42 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETN, 



Station grounds. We had an apple crop of about 300 bushels. 

 As varieties that are not generally known, but are of general in- 

 terest, I would call attention to Yellow Sweet, which is a very 

 desirable sweet apple that seems to be sufficiently hardy and 

 productive here to make it of general interest. The Cross (No. 

 413), which in former years we have regarded as of little value 

 owing to its having been liable to decay at the core, was this 

 year perfect in fruit and a most excellent sort. The Northwest- 

 ern Greening tree, which begun bearing three years ago, again 

 produced a heavy crop the past season. Brett No. 2 has com- 

 menced bearing, and this season produced a good crop of fruit. 

 The tree is perfectly healthy and vigorous. We had a large 



RED CEDAR WITH XORWAY PINE. 



Illustration shows red cedar "forest garden," with Norway pine between. The 

 red cedar were grown from seed sown in the spring of 1898. but which did not start 

 until the spring of 1899. They were transplanted in 1900 to where they now stand. 

 They are very thirfty and well balanced trees and have grown very rapidly. The 

 seed came from Waseca county. 



crop of Whitney, which were worthless in the market, but we 



succeeded in selling them for cider-making, and got a fairly good 



price for them. 



Plums were a poor crop. The Surprise was the best of all the 

 varieties that fruited. The Manitoba No. i ripened its fruit 

 about the 8th of August. It is a small plum but is very productive, 

 and on account of its early ripen ing may be desirable for market- 

 ing. Its quality is inferior; the fruit, however, is of a deep 

 red color and would seem to be especially adapted to the northern 

 portion of this state and other places where the season is short. 



The Compass cherry (a sand cherry and plum hybrid) pro- 

 duced a large crop of fruit, but much of it was destroyed by the 

 monilia and rotted on the trees. Among the cherries that fruited 

 with us this year were Early Richmond, Wragg and George 

 Glass, but most of our varieties had their fruit buds killed so 



