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Pepin, Sweet Striped and Sugar Sweet, all choice sweet ap- 

 ples and very promising. 



Longfield family — Longfield (ICl), great bearer. Mid 

 Winter, Good Peasant (387), best of this family keeps later, 

 January to May, best quality. Cross (413), an excellent tree^ 

 great bearer, in appearance like R. I. J., and keeps well if 

 properly kept. 



15 M., good keeper as Willow Twig, small, fair quality. 

 Ostrakoff (4'r^), keeps till March, of Willow Twig type. 

 Antonoska ('-.'^G), the king apple of Russia, January to April. 

 Pointed Pipka (361), one of the best winter apples. Borsdorf 

 (402), not hardier than Wealthy, winter apple. No. 20, Vor., 

 No. 22, Vor., and No. 45, Vor., are all choice, early, sweet 

 apples. Other varieties he named of great promise, and 

 while many varieties are adapted to the far north, they 

 blight when grown south. The Annis family are small, but 

 will be a success at the extreme north. Prof. Budd has 

 800 trial stations established, of which he is keeping a rec- 

 ord of adaptation, habits, hardiness, blights, productiveness, 

 quality and keeping quality of fruit, and from these com- 

 bined reports he expects to get at facts that will be reliable 

 very soon. 



Prof. Budd gave some very interesting reports of hybri- 

 dizing fruits, showing the immediate results in the forma- 

 tion and change of fruit the first season, as instance of this 

 the Grimes Golden crossed on Blue Annis gave a perfectly 

 formed Grimes Golden on a Blue Annis tree. The operation 

 is very easy; as soon as th*^ blossom opens remove the 

 anthers and cover the blossom, having removed the other 

 blossoms in the cluster, cover with small cotton bag^. In 

 about twenty-four hours the stigma will be covered with a 

 sticky coating which will retain the pollen, which blossoms 

 should also have been bagged until the pollen is ripe, and 

 this will be known by the fine dust that detaches easily 

 from the anthers, this may be gathered when ripe and sent 

 hundreds of miles to be used weeks and even a month 

 afterwards, this fact was a new development in cross fer- 

 tilization. After the pollen is applied the blossom should 

 again be covered to keep off bees, and when the fruit has 



