[rial C!tatiorjs. 



MIDSUMMER REPORTS, 1902. 



CENTRAL STATION, ST. ANTHONY PARK. 



PROF. S. B. GREEN, SUPT. 



The very favorable winter and spring have left the horticultur- 

 al work of the experiment station in excellent condition. The 

 campus never looked as well as now, and there has been very little 

 loss of any kind from winter injury. 



Continuous rains during the time when plums were in flower 

 are probably responsible for the fact that we shall have no plum crop 

 this year. With us this is not so much to be regretted, as our trees 

 have been bearing continuously and too heavily for a number of 

 years, and this will give them an opportunity to recover and be in 

 good shape for the next season. 



The apple trees which bore heavily last year are without fruit 

 this. We shall, however, have a small crop of this fruit. Currants 

 and gooseberries blossomed well but were injured by the late spring 

 freeze, and are rather a short crop. Strawberries are unusually 

 good. 



Our Ancient Briton blackberries, which were killed out two 

 years ago, have recovered this year and promise to give us a good 

 crop. Both red and black raspberries are heavily loaded with fruit. 

 Our seedlings have come along very well, and the outlook is that 

 we shall have this autumn from fifty to sixty thousand Pyrus bac- 

 cata to spare. - We also have good stands of buffalo berry, Russian 

 olive, sand-cherry, plum, and high bush cranberry. Of seedlings 

 of Beta grape and seedlings of best native sorts, we must have five 

 thousand, which is rather more than we have room for fruiting. 



