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and one rose. Of those who had sown apple seed, the prreater share 

 mentioned the varieties sown, of which seventeen had sown Malin- 

 da — nine mentioning- the fact of having- received the seed from the 

 society — eight had sown Weahhy, four Yahnke, three Hibernal, three 

 Wolf River, two Duchess, two Peter, two Longfield, two N. W. 

 Greening and two the seed of seedlings. It is unfortunate that all 

 did not mention the variety of seed grown, as it is the object of the 

 society to encourage exactness and care in sowing seed. Had it not 

 been for the distribution of Malinda seed bv the society, it seems 

 likely that the Wealthy would have been the most popular seed. Of 

 the other varieties of seed sown the Aitkin, Surprise, Wyant, Stod- 

 dard, Compass and Japanese are mentioned amoni^ the varieties of 

 plums. 



The second question was : Have you planted any trees or plants 

 with the view of future cross-pollination? 



Of the twelve replying to this question, three answered simply, 

 yes, and nine we condense as follows : Patten's Greening to cross 

 with Windsor Chief; seedlings of Malinda to cross with other 

 varieties ; Southern varieties of choice quality apple to cross with 

 Northern sorts, and Malinda to cross with Wealthy. Two have 

 Japan plum set to cross with native varieties, one plum to cross 

 with sand cherry, and one Burbank to cross with Prunus Simoni. 

 This indicates more work already done in this line than we had ex- 

 pected, and that trees set for natural crosses are already receiving 

 considerable attention. 



The third question was : Have you done any h:ind pollination, 

 and with what varieties and results ? 



The answers to this question showed that but few have at- 

 tempted anything of this kind. We condense some of the answers 

 received as follows : One intends to do such work next season, one 

 is anxious to learn, one has failed, one had crossed Red June with 

 the Aitkin plum with no success as the season was unfavorable, one 

 had crossed plum with wild cherry with no result, and one the 

 annual single hollyhock with another species. One had used hand 

 pollination in the absence of bees to grow <=quashes with good re- 

 sult, one had intended to do such work but the desired trees failed 

 to bloom, one had done the work but states the varieties in such a 

 way as to make it impossible to tell which were crossed. It seems 

 from the above answers that at least four of our members have 

 practiced hand pollination during the past year and that many oth- 

 ers either intend to attempt such work or are greatly interested in 



