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freeze. This year the freeze came at the last of October and 

 there were a few peaches left on the trees at the time. 



The experiment of this last season with strawberries was with 

 twenty-four varieties from the R. M. Kellogg Company of Three 

 Rivers, Michigan. A new method looking to overcome the ad- 

 verse climatic conditions to the strawberry was planned, and 

 some good beds of plants were secured. Will report fully on 

 this at the 1906 meeting. Would like to try other varieties this 

 firm catalogues the coming season, also a few varieties of 

 peaches. 



REPORT OF SANDOZ EXPERIMENT STATION. 



BY JULES A. SANDOZ. 



Mr. President and Members of the State Horticultural Society, 

 Lincoln, Nebraska. Gentlemen: Not being able to attend the 

 meeting in person, I hereby report by mail as follows: 



All the trees planted and cared for by me have made a good 

 growth during 1904. I have now several plats, altogether about 

 three thousand trees, and keep a close record of every one. I 

 replant every spring every one missing. Rain is sufficient here 

 for all kinds of fruit trees, and that on the driest land in the 

 north-west, with clean cultivation, of course. All the Plum trees 

 were loaded with fruit as usual but only the earliest ones such 

 as Sandoz, Bizeby and Rockford ripened well. Others like De 

 Soto, Wyant and Hawkeye were frozen on the trees, yet in a 

 green state, in the first part of September. Cherries were all 

 loaded, but one Terry tree sent me by the Society three years 

 ago was a beauty. Such a beautiful growth and loaded with the 

 finest of large cherries on such poor dry, sandy land makes this 

 variety suitable for north-west Nebraska. I predict that in 

 cherries, plums and pears the north-west will outdo the east, as 

 soon as such trees are planted here in a commercial way. In 

 fact we have the altitude of Colorado, with better soils and more 

 rainfall, no irrigation needed. I have eleven varieties of pears 

 which have now stood two winters unharmed, and this where 

 the Ben Davis and Wealthy apples winter-kill. Some of the 



