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Our plums yielded a fairly good crop. The Surprise has given 

 us fairly good crops for many years, and I regard it as one of our 

 most profitable varieties for general cultivation. A variety received 

 from Manitoba, which we know as Manitoba No. i, fruited this 

 year, and I am much pleased with it on account of its very early 

 ripening, about August 15th. and the fruit, which is of good quality. 

 The tree is dwarf, compact, and is exceedingly hardy. 



We have continued our experiments in the testing of the different 

 varieties of apples as adapted to the true Pyrus baccata stock, and 

 have found no difficulty in getting good unions on this stock with 

 most varieties, althouoh serve tike to it better than others. We 



White pine in "Forest Garden" at State Experiment Station, eighteen years old. Each tree 

 numbered and rate of growth kept. 



are offering a few apple trees, budded on true Pyrus baccata, at 

 20 cents each, the object being to have them distributed for general 

 trial. We have found that root grafting on the Pyrus baccata did 

 not give us good success, but that when budded they have given us 

 a strong, vigorous growth. 



We have failed to get good results from the sand cherry, such 

 as would warrant us in continuing growing it in large quantities. 

 We have grown perhaps 8,000 or 10,000 seedlings of this plant, 

 and among them have found varieties that are productive, but these 

 plants are badly injured by the monila, which causes the fruit to rot 

 when it is about half grown. This wild fruit may be, and undoubt- 

 edly is, of some advantage in the drier sections of the west, but it is 

 doubtful if it is worth while to put much time on it here. I am 

 inclined to think that the native plum is a much more promising 

 field for development than anything in the line of the sand cherry. 



