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HORTICULTURE AT ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY, COL- 

 LEGEVILLE, STEARNS CO., MINN. 



The following extract from a letter written to Prof. S. B. Green 

 by Rev. John B. Katzner, connected with the above named institu- 

 tion, will be of interest to our readers : 



"Some years ago you kindly sent me the following stock: Rus- 

 sian golden willow, royal willow, Wisconsin weeping willow, hy- 

 drangea grandiflora, Douglas spruce, bull pine, Anisim scions, Bess- 

 arabian cherry and pyrus baccata. They are all growing. The 

 Russian golden willow is very fine. The Wisconsin weeping wil- 

 low is not quite hardy, Douglas spruce is very promising and 

 hardy. Bull pine generally good, but suffered some last year, and 

 a few are dead. Anisim is now a fine tree and bore some good 

 apples ; Bessarabian cherry is a hardy tree but does not bear. 

 Pyrus baccata is bearing and hardy. 





Orchard and apiary at St John's University. 



"We have planted many thousand evergreens, namely : Norway 

 spruce, Douglas spruce, Colorado blue spruce (a few), white 

 spruce, balsam fir (a few), European larch, white pine, Norway 

 pine, Austrian pine, jack pine (a few), bull pine, arbor vitae and 

 red cedar. All these are growing well, and many are now fifteen 

 to twenty feet high. The Norway spruce is not quite satisfactory, 

 and the bull pine suffered some. Very promising are the Douglas, 

 blue and white spruces, the white, Norway and Austrian pines and 

 both cedars. Credit for this large planting of evergreens is espe- 

 cially due to Rev. Adrian Smith, of Minneapolis. 



