408 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ORCHARD NOTES FROM DULUTH. 



; HENRY CLEVELAND. 



(Extracts from a letter.) 



"I can not say that any considerable quantity of apples are 

 produced here, but I can say that scattered over the western end 

 of St. Louis county there are probably 2,000 bearing apple trees, 

 most of them introduced since I settled here, some five years past. 



"The larger number are Duchess ; next largest number, 

 Wealthy ; some Northwestern and Patten's Greenings, which are 

 uncertain owing to late maturity ; a few Okabenas, same trouble 

 as the Patten's and Northwestern Greenings ; also a scattering 

 few of Borovinca, Tetofsky, Yellow Transparent and Good Peas- 

 ant. 



"The largest single planting — coming into bearing 1907— is 

 by the Jean Duluth Stock Farm Co.. ten miles from the Spalding 

 House, who have about 200 trees, fifty Duchess, balance divided 

 between Wealthy, Borovinca and Yellow Transparent. 



"JMr. R. M. Hunter has about seventy-five trees in bearing, 

 second and third time, averaging about one-half bushel to tree now. 



"Mr. H. W. Coffin has about fifty trees, coming into bearing 

 1907 and 1908, Duchess. 



"Air. John W. Alorton has nine trees, third bearing year — 

 one-half Duchess, one-half Wealthy, averaging about <^ne bushel 

 to tree. 



"And there are many who have two, three or six trees, most- 

 ly Duchess, as it is very necessary to have or plant early maturing 

 varieties on account of our regular early October killing frost. The 

 Duchess ripen here Sept. 20 to 30, and are firm, well developed 

 apples, finely colored and especially well flavored for the variety. 

 Borovinca, Tetofsky, Good Peasant, Yellow Transparent, all ma- 

 ture here about that time. The Duchess has the call on account 

 of hardiness, prolific bearing and being here an all atound good 

 tree. 



"The early crabs, like Whitney, Grant, Alartha and Early 

 Strawberry, do finely and bear annually and heavily; the later 

 maturing varieties often get caught by the early October frost. 



"I am preaching in and out of season, 'plant fruit trees.' I 

 even memorialized the park board to plant the street and avenue 

 borders with apple trees. Thousands would come hundreds of 

 miles to see our hillside twenty-five miles of apple bloom about 

 June ist each year. However they considered it a sort of joke> 



