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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



or less striking) is larger than Early Richmond, flesh firm, not tough, juice sub acid, 

 pit of medium size. It ripened soon after the middle of August, but did not fall from 

 th° bush till the middle of September. 



Prunus pumila — Selected sand cherry. 



Prof. Green of the Experiment Station of Minnesota, speaking of the fruit of 

 Prunus pumila, says : " Quality varies greatly, some being a mild, not disagreeable sub- 

 acid, others insipid, and still others very astringent. * * * When cooked it makes 

 a nice sauce." 



SAND CHERRY AS A STOCK. 



It has been recommended by Prof. Green and by Prof. Budd of Iowa, as a desira- 

 ble stock for hardy forms of the Morello cherry. I am unable from personal experience 

 to endorse this assertion, as experiments tried here last year and the year previous, in 

 budding Morello cherries upon this stock resulted in every case in almost complete 

 failures. Cherry root grafts were scarcely more successful. Native and European 

 plums, both budded and grafted " took " much better, and so far have made a satisfac- 

 tory growth. The permanency of the union yet remains to be proven. Prof. Green 

 quotes Hon. C. W. Heiderman, New Ulm, Minn., as stating that he " had been very 

 successful in grafting the sand cherry on the native plum," and remarks that if this 

 proves satisfactory "we will have in this sand cherry, so worked, a very pretty orna- 



