230 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Mr. Brand: Have you the Milwaukee? 
Mr. Philips: Yes, we have the Milwaukee and the Windsor. 
In the trial orchard we have the Okabena, we have the Patten’s 
Greening, the Wealthy, the Tetofsky and several other varieties 
sent by Mr. Patten to see how they would do by the side of northern 
grown trees. Next I set some Okabena root grafts and grafted it 
also on the Virginia crab; then I took the Newell and Wealthy and 
grafted them also. I have there three specimens of each variety. 
Now, if you go there in five or six years and find the trees fruiting 
you can see just what is the best way to set those varieties in that 
climate; as, for instance, the Okabena apple, whether it is best to 
set the root graft or whether it is best top-worked on the Virginia, 
or to grow it on its own stock. I have those experiments going on 
there on the Wealthy in the same way. I am conducting a series 
of experiments through three years, and if people will avail them- 
selves of the opportunity they can go there and see which is the 
best way to grow those varieties. I think I know, for I have found 
at home that the Wealthy will last longer and be a better tree on the 
Virginia than any other way. 
In the commercial orchard, I set thirty-six Hibernal trees. 
Nine of them came from the southern part of the state, nine from 
Sturgeon Bay, nine from Baraboo and nine from Janesville. They 
are all grown on different soils. If people go there and study those 
trees they will know where the best place is to buy trees, and the 
best soil to grow them on for soil that is similar to that. This is 
just a little outline of the work. 
SWEET PEA CULTURE FROM A COMMERCIAL 
STANDPOINT. 
MRS. HARRIET K. EVES, MINNEAPOLIS. 
The past season has been a very unfavorable one to the sweet pea grow- 
er. While the crop in this vicinity has been far from a failure, it has been 
quite as far from satisfactory. : 
With me California seed, seed grown here one year from California seed, 
and seed grown many years in Minnesota, were alike in results. Peas 
planted in the same trench the fourth year, the third year one foot away from 
last year’s planting and twenty feet from where legumes of any kind had 
ever been grown, were undistinguishable. I planted 1,500 feet of double row, 
and a month before frost came, the usual limit of our crop, scarcely a dozen 
good blossoms could be found on our place. 
To raise sweet peas for the market with any probability of fair returns for 
your labor, you must have them early enough to get greenhouse prices for 
a while, must have long stems and good blossoms in something like equal 
quantities, whether the weather be favorable or not, and must keep up fair 
length of stem and quality of flower until frost comes, making as near a 
four months’ season as possible, and, most important of all, must have a 
market for them. 
