REPORTS FROM DIRECTORS OF FRUIT DISTRICTS 289 



possible, so as to inform intending planters in Northwest Nebraska. 



The 4,000 fruit trees now under cultivation have made good 

 growth during the last year, and I have obtained only about half a crop 

 of fruit due to the untimely frosts.. As most of the trees have now 

 stood from 4 to 10 years I can accurately describe their behavior as 

 follows: 



Cherries 



Early Richmond, winter kills; Dyehouse, hardy, best early; Early 

 Morello, hardy, sweet, very valuable; Montmorency, not hardy, slow 

 bearer; Ostheim, hardy but poor bearer; Terry, hardy, valuable; Baldwin, 

 hardy not fruited; Wragg, best late, ripens August 15; English Morrello, 

 same as "Wragg but not hardy. 



Plums 



Sandoz, native, best early; DeSoto, hardy, small tree, live only four 

 to five years; Wyant, best of all American; Rollingstone, hardy, wind- 

 breaks; DeSoto, not quite hardy; Rockford, hardy but diseased plums; 

 Y. B. Rue, not hardy; Wolf, hardy, thin bearer; Klondike, fine, 

 early like DeSoto; Snook, hardy, large coarse plum; Bixley, fine, early, 

 better than DeSoto. All Peaches, Wild Goose, Chickasaw and Japanese 

 Plums winter kill, so it is useless to buy or plant them. Glass Seedling 

 Plum and Green Gage, hardy and bear when grafted on Sandoz. 



Pears 



Flemish Beauty, Birkett, Warner, Lawrence, Lincoln, Gakowsky, 

 BesseMianka, Duchess, are all hardy and show no sign of blight. Kiefer 

 winter kills. 



Apples 



Florence, Grant, Martha and Withney are all hardy and bear heavily; 

 also. Yellow transparent, Hyslop, Duchess, Aldenburg, Longfield, Janet, 

 Senator, but Wealthy, Ben Davis, Delicious, Gano, Northwest Greening, 

 and all the Ben Davis family, winter kill. 



I therefore recommend for planting for Northwest Nebraska: 



Cherries 



Dyehouse, Early Morello, Wragg. 



Plums 



Sandoz, Bixley, Klondike, Wyant. 



Pears 



Flemish ^Beauty, Birkett, Warner, Lawrence, Lincoln. , 



Apples 



Florence, Martha, Hyslop, Duchess, Longfield, Senator, Yellow Trans- 

 parent and Whitney. 



All the above varieties will bear fruit on any farm land without irri- 



