130 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Adrain : DeSoto, Forest Garden and Miner a good crop. 



Ltiverne : Crop heavy and good, a few cracked open and some 

 rotted, but DeSoto, Miner, Forest Garden, Wolf, Wyant and Klon- 

 dyke very heavy crop ; Surprise, Baker and Stoddard fair. Several 

 very nice seedHngs are showing up. 



Magnolia : Crop fair, trees in nice shape. 



Jackson : Good crop and good quality. 



Cherries. One correspondent reports Early Richmond a good 

 crop ; all others report failure. Compass reported O. K. and doing 

 finely. 



Grapes: Very few raised in this district. 



Bhckberries: In the northeast section, near Crystal Lake, a 

 heavy crop reported, but in the whole southwestern and western 

 part they winter-kill and are not much raised, in fact, none to 

 speak of. 



Raspberries: Crop fair generally, very heavy in northeast sec- 

 tion. Columbian killed back to the ground where not covered. 



Strawberries: A good crop reported in all sections, except 

 JefTers, Jackson and Minneota report too much rain, and Slayton 

 reports a failure entirely on account of rain. Cut worms injured 

 the plants badly in the southwest section, and a very little winter- 

 killing reported. 



Gooseberries and currants reported a fair crop throughout the 

 district. A little complaint of borer and currant worms. 



Generally speaking there has been very much more nursery stock 

 set out this year than usual and with' more than the ordinary suc- 

 cess, a much larger per cent living and making a good growth. 

 Not much blight reported this year, only a little on Transcendent 

 and Virginia crabs. There has nothing at all been done in the way 

 of spraying, except Mr. Mohl, of Adrian, has used the dust spray 

 and, he thinks, with excellent results, and C. E. Older, of Luverne, 

 used Bordeaux mixture. 



Last winter a good many trees and shrubs held their leaves on 

 late in the season but very little damage was done from winter 

 freezing. There was an abundance of water in the soil. 



Fruit trees of all kinds are going into winter in good condi- 

 tion, with the wood well ripened and an abundance of water in the 

 soil. 



The list of apples named by all correspondents as doing best in 

 the district are Wealthy, Duchess, P. Greening, N. W. Greening, 

 Hibernal, Peter, Peerless, Okabena, Longfield, Tetofsky, Iowa 

 Beauty, Malinda. One correspondent names Charlamoff and An- 

 isim. 



Crabs: Minnesota, Early Strawberry, Whitney No. 20, Vir- 

 ginia, Sweet Russet, Gen. Grant, with Hyslop and Transcendent in 



