The President: I am glad to hear that statement. I have understood that the Indian peach will come true to that group but it will not be the big Indian peach you have planted. It is a fact that some of those groups have a tendency to come true to the group.
Professor Close: Yes, they come true to the group and so will apples.
Mr. Dorr: May I ask another question? What has become of some of those beautiful, delicious seedlings in southern Indiana they had when I was a boy?
The President: The same thing that became of Washington and Lincoln—they died.
Mr. McElderry: It is a boy's taste, not the peach, that makes it seem better than the ones we have now.
Mr. W. C. Reed: I feel that Mr. McCoy discouraged us too much about grafting. I think either method he used will succeed very well. The main point is the time of the year it is done. Up to a year ago we began grafting a few days after the first of April, and continued up to the first of May, and our success varied from ninety per cent to nothing. We decided there was too much sap and went to budding. The last grafting we did gave us the only real good stand we got, that which we did from the first to the tenth of May. We had as good results then as we did in budding.
The President: That is good, Mr. Reed. I think those facts ought to be brought out and made a matter of a record.
Mr. Reed: I think it is more the time in grafting than anything else.
Mr. McCoy: Mr. Reed has a clay soil and that does not furnish the rapid flow of sap that a warm sandy soil does.