THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 27. MARCH, 1899. No. 3. 



CENTRAL STATION. ST. ANTHONY PARK. 



PROF. S. B. GREEN, SUPT. 



Members of the Mianesota Horticultural Society: 



It gives me great pleasure to have the privilege of making my 

 eleventh annual report to you on the progress made in horticulture 

 at the experiment statiom. This report will necessarily be brief, on 

 account of the crowded condition of my work, and will be confined 

 to general matters, the results in greater detail being reserved to be 

 reported on in a bulletin later on. 



The Horticultural Division of the Experiment Station has issued 

 no regular bulletin during the past year, but instead has gotten out 

 a manual on forestry of 311 pages, ten thousand copies of which 

 have been published by the Minnesota Forestry Association for 

 gratuitous distribution in this state. This publication is designed 

 especially as a text book on forestry for our classes in the school of 

 agriculture, but it contains our observations on this subject up to 

 date and in reality is a public bulletin on this subject. 



The year, as a whole, has been very satisfactory. Increased inter- 

 est in the experiment station and school of agriculture has been 

 very evident. We have had a larger number of students present 

 during the past year than ever before at any one time, and, as a 

 whole, the students coming to us have had rather better preparation 

 than heretofore, which has made it possible to somewhat increase 

 the scope of the work. There has been no change in the staff of the 

 experiment station. 



Among the fruit crops, apples naturally come first for a few 

 words. Our so-called Russian orchard, which is situated on the 



