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flavor, season very short, tree dwarfish, and can be planted not more 

 than twelve feet apart. 



I should plant a few Whitneys No. 20, but this apple is not 

 a marked success as a commercial fruit. The tree is proving short- 

 lived on our grounds, subject to attacks of insects, very susceptible 

 to blight in blighting years, and yet if well manured (it is a rank 

 feeder) it will bear abundantly. I am of the opinion that it is a 

 poor self-fertilizer, as it bears best in proximity to other sorts. 



The Haas, while not of the first degree of hardiness, will repay 

 the planter in our part of the state, although I would not recom- 

 mend it for planting farther north. And the same may be said of 

 the Wolf River. It is one of the few varieties injured on our 

 grounds in the winter of 1898-99. Fameuse is practically a failure. 

 Plumb's Cider came into bearing late in our orchard, but the few 

 trees that we have of this variety are among our most profitable 

 trees. A single tree bore fourteen bushels the past year of fine 

 large apples. 



Rawle's Jannet surprised us with a full crop of fruit on a single 

 tree, planted by mistake in a row of Duchess. It is worth whole for 

 orchardists in the extreme southern part of the state to plant a few 

 of these for experiment. They are a good keeper ; quality medium. 

 Our tree stands on low but not wet ground, a point it might be 

 important to remember. The tree is not usually a success in our 

 latitude. 



The Wealthy, of course, is the apple of all apples with us. Of 

 this variety we have the largest number of trees of any orchard in 

 the world. Unlike its habit in its native state we find it does not 

 bear abundantly until it is a mature tree, and* I would recommend 

 that it be planted on ground moderately low but not wet. 



A northeast slope for orcharding should always be chosen wher- 

 ever possible, neither the table land nor the lowest land having 

 proved profitable for orcharding in our experience. 



It might be well to lengthen the apple season by planting a 

 very few Walbridge trees. They are a winter apple, of poor qual- 

 ity, tree of the hardiness of the Haas. 



The list of crabs that can be successfully grown in South Da- 

 kota is very large. The list of those that are profitable is much 

 smaller. One should have Brier Sweet for pickling and for baking 

 and eating in its season. The Hyslop and Transcendent, peerless 

 for preserving, must be given up. If they only blighted to death 

 themselves we could stand it, but as they spread death and destruc- 

 tion to other trees one cannot afford to plant them. 



