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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Glencoe, expecting the deep, rich, black soil would force such a 

 growth that apples would be plenty near my cabin door within a 

 very few years, but hope vanished as one by one my trees vanished 

 before obtaining three years' growth. 



My next trial was in 1871, when I obtained a lot of trees from 

 Joel S. Shearman, proprietor of the Northwestern Nursery, of 

 Rockford, 111., of such varieties as the Duchess, Haas, Red Astra- 

 chan, Transcendent and Siberian crabs. The Duchess, Haas and 

 Red Astrachan lived to bear one or two seasons and then passed in 

 their checks, while the two Transcendents and two Siberians sur- 



Hibernal apple tree, four years set, bearing one bushel in 1904. 

 On place, of A. H. Reed, Glencoe. 



vived and bear fruit about every other year, the highest limbs of the 

 Transcendent trees blighting nearly every year. The Siberian never 

 blights. 



Trees obtained from Wisconsin nurseries and set out subse- 

 quently have all failed me, but I attribute much of the failure to my 

 own ignorance and neglect. 



As late as 1900 I commenced to set a so-called commercial 

 orchard on my farm adjoining Glencoe, by setting two hundred trees 

 in five rows, one rod apart each way, of the following varieties: 

 Transcendent, Whitney, Peerless, Longfield, Hibernal, Patten's 

 Greening and Wealthy, some twenty-five of each kind. I have been 

 rewarded the past season by seeing sixty of those trees bearing 



