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a tree and take care of — you cannot tell by that that it will be a 

 good keeper. It is a tart apple and resembles the Scott's Win- 

 ter. I have been struck with the similarity, still they are dis- 

 similar. It grows on a rented place about eighteen miles from 

 Lake City, without any care. I have tried to get some history 

 of these seedlings. The man who originally planted them just 

 planted some seed and set out an orchard. As it is unlike any- 

 thing I know of, I take it for granted it is a seedling. Every- 

 thing indicates it is a seedling orchard. I think, perhaps, it 

 would pay everyone to try the Scott's Winter. 



Mr. Sias. I have that and it is doing well. My trees are 

 hardy. 



Mr. Harris. I have just heard of another seedling of which I 

 made a diagram and sent a man to get a specimen. The tree is 

 said to be twenty -eight years old, and the man who has it raises 

 and sells a good many barrels of fruit from it every year. He 

 says it keeps all winter. I had a couple of the apples but they 

 were not in season at the time I got them; but I should think 

 they would keep pretty well. The man brought in two wagon 

 loads of the apples and sold them in the town of Hokah for win- 

 ter apples. It is an apple which closely resembles the Tallow, 

 or Golden Pippin. I intend to visit the tree and if it has an 

 outward apj)earance of being hardy at that age, I shall try to 

 procure scions this spring. I will make further report on it 

 next year. 



Mr. Smith. Mr. President, I found a seedling last fall that I 

 thought was pretty nice and I had the promise of some of the 

 fruit for exhibition, but the gentleman has not got around. I 

 want to tell you a little about the apple to show that we have an 

 abundance to draw from. The party described this tree to me 

 iis a seedling growing on the open prairie, that has been fruiting 

 for the last eight years. The tree has never killed a bit, is hardy 

 and smooth, the bark is light colored but very firm, — no crack- 

 ing, shelling or blistering; the limbs start out like those of the 

 Hyslop crab, so there is no danger of splitting down. I might 

 say that Mr. Harris, myself and somebody else were a committee 

 to report on some apples that were on exhibition in which we 

 had some thirty or more seedlings, among them the Brett seed- 

 ling, and some others that we thovight were very fine, but as a 

 matter of fact on all points we were compelled to give the prefer- 

 ence to that apple. It is an apple a little larger than this 

 specimen I have here, yellowish white, conical in shape, flesh 



