VICE-PRESIDENTS REPORT, SECOND CONG. DIST. 6 1 



Apple trees of bearing age that did not produce fruit this year, 

 or that had but a light yield, are generally well set with blossom 

 buds and give promise of a supply of apples next year. Blight 

 was less injurious than for several years. In many orchards there 

 was an entire absence of blight. 



Gardens were generally more than usually productive, affording 

 an ample supply of vegetables for home use. 



There is a growing interest in horticulture throughout the dis- 

 trict, and the prospect for the future is encouraging. 



For general cultivation I recommend the list of fruits published 

 by this society, that have been tested and considered worthy of gen- 

 eral use. Some other varieties are promising and do well locally, but 

 owing to the fact that they have not been tested on different soils 

 and in different localities for a sufficient length of time I hesitate to 

 recommend them. 



For general culture it is considered safer to follow closely the list 

 of fruits recommended by this society, and which are given as the 

 result of years of experience. 



Mr. Yahnke : I would like to know what variety of apples was 

 most injured in his locality last winter? 



Mr. Secor : I examined carefully all the trees in my orchard 

 along the latter part of the winter or early part of the spring, and 

 the trees that did not show injury were the Duchess, the Hibernal, 

 the Silken Leaf (which is of the Duchess family). Large Anis, 

 Volga, Anisette (which is a Duchess), Ostra Repka, Ostrekofif and 

 Sklanka. Those showing some injury to the growth of 1903 were 

 the Wealthy, Patten's Greening — and I may say here that I was 

 surprised to have the Patten's Greening show a discoloration, but 

 it was a fact, it showed about as much as the Wealthy — the Peer- 

 less, Yellow Transparent, Tetofsky, Okabena, Wyoming Red, Whit- 

 ney No. 20, the Minnesota — I have a crab I do not know whether it 

 is a Virginia, some horticulturists thought it was, but it showed a 

 little discoloration — the Peter, Yellow Sweet and Anisim. Some of 

 those that showed a greater discoloration, and some quite a good 

 deal were the Northwestern Greening, Haas, Tetofsky, Scott's Win- 

 ter, McMahon White, Kaump, Austin, Repka Malenka, Briar 

 Sweet, Churchill and some other varieties. 



Mr. Merritt : I would like to ask Mr. Secor what, in his opin- 

 ion, was the cause of the death of the cherry trees, whether they 

 were killed by Wight or winter-killed? 



Mr. Secor: Some of the trees I think were injured the year 

 before by leaf blight, but some of the cherry trees on my grounds 

 that did not show injury from leaf blight were badly injured last 

 winter. 



Mr. Merritt : I lost my cherry trees entirely from leaf blight. 



