418 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Figure No. 1 shows the station at Wellsley Hills, Mass. 
Figure No. 2 shows the station at Wellsley, Mass. These are very 
good types of the style of station used in that section, but there are 
many others just as good. I believe that the people of Minnesota 
love the beautiful as much as those of Massachusetts and that with 
the increase of wealth and opportunity for culture will come better 
and prettier villages, towns and cities, and with them all much 
more tasty railroad stations. It often happens that the beautiful can 
be secured by a little forethought without additional expense, and 
it has a commercial value that is often underestimated. 
NEW WISCONSIN SEEDLINGS, 
THE ROXANE, WINDORF, AND PHOENIX NO. 50. : 
A. J. PHILIPS, WEST SALEM, WIS. 
The Roxane is a seedling to which my attention was called by a lady 
in Monroe country, Wisconsin. It was then bearing its fourth annual crop, 
and then ten or twelve years old. She furnished me with one-half bushel of 
the most beautiful red apples I ever saw, which I took with me and placed 
in the exhibition at Omaha, in 1898. They attracted much attention on 
account of their beauty, and I had many calls there for cions. On examina- 
tion and from what I could learn, the tree is a sprout from a seedling root 
of an old Tallman Sweet. Thinking this tree might be valuable I obtained 
control of it, and that fall I cut cions enough to top-graft four Virginia Crab 
trees and to grow sixty root-grafts. The grafts nearly every one grew and 
look very promising. So far I have distributed no cions as it has not been 
sufficiently tested as to quality and hardiness to be recommended, but bear- 
ing a fair crop last season after the’cold of February, 1899, speaks well for 
its hardiness. I hope by next winter at the annual meetings to be able to 
cast it to one side or to offer terms on which it will be disseminated to the 
public. I now think it promising. It kept until February. 
The Windorf, named for Albert Windorf, of Marathon county, who 
raised it from seed planted by him of the Northern Spy. It has quite a local 
value, being spoken of by his neighbors, who say it keeps until Easter Sun- 
day. The tree appears quite hardy and in habit much resembles the Mc- 
Mahon. The fruit is yellow when ripe and in shape somewhat resembles 
the Tallman Sweet. Mr. Windorf, wishing it tested, gave me a few cions. 
I top-grafted one tree in the trial orchard at Wausau and three at home. 
They all grew satisfactorily. Last fall I secured what cions there were on 
the tree and have them root-grafted. This is all it has been disseminated, 
and it is still under Mr. Windori’s control and will be offered to the public 
when the time comes, as he may direct. If found valuable for other places 
he should reap some benefit for his work, originating as far north as Town- 
ship 20. 
The Phoenix No. 50. Of its origin, I can learn nothing definite of Mr. 
Phoenix, who sent cions of it, with others, to Professor Dartt, of the Minne- 
sota tree station for trial. It appears to be a russet seedling and a winter 
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