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No. 13 excellent. 



No. 14 excellent. 



No. IS good. 



Named Varieties. 



Maximus good. 



Howell , poor. 



Emperor excellent. 



Jesse excellent. 



Auto excellent. 



Thompson 501 good. 



Crescent fair 



Mrs. M. Hanna killed. 



Thompson 503 good. 



Thompson 500 weak. 



M. Hanna weak. 



Thompson 203 weak. 



Bennett good. 



Thompson 201 good. 



Excelsior weak. 



Gibson weak. 



New York excellent. 



Morgan good. 



Lyon excellent. 



Pride of Cumberland good. 



Glen Mary killed. 



Nicol No. 6 good. 



Livingstone good. 



Sample weak. 



Granville good.' 



Millets 2672 weak. 



Johnson's Early weak. 



Margaret killed. 



Gaudy Bell killed. 



Bederwood partly winter killed. 



Shepherd , good. 



Pocomoke good. 



Bride's Pride killed. 



Splendid good. 



Ruby good. 



Aroma killed. 



Brunette killed. 



Dunlap good. 



Alaska excellent. 



Thompson's Earliest excellent. 



St. Anthony Pandu, seedling excellent. 



The -soil with us was very much baked and in poor shape to 

 work this spring, owing probably to the heavy and continuous 

 rainfall which we have had. 



PLANT BREEDING. 



We have made special effort this spring to take up work along 

 the line of plant breeding. This has consisted in part of a consider- 

 able amount of crossing work between the American and Japanese 

 varieties of plums, which has been done at the home of j\Ir. Nils 

 Anderson, near Lake City, where both the Japanese and American 

 sorts are doing well. 



Four hundred Hibernal apple trees have been set out, to be 

 used in top-working seedlings, and between these we have planted 

 5,ooo plum seedlings, selected from the best hardy varieties. 



The seed from seventeen barrels of Alalinda apples— purchased 

 by the state horticultural society— grown in the tops of Duchess 

 trees, and which are supposed to be crosses between those two var- 

 ieties, were sown in frames at the experiment station and came up 

 very evenly and were making a rapid growth, but during the cold, 



