THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 35. MARCH, 1906. No. 3 



tatioi^s^ 1905^ 



CENTRAL TRIAL STATION, ANNUAL REPORT. 



PROF. S. B. GREEN, SUPT. 



The season of 1905 was, on the whole, favorable for vegeta- 

 tion, ahhough the average of temperature for the season was 

 rather low, and, in consequence, some plants failed to reach their 

 best development. The orchard and garden crops were good. 



At the experiment station the new orchard, which we some- 

 times refer to as the "model orchard," bore very good crops of 

 fruit. This orchard is in excellent condition, although not 

 located in a specially favorable place. 



Among the new or comparatively new varieties that have 

 done especially well this year are Brett No. 2, which makes a 

 fme, large, vigorous tree and is very productive ; the fruit is red 

 in color and of fairly gpod quality. It is not, however, so hand- 

 some a fruit as the Brett No. i, but I think the tree is perhaps 

 more reliable. 



A number of years ago we obtained (I think from Peter 

 Gideon) some cions of a variety which he called No. 33. This 

 variety is in appearance almost indentical with the Wealthy, but 

 it is an early autumn apple, ripening a considerable time before 

 the Wealthy, and on our grounds it colors up to a beautiful red, 

 wliich is seldom the case with the Wealthy on our soil. The fruit 

 is very uniform, and the tree vigorous and productive. 



The so-called Russian orchard, which w^as planted out about 

 eighteen years ago, has, I think, yielded all the valuable results 

 that we are liable to get from it, and believing this to be the 

 fact I decided this last fall that we ought to get rid of a large 

 number of very poor Russian apple varieties which were con- 

 tained in it; hence we have grubbed out and burned several 

 hundred large trees, many of them perfect so far as appearance 

 goes, but generally bearing inferior fruit. It requires some little 



