2^2 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



SAUK RAPIDS TRIAL STATION. 



MRS. JENNIE STAGER, SUPT. 



June 15, 1904. — Apple trees came through the winter well, but 

 very few are bearing. Plums also lived, but will not bear much this 

 season on account of plum pocket. Spraying seems to have no ef- 

 fect on that disease. All old raspberry plantations killed back, but 

 young ones are thrifty. Currants and gooseberries are doing fairly 

 well. Strawberries, especially Clyde, would have been a heavy crop 

 but are suffering at present from drought. Young evergreens, catal- 

 pas and roses mostly killed to ground. Grapes doing fairly well. 

 All evergreens, deciduous trees and shrubs over two years old doing 

 exceptionally w'ell. 



WEST CONCORD TRIAL STATION. 



FRED COW'LES, SUPT. 



June 13, 1904. — The winter of 1903-4 has left its marks on 

 some of our tender varieties. The Early Richmond and W'ragg 

 cherries are dead, or nearly so. A few of them show a little life but 

 will be of little value. The Compass cherry is alive to the terminal 

 bud and hangs full of fruit. 



Most of the plums that we are testing are fruiting, and some 

 are so loaded that they wall have to be thinned, or the trees will be 

 injured. 



Our bearing apple trees came through the winter in good condi- 

 tion, and most of them are quite full of fruit. We thought the se- 

 vere cold of last winter would be a test of hardiness, but we find 

 no injury, except a few one-year-old nursery trees killed back a 

 little. 



The raspberries killed badly in this locality where not protected. 

 We were fortunate in having covered ours, and we have promise 

 of a full crop if the season proves favorable. 



Strawberries winter-killed some, where the covering was liglit,' 

 but in spots unprotected all killed out. They are full of bloom and 

 promise a good crop, but they will be at least a week later than usual. 



Grapes are all right. They are blossoming some, but they need 

 a long season to mature any fruit on account of the late, cold spring. 



Catalpa killed to the ground. 



Flowering shrubs wintered well. Snowballs blossomed lightly this 

 vear, but Spirea \'an Houttei was at its best and was much admired 

 bv all who passed by the place. 



Some of my roses killed to the ground, even with a good covering 

 last fall, but after trimming them liack thrifty shoots started, filled 



