2/2 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



GLENCOE TRIAL STATION. 



A. H. REED, SUPT. 



In this, my midsummer report of 1907, I have to report a splendid 

 outlook for fruit of nearly every variety. 



A remarkably late spring retarded the blossoming of fruit trees 

 three weeks, especially apple trees, w^hich were in blossom May 14th, 

 in 1906, were not in bloom until June 4th, this year. Sunday, June 

 8th, passed as "white Sunday" and a very lucky thing, for a heavy 

 frost occurred May 27th, but fortunately there appears to be no 

 damage to fruit blossoms. Apple trees in this vicinity were "trees 

 of beauty" while in bloom, on many of them not a leaf could be seen 

 for blossoms, and the fruit seems to be setting well, and the prospect 

 for an abundant apple crop bids fair to equal the crop of 1905. 



My record reads, "May 30th, only strawberries in part blossom." 

 At this writing, June i8th, an abundant crop is in prospect as well 

 as of currants and gooseberries. 



The "Compass Cherry" plum is as usual loaded with fruit. 



A good crop of native plums is promised, but those bearing fancy 

 names are shy of fruit prospect. 



My Bartlett and Seckel pear trees, that gave such promise of 

 hardiness by passing through the winter of 1905-6, without a branch 

 killing back, succumbed to the thirty-six below zero of last winter 

 and killed back to within six inches of the ground, but are sprouting 

 up and growing vigorously. 



My Early Richmond an English Morello cherry trees have lived 

 through two winters and are vigorous growers, some of them fruit- 

 ing the second season. They were set at three years of age. 



For a shade or a timber tree I have become in love with the 

 catalpa. Three years ago I purchased and set out a hundred one- 

 year-olds. The first winter they killed back part way, but the season 

 following their growth more than made up. The second winter 

 some of them killed back a part of the last season's growth, but the 

 past winter, the coldest of the last three, not one showed signs of 

 killing back and now some of them are twelve inches in circum- 

 ference and ten feet high. It is claime'd that catalpa timber makes 

 excellent railroad ties and at nine years of age can be used for that 

 purpose. 



