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stem, hang on twigs like peaches and look like apricots. Two weeks 

 earlier than De Soto. 



Sandoz No. 2 is a spreading tree, with large, red, oblong plums, with 

 blue bloom; quality best; two weeksi earlier than De Soto. 



Sandoz No. 3 Is about size of De Soto, softer, better grower and four 

 weeks earlier and the best plum to eat off the tree I have. 



Sandoz No. 4 is a heavy grower, yellow wood, and large, nice, pink col- 

 ored plum. Three weeks earlier than De Soto. 



Sandoz No. 5. Tree like Sandoz, but plum larger and pointed. Two 

 weeks earlier than De Soto. 



All these seedlings are better than any plums now sold by nurserymen 

 or sent out to me for trial by Professor Budd. I will send scions free as 

 much as I can, to anyone who will try them. Of the Sandoz I have 

 quantities, but of the Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 I have only one tree of each. 



These plums will prove 0. K. in the Dakotas, Wyoming, eastern Mon- 

 tana, and perhaps part of Canada. They are all better growers and better 

 plums than any ever tried here and about curculio proof and can be grown 

 where De Soto and Wyant fail to ripen. 



For planting in that territory I recommend Sandoz, Bixby, Sandoz 1, 2, 

 3, 4, 5, and Wyant, and of course also for northwest Nebraska, and all 

 these plums would be earliest further south where they will succeed. 



JULES A. SANDOZ, Director. 



VALENTINE EXPERIMENT STATION. 



C. M. VAN METER, VALENTINE. 



To the Members of the State Horticultural Society: We have had an- 

 other good year and grains and fruits did well. This is seven good years 

 in succession since the crop failure by drouth in 1899. The only cultiva- 

 tion given the orchard the past season was with the mowing machine in 

 July, and yet there was a fine crop of plums, half a crop of cherries, lots 

 of crab apples and some apples. The Wealthy was second only to Long- 

 field this year; and there were peaches and strawberries. The fungus 

 reported last year has about finished the gooseberries, and the dark juiced 

 cherries are fast closing their record. 



I visited heavy-laden winter apples, and the heaviest-laden Florence 

 Crab apples I ever saw Avere forty miles north of here on Butte Creek on 

 the Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. This is Mr. C. P. Jordan's or- 

 chard. This section of the country is fast building up on agriculture and 

 horticulture and will some day grow lots of fruit. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SYNONYMS. 



RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON MR. CAMP AND MR. 

 ALEXANDER'S SEEDLING GRAPES. 

 We, your committee to investigate the seedling grapes of Mr. C. B. 

 Camp, of Cheney, would recommend that the society adopt the names as 

 given, of his two most promising varieties, namely, (B-11) Camp's Early, 

 (F-10) Rival, and recommend them for further consideration. Also, 



