THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 35. MARCH, 1907. No. 3. 



CENTRAL TRIAL STATION, ANNUAL REPORT, 1906. 



(State Experiment Station.) 



PROF. SAm'l B. green, SUPT., ST. ANTHONY PARK. 



In the year just closed the work at University Farm has been 

 unusually successful, and a great improvement will be noted in our 

 buildings and in campus changes. The attendance at the school has 

 been larger the past year than ever. 



In the Horticultural Division, one bulletin of 114 pages has 

 been published, devoted to a discussion of the ornamental plants 

 tried at the Experiment Station. The work in variety testing has 

 been continued much as usual, but owing to changes in the campus 

 it will be necessary for us to remove our work with small fruits 

 from the land used for this purpose for a long time to a new pur- 

 chase adjoining the old farm on the west. 



Special emphasis has been paid to plant breeding during the 

 past year, and we feel that this subject should receive greater at- 

 tention in the future. The plant breeding work with apples has 

 been continued, and we have some 6,000 apple seedlings. These 

 were raised from seed taken from Malinda apples that grew top- 

 worked on Duchess and Wealthy trees, and which were in flower at 

 the same time and were undoubtedly crossed together. These apples 

 were bought from Mr. Seth Kenney by the Horticultural Society 

 and turned over to the Experiment Station. In all there were 

 seventeen barrels of Malinda apples that were used for this pur- 

 pose. The seedlings came up very thriftily, but there was consid- 

 erable loss from damping ofif during the cold weather of spring. In 

 saving this seed it was noted that a portion of it was quite dis- 

 tinctly rounding in form, resembling the Duchess, while the rest 

 was of the ordinary Malinda type. This round seed was saved 

 separate from the rest, and from it we have no seedlings. It is 

 proposed to send out a few thousand of these seedlings to the 

 membership of the State Horticultural Society for plant breeding 



