re. (See index.)

The President: The committee on fruit list has been working very hard
trying to determine why we have particular varieties on the list and the
changes, if any, that should be made. Mr. J. P. Andrews, the chairman of
the committee, is the man who has been doing most of this work, and we
will be glad to hear from him at this time. He is quite radical and in
favor of many changes as you will note when he reads his report.

Mr. Andrews: There are very few changes, and you know it has been the
policy of this society rather to be conservative and not jump at
anything until we know what it is. (Reads new fruit list.)

Mr. Andrews: I move its adoption.

Motion was seconded and carried unanimously.

Mr. Andrews: I would like to call attention to the fact that a great
many criticize that we do not change the list from time to time. I have
thought that for a long time. Two or three years ago there was a little
move towards making it so we could change it. We are putting up some
nice, big premiums for late winter apples and early winter apples, and
there are undoubtedly some seedlings that would be all right to put upon
the list if we knew more about them. It seems to me it is foolish to pay
those premiums and then drop it right there. We do not know any more
about whether they are hardy or not than if they had been grown in
Missouri. They may have grown well through some protection or favorable
location, but when you commence grafting from a seedling it does not
give satisfaction as a grafted tree and in different localities of the
country.

We want to know whether the new seedlings are hardy enough for this
climate, not that they are simply of good quality to eat and perhaps
will keep. We find that out here, but we do not find out anything about
the hardiness.

I think we ought to require a person who has produced a good seedling
and gotten a good premium for it to send some of its scions to the
superintendent of the Fruit-Breeding Farm for testing and let him send
it out to points north of here, between here and the northern part of
the state, to see how much hardiness it has. Hardiness is the quality we
want more than anything else. We have gotten along so far with the
Hibernal, and we ought not to be so particular about quality as about
hardiness. They ought to be required to give Mr. Haralson a few of the
scions or buds so that he could try them there at the fruit-breeding
farm and send them out to m