4292 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Blight is almost unknown in the Hills. The Transcendent crab, which is 
worthless in most localities on account of blight, is valuable here. Yellow 
Transparent, which gives so much trouble in this respect in many localities, 
seems to be blight-proof here. 
I cannot speak for the southern Hills, but in the northern Hills no long 
keeping apples have proven satisfactory. The Ben Davis, Walbridge and 
a few others have been fruited, but the nights are too cool and the seasons 
too short for the full maturity every year of, usually, either tree 
or fruit. Our experience has been inadequate. We are still living in hope, 
however. When the multitude of young trees come into bearing, we may 
expect to know more about such matters, 
Crabs do extremely well. Taking one year with another, the Whitney 
No. 20 crab has, I judge, proven to be the most prolific tree fruited in the 
Hills. 
Hardly anything has been done with pears. In the southern Hills a very 
few have been set long enough to come into bearing and are doing well. 
Mr. Wells, in this neighborhood, has a few Russian pears in bearing. 
Trees set two or three years in the Hills have made a very healthy 
growth everywhere. This leads us to hope that this fruit will be a success 
here. I have ventured to set 150 trees—Bartlett, Clapp’s Favorite, Flemish 
Beauty, Kieffer, Anjou, Idaho and Russian. 
The little that has been done with cherries seems to indicate that the 
climate is not adapted to the best known Dukes and Morrellos, at least. In 
this neighborhood they do not grow thriftily and gradually die out. I have 
about thirty young Russian cherry trees, set three years, that appear healthy. 
Wild plums are very thrifty and productive. Not much has been done 
with cultivated varieties, but yet enough to render it reasonable that the 
varieties of Prunus Americana at least will be a marked success. I have 
Wyant, Wolf, DeSoto, Cheney, Rollingstone, Hawkeye, Aitkin, Surprise, 
Tatge, Milton, Communia and others, just beginning to bear. They 
promise well. The Wyant did the best the past season, but trees are too 
young for reliable comparisons. 
For twenty years past beds of strawberries have been grown here and 
there through the Hills. They have done so well as to prove that this» 
luscious fruit is perfectly at home in the entire region. 
Beginning seven years ago I have tested thoroughly on my soil the lead-— 
ing sorts, at least seventy-five in all. 
The pistillate variety, Warfield, fertilized with the Bederwood, has been 
among the most productive and profitable. The Clyde, Splendid, Manwell, 
Glen Mary, Woolverton, and Brandywine have done exceedingly well for 
me. I shall set more largely of the Clyde than anything else the coming 
spring. 
Red raspberries yield as well here as in any part of the world that I am 
acquainted with, but they need winter protection to insure a crop, and that is 
expensive. 
I have tested all varieties of note, and find the Loudon and the Marlboro 
far superior to all others. My experience elsewhere had led me to suppose 
that the Cuthbert (Queen of the Market) would rank high, but it is worthless 
with me. 
I shipped several crates of Loudon raspberries in September this. year 
It is easily the king of the reds. 
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