STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Ill 



don't believe it can be grown successfnlly in Steele County; 

 many have tried it there and failed, and the same is true of 

 nearly all these varieties that you grow in the Mississippi Val- 

 ley. And so it has l^een with nearly all the Wisconsin varieties; 

 I have tried lots of them. I was there and staid a good while, 

 and I have tried the hardiest I could find, but " death was their 

 portion," They couldn't stand Minnesota. I expect we shall 

 probably get something out of these Eussians, something that 

 will stand. What I desire is that the State shall be districted 

 according to its fruit-producing abilities into districts; those 

 districts favorably located — let those sections be by themselves, 

 and the others by themselves. I would like to see the Iowa plan 

 of directors adopted and have one director for each section, that 

 director to have the oversight of his territory, and he be expected 

 to report everything good, and as far as necessary, everything 

 bad. 



Mr. Underwood. Mr. President, there is already provided, I 

 think, by the articles of our society something that answers that 

 ]3urpose; I don't know but it enters into the constitution — a 

 provision for a seedling fruit committee. Perhaps it would not 

 be necessary to have two seedling committees, but if it is thought 

 best to give the committee any special work to do to more accu- 

 rately define what their work shall be, it seems to me that might 

 be done and let that answer. I think, so far, the seedling com- 

 mittee have simply been chosen and allowed to go on without 

 any instructions at all, and they have not accomplished as much 

 perhaps as they might have done if working under instructions. 

 I suggest that it is not necessary to have two seedling com- 

 mittees. 



Mr. Pearce. At our last meeting this question was discussed 

 pretty thoroughly, and some of our friends are apt to forget some 

 things. There are now experimental stations located all over 

 the State for the purpose of making tests of fruit, and I think I 

 have one hundred varieties. It rather strikes me that seedlings 

 are looked up more closely in this State than in other states. 

 All we have to do is to see that the committee on seedlings do 

 their duty. And I know that they are trying to do it; I know 

 that there have been seedlings sent to every station so far as it 

 could be done. I know I have had seedlings until I have got 

 tired of them. So far as the necessity of having this matter 

 looked up, I must say that I think it is being very thoroughly 

 done. There is my friend Sias who is making good j)rogress. 



