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Among strawberries that have done especially well with us are 

 Johnson's Early and Thompson's Earliest, of the early kinds. John- 

 son's Early is at least a week earlier than any other variety that 

 we grew the past season, and produced a few pickings of very good 

 berries. 



The Splendid has again proven itself a variety well worth con- 

 tinuing on our fruit list. The Sample has done well, so has Poco- 

 moke and Bride's Pride. A variety called North Pole, sent out by 

 J. W. Millet, of Bismarck, North Dakota, was exceedingly pro- 

 ductive and bids fair to be a variety of considerable merit. 



Among raspberries the Minnetonka Ironclad is one of the most 

 productive that we fruited in 1904. 



Red cedar, white and Norwegian pine in "Forest Garden," at State Experiment Station- 



About eight years ago we .raised a nice lot of seedlings of the 

 Colorado blue spruce, and this is apparently perfectly hardy and 

 satisfactory, and some of the seedlings are of a delightful blue color, 

 which makes them conspicuous and of real value in livening up 

 groups of evergreens, especially in winter, when their light colored 

 foliage is in contrast with the darker foliage of our ordinary pines 

 and spruces. 



• The severe winter of 1903-4 did very little injury to our forest 

 garden, with the exception of the injury that it caused to the bull, 

 or heavy wooded, pine. Some forms of this tree are probably the 

 hardiest pines that we have in cultivation, while others may be quite 

 tender. We supposed that we had obtained seed of the hardiest 

 form, which is that grown at high altitudes in Colorado and in 



