54 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



MINNESOTA CITY TRIAL STATION. 



O. M. LORD, SUPT. 



Strawberries. For market purposes Bederwood and Warfield 

 gave the best satisfaction; Splendid and Brandywine did well and 

 are worthy of further trial ; Wm. Belt and Marshall yielded lightly, 

 and quality inferior. Red raspberries, except the Loudon, were a 

 failure. 



Black caps : The Palmer, Gregg and Nemaha gave a fair crop ; 

 Conrath of no value. Blackberries : Snyder and Ancient Briton did 

 well. Currants : Red Dutch and Victoria were very fine. Grapes : 

 The only grapes on the premises were from a row that was not cut 

 back nor laid down. The intention was to dig them out, but the 

 work was not done, and a fine crop was the result — an exception to 

 the general rule. The question is, what part of the other process 

 was responsible for the failure, whether of improper trimming or un- 

 seasonable covering or raising up? 



The only cherry trees bearing a crop were the Wragg and one 

 or two Russians. 



Apples were abundant and of good quality, though hurt by hail. 

 Special mention should be made of the Wealthy, Okabena, Anisim 

 and Hibernal ; also some seedlings of the Wealthy. 



Native plums were a bountiful crop, the third consecutively. 

 Among the varieties entitled to special mention as newly fruiting 

 were the Brittlewood, Hunt, and Bursota. These attracted unusual 

 attention from their large size and fine appearance. There were re- 

 ceived for trial the Ames' Hybrid, the Splendid, the Hammer and 

 the Free Silver, from, Iowa ; the Wittmann, the Gray, the Odegaard, 

 the Blackhawk, the Combination, the Chenebot, Yellow American, 

 Zee and Stella. 



J. W. Kerr, of Maryland, says in his report of Japan plums that 

 .last year they all rotted on the trees, and science informed him that 

 the rotten fruit must be carefully gathered and destroyed to pre- 

 vent after contagion, but the work was not done, and this year he has 

 a fine large crop, free from rot. At this station last year a few 

 Gaylords, Hawkeye and Ocheeda rotted on the trees. They were 

 carefully gathered and destroyed by picking from the trees and off 

 the ground, and this year I had no trees out of seventy-five in bear- 

 ing that were entirely free from rot, from which I infer that climatic 

 conditions are responsible for rot. In this connection I would also 

 state that none of my trees produced this year any pods or plum pock- 

 ets. 



