60 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
MINNESOTA CITY TRIAL STATION. 
O. M. LORD, SUPT. 
Among the strawberries that gave the best results were, in the order 
named, Bederwood, Warfield, Mary, Gardner, Dayton, Capt. Jack and 
Crescent. : 
Plants have made a good growth and will go into the winter in good 
shape. Red raspberries were not laid down, and were injured more or 
less by the winter. The Loudon suffered less than other varieties. The 
Turner was partly killed and the Cuthbert mostly all killed. The Shaffer and — 
Columbian unhurt. Black raspberries, especially the Palmer, were unhurt, 
but blackberries where unprotected were all killed. Where they were prop- 
erly covered they yielded a fair crop of fruit. 
All varieties of currants bore a large, fine crop. Gooseberries were un- 
usually affected with mildew; the Pearl appeared to be the nearest perfect. 
Grapes. The Iona, Moore’s Early, Worden, Lindley, Massasoit, Aga- 
wam and Delaware bore no fruit. A few Concords fruited, but were inferior 
in quality. Native plums, the main specialty of this station, produced a 
large crop again this year. All of the old standard varieties bore well. 
Some of the newer ones on trial bore for the first time here. The Gable, 
from Storm Lake, Iowa; the Hunt, from W. H. Guilford, Dubuque; the 
Wragg, from Edson Gaylord, Iowa; the Bursoto, from Mr. Williams, Ne- 
braska, were among the most desirable. Though fifteen varieties of Do- 
mestica were entirely killed, and some of the Japans much injured, a further 
trial of some of these kinds will be made, to experiment with them in the 
direction of cropping. If we can succeed in perfecting something of the 
quality or character of the commercial prune from some oi our natives, it 
will be of great help to our fruit interests. 
MEADOW VALE HORTICULTURAL CLUB EXPERIMENT 
GROUNDS. 
A. W. KEAYS, SUPT., ELK RIVER. 
The winter of 1898 and 1899 did very little damage in this trial station, 
the ground being partly covered with snow, the hills only being bare. We 
have Jearned some valuable lessons, however. Among I50 varieties of.apples. 
on trial, the Peerless seemed to have killed back the most and Longfield 
next. The Longfield started out a new growth and does not appear to have 
been injured only in the ends of the limbs. I will say that our grounds are 
in a very exposed place. We had a number of seedlings root-killed, which 
proved that they are not hardy enough for our severe winters. 
In the spring of 1896 I root-grafted several varieties of apples on 
Transcendent crab roots. In the fall of 1898 some of those were as large 
as the trees from which the scions were taken, those being then five years 
old. Those grafts were in bloom in the spring of 1899, while the old trees. 
from which the scions were taken have not bloomed yet. Some of those 
root-grafts have been placed on trial in other places. I am satisfied this way 
of propagating will make a hardier tree and come into bearing sooner. 
Longfield was in bloom in this lot and killed back on Pyrus malus roots. 
There are old Transcendent trees in this vicinity that have been planted 
over 30 years and are bearing as high as twenty-seven bushels of apples 
