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point. If these Russian apples are worthless, we should take measures 

 to have the facts ascertained at once. 



Mr. Harris. Mr. President, I am very glad to second that motion. 



Mr. Busch. Thirteen years ago I grafted a good many Russian 

 cions on crabs, and my neighbors did the same, almost without excep- 

 tion, and now they are dead. Last spring I sent to Prof. Budd for 

 trees of these newer varieties. He sent me some thirty-five varieties, 

 and most of them seem to be good. A few came out in good shape 

 through the summer, and some did not. One kind seems to be blight- 

 ing so that I don't depend much on them. Now, as to quality; I am 

 not yet satisfied as to the quality. We don't want to grow hardy 

 apples and have to feed them to the hogs. 



Mr. Kellogg. At our state fair in Wisconsin, we had an exhibition 

 of about sixty varieties— I havn't the numbers with me now, — of the 

 new Russian varieties, don't count the Alexander, and Tetofsky new 

 Russians any more; of these fifty or sixty kinds I think there was at 

 least ten or fifteen that came up in quality to the Duchess, Fameuse 

 and Wealthy, and that class of fruits that are considered to be hardy. 



Mr. Tuttle. I would say that Mr. Kellogg was chairman of the 

 committee on apples at our state fair, tasted the fruit, and satisfied 

 himself as to the quality. 



The motion of Mr. Sias was adopted. 



Col. Stevens. I have a short resolution which I wish to read now, 

 which the members can be thinking about, and it can be taken up 

 later : 



Resolved. By the State Horticultural Society in convention assembled, that J. S. Harris of La 

 Crescent, A. W. Sias of Rochester, and George W. Fuller of Litchfield, be and are hereby appointed a 

 commission to visit all portions of the State during the early autumn of 1886, for the purpose of thor- 

 oughly examining the different seedling apples and other fruit trees, and plants, and to report the 

 result of their labor to the Society, at its annual winter meeting in 1887. 



Resolved. That the sum of $150 not otherwise appropriated, be and is hereby appropriated to 

 defray the expenses of said commission, in gathering such useful information as they may deem of 

 value to the Society. 



Mr. Kellogg. I think that the following varieties of the Russian 

 apple are equal to the Wealthy : The Transparent, which comes 

 under five diff'erent names, the Yellow, Red, White, Red Cheek, and 

 Charleton Thaler; those are all one variety; the Summer Lowland; 

 Roland Raspberry, Green Streaked Raspberry, Yellow White, White 

 Russet, and the Reptka, which are varieties as good as any that I know 

 of that have been mentioned in our discussions. 



The Chair named as the committee on apples at the State Fair, 

 Messrs. Wyman Elliot, Prof. E. D. Porter and H. H. Young, Secre- 

 tary of the State Board of Immigration. 



