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MIDSUMMER REPORTS. 



CENTRAL TRIAL STATION. 



PROF. SAMUEL B. GREEN, SUPT., ST. ANTHONY PARK. 



The first of June finds us, at the experiment station, with an 

 outlook for an excellent apple crop, a fair crop of currants and 

 gooseberries, a small crop of plums and a good crop of strawber- 

 ries. The fruit buds of our cherries were mostly destroyed last 

 winter, Init a few varieties will produce some fruit. Juneberries 

 are loaded w'ith fruit as usual. Our Siberian crabs, from which 

 we have secured a supply of seed for several years, failed to fruit 



A Mixed Border, adjoining the Horticultural Building at the Central Station. 



last year, but this year are again loaded with fruit. When in flower 

 it seems to me that they are about as pretty as anything I have 

 ever seen. Blackberries and raspberries are now loaded with 

 flower buds. 



There was little or no root-killing in our fruit plants last year, 

 but we had considerable loss on hydrangeas for some reason that we 

 do not understand, though I am inclined to lay it to the heavy coat- 

 ing of ice which covered the ground as the snow went ofif in the 



