506 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The President: There is just one thing we were unable to 

 take care of during this entire session because of the lack of time 

 and that is listening to the report of a fruit list committee. Mr. 

 John P. Andrews is absent but Mr. Strand is here. He is a mem- 

 ber of that committee, and I will ask him to come forward and 

 make his report. 



Mr. Strand : The fruit list for 1917 will remain practically 

 the same as heretofore with the exception of a few changes which 

 will be noted as I proceed. (See Index.) 



We have stricken the Patten's Greening from the list of 

 "Most Profitable Varieties," because the commercial planters of 

 the state do not regard it as commercially profitable for several 

 reasons. We have added the Superb and Salome to the varieties 

 "For Trial" as they seem worthy to be tried. The Hungarian is a 

 grape very much of the Janesville type but seems to be an earlier 

 grape by about two weeks. It's a little better quality than the 

 Janesville, but not quite as vigorous a grower as Beta. On the 

 Americus everbearer it is suggested we take a vote of the so- 

 ciety ; there seems to be an inclination among a good many propa- 

 gators to discard it and throw it out. I move the adoption of the 

 report. 



The President : You have heard the report of the fruit list 

 committee and the motion that it be adopted. 



Mr. Moyer : Some four or five years ago I suggested that the 

 name "Duchess" be stricken out of the list and the word "Olden- 

 berg" inserted, that being the official name given by the American 

 Pomological Society, the name that is used in all the publications 

 of the Department of Agriculture. It is the name that the tree is 

 known by in Canada ; it is the name that the tree is known by in 

 the East, and just now there is coming from the press of the Mc- 

 Millan Company the great encyclopedia of horticulture by Pro- 

 fessor Bailey, and it is spoken of there in that way. Although it is 

 proper for us to have pet names for children I think we ought 

 to use the technical official name in our publication, and so I 

 would suggest to the committee that they drop the word 

 "Duchess" and use the word "Oldenberg." 



A Member : Do you make that as a motion ? 



Mr. Moyer: Yes, sir. 

 A Member: I second the motion. 



Mr. Gardner : I move that we call it the "Duchess of Olden- 

 berg." 



The President : Do you accept the amendment? 



Mr. Moyer : I don't like to because it is one of the rules of 

 the American Pomological Society that fruits be given only one 

 name. It is known as one of the most important apples in the 

 East and they call it the "Oldenberg." 



Mr. Latham : There are two sides to this. Even if we change 

 this name on our fruit list, people who have that apple to sell can 

 still call it the "Duchess" and the people who want to buy it can 



