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will find some seedlings that perhaps are more hardy than the 

 Wealthy. But it is good enough for us; in fair locations it is all 

 right. The Wealthy for its quality, for its keeping, for its early 

 bearing and hardiness of tree, — I do not knoAv of anything 

 among American api^les that will compare with it. We are 

 grafting the Wealthy pretty extensively this winter. I want to 

 say a word in regard to a seedling that has been receiving some 

 attention with us, known as the Northwestern Greening, of Wis- 

 consin. At the December meeting at Green Bay, the evidence 

 was that the old tree bore two crops and died, root and branch, 

 and still it is being propagated, and I know by some persons is 

 considered a hardy tree. Now it will be perfectly safe at least 

 to try it still further for awhile. 



Col. Stevens. Mr. Tuttle, how is the Wolf River? 



Mr. Tuttle. I see no reason why that is not a hardy apple. 

 We have several varieties. 



Mr. Pearce. Is the Wolf River seedlina: considered as good 

 in quality as the Wealthy? 



Mr. Tuttle. No, sir; it is more like the Alexander. In fact 

 it is so near it that the apples which we exhibited at our winter 

 meeting, where they were placed by the side of the Alexander, 

 were so near alike that it was hard to tell which was which, and 

 persons who did not know couldn't tell the difference. And Mr. 

 Peffer, a gentleman of the committee, pronounced it the Alex- 

 ander. But the apples I have seen since do not resemble the 

 Alexander as much, but I think quite likely it is a seedling of 

 the Alexander. 



Mr. Sias. Is the Wolf River as hardy as the Wealthy ? 



Mr. Tuttle. Well, sir, I could not say; but I think it is. 



Mr. Harris. I have no doubt that the Wolf River, if a seed- 

 ling, is from the Alexander. The habit and growth of the trees 

 on Mr. Phillips' place are so nearly alike that I couldn't tell 

 them apai't. Mr. Phillips thought he could see a difference; I 

 could not. The tree blights just as bad as the Alexander, and 

 that is the great fault; the Alexander is not as sound in Minne- 

 sota as the Wealthy. 



Mr. Harris. Mr. President, we have established a precedent in 

 the State Horticultural Society of electing to life membership men 

 who have done life servic«i in the society and accomplished as it 

 were the work of "old warhorses," who have done work for the 

 Northwest and distinguished services, and I rise at this time for 

 the purpose of moving that we make one who is present a life mem- 



