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and are now in orchard loaded with fruit buds. Small fruits are 

 also giving unusual promise, having come through in fine shape. 



From Jacob Austin, Fergus Falls, April 17, 1883. — Wealthy 

 and Duchess badly frozen; Snyder blackberry more or less killed; 

 ■Gregg raspberry badly damaged. 



From Wm. McHenrt, St. Charles, Minn., April 16, 1883.— I 

 find the following varieties of apples all right and promise fruit this 

 season on our ground : Rollin's Pippin, Wealthy, Rollin's Rus- 

 sett, Wabashaw, and Elgin Beauty ; while the Haas, Ben Davis, 

 Cooper, Alexander and many others are played out. Raspberries, 

 Brandy- wine, Turner, Mammoth Cluster and Doolittle all 0. K.; 

 strawberries all looking fine. 



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From Truman M. Smith, St. Paul, 4, 18, '83. — So far as I can 

 see, all plants, shrubs and trees have wintered well. I have cactus 

 that have stood out doors entirely unprotected this winter. Cur- 

 rants, strawberries and shrubbery, all seem right now. Grapes and 

 roses not yet uncovered ; cannot tell, but I expect to find them all 

 right. 



From Seth H. Kenney, Morristown, Rice Co., April 18, '83. — 

 Fruit trees looking splendidly. Wealthy, Duchess, Whitney No. 20 

 and Transcendent, full of fruit buds. The Transcendents that have 

 been heavily mulched with bagasse do not blight, and have not, 

 with this treatment. Strawberries and raspberries have come 

 through in good condition. I have one seedling apple from the 

 Duchess, but later in season, October and November, and smaller, 

 but very fine ; bore some last year ; tree very hardy ; grows some 

 Jike a crab tree, with spins ; promises a good crop this year. 



From E. B. Jordan, Rochester, Minn,, April 17, 1883. — I have 

 been top grafting for the past week, and find hardy apple trees, 

 such as Duchess, Wealthy and Tetofsky in good condition, but 

 many tender sorts have suffered badly. The Mann apple is badly 

 killed. My prospect for a large fruit crop was never so good as at 

 present. As I am engaged quite extensively in the orange and 

 ■nursery business in Florida, I expect to be able to put in a full year, 

 as T return there about the 1st of November to spend the six months 

 the nursery here is closed up in the embraces of frost and ice. 



