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many things that we consider tender that are doing splendidly there. 

 The state ought to get everything that will grow in this latitude and 

 hold fast to that which is good. 



Prof. Hansen (S. D.) : Syringa is the botanical name of the 

 genus to which all the lilacs belong; the common lilac is Syringa 

 vulgaris. The common name of the mock orange, or Philadelphus, 

 is syringa. This double use of the word syringa causes a little 

 confusion. 



Mr. C. W. Merritt : It is news to me that the syringa is a 

 lilac bush. Is the high bush cranberry a lilac? 



Judge Moyer : The high bush cranberry is a snowball. The 

 snowball was produced by cultivation and does not produce seeds. 

 The syringa is a lilac ; all the lilacs are syringas. 



Mr. Gardner (la.) : I understand Mr. Mover's brother has a 

 valuable blue plum, and I would like to have him tell us about it. 



Judge Moyer : My brother has a blue plum which he got from 

 Storrs and Harrison a few years ago. He grafted it on the wild 

 plum, and it is doing very well. I do not know the name of it. I 

 think it lived through last winter. 



Mr. Kenney : I used to have a hardy California plum like that, 

 but it was killed down. 



Judge Moyer : Ours killed down a little, but it is now twenty 

 feet high and is quite hardy. 



EXCELSIOR TRIAL STATION. 



A. B. LYMAN, SUPT. 



The winter of 1903-4 was a severe one, yet the injury to fruit 

 trees of our hardy varieties was slight because the trees went into 

 winter quarters in such fine shape the previous fall. Had we had 

 the past winter with the trees in as soft a condition as they were 

 a few falls ago, we dare say that injury would have been wide- 

 spread. 



Will the 1903-4 winter call a halt to the planting of tender vari- 

 eties like Ben Davis, Mann, Jonathan, Gano, etc.? We know of 

 one party that had planted largely of these varieties. He is not a 

 member of this society, and when he found his trees all dead last 

 spring he concluded that apples couldn't be grown in Minnesota. 

 Why is it that so many are not willing to begin where early plant- 

 ers left off but must learn the whole lesson for themselves ? 



A great many new orchards were set last spring, many by begin- 

 ners in horticulture, yet the largest plantings were by those of ex- 

 perience in apple growing. The varieties set were largely those of 

 Wealthy, Duchess, Patten's Greening, etc. 



Spraying is becoming more general, and as a result apples are of 

 better quality. 



