150 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
suckers. Mr. Alling has quite a large apple orchard containing a consider- 
able number of apparent seedling varieties, they having grown up from the 
roots of trees that killed to the ground in 1884-5. Many of these are fine, 
healthy looking trees, and one he has named Hamburg and another Long 
John appear to be worthy of looking after. These two have grown from 
stumps of the Fameuse apple. The trees were not injured last winter, and 
produced a fair crop this season. Quality of fruit very good and of fair 
appearance, and it is said to keep later than the Wealthy. 
Oakland.—The seedling orchard of T. Lightly, at Oakland, continues 
to endure the climate well but was not fruiting as heavily as last year. Of 
the 100 seedlings he procured from Mr. Gideon a number of years since 
about sixty are now living, and among these there are more promising 
varieties for very trying locations than in any like number of seedlings from 
Mr. Gideon or any other source. In quality none of them are better than 
the Wealthy, but apparently some of them will keep later. 
Delaven.—C. W. Thayer has one seedling apple tree, that is now about 
twenty years old, that came through last winter without any injury whatever, 
and it does not show appearance of having ever been injured by sunscald 
or blight. The tree is a good, rather upright, symmetrical grower and said 
to be an annual bearer and reasonably productive; fruit medium size and 
good quality for eating and cooking. The fruit of last year kept up to the 
middle of May last. A plate of the fruit is on exhibition at the meeting. 
At Winnebago City there are some fine seedling apple trees known as 
the ‘““Ohligee seedlings,” that cover the season of fruit from the Duchess 
until midwinter. These trees are about twenty-five years old, thrifty and 
apparently healthy, and have so far stood the climate as well as the Duchess. 
For most purposes the fruit is better in quality. No. 14, which has been 
named “Superb,” is the latest keeper and probably the most valuable of the 
lot. S. D. Richardson is propagating a number of them and finds them to 
be among his best nursery trees. 
On Nov. gth, at Pleasant Mounds, we visited the orchards of Mr. J. 
S. Parks. Here we found the most extensive collection of varieties of apples 
of bearing age we have seen in the state. He has exhibited as many as 
233 varieties at one time at the Blue Earth County Fair and nearly all of 
them were seedlings or but little known varieties of western origin. A con- 
siderable number of them were from the late Mr. Springer, of Wisconsin, 
but a larger portion are of his own originating. He says that among them 
there are about forty varieties that will keep well all winter in an ordinary 
house cellar, and a considerable number of the trees have the appearance of 
being very hardy. As was generally the case his fruit crop this season was 
very light, and from the few specimens left we were not able to determine 
their merits. Here we found the Wolf River doing as well or even better 
than the Duchess. He has the two oldest trees of that variety now in ex- 
istence, they having been grown from the first scion ever cut from the 
original tree, that is now dead. From him we learned that he furnished the 
seed from which the Wolf River originated. He says that it is not a seedling 
of the Alexander, but that the seed was taken from a very large green col- 
ored apple with a blush cheek, of which he did not know the name. The 
seed was planted by Mr. Springer in 1852. It is doing well and is quite 
popular in this part of the state. Mr. Parks has had many obstacles to over- 
come and uphill work to do on the wild prairie, but he has demonstrated 
that apples can be raised in very unfavorable locations in spite of hurri- 
