THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 32. FEBUARY, 1904. No. 3. 



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 1903. 



CENTRAL TRIAL STATION, ANNUAL REPORT. 



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



In January last Mr. R. S. Mackintosh, who had been em- 

 ployed in the horticultural department for over seven years, re- 

 signed to become professor of horticulture in the Alabama 

 Polytechnic Institute. This made an opening, which was filled by 

 the appointment of Mr. Le Roy Cady, a graduate of the School of 

 Agriculture. 



A new dormitory building, which with the equipment cost 

 $40,000, has been completed, and a large and complete machin§ 

 shed has also been built. The last legislature made a total ap- 

 propriation of $300,000 to be spent for new buildings and equip- 

 ment during the biennial period. Two hundred and fifty thou- 

 sand dollars will be available for building a main building and 

 stock building next year (1904). 



The grading about the new Chemical Laboratory has been 

 completed. One bulletin (No. 83) has been published by this 

 division during the past year. Its title is "Apples and Apple 

 Growing in Minnesota." This is made up of eighty pages, and 

 in it sixty-seven varieties are described, and there are forty-nine 

 full page plates of apples. 



The season as a whole has been favorable to our work, but 

 there has been an unusually large amount of trouble from plant 

 diseases. The Virginia crab, which we have regarded as being 

 especially hardy and free from disease, was the past year badly 

 affected by scab, so that some of the trees were nearly defoliated 

 by the middle of August. The Wealthy has blighted seriously, 

 but with this exception there has been very little blight on the 



