STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 277 



THE PROFESSOR RETURNED. 



* Ames, November 27, 1882. 



Your letter received. ****** 

 My trip to Europe was out of the beaten ruts. The portions of 

 Europe north of the Carpathian mountains was carefully explored, 

 as this immense section is all a prairie country and subject to the 

 downpour of the polar winds and extremes of winter temperature. 

 We iound hundreds of miles east of Moscow, on the anciently pop- 

 ulated steppes, races of the apple, pear, plum and cherry that will 

 live and bear fruit in any part of Minnesota. This is not guess 

 work, as without snow they are liable to extremes of 45 degrees 

 and even 50 degrees Fahr. I may be able to give you some specific 

 notes. We spent two months in central Russia, and I think our 

 experience valuable to the prairie States. * * * 



J. L. BUDD. 



Ames, December 2, 1882. 



Your kind letter at hand. I do hope and believe that my two 

 months' labor in central Russia will prove useful to the great 

 Northwest. 



Having some surplus copies of some of my northern letters — 

 written hastily under peculiar disadvantages — I send them to you. 

 Purposely I did not put in many names, knowing they would be 

 badly rendered by newspaper proof readers. " Please look them 

 over. You can get an idea of my honest impressions while among 

 the orchards of the far interior of Russia, far north of Lake City. 

 Kazan has a rougher climate than Minnesota, and even down the 

 Volga, at Simbirsk, Saratov, Volsk, Orel, etc., the summers are as 

 hot and dry and the winters are much colder. Often in the inte- 

 rior there is no snow until after the mercury goes 45 below zero. 



If your time will permit you can pick out of these letters some 

 notes that are more trusty and accurate than we yet have had. 

 The coast apples and pears of Russia will not do for you. The far 

 interior ones surely are what you want. Urge that your experi- 

 mental stations let the crabs alone and give trial to a more prom- 

 ising line of fruits. This is my disinterested advice. 



Yours, 



J. L. BUDD. 



