58 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



From the State Farm. — Ten red cedars, twenty-five jack pines 

 and some concolor; also some seedlings of elms, hackberry, 

 eleagnus, caragana and Pyrus baccata; three Senator strawberry 

 plants and a collection of flowering shrubs and greenhouse plants. 



The red cedars were alternated in a row with the jack pines. 

 The cedars are now all alive, but the pines all died. The Senator 

 strawberry proved to be a vigorous grower and seems to be a per- 

 fect flowering Warfield. 



From C. E. Older, of Luverne, Minn., a lot of Brandywine 

 strawberry plants and twenty-five De Soto plum trees on their 

 own roots. 



From E. D. Cowles, of Vermillion, South Dakota, ten Oleson 

 plum trees and twenty-five Forest Garden plum trees, all on their 

 own roots. 



From Wyman Elliot, ten Royal Wolf plum trees on their own 

 roots. 



From H. A. Terry, of Crescent City, Iowa, the following varie- 

 ties of plum trees: Terry's De Soto, Legal Tender, Pearl, Lottie, 

 Ames, Champion, Admiral Dewey, Admiral Schley and Bomberger. 



Our plum crop on the whole was fair, although the late bloom- 

 ing varieties did not amount to much. Owing to midsummer 

 drouth, the fruit was generally undersized. We had some heavy 

 rains, which began on Sept. 8th, and about all plums that were not 

 ripe at that date cracked so badly as to be worthless. 



The gouger and curculio were not as numerous as usual, owing 

 we think to the effective work in destroying them the previous 

 season. Our earliest plum was an unnamed freestone of the Weav- 

 er type, from Manitoba. It was ripe Aug. ist. About ten days 

 later the Aitkin was ripe, followed a little later by the Cheney and 

 other early varieties. 



The plum rot was, as usual of late years, bad, and the fruit of 

 many seedlings was a total loss. Some varieties appear specially 

 susceptible to the rot. Unfavorable soil and imperfect ciculation of 

 air seems to aggravate the disease. The following varieties have 

 from several years' test proved practically free from the rot under 

 the various conditions I have grown them, namely: Rollingstone, 

 De Soto, Wyant and Cheney ; while on the other hand the New 

 Ulm, Iowa, Wood and Mankato have proved extremely suscepti- 

 ble to the rot, and under unfavorable conditions it has destroyed the 

 entire crop of those varieties. 



The varieties that have given the best satisfaction the past sea- 

 son were the De Soto, Wyant, Rollingstone, Wolf, Cheney and 

 Stoddard. The Wolf and Stoddard, from young trees, sold for two 

 dollars per bushel. The other varieties sold at from one dollar to 



