STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 275 



Secretary's Portfolio, 



PROF. BUDD IN EUROPE. 



A NEW SEAECH FOR IRON-CLAD FRUIT TREES IN RUSSIA. 



Introductory by the Secretary. 



Careful readers in the literature of Western Horticulture are 

 aware that in the study of the races of fruit trees, and their adap- 

 tation, by reason of race peculiarities, to successful transfers from 

 one portion of the earth to another, Prof. J. L. Budd, Professor of 

 Horticulture in the State Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa 

 occupies an advanced position. They have noted his suggestions 

 from time to time, in the Iowa reports, and in letters to the Horti- 

 cultural Societies of Minnesota and other States, as to the distinc- 

 tions to be made between the Siberian crabs and their crosses and 

 the Astrachanica crabs and apples and their crosses — the hardiness 

 of the former to stand our winters and their extreme tenderness to 

 endure our hot, dry summers, from characteristics brought with 

 them from their native country, so different in climate, on the 

 whole, from ours, and the hardiness of the latter here in both win- 

 ter and summer, due to their having fitted themselves by hundreds 

 of years of use and custom to a climate combining extreme cold 

 in winter and absence of snow protection, with excessive heat and 

 long periods of occasional drouth in summer — similar to the con- 

 ditions we have to contend with in fruit culture in Iowa and Mia- 



