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this to your attention so as to bring them before the society. I 

 would say in regard to this matter of finding something adapted 

 to our State I think is the point we should seek after. We have 

 got to reach out for hardy varieties of apples for this northern 

 climate and we have got to look to our seiidlings; not only to our 

 present seedlings but to those of future generations. It is by this 

 process of acclimatization that we are going to derive the benefi4;8 

 of northern fruitage; by taking all the desirable seedlings that 

 we can gather up from the different stations I think it is very 

 evident that we will get the benefit. Out of the thousands and 

 hundreds of thousands of seedlings that have been started in this 

 State we have but very few of what we may call "iron clads," 

 but each year is bringing new favorites to our attention and I 

 think the timers not far distant when we shall receive accessions 

 to the number that will give us something that will be worthy of 

 propagation. 



Mr. Tuttle. I wish to say a few words on this seedling ques- 

 tion. I wish here to acknowledge, on the part of Wisconsin, 

 that your work in this direction has been far ahead of ours, es- 

 pecially in its results. I look upon the Wealthy apple, origin- 

 ated in your State, as being of more value to Wisconsin, as a 

 market apple, or for general use, than all the American apples 

 put together. I have been growing seedlings from Wealthy and 

 Tetofsky and have several hundreds of them. I don't know of 

 anything that has been thoroughly tested that is reliable for us 

 to plant for general cultivation. We have the Pewaukee and I 

 have seen the original tree which for the past twenty years has 

 borne good crops. I had great faith in the Pewaukee and planted 

 it in my own orchard until the year before last winter, and I 

 thought it was just the tree for us; the trees were perfectly 

 sound and some of the trees bore very heavy crops. But I find 

 that they are failing where most of our seedlings fail, even after 

 years of trial; when they come to a hard winter, after bearing 

 a heavy crop and exhausting the vitality of the tree, they fail; 

 and I fear we shall find this to be so with many of them. It is 

 well in testing these new seedlings, where they are to be dissem- 

 inated, that they should have a thorough trial and for a long- 

 period. 



I have been looking to the new aj)ples from Eussia to supply 

 the necessities for fruit for aj^ples in this Northwestern country, 

 but I think that this work in the seedlings is a thing that should 

 be carried on both by our State and yours; I have no doubt you 



