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either for canning or for market. My friend Norby, the plum 

 specialist of South Dakota, wrote me about this time that the Forest 

 Garden was the tenderest in tree of all the American varieties ; 

 nevertheless the next spring I set out lOO plum trees, fifty Forest 

 Garden and fifty De Soto alternately in one row. Every tree in 

 this row lived and bore fruit, both varieties being strong self-fertil- 

 izers ; but the plum pocket and the plum rot each season took nearly 

 all the fruit of the Forest Garden, and the cold winters and the 

 borers weakened the trees. We have been cutting them out until 

 there is now not one of those Forest Garden trees left, but every 

 one of those De Soto trees is alive and in fine condition. 



Effects of sleet storm at Mr. Cook's. Willows, evergreens and apple trees. 



The spring of 1888 we planted another great variety of Russian 

 fruit trees, from the Iowa Agricultural College. These were mostly 

 apples, some cherries, pears and plums ; also twelve or fifteen 

 varieties of apples from Prof. Porter, of the Minnesota Station; 

 and several not well known American varieties of apples from A. 

 W. Sias and from S. D. Richardson ; and 100 Wealthy trees from 

 M. J. Hoag, of Rochester. How many times have I since regretted 

 that I did not at that time set out all Wealthy trees instead of so 

 many Russians and seedlings ! 



At the meeting of this society in January, 1889, the Wealthy was 

 dropped completely from our recommended fruit list, but those 100 



