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one of them — large trees that were eight or nine years old — have died. 

 Now, this is a fact that is well known among fruit men ia this section 

 of country. 



Mr. Tuttle. Were those Transparents that died? 



Mr. Pearce. No, but they have failed. 



Mr. Sias. 1 have not had very much experience with the Yellow 

 Transparent. I have some of the White which I set out a year ago 

 last fall; the White seems to be very nearly the -same thing as the 

 Yellow. They are all alive to-day. Of course, that isn't time enough 

 to test it. But last winter we considered the hardest winter we have 

 seen since we have been in the country, and we must conclude that 

 they are tolerably hardy; right opposite them we had the Wealthy, 

 and nearly all of them were killed. 



Mr. Pearce. Mr. Sias has high ground, and very well adapted for 

 those Russian trees. Now, you can take certain localities for the 

 Transparent and it is all right, but you must select a locality that is 

 not subject to those sudden changes that do the damage. 



Mr. Tuttle. I would say that I don't consider the Transparent as 

 hardy as a good many other kinds, but it has stood a good deal better 

 with me than the Wealthy, and it is hardy enough, I think, for our 

 State. And so far as my orchard trees were concerned or nursery 

 trees I never saw anything that showed tenderness. 1 had several 

 hundred Russian trees in the nursery, and several hundred in the 

 orchard last winter, and every one came through in good condition. I 

 have had no reason to doubt their perfect hardiness. I have not the 

 least doubt but that they will compare with anything we have been 

 in the habit of growing, take them as a class. 



Mr. Latham. I visited the orchard of Mr. Gould a year ago last 

 summer; I found quite a number of trees broken down more or less, 

 and on those there was scarcely any fruit. I asked Mr. Gould what 

 was the cause of that; he said those were nice apples and the boys 

 came out there from the city and broke down the trees in getting the 

 apples. I judged they were not in the best condition to show the 

 merits of fruit. The varieties of the Russian that I have seen, on my 

 own place and elsewhere, have done well, and some that I have are 

 hardier than the Wealthy. I will not say as much for their quality. 

 I examined an orchard with Mr. Gould when Early Harvest apples 

 were ripe, and we made a thorough search through that orchard; we 

 didn't just run through it. I think we went to every tree. The man 

 that lived on the place went with us, and I think he took us to 



