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quite interesting to this society, and just being introduced, but not; 

 fruiting as yet in Minnesota. They were on a very elevated site, 

 and were a fine study in color and quality as illustrating the value 

 of high lands for raising apples, I wanted an essay from Mr. 

 Phillips. I wanted to get out his fruit for our members to look at 

 and study. I wanted Mr. Phillips to attend the meeting; and so 

 I sent him an invitation to write the essay, and we got up a prem- 

 ium list that invited his apples by their names. He came. He dis- 

 played his fruit. It was about all we had on our tables. It was a 

 lovely exhibition, as you well remember. He gave us his experi- 

 ence in fruit raising in au interesting paper, and did us lots of good 

 in the part he took in our discussions. He contributed one of the 

 seven prize essays on orcharding; one of the best if not the best. He 

 did not get the prize on the essay, but he carried off our premiums 

 on apples, and he felt good. He had earned them. This is one in- 

 stance. This resolution would have cut that scheme all up. Now 

 another: Everybody who is looking for new and nice varieties wants 

 to set the Wolf River apple, the Northwestern Greening, the McMa- 

 hon White, the Russian Anis, the Antonovka, the Hibernal, the Lit- 

 tle Seedling, the Bogdanoff, the Longfield, the Yellow Transparent^ 

 the Forster Sweet, the Forster Red Winter, the Giant Swaar, etc., 

 etc. None of them are recommended by the Society at present. 

 This resolution would not permit a premium to be offered for some- 

 body to bring them out. In my searches for facts of interest, I 

 am continually finding fruits that I want the grower to contribute 

 for exhibition; when I can say to the grower, our commmittee may 

 think it worthy of a premium, and if any is awarded you shali 

 have it, I feel at liberty to ask for the fruit, and I always get it. 

 Four-fifths of the apples on the tables here this winter I have 

 gathered up and brought here in this way. Now here is another 

 case- Over there on the table is a plate of grey gilliflower apples, 

 which I have entered in the name of Geo. P. Peffer; another of 

 Pewaukee, by the same. Both of them are there to illustrate a law 

 of reproduction and variation from seed, the law laid down in Mr. 

 Peff'er's essays before this society, which I have explained to rnany^ 

 using these plates of fruit as an object lesson. 1 picked the fruit 

 off" the Green Bay tables, and asked Mr. Peffer to let me bring it 

 here. You that know that the grey gilliflowers on that plate are 

 from the ver}'' tree that Mr. Peffer raised from the seed of the iso- 

 lated grey gilliflower tree described by him on page one hundred 

 and twenty-five of our report of 1883, and you that never have seen 

 the Pewaukee before but have heard of it, know its parentage and 



