98 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ment of Agriculture in 1898 were set. The plantation has been 

 very successful. The great bulk of these trees are Scotch pine, 

 but there was included in the planting quite a quantity of Austrian 

 pine, besides a number of trees of bull pine, or Pinus ponderosa, 

 or, as some botanists prefer to call it, Pinus scopulorum. Part of the 

 planting was made with nurse trees of elm and box elder, part al- 

 ternately with symphoricarpos, and part was a pure culture of pine. 

 The Scotch pines have now reached a height of from twelve to six- 

 teen feet, and bid fair to wholly overtop and crowd out the Austrian 

 pines. Many of the trees made a growth this year of from two to 

 three feet. The pines planted by themselves did the best and have 

 established for themselves forest conditions, crowding out all weeds. 

 Those planted with symphoricarpos have done better than those 

 planted with deciduous nurse trees. Probably eighty or ninety 

 percent of the Scotch pine seedlings grew. The Austrian pine did 

 not do so well, and the poorest stand of all was obtained from the 

 Pinus ponderosa seedlings. The surviving trees of Pinus ponderosa 

 have become well established and are growing nearly as fast as the 

 Scotch pine. Nine years is but a little while in the life of a tree, 

 but the Scotch pine is doing much better than we expected after the 

 experience we have had with older trees on our home grounds. 



At present writing the most showy shrub on our grounds 

 is Viburnum opulus. It was free from aphis this year, as was also 

 its garden variety, the common snowball. This viburnum is com- 

 mon in the forested regions of our state and has been collected 

 as far west as Glenwood. The writer observed it this summer in 

 the Leaf Hills, at the head waters of the Chippewa river. 



An excellent bulletin on "Ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Her- 

 baceous Plants" was issued by Prof. Green last April. It should 

 be in the hands of every plant lover in Minnesota. Ask for Bulletin 

 No. 96 of the State Experiment Station, at St. Anthony Park. 



Mr. Busse: What particular shape is that apple you spoke of? 

 What is the size and color? 



Judge Moyer : It is a white apple and is about the size and 

 color of the old Early Harvest that used to be raised in New 

 York State. It is called the Blushed Calville, but there is not the 

 sign of a blush ; it is perfectly white. 



