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as have the Wealthy of the same age. Charlamoff has proved 

 a shy bearer ; twelve healthy, vigorous trees, set fourteen years 

 ago, have not at any time borne more than a fev^ specimens to 

 the tree. The Cross apple and the Malinda gave us a light crop ; 

 these two are my most promising winter varieties. For extra 

 early apples I have tried nothing that is earlier or has given bet- 

 ter satisfaction than the Tetofsky. 



In crabs the Early Strawberry and the Florence bore heavily, 

 and for early and medium season these two varieties take the 

 lead. The Martha is a fine tree and does not blight, but it has 

 such a tendency to unproductiveness as to be worthless for fruit- 

 ing purposes. The Minnesota crab bore very well and is one of 

 our successful hybrids ; the fruit sells well just after the Wealthy 

 are gone. 



One other variety of large apple I must make favorable men- 

 tion of, and that is the Gipsy Girl. My one tree set the spring 

 of 1894 bears apparently about all the tree will stand each sea- 

 son. The fruit is of large size and of dark red color ; season about 

 with or a little earlier than the Wealthy; tree blights a trifle. 



Blossom and twig blight put in an appearance shortly after 

 the apples were in bloom. This was the first time we ever had 

 blight so early in the season, and it was confined mostly to bear- 

 ing trees, the Early Strawberry suffering the most. We had 

 some body blight quite late in the season after all growth had 

 ceased. We cut out in October several bearing trees of the 

 Beecher Sweet that were thus affected. Of my two fine trees of 

 the Sweet Russet crab, set spring of 1893, I noticed one early in 

 November that was affected in the body and in some of the larger 

 branches with this blight. It looked as though it had just started. 



Grapes have not done very well here, and we have quit grow- 

 ing them. 



Apple trees have made a splendid growth the past season and 

 are going into winter quarters in fine condition. They are well 

 supplied with fruit buds for next season's crop, and the ground 

 is saturated with water. 



Owing to the exceedingly wet season evergreens set last 

 spring grew and survived the summer, almost every one of them. 

 The varieties that are doing best here are the white and the black 

 spruces, red cedar and Scotch pine. Some of the Scotch pines 

 are leaning badly; they appear to have too much top in propor- 

 tion to their roots. Norway spruce grows well in sheltered places 

 but does not stand our prairie winds. 



