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AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
REPORT OF AUDITING COMMITTEE. 
The Secretary announced that the Committee on Auditing the Treasurer’s 
accounts had handed in a report. The box containg the Treasurer’s vouchers 
having been stolen from his room at the hotel during his absence, the Com- 
mittee reported the accounts apparently correct, deferring final report, upon 
request of the Treasurer, until duplicate vouchers could be secured for their 
inspection. Upon motion the preliminary report was adopted. 
(The stolen vouchers not being returned, the Treasurer procured duplicates 
Avhich were sent to the Chairman of the Auditing Committee, who after audit- 
ing them forwarded the following statement.— Secretary.) 
Fayetteville, Ark., Oct. 30, 1899. 
I hereby certify that I have examined duplicate vouchers for each of the 
credit items in the report of Treasurer L. R. Taft, and find them properly 
receipted and bearing the President’s approval. The vouchers are accom- 
panied with a cashier’s certificate showing the sum of $636.93 on deposit 
as reported. (Signed.) 
W. G. VINCENHELLER, 
Chairman of Committee on Auditing the Treasurer’s Report. 
The Secretary in presenting the report of Mr. Frank A. Kimball, chairman 
of the Committee on Tropical and Sub tropical Fruits, said: 
The report is evidently a very complete and valuable one, covering the 
whole Florida and Gulf Region and the State of California. It seems 
to me that the Committee has set a good example for similar com- 
mittees in the future, in view of the fact that according to the statement 
of the Chairman there is but one member of it who is not either disabled, 
sick or dead. 
President Watrous: I think we may take the word of our Secretary in re- 
gard to the report; and, unless some one knows some reason to the contrary, 
it will be passed to the printer without reading.* 
A paper on “Fruit Breeding in the Northwest,” by Mr. C. G. Patten, of 
Charles City, Iowa, was read by the author. 
BREEDING OF FRUITS FOR THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. 
BY C. G. PATTEN, CHARLES CITY, IOWA. 
Perhaps a brief outline of the area referred to, coupled with a few facts 
drawn from experience with forest trees, on and adjacent to this territory, 
are necessary to give the reader a clear understanding of its climatic condi- 
tions. With its eastern border resting on Lake Michigan, its western border 
on the Missouri River, and its southern and northern limits on the south line 
of Iowa, and the .north line of Minnesota, the region, covers an area nearly 
six hundred miles in one dimension by seven hundred miles in the other. 
The eastern one-third of this, though somewhat broken into by prairies, 
is timber land. In the primitive forests within twenty-five miles to the west 
of Milwaukee and Sheboygan, the white beech grew into grandly towering- 
trees two feet and more in diameter, with the bark almost as smooth as if 
*The report will be found in full on pp. - — - of this volume.— Secretary. 
