254 ANNUAL REPORT. 



BILLS ALLOWED AND ORDERS DRAWN. 



Secretary's office expenses to Jan. 5, 188t $69 96 



President's expense bill, year 1883 50 00 



Librarian, salary year 1883 10 00 



Repairs in library 15 00 



Library expenses, express charges 3 05 



J. T. Grimes, expense acc't, former years 81 00 



Postage on reports, 1884 100 00 



Secretary, 1st quarter, 1884 50 00 



A. W. Sias, expense acc't 10 00 



H. B. McKenney, printing 13 50 



Lake City Graphic, printing 17 25 



F. G. Gould, expense acc't : 3 00 



Reporter, copying and prooFreadintr 60 00 



Total $482 76 



THE McMAHON WHITE APPLE. 



After adjournment the Secretary wrote Mr. Taylor, asking a 

 fuller account of the McMahon White apple, and received the fol- 

 lowing^ reply. An apple of such beauty, quality and productive- 

 ness, that will succeed as a top graft on the Duchess, is worthy of 

 trial: 



FoRESTViLLE, MiNN., February 8, 1884. 

 ■Olioer Glbbs, Jr.., Secretary Minnesota State Horticultural Society: 



Dear Sir : I would say in reply to your letter of inquiry, that 

 the McMahon's White Apple (the name I understood Mr. Plumb 

 to give it) was obtained by me from Wisconsin in 1872. I grafted a 

 quantity of roots and planted in nursery row the same year. 

 Found it about like Titter's Red in hardness. [ do not think it is 

 valuable for us, except for top working. Have experimented in 

 that way with it for thirteen years, and have found it to work on 

 the Duchess in the most perfect manner, making a union that 

 none but an expert could detect, in a few years. I have fruited it for 

 eight or nine years, and now have large trees perfectly sound in 

 appearance, with branches four or five inches in diameter and 

 twenty feet or more, high. The fruit is very large, white in color, 

 and of the finest appearance ; good sour flavor, and keeps until 

 March if put up with care. I have exhibited specimens of the 

 fruit measuring 17i inches in circumference. 



This is about all I can say in regard to it, except that I once 

 thought it settled that it was the twenty ounce Pippin, or Ox Apple 



