APPLE EXPERMENTATION AT MINN. UNIVERSITY FARM. IO3 



Prof. Green : ,Yes, but it is nice to have things true. 



The President : It is the Sweet Borovinka. 



Prof. Green : Well, that is another thing. There is a Sweet 

 Borovinka. We assume that a tree is true to name until we get 

 fruit or a good description. I could tell you some awful stories 

 about those Russians. 



Mr. E. D. Cowles, (S. D.) : I want to come back to the pyrus 

 baccata a moment. I visited the William's orchard in Nebraska, 

 and there I found the Ben Davis grafted on the pyrus baccata, and 

 it forms a union on that pyrus baccata just as the Hibernal naturally 

 grows. It makes a shoulder, the Ben Davis, on that pyrus baccata, 

 an inch and a half through, stuck right on the side of it. I saw a 

 number of them. 



Prof. Green : Had they been grafted for some time ? 



Mr. Cowles : They were about as big as my arm. 



Prof. Green : I have seen the pyrus baccata grafted a number 

 of times above the ground, and they are very apt to outgrow the 

 stock. 



Mr. Cowles : These had not overrun the stock to amount to any- 

 thing. The trees were five inches through and had not yet overrun 

 the stock. That was on the place of Thomas Williams. 



Prof. Green: I thought you might be interested in cherries. 

 We raised a whole lot of varieties of cherries. Some years ago our 

 representative bought a raft of stufif that he thought was adapted 

 to our section of country. We have had this difficulty with all the 

 better varieties of cherries at our place — and our orchard is situated 

 on a high gravelly knoll which would seem to be a good place for 

 cherries — but we have had difficulty with the killing of the buds. 

 The trees grow nicely, and they leaf out very well in the spring, but 

 the fruit buds kill almost every winter. We have had a few good 

 crops. Almost every winter we have had our fruit buds killed. It 

 has been just the same with cherries as it has been in peach growing 

 sections in that regard. We have fruited the Lithauer 

 Weichel ; they have proved the hardiest of everything we have tried. 

 We have a sour cherry, small and bitter, that does not bear well, but 

 it is exceedingly hardy and has the merit of fruiting more than any 

 other. I would not recommend any one to become enthusiastic over 

 it. The Wragg has some years produced excellent crops, and the 

 Early Richmond has had good crops, but only in exceptional years. 



Mr. Wedge : Do you find a difference between the Wragg and 

 the Early Morello? 



Prof. Green : They look very much alike, and they are evidently 

 of the same type. 



Mr. Cowles : Is there more than one variety of the Lithauer 

 cherries ? 



Prof. Green : No, I think not. 



Air. Cowles : It is recommended as a very good fertilizer for 

 the Bessarabian. 



Prof. Green : Are you growing it ? 



Mr. Cowles : I know the tree. 



Prof. Green : The foliage is very smooth. 



