OWATONNA TRIAL STATION. 267 



OWATONNA TRIAL STATION. 



THOS. E. CASHMAN, SUPT, 



June 15th, 1906. The past winter, while not severe, came 

 near being an old time root-killing winter. Had tjie Febru- 

 ary thaw continued a week longer, trees that were not well mulched 

 or banked with snow would have been severely injured or killed 

 outright; as it is, I find many of the shallow planted trees injured, 

 and some of them dead. At the Owatonna Experiment Station, 

 but very little damage was done. A few of the shallow planted 

 trees were slightly injured, and some of them dead. It might 

 be well to state that the majority of trees at the experiment station 

 were never transplanted but are growing from the original seed- 

 lings, which accounts somewhat for the shallowness of the plant- 

 ing. 



The following is the report from the twelve trees budded on 

 Pyrus baccata roots, received from the Minnesota horticultural so- 

 ciety last season and planted at the Owatonna Experiment Sta- 

 tion. 



Tree No. i. Charlamof planted deep; has grown twelve inch- 

 es this year and is in good condition at the present time. 



Tree No. 2. Charlamof planted shallow ; has grown six inches 

 and is in a fair codition. 



Tree No. 3, Patten's Greening, planted deep ; has grown eight 

 inches, in fair condition. 



Tree No. 4, Patten's Greening, planted shallow ; root-killed 

 last winter and replaced with Peter budded on Hibernal. 



Tree No. 5, Patten's Greening, planted shallow ; grown eight 

 inches this year and is in fair condition. 



Tree No. 6, Duchess, planted deep ; grown fourteen inches ; 

 in good condition. 



Tree No. 7, Duchess, planted shallow ; grown ten inches, in 

 fair condition. 



Tree No. 8, Hibernal, planted deep ; grown fourteen inches, 

 in fair condition. 



Tree No. 9. Hibernal, planted shallow ; grown twelve inches, 



Tree No. 10, Hibernal, planted shallow and blighted to death 

 last year. Replaced this year with Peter budded on Hibernal. 



Tree No. 11, Wealthy, planted deep; grown ten inches, fair 

 condition. 



Tree No. 12, Wealthy, planted shallow; grown fourteen inches, 

 in good- condition. 



Will say that the ones we term "deep planted trees" were 

 set twenty inches deep, and those termed "shallow planted" were 

 set fourteen inches deep. All the deep planted trees have made the 

 best progress so far, with the exception of the Wealthy. 



