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EUREKA TRIAL STATION. 
EUREKA TRIAL STATION. 
Cc. W. SAMPSON, SUPT. 
The grape vines and small fruit plants came through the winter in ex- 
cellent condition, owing to the extra protection by the heavy snow fall. 
Several of my new varieties fruited this season, among them Campbell’s 
Early, which was very fine. It is a very strong, vigorous, hardy vine, with 
thick, healthy, mildew-resisting foliage, and perfect, self-fertilizing blossoms. 
Clusters very large, usually shouldered, compact and handsome, without 
being unduly crowded. Berries are large, nearly round, often an inch or 
more in diameter. Flavor rich and sweet, with no foxiness or unpleasant 
acidity, from the skin to the center. It ripened about with Moore’s Early, 
Aug. 25th. 
_ Early Ohio also fruited the second time with me. Its berries are small 
and round; skin thin; purple with a blue bloom; flesh tender, melting, 
without pulp, and good; ripens early, about Sept. Ist, with me. 
Moore’s Early is another very valuable grape for Minnesota. Bunch 
smaller than Concord, of which it is a seedling; rarely shouldered, but 
berries somewhat larger. It is generally as healthy and hardy as its parents, 
though not as productive or vigorous. It ripens ten days to two weeks 
earlier than Concord, though not quite equal in quality. Its large size and 
earliness render it desirable and make it a popular market grape. It needs 
careful cultivation and liberal manuring, being better than Hartford, Cham- 
pion or Talman, and quite as early. It is recommended to supersede these 
undesirable varieties. Moore’s Early is ripe and ready to put on the 
market Aug. 20 to 25 each year. 
Brighton. This handsome and fine grape is a cross of the Concord 
and Diana-Hamburg. Vine hardy, a rapid and vigorous grower; leaves 
large, thick, dark green; very productive; if the small bunches were taken 
off early in the season, it would be a great benefit to the others. Some- 
times, however, its flowers do not fertilize, though abundantly blooming. 
It should, therefore, be mingled with other varieties growing close by, 
which have the same time of blooming. I have several other varieties which 
will fruit the first time the coming season. 
All varieties of plums, including De Soto, Forest Garden, Weaver, 
Cheney, Wolf, Rollingstone, Hawkeye, Aitkin and Gaylord. The Cheney 
and Aitkin were attacked by the curculio so badly that I failed to raise any 
good fruit on them. The Compass Cherry fruited very abundantly on trees 
of only one year’s growth. The University apple came through the winter 
in perfect condition, the terminal, buds being perfectly sound and the wood 
bright and not the least discolored. 
EXCELSIOR TRIAL STATION. 
H. M. LYMAN, SUPT. 
Apple trees at this station have made a good growth this past season, 
but have produced little fruit. Was the scarcity of fruit owing to the cold 
previous winter? I think that could not have been the cause, for the very 
hardiest varieties seemed as unproductive as the more tender ones. This 
fall here has been very favorable in preparing the fruit trees for a Minnesota 
winter. It has been like the one a year ago in moistening the ground and 
ripening the wood, and if we do not have more than two or three weeks 
