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parent is not the true Transparent. I grafted ten thousand trees that 

 were sent to me as Transparents, and out of that ten thousand there 

 is not a tree that is worth a cent — not one. You can pick out the 

 rows standing in my pasture ground where the old trees stood in the 

 nursery. You can't find one tree in fifty but what is killed. Part of 

 the Tetofsky are killed; it is an apparent failure, but it is no test of 

 the Russian apples in general that this one variety kills. 



Mr. Sias. I believe what we want is to get grafts of the Russian 

 apples. Mr. Tuttle has touched upon an important subject in his 

 paper; and I am very glad he has had the courage to mention it, for 

 writers generally feel a little delicacy in speaking of it, as their motives 

 might be misconstrued, and that is the reference to foreign nursery- 

 men bringing in and selling, under fancy names, all sorts of things. 

 In Dayton, Ohio, and that vicinity they have more extensive nurseries 

 than almost any other part of the country, so far as I know, and they 

 send a great many men into this Northwestern country. They come 

 here, and find a man that has some little reputation for doing an hon- 

 est business, and they want to sell their miserable stock on his reputa- 

 tion. I have been interviewed several times by these same parties and 

 asked to allow them to use my name to sell stock. They said if I had 

 a surplus of anything of course they would buy some of it; but they 

 wanted to use my name in selling stock, and have named parties in the 

 northwest that were doing the same business, and said they thought it 

 would make it mutually profitable to do so. Of course I have always 

 answered these fellows that I would allow no one to use my name 

 unless they had my stock along with it. 



One of these fellows called a few days ago to talk with me; I asked 

 him what varieties he was selling mostly; he said they were running 

 heavy on the Mann apple and the Pewaukee, and that class of fruits; 

 and they were selling a great many of the Irish Juniper, etc.; I told 

 him he was doing wrong; they were entirely worthless, and I had seen 

 them tested, and knew they were all of no use whatever. A year ago 

 I told a fellow the same thing, and I found out that he had sold some 

 hundred of them to my neighbors. So you see how it goes; all they 

 want is your money. 



Mr. Latham. The buyer goes and gets his trees, and the agent goes 

 into another section of the country. I don't think that these Ohio 

 men always come to nurseries to ask permission to use their name in 

 selling stock. During the past season we have talked with farmers in 

 the vicinity of the Excelsior nurseries, who have been solicited by for- 



