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ber of this society; I refer to Mr. A. G. Tuttle, who is one of 

 the old pioneers of the I^orthwest in fruit culture; he has spent 

 a lifetime in developing and trying to solve this great j^roblem 

 which so interests us here; and we could jjay no greater compli- 

 ment to the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, of which he 

 is an honored member, than to thus recognize his work. I there- 

 fore move you now that we make Mr. Tuttle a life member of 

 this society and confer upon him every privilege which we our- 

 selves enjoy. 



The motion was unanimously adopted. 



Mr. Dartt. Mr. President, in regard to these seedlings, I 

 think there is one point in favor of the bleak, exposed places in 

 Minnesota as places of experiment. Now we have away out on 

 the prairies, we have in Steele County, several seedling ajsples 

 recommended to have stood for many years and borne choice 

 fruit. N"ow, if the members of this society can go into such un- 

 favorable localities and get good apples there will be one point 

 that they will have secured and that is hardiness. You may get 

 apples along the Mississippi, you may get them in Wisconsin, 

 find them all right in every respect, but you are not certain 

 about their hardiness; then you have to go to work to test their 

 hardiness and see if they will stand in exposed situations. If 

 you send your committees into unfavorable localities and there 

 find your apples you will have the hardiness secured beforehand. 

 I have one apple that I have tried for several years; it was sup- 

 posed to be a seedling; I refer to what we call Yearl's Winter. 

 Mr. Yearl presented the apple to me when I came to Minnesota 

 about fourteen or fifteen years ago. I got some cions from him and 

 grafted some. In the nursery it did not pi-ove to be remarkably 

 hardy, but the trees, since they have got to bearing, with me 

 have been just a little hardier than the Wealthy. It is not hardy 

 enough so I could recommend it. It is a good winter apple and 

 keeps nicely. Have heard of other apples in Steele County that 

 were highly recommended which, if you would hunt them up 

 you would perhaps find had died, like the one the gentleman re- 

 ferred to. It is possible that a good many others, when you look 

 them up, you may find the old tree dead. I understood years ago 

 that the original Wealthy was dead, that it had died down and 

 new sj)routs had come up. I suppose that is so. 



Mr, Gideon. It was blighted. 



Mr. Dartt. I suppose that is known to be a characteristic of 

 the Wealthy. Some times the main tree will kill down, and if 



