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plete and satisfactory. Our plantations are gone over each year, and checked 
up to date, and a record for each tree is made upon the card assigned to it. 
The collection of photographs has become so bulky that it has been found 
impracticable to keep it satisfactorily in the old way of pasting the photo- 
graphs into a large blank book, and instead we have adopted the card 
method here, and in this way the photographs can easily be classified under 
the different subjects, which makes it easy to find ,what is wanted. We 
have now about 1,000 negatives on record ins the office. 
We have found that it is very unsafe to make reports as to the hardiness 
of varieties of apples or plums that are growing on our grounds unless they 
have fruited here, and now we do not regard them as being true to name un- 
til we have fruited them and are sure of the descriptions. 
APPLES.—We have now perhaps 300 varieties of apples growing on 
the grounds of the Experiment Station. These are located in different 
PORTION OF OUR RUSSIAN (ORCHARD A) IN AUGUST. 
orchards, which as a whole are doing very well. The first plantings were 
made in 1886, when Prof. Porter set out a few trees; but the larger plantings 
were made in 1888 and 1890. 
Orchard A, commonly known as the “Russian Orchard,” was mostly 
planted in 1888. It consists of something over 1,300 trees located upon the 
open prairie, without windbreak or other protection within 30 rods. When 
first planted it contained something over 200 varieties, the most of which 
were from Russia. These were planted six feet apart, in rows twelve feet apart, 
and generally six trees of each kind were set. As a result of this, there are 
many vacancies, due to the tender varieties dying out entirely, and there 
are other places where hardy varieties were set that the trees are too thick, 
or would have been had they not been transplanted a few years ago. These 
