122 ANNUAL REPORT. 



President Smith. That completes the reports of the seedling 

 committee. There is another report to be made here upon 

 Eussiau varieties. 



Mr. Underwood. Mr. President, with your permission I will 

 supplement what I said in my report, which was not a written 

 one, with a statement in regard to the seedling I mentioned. 

 Now, I never like to talk very much about what the possibilities 

 of life are; in fact, I don't have any time to look into the future; 

 I don't care anything about the past, and I have very hard work 

 to take care of the present. 



Now, there is a seedling we are growing. Our friends are call- 

 ing on the seedling committee to report, and want something 

 practical, and they want us to tell them all about what to send 

 out. I don't know of anything more that I can do after we have 

 sent agents around to tell them what to do, and when we pay 

 those agents a good salary to tell the people what to do I don't 

 know why they should expect so much more of us. After all, I 

 would just like to call attention to this seedling. I don't know 

 whether it is worth anything, but you can see the fruit. I know 

 this, that in the orchard where it grows it is on a southern ex- 

 posure and a lot of seedling trees have been growing there in the 

 grass for many years without any care at all. I thought that 

 perhaps out of fifteen or twenty different seedlings we might find 

 something of value; but I would say we have no trees or cions 

 to sell. We have distributed the cions over the State wherever 

 we could place them for testing, and I may say that I have noth- 

 ing to make out of it at all. I have nothing to sell. I thought 

 a splendid thing for Minnesota would be the variety known as 

 Scott's Winter. We have been growing it for some time and, 

 as you sef , it is a nice looking apple. It does not rival the 

 Wealthy for beauty, but I think it is a little better in quality. 



Mr. Sias. Has that seedling you speak of been named ! 



Mr. Underwood. That seedling, no, sir. It is a good looking 

 apple, and when we come to give it cultivation I think it will 

 improve it. The tree looks strong and healthy, growing in the 

 sod. I don't know what it will do under good treatment and 

 good culture. 



Mr. Sias. How long have you kept it "? 



Mr. Underwood. Well, last spring we kept some of them 

 along in the middle of March; but I cannot say if a man had a 

 thousand bushels of them growing in an orchard that it would 

 be a good keeper. You can't tell by the samples you pick off 



