliot. 



The president announced the following committees: 



Fruit Lists — J. S. Harris; L. H. Wilcox; George Lowell. 



Awards of Premiums — E. H. S. Dartt; Andrew Peterson; Edson 

 Gay lord. 



Publication — Prof. B. Green; Col. J. H. Stevens; J. T. Grimes. 



Fmal Resolutions— J. T. Grimes; Dr. M. M. Frisselle; Mr. 

 Burnett. 



Obituary — S. D. Hillman; Col. J. H. Stevens; J. S. Harris. 



The financial report of the secretary and the report of the treas- 

 urer were referred to the executive committee. 



The following paper from Mr. Wilcox was then read by the 

 secretary : 



EAISING SEEDLINGS. 



By E. Wilcox, of La Crosse, 

 Members of the Minnesota Horticultural Society: 



Your secretary's urgent request for an article from me, giving 

 my experience on apple tree growing, is received, and I do not feel 

 quite at liberty to refuse, although I have long since ceased to 

 have any ambition to see my name in print, or to take pride in 

 stirring up my co-workers to pitch in and criticise me. 



In one of your reports I find the question asked : " Has any one 

 ever known the roots of apple trees to be killed by freezing?" 

 Mr. Fuller. "Yes." Mr. Pearce. "I think not." The society 

 took a recess, and that ended, so far as I know, or have seen, all 

 further answers to the question. 



The winter of 1872-3 killed about 60,000 trees in our nursery at 

 Trempealeau, Wis., and about 1,000 in our orchard by root- killing. 

 When I learned the condition of the nursery and orchard, I wrote 

 to a friend of great experience in Wisconsin, stating the above 

 facts. He replied: "Of course there is no help for the nursery, 

 but the orchard can be saved by thinning out the branches and 

 heading back those that are left." I gave a neighbor who had a 

 bigger orchard than mine, this information, and we both went to 

 work for a number of weeks, following instructions; no use. The 

 orchard was past redemption. Even Transcendent crabs were 

 root-killed. 



The winter of 1874-5 was so destructive at South Haven, Mich., 

 that the Pomological Society at that place, appointed a committee 

 of A. T. Linderman, A. S. Dyckman, J. S. Linderman. This com- 

 mittee sent out circulars with eleven questions. These were 



