484 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A Successful Manitoba Orchard. — Mr. A. P. vStephenson, of Nelson, 

 Man., whom some of our members will recall as a delegate from the Manitoba 

 society some years since, a successful nurseryman in that province, speaks in 

 a recent letter of a very good apple crop at his place, "something more than 

 sixty bushels being harvested, composed mostly of Blushed Calville, Anisette, 

 Antonovka, Hibernal, Wealthy and Peerless. 



Is THE Northwestern Greening Being Planted too Much?— In a 

 recent letter from O. D. Ackerman of Wells, Minnesota, he states: "I have 

 some Northwestern Greening apple trees which have been set out eight years, 

 and they are dying. There seems to be no mark on them that I can see, and 

 no blight to speak of. Out of forty trees one died this spring shortly after 

 leafing out, and one in August, and now there. are four more dying. The 

 leaves seem to turn -brown and keep turning more brown until they are com- 

 pletely dead, with no apparent cause I have about three hundred other va- 

 rieties, and they all seem to be thrifty and healthy, no variety dying except 

 the Northwestern." 



This corresponds very closely to our experience with the Northwestern 

 Greening at the Central Experiment Station. I am afraid that this variety is 

 perhaps being planted too generally in some locations. Anyway, it is liable to 

 go as Mr. Ackerman has described. — Prof. Samuel B. Green, 



Mr. Andrew Wilfert, an apple grower of much experience, at Cleveland, 

 Minn., says that the Northwestern Greening overbears in his section and dies 

 subsequently apparently of weakness from this cause. — Secretary. 



Rollin's Pippin Apple. — I received a short time ago some very good 

 specimens of Rollin's Pippin apple from R. R. Livingston of Fairmont, Minn. 

 This variety is of poor quality. It originated with I. W. Rollins in the vicin- 

 ity' of Viola, Minn., and was at one time quite popular with the nurserj'men 

 in that vicinity. It seems to be doing well in some portions of our state, as is 

 evidenced by the following data in regard to Mr. Livingston's tree: 



"The tree came into bearing at fourteen years of age. It is now a large 

 tree, spreading over twenty-five feet, and this year it bore twenty-five bushels 

 of apples It has been a good producer since it came into bearing."— Prof. 

 S. B. Green. 



Program of the Annual Meeting. — The program of the annual meet- 

 ing is found in this number and has also been sent out by mail to each mem- 

 ber a day or two later than the usual time for issuing it, the delay being 

 chargable to the printers' strike It made it necessary to have the program 

 machine set, interfering considerably with its appearance. A comparison of 

 the present program with that of last year, as far as appearance is concerned, 

 is somewhat derogatory to the later one. We shall hope to get back to the 

 old and better style another year. 



Minnesota Bee-Keepers' Association. — In a previous number the Hor- 

 ticulturist announced that the bee-keepers would not meet with the. horticul- 

 tural society on account of the convening of the National Bee-Keepers' Associ- 

 ation at Chicago at that time. The Chicago meeting has, it seems, been post 

 poned, and the Minnesota bee-keepers' have decided to meet as usual with the 

 horticultural society, but the decision comes too late to get their program 

 printed in with ours. This is due notice, however, to the members of the 

 Minnesota Bee-Keepers' Association that the usual helpful program will be 

 prepared for Wednesday and Thursday, December 6 and 7. 



