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ing the kind of experiments that require the age of a 
tree to determine the value. 11 is is the work ol hybrid¬ 
izing tree fruits and producing new varieties. 
Dinner was served at the University Cafeteria, alter 
which l lie program was completed according to schedule. 
Nurserymen were pleased; everybody was instructed 
and all agreed that for a real entertainer and instructor 
Professor Blair is not excelled. 
The lessons learned from the meeting were many and 
varied and all agreed that too little is known by the 
people of Illinois about the great school'where more 
than 10,000 of our young men and women are educated. 
The appropriation for each two years is $5,000,000 and 
has been for years, but now, since the high cost of most 
everything, this appropriation ought to be very mater¬ 
ially increased. 
TO AN APPLE 
The erection of a monument to an apple on the Spring- 
wood Farm of John C. Schmidt, about two miles south of 
York, Pa., brings before the public one of the little ro¬ 
mances of agriculture which very fittingly occurred in 
what is the garden spot of Pennsylvania and very nearly 
the garden spot of the world. That the York Imperial, the 
apple to which the monument has been erected, was de¬ 
veloped one hundred years ago by Jonathan Jessup out 
of a seedling from an apple thrown aside by a farmer 
who couldn’t market bis product is an incident that will 
appeal to one’s sense of the dramatic. But if memorials 
to fine fruit are to be set up, it is about time that a monu¬ 
ment marked the spot near Philadelphia where that most 
delicious and aromatic of all fruits, the Seckel pear, was 
developed about the same time that the Jessup apple was 
being cultivated at York. Both apple and pear arc a 
tribute to the careful husbandry of the original settlers 
of this state, be they English, Scotch-Irish or German. 
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